The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci/Czechoslovakia)
(63 min; 1964; b/w; dvd; Czech with English subtitles)
Director: Jan Nemec
Recipient of the Grand Prize for Best Debut Film, International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg 1964; Best Editing of the Year 1965 in Films and Filming
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
Breathless (À bout de souffle/France)
(90 min; 1960; b/w; dvd, French with English subtitles)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Recipient of the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival 1960; Best Film Award, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 1961; Golden Cup Award, Golden Goblets, Italy 1961; and Prix Jean Vigo Award 1960 for Best Feature Film
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
Knife in the Water (Nóz W Wodzie/Poland)
(94 min; 1962; b/w; dvd; Polish with English subtitles)
Director: Roman Polanski
Recipient of the FIPRESCI Prize, Venice Film Festival 1962
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
Treasures of Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library
An exhibition of texts, reproductions of archival photographs, facsimiles of rare books, digitised copies of illuminated and illustrated manuscripts including Tarikh-e-Khandan-e-Timuriyah, The Ramayana, Sirat-i-Firuz Shahi and Hisab- e-Fauji of Maharaja Ranjit Singh; and other digital reproductions from the collection of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna
Inauguration of the exhibition on 14 October 2022 at 4 pm
By Prof. Ashis Nandy, Trustee, IIC
(Collaboration: Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna)
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
The Adventure (L’Avventura/Italy)
(143 min; 1960; b/w; dvd; Italian with English subtitles)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Recipient of the Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 1960; Sutherland Trophy, British Film Institute Awards 1960; Golden Goblet for Best Actress, Golden Globlets, Italy 1961; and Special Jury Award, Golden Globes, Italy 1960
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coup/France)
(99 min; 1959; dvd; b/w; French with English subtitles)
Director: François Truffaut
Multiple award winner including Award for Best Director & OCIC Award, Cannes Film Festival 1959; Critics Award for Best Film, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 1960; NYFCC Award for Best Foreign Language Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1959; among others
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
Curated by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, award-winning filmmaker, archivist and Director, Film Heritage Foundation
Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky/Czechoslovakia)
(92 min; 1966; dvd; Czech & German with English subtitles)
Director: Jiri Menzel
The film will be introduced by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Oscar Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards, USA 1968; and Grand Prize, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival 1966