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 […]
No City for Women (2023/ English & Hindi with English subs/94 mins/). Dir. & Prod. Rangan Chakravarty. Gurgaon, India's Millennium City, promises many opportunities - but, for women, it also poses specific challenges. Through women's personal narratives, the film explores their experiences of living and working in Gurgaon and illuminates the gendered nature of urban […]
The Fifth edition of the Habitat International Film Festival (HIFF), an eagerly-awaited event, will be held between March 8-17 with Germany as the Focus Country. The ten-day HIFF opens with the screening of the German film Teacher's Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer) directed by Ilker Catak. The German offerings include six feature films, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Perfect […]
Smile Foundation is hosting the 10th edition of the annual Smile International Film Festival for Children & Youth (SIFFCY) in partnership with the European Union (The delegation of the European Union in India). SIFFCY in its 10th year has put together a diverse list of films from India and abroad to be organized in a […]