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SEQUENCES – NARRATIVES OF ANIMATION / INSTITUTO CERVANTES, NEW DELHI / 18 – 20 DEC 2015
Register FRIDAY, 18TH DECEMBER / DAY 1 5PM: Opening EARLY ANIMATION ● Film festival trailer [04m] ● Panel discussion with teachers and practitioners on India’s legacy and the future of animation featuring Shilpa Ranade and Vivekananda Ghatak. 6PM Glimpses of Indian … Continue reading
R. V. RAMANI RETROSPECTIVE / NANDIMUKH SABHAGRIHO, KOLKATA / 8-10TH MAY 2015 / 6:30 – 9 PM
A DOCUMENTARY PROPOSAL / 45 mins / 8th MAY / 6:30 PM Among the various films made by the renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen, ‘BhuvanShome’ made in 1969, finance by the Indian Government, was a landmark film for its innovation and experimentation, … Continue reading
SHUBHRADEEP CHAKRAVORTY RETROSPECTIVE / NANDIMUKH SABHAGRIHO, KOLKATA / 13-14TH DEC 2014 / 4 – 9 PM
GODHRA TAK / 60 mins / 13TH DEC / 4:30 PM In a barbaric incident on 27 Feb 2002, coach S6 of Sabermati Express was burnt at Godhra in Gujarat, India. Fifty nine people including several Karsevaks died in that … Continue reading
ONCE UPON A TIME IN BEIRUT /1995 / JOCELYN SAAB / ZIZO / 9 DEC, 7 PM
Saab’s body-of-work reimagines Beirut the city as a character, material and decaying, struggling to remain alive; she has her own history, her own myths, her own fantasies, and like everyone else who has ever lived, her life is nothing but … Continue reading
WEST BEIRUT / 1998 / ZIAD DOUEIRI / ZIZO / 2 DEC, 7 PM
While the French missionaries want to teach them French and the religious fundamentalists want them to open the Koran, Tarek and Omar, instead pick up the camera—the super light Super 8 film camera that made home videos possible—and go about … Continue reading
WHERE DO WE GO NOW / 2011 / NADINE LABAKI / ZIZO / 25 NOV, 7 PM
Where Do We Go Now feels a bit more manufactured than Caramel. Labaki casts an entire village, but that doesn’t seem to enrich the film in any manner other than to expand it horizontally, in scale. Premiered at the 2011 … Continue reading
CARAMEL / 2007 / NADINE LABAKI / ZIZO / 18 NOV, 7 PM
Labaki prepares a strong debut – a maturely crafted universe populated by various diverse identities, characters and people, who the director genuinely cares for, for she does not direct extensive attention to their emotional turbulence or their dire situations; instead … Continue reading
GUTTER MOONS / 19 SEP – 21 SEP / KNMA, SAKET
About GUTTERMOONS Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and Lightcube present Gutter Moons, a series of films that are activist – not because they pursue a strict, single code that all activist material must, but because in their very molecule of … Continue reading
TRANSMISSIONS: A FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA / 14 – 18 NOV / SACAC
About Transmissions Details Films Register Transmissions is LCFS’s flagship annual film festival of independent cinema from around the world. Sri Aurobindo Center for Arts and Communication will serve as the venue for the second edition. The festival, slated to take … Continue reading