The Last Honey Hunter (Nepal) | Click here to watch
(36 min; 2017; Nepalese with English subtitles)
Director: Ben Knight

Multiple award winner including the Cartel Award for Best Documentary, Camden International Film Festival 2017; Grand Prize, Krakow Mountain Film Festival 2018; Best Film, Mountain Culture, Banff Mountain Film Festival 2017 among others

In the steep mountain jungles of Nepal’s Hongu river valley, members of the isolated Kulung culture have risked their lives for generations scaling dangerous cliffs to collect a wild and toxic honey. Deep and dark, the film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and woodsmoke to share the story of the leader of the harvest and his final journey.

A work of visual brilliance, the documentary follows the unique story of the honey hunter Maule Dhan Rai and brings into play the village traditions and customs that Rai and the Kulung’s practice.

https://vimeo.com/201695311

Richard Strauss Remembered (UK) | Click here to watch
(117 min; 1984; English)
Director: Peter Adam
Narrator: John Gielgud
A BBC Two Production

A unique record of a great man's life which spanned from the reign of King Ludwig of Bavaria through the turbulent years of Hitler's Germany to the post-war period. The composer and conductor seen through the eyes of his family and the people who worked with him-Herbert von Karajan, Georg Solti, Eugen Jochum; the great opera stars - Hildegarde Ranczak and Viorica Ursuleac who sang the first Arabella. Using home movies and rare archival footage, the film reveals the man and the role he played under Hitler. 

It also includes concert performances by the composer and vintage opera extracts with some of Strauss's favourite interpreters – Lisa Della Casa, Irmgard Seefried, Anneliese Rothenberger, Vilma Lipp in Rosenkavalier, Ariadne, Arabella, Capriccio and Elektra.

https://vimeo.com/393902416

Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself (USA) | Click here to watch
(89 min; 2012; English)
Directors: Tom Bean & Luke Poling

Co-founder of The Paris Review, George Plimpton (1927–2003), was a writer, editor, amateur sportsman, actor, and friend to many. Plimpton’s remarkable life is showcased in a documentary that is both a chronicle of one of the last century’s most intriguing characters, as well as a cinematic adaption of his nuanced and funny literary style. A fascinating journalist who lived fully, strangely and incredibly. With George Plimpton’s own narration, the film includes extensive archival footage of his sport stunts and participatory journalism gigs, and interviews with friends, family and contemporaries. 

https://vimeo.com/422276464

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Haiku: An Anthology of 1000 Haiku poems in Hindi

By M. Jamshed

Launch of the book followed by a discussion

Chief Guest: Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Hon’ble Minister of Minority Affairs, Government of India

Discussants: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; Mr Sreenivasa Rao, Secretary, Sahitya Akademi; Ms Kamna Prasad, author and founder, Jashn-e-Bahar; Ms Vandita Mishra, National Opinion Editor, The Indian Express; Ms Marya Shakil, Senior Political Editor, CNN-News 18; Mr. Koji Sato, Director General, The Japan Foundation; and Shri M. Jamshed, author of the book

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Speaker: Dr. Manpreet Sethi, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies and Head of Nuclear Security Project and author of Nuclear Strategy: India’s March towards Credible Deterrence (2009)

Chair: Amb. Shivshankar Menon, former National Security Adviser of India and former Foreign Secretary of India

(Collaboration: Society for Policy Studies)

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

With sopranos and baritones, accompanied by violin, clarinet and piano
Presented by The Lyric Ensemble of Delhi

Artists: Aastha Mohapatra; Ankur Dang; Ashwati Parameshwar; Meera Arora; and Toshan Nongbet (vocalists)

With Ana Belén Ojeda Rojas (clarinet); Apratim Bayak (violin)