The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
In place of ' Amma Ariyan' , the following film will be screened.
Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (The Strange Fate of Arvind Desai/India)
(118 min; 1978; dvd; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Recipient of the Critic’s Award for Best Film, Filmfare Awards 1979
Arvind Desai is the only son of a rich businessman who deals in luxury handicraft products. His feelings for his father are mixed. While he hates his dominating nature, he admires his power and lack of scruples. The chaotic, bustling underbelly of Mumbai comes alive in this compelling drama about the existential crisis of a young privileged man. Through the ambiguous idealism of its confused protagonist Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan reflects on social injustice and class divide in urban India
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle/France)
(98 min; 1969; dvd; French with English subtitles)
Director: Claude Chabrol
Recipient of the Top Foreign Film Award, National Board of Review, USA 1970
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
Food Festival: Fusion Food
Prepared by Chef Nishant Choubey
Venue: Rose Garden
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
Faces (USA)
(130 min; 1968; b/w; dvd; English)
Director: John Cassavetes
Recipient of the Pasinetti Award for Best Film & Volpi Cup for Best Actor Award, Venice Film Festival 1968; NSFC Award for Best Supporting Actor & Best Screenplay, National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1968; and Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 2011
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
Paris, Texas (Germany)
(147 min; 1984; dvd; German with English subtitles)
Director: Wim Wenders
Multiple award winner including FIPRESCI Prize, Palme d’Or, & Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes Film Festival 1984; Awards for Best Direction & Best Screenplay, BAFTA Awards, 1985; Best European Film, Bodil Awards 1985; among others
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
Deep End (UK/West Germany)
(88 min; 1971; b/w; dvd; English)
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
Food Festival: A Polish Repast
Prepared by Chef Mukesh Sharma, Alma Cafe
Venue: Rose Garden
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
Adoption (Örökbefogadás/Hungary)
(89 min; 1975; b/w; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Márta Mészáros
Recipient of the Golden Berlin Bear, C.I.D.A.L.C. Award, & Otto Dibelius Film Award, Berlin International Film Festival 1975
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
To Live Her Life: A Film in Twelve Scenes (Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux/France)
(85 min; 1962; b/w; dvd; French with English subtitles)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Recipient of the Top 10 Film Award for Best Film, Cahiers du Cinéma 1962; Pasinetti Award, and Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival 1962
The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts 14 to 20 October 2022
New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival
Uski Roti (Our Daily Bread/India)
(110 min; 1969; b/w; dvd; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Mani Kaul
Recipient of the National Award for Best Cinematography, National Film Awards 1970; and Filmfare Critics’ Award for Best Film, Filmfare Awards 1971
