{"id":95634,"date":"2013-07-15T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T04:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=95634"},"modified":"2013-07-19T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T11:13:34","slug":"we-received-the-public-performances-board-authorisation-for-flying-fish-embassy-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/we-received-the-public-performances-board-authorisation-for-flying-fish-embassy-france\/","title":{"rendered":"We Received The Public Performances Board Authorisation For Flying Fish &#8211; Embassy France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Embassy received from the Public Performances Board the certifications authorising the screening of all these movies.\u00a0 The conditions put to the screening of \u201cFlying Fish\u201d, such as its one time only presentation to a selected invited audience without children have been respected. &#8221; says the Embassy of France Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing a statement the Embassy says;\u00a0On July 13<sup>th<\/sup>, the Embassy of France has been informed by the Board of Management of the SWRD Bandaranaike National Memorial Foundation of its decision to suspend the French Film Festival on \u201caccount of the contents of and the sentiments contained in the Sinhala Film &#8216;Flying Fish&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95635\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/we-received-the-public-performances-board-authorisation-for-flying-fish-embassy-france\/flyingfish\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95635\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95635\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95635\" title=\"FlyingFish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/FlyingFish-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/FlyingFish-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/FlyingFish.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying Fish Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Embassy of France regrets this unfortunate incident and the embarrassment for the general public and for the French Spring partners and sponsors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We publish below the statement in full;<\/p>\n<p>Several <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/french-film-festival-organised-by-french-embassy-is-suspended-by-bmich\/\">media have reported<\/a><\/span> about the suspension of the French Film Festival on July 13th.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy of France wishes to provide to the public the following clarifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The French Spring Festival has been organised by the Embassy of France between June 18<sup>th<\/sup> and July 14<sup>th<\/sup>, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts, the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall and many others partners and sponsors.<\/li>\n<li>This Festival provides opportunities for artists from the two countries to perform on a common stage and\/or to share mutual experiences. In its framework, a dozen events have been presented in various artistic fields such as music, songs, dance, fashion, photography, books and gastronomy.<\/li>\n<li>The cinema part of the Festival comprised screening, in the premises of the BMICH, of Sri Lankan and French films selected by the Embassy. \u201cFlying Fish\u201d has been chosen, due to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_Fish_(film)\">its international recognition<\/a><\/span> in festivals in Asia and in France.<\/li>\n<li>The Embassy received from the Public Performances Board the certifications authorising the screening of all these movies.\u00a0 The conditions put to the screening of \u201cFlying Fish\u201d, such as its one time only presentation to a selected invited audience without children have been respected.<\/li>\n<li>On July 13<sup>th<\/sup>, the Embassy of France has been informed by the Board of Management of the SWRD Bandaranaike National Memorial Foundation of its decision to suspend the French Film Festival on \u201caccount of the contents of and the sentiments contained in the Sinhala Film \u201cFlying Fish\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The Embassy of France regrets this unfortunate incident and the embarrassment for the general public and for the French Spring partners and sponsors.<\/li>\n<li>The aim of the French Spring Cultural Festival is to strengthen the friendly relations between France and Sri Lanka and in no way to harm any part of the Sri Lankan diverse society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":95635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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