Children’s Day Month. Kabuliwala (1957/Bengali with English subs116 mins). Dir. Tapan Sinha. Continuing our series of screenings of classic films in original 35mm format. Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini. Collab. National Museum of Indian Cinema and NFDC-National Film […]
Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977/Hindi/129 mins). Dir. Satyajit Ray. During the British annexation of Avadh, best friends Mirza Ali and Mir Ali ignore the situation of the country and abandon their families in their obsession for the game of chess. Date & Time: 24 Nov, 7:00 pm Venue: Gulmohar
Il Capitale Umano (2013)The Human Capital (2013) Directed by Paolo Virzì During a cold winter night, a cyclist is hit by a SUV and then abandoned to agonize in the frozen snow. The mysterious episode, on which the police will investigate, connects the events of the members of two families: the petty-bourgeois family of Ossola […]
4th Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival 2023. Curation: Aanchal Kapur and Reena Mohan. Dreams and Desires. Collab. Kriti Film Club and Jagori. The festival marks the South Asian Women’s Day. Screenings followed by QnA with the filmmakers. Date & Time: 30 Nov.- 4 Dec. 2023 (7 pm onwards) Venue: Gulmohar Indio Habitat Centre Lodhi Road, […]
Shreds (2022/ Polish with Eng subs/100 mins). Dir. Beata Dzianowicz. The Pateroks are a loving, multi-generational family. Their lives are peaceful and humorous. Suddenly a crack appears in this harmonious reality: Grandpa Gerard begins to act strangely, breaking social conventions and norms. It turns out that these are the first symptoms of Alzheimer's. Gerard's worsening […]
Japanese Classics Samurai Series Seven Samurai (1954/Japanese with Eng subs/207 mins). Dir. Akira Kurosawa. A village in the mountains is robbed every year of its wheat crop harvest by a group of plundering bandits who hide out in a mountain fortress. Realising that there is no way to prevent this other than fight for themselves, […]
Movie Screening TUESDAYS AT ISTITUTO Tuesday, January 16th at 6:00 pm "La Nostra Vita" (2010)"Our Life" (2010) Directed by Daniele Luchetti The film is subtitled in English. Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic […]
Protecting Paradise (2017/Docu/English & Hindi with Eng subs/18 mins). Dir. Paro Natung and Chandan Patro. This short documentary by and about the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) guards of Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, provides a unique insight into the lives and working conditions of frontline forest staff. The Bugun and the Lilochia (2019/Docu /English […]
Chai Pani Etc. (2005 /35mm /Hinglish/92 mins). Wri & Dir Manu Rewal. Cast: Konkona Sen Sharma, Zafar Karachiwala and Gaurav Kapoor. Torn between his ambitious fashion designer girlfriend and an elegant social activist, an earnest foreign-returned filmmaker tries to make an honest film about Jaisalmer for state TV, while battling corrupt hypocritical bureaucrats. Screening followed […]
Ek Jagah Apni (2022/ Hindi with English subs/88 mins/). Dir. & Producer: Ektara Collective. Laila and Roshni, two transwomen, are looking for a house after they are evicted from the place they rented. It soon becomes evident that their search for a home is also their ongoing search for a place in this society that […]
City Symphonies (2022/English/60 mins). Dir. Subha Das Mollick. Prod. Films Division. In the late eighteenth century, Calcutta witnessed an efflorescence of musical experimentations. In the white town, memsahebs took keen interest in the music they heard at the nautch parties and transcribed the songs in western staff notation. They played these ghazals and tuppahs on […]
Saving the Wild (2016/Docu/English and Assamese with English subtitles/25 mins). Dir. Rita Banerji. Winner of four awards, this film captures the challenges faced by the team of wildlife rehabilitators at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC), operating in one of India’s prime wildlife habitats – Kaziranga, Assam. From Poachers' Paradise to Ecotourism Hotspot […]