István Szabó Retrospective: Central European Present and Past in Film

09 November 2021, 02:30 pm
István Szabó Retrospective: Central European Present and Past in Film
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building
End Date
09 November 2021, 08:50 pm

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME


At 2.30 pm    Workshop
Conducted by Prof. Balazs Varga, Associate Professor of Film Studies at ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

At 6.30 pm    Hanussen (Hungary)
(140 min; 1988; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Istaván Szabó

Recipient of the Golden Camera Award for Best International Actor, Golden Camera Awards, Germany 1991

Hanussen centres on an Austrian soldier who becomes a clairvoyant after he is shot in the head during World War I.  He is able to read minds and predict the future.  Before long, he has foreseen Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power, and he soon finds himself in danger.

Szabo's third film in a row starring Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, following Mephisto and Colonel Redl, it once again follows the life of a man who rises to fame and power, only to be thwarted by the regime.  It spans from the end of WWI, where Klaus Schneider who would later become known by his stage name Erik Jan Hanussen is injured in combat and sent to an infirmary where he hones his skills as a hypnotist and mind reader, and follows his career as a clairvoyant all the way to his fateful prediction of the Reichstag fire in February 1933.
 

 

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István Szabó Retrospective: Central European Present and Past in Film

08 November 2021, 02:30 pm
István Szabó Retrospective: Central European Present and Past in Film
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building
End Date
08 November 2021, 08:30 pm

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

István Szabó, one of the most critically acclaimed Hungarian filmmakers, and Martin Scorsese will be honoured with the first Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held from 20th to 28th November 2021.

To mark this occasion, the IIC Film Club in collaboration with Liszt Institute-Hungarian Cultural Centre Delhi; and University of Delhi is organising an István Szabó Retrospective: Central European Present and Past in Film. The retrospective includes a workshop to be conducted by Prof. Balazs Varga, Associate Professor of Film Studies at ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and a screening of four seminal films.

 István Szabó Retrospective: Central European Present and Past in Film
Workshop and screenings will be held on 8, 9, 12 and 15 November 2021 at the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre

 

At 2.30 pm    Workshop
Conducted by Prof. Balazs Varga, Associate Professor of Film Studies at ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

 

At 6.30 pm    Budapest Tales (Budapesti mesék/Hungarian)
(90 min; 1977; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: István Szabó

A group of people find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram.

In this allegorical film, most of the characters speak in capital letters about Life, Love and the Need to Keep Calm while hitching a ride on the tram of Adversity. The tram is a central element in the story along with a few other symbols, including a trapped fish and a caged bird, that are fellow travellers accompanying the human passengers as they Press On.

 

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IIC DOUBLE BILL MUSIC RECITALS

11 November 2021, 06:00 pm
IIC DOUBLE BILL MUSIC RECITALS
Programme Type
Cultural
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Meelu Verma from Delhi, disciple of Guru Savita Devi, Pt. Mohinder Sarin, Pt. Ram Narayan Mani Tripathi and Smt. Nargis Warsi

Accompanists: Ustad Kamal Ahmed (sarangi); Ustad Badloo Khan (harmonium); and Ustad Akhtar Khan (tabla)

 

At 19:00
 

Sitar Recital

By Dhruv Bedi from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Budhaditya Mukherjee

Accompanied by Saptak Sharma on the tabla

 

Kindly please make a note
-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the C.D.Deshmukh  Auditorium.
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INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

08 November 2021, 06:30 pm
INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Programme Type
Talks
Venue
Conference Room I, IIC main building

PHYSICALPROGRAMME

Dara Shikoh ki Qabar ki khoj (The discovery of Dara Shikoh’s Grave)
Illustrated lecture by Sanjeev Kumar Singh, Assistant Engineer, South Delhi Municipal Corporation

Chair: Prof. Aleem Ashraf Khan, Head of Department, Dept. of Persian Studies, University of Delhi
 
The lecture will be delivered in Hindi

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BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

02 November 2021, 04:00 pm
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government
Edited by K.J. Alphons (Oakbridge Publishing, 2021)

Discussants: Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice-Chairman, Niti Aayog; Shri V. Srinivas, Special Secretary to Government of India and Director General, National Centre for Good Governance; Shri Sandeep Unnithan, Managing Editor, India Today; and Shri K.J. Alphons, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), former Tourism Minister and author of the book

Moderator: Ms Pallavi Ghosh, Senior Editor, CNN-IBN

 

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Moti Bagh (India)

02 November 2021, 06:30 pm
Moti Bagh (India)
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

(60 min; 2019; dvd; Hindi/English)
Director: Nirmal Chander
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

Recipient of the award for Best Indian Feature, All Living Things Environmental Film Festival 2019; Best Documentary Award, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala 2019; and Official Indian entry to the Oscar Awards 2019

For over five decades, 83 year old Vidyadutt Sharma has nurtured Moti Bagh, his 5 acre farm in a small Himalayan village. Around him are 7000 ghost villages – a chilling testimony to large scale migration by locals in search of employment. Chronicling the changing landscape in verses of resistance, Vidyadutt Sharma and Ram Singh, his Nepali farmhand, plough the fields and keep themselves alive, hoping to return Moti Bagh to its old glory

(Collaboration: Public Service Broadcasting Trust)

 

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-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.
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Janani’s Juliet (India)

01 November 2021, 06:30 pm
Janani’s Juliet (India)
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

(53 min; 2019; dvd; Tamil/English)
Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

Multiple award winner and India’s Official Entry to the Oscar Awards, recipient of the Best Long Documentary Award, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala 2019; Satyajit Ray Golden Award for Best Documentary, and Mrinal Sen Golden Award for Best Direction in Documentary, South Asia Film Festival; Human Rights Prize, Fine Arts Film Festival, USA; among others

Janani's Juliet follows the journey of Pondicherry-based theatre group, Indianostrum, as they navigate through caste and class obstacles, and understand how these impact women’s freedom and love. They adapt Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to their story and what emerges is a critical reflection and commentary on the contemporary world, where love struggles to survive

 

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-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.
-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
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BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

08 November 2021, 07:00 pm
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts
Venue
Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC

HYBRID PROGRAMME

The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan
By Bimal Prasad and Sujata Prasad (Vintage Books, New Delhi: August 2021)

Discussants: Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi, historian, biographer and Research Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; Shri Ajit Jha, Research Editor, The Outlook magazine ; Shri Om Thanvi, Hindi writer, editor and critic and Founding Vice-Chancellor, Haridev Joshi University of Journalism and Mass Communication, Jaipur; Shri Raghu Rai, well-known photographer; 
Ms Narayani Basu, historian and foreign policy analyst; and Ms Sujata Prasad, co-author of the book

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker , Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)