A festival of Spanish films that showcases the work of four exceptional filmmakers organised in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi and Alcalá de Henares Film Festival (ALCINE). Envisioned as a dialogue between two works (a short film and a feature film) of each filmmaker, the festival includes the films of directors Juanjo Giménez, Álex Montoya and Belén Macias and producer María del Puy Alvarado. Four filmmakers with different perspectives that showcases the diversity, vitality, robust presence and promising future of Spain’s younger directors. 

The online screenings will be held throughout April 2021 with a screening of two works each by the four filmmakers. All the films will be accessible for a period of 48 hours starting from 23:30 hours onwards on the dates indicated below. Vimeo links of each film is pasted below.

WEEK DEDICATED TO JUANJO GIMÉNEZ 

We need each other (Nos hacemos falta) | (97 min; 2001; Spanish with English subtitles) | Click here to watch
Director: Juanjo Giménez  

Recipient of the Special Mention for Best Actor, Ourense Independent Film Festival 2002

Alex has just left prison. Once out, he finds an old friend, the grave of her mother, a new brother and a clandestine cargo truck to travel through the desert. The journey that run together will make them understand that we all need each other.

A festival of Spanish films that showcases the work of four exceptional filmmakers organised in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi and Alcalá de Henares Film Festival (ALCINE). Envisioned as a dialogue between two works (a short film and a feature film) of each filmmaker, the festival includes the films of directors Juanjo Giménez, Álex Montoya and Belén Macias and producer María del Puy Alvarado. Four filmmakers with different perspectives that showcases the diversity, vitality, robust presence and promising future of Spain’s younger directors. 

The online screenings will be held throughout April 2021 with a screening of two works each by the four filmmakers. All the films will be accessible for a period of 48 hours starting from 23:30 hours onwards on the dates indicated below. Vimeo links of each film is pasted below.

WEEK DEDICATED TO JUANJO GIMÉNEZ 
 

Rodilla | (16 min; 2009; Spanish with English subtitles) | Click here to watch
Director: Juanjo Giménez 

A middle-aged man has a chance meeting with the legendary football player Rodilla, who is now working as a taxi driver. The meeting brings back childhood memories and browsing through his old sticker album, he realizes the only sticker missing is Rodilla’s. From that moment, it becomes his mission to find the sticker, no matter what

A documentary series presented by Michael Wood, exploring magnificent masterpieces of the Western world in their cultural and historical settings. The series consists of eighteen episodes, each of which focusses on the artistic contributions of one period in the history of the West, from Ancient Greece to the late 1980s. From the classical ideals in Greek and Roman antiquity, through the Renaissance, to the postmodernism of the later 1980s, the series provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

Two episodes will be presented every week online

Episode 12 –

The Passionate Eye | (25:59 min) | Click here to watch
Striving for individual expression, Romantic painters Goya, Gericault, and Delacroix demonstrated a range of styles and subjects.

A documentary series presented by Michael Wood, exploring magnificent masterpieces of the Western world in their cultural and historical settings. The series consists of eighteen episodes, each of which focusses on the artistic contributions of one period in the history of the West, from Ancient Greece to the late 1980s. From the classical ideals in Greek and Roman antiquity, through the Renaissance, to the postmodernism of the later 1980s, the series provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

Two episodes will be presented every week online
AN AGE OF REASON, AN AGE OF PASSION 

Episode 11-

The Age of Reason |(25:31 min) | Click here to watch
The playful fantasy and provocative subjects of the Rococo style practiced by Watteau, Fragonard, and Boucher gave way to strict Rationalism, which insisted on morality in art and the purity of classical form, as seen in the works of David.

Treasures in the Sand – Turkmenistan’s Ancient Heritage | (42 min; 2021; English and with subtitles) | Click here to watch
Director: Michael Gregor

DW DocFilm

To outsiders, Turkmenistan is one of the world’s least known countries. A little known fact is that 4,000 years ago, the country was home to one of the ancient world’s centres of power. Archaeologists have recently discovered palace buildings and magnificent burial treasures at the site of the capital, Gonur Depe, in the Karakum Desert. The ruined cities of Merv and Kunya-Urgench have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The film uncovers these and other important sites in the country.

Sitar Recital ( 38 min ) | Click here to watch
By Lakshay Mohan from Delhi, disciple of Pandit Uma Shankar Mishra

Followed by

Hindustani Vocal Recital (32 min) | Click here to watch
By Pulkit Sharma from Delhi, disciple of Prof. Ojesh Pratap Singh

Video recordings of two concerts for IIC online programmes
 

The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman  | (82 min; 2007; English) | Click here to watch
Director: Katherine Anderson

Teacher, scientist, author, intellectual, and winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, Milton Friedman was one of the 20th century’s greatest proponents of free markets and individual liberty. The Power of Choice tells the story of his life

IIC PROGRAMME CANCELLATION NOTICE

IIC Webinar on BANDUNG DAY SYMPOSIUM 2021

     UN: The Challenge of Rebuilding the Global Multilateral system

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Webinar on

UN: The Challenge of Rebuilding the Global Multilateral system scheduled for 24^th April 2021 at 6.00 pm has been cancelled until further notice.

A revised schedule will be intimated to you soon.

We regret any inconvenience caused.

UN and the Challenge of Rebuilding the Global Multilateral System
Speakers: Prof. Muchkund Dubey, former Foreign Secretary, President, Council for Social Development (CSD); Prof. Richard L. Falk, Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University, London and Emeritus Professor, Princeton University; Dr. Radha Kumar, writer and policy analyst, former Director-General, The Delhi Policy Group; Dr. Ashish Kothari, Environmental scholar and activist, Kalpavriksh; Prof. Beatriz Bissio, Professor of Political Science, Federal University of Rio de Jeneiro; and Prof. Biswajit Dhar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Welcome: Prof. Nitya Nanda, Director, CSD
Introduction to the Bandung Spirit Network: Darwis Khudori, University of La Havre, France

Introducing the Bandung Spirit Network, the Bandung Spirit Newsletter: Prof. Isaak Bazie, University of Montreal, Canada

Introduction to the Symposium theme: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty, CSD

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary and Life Trustee, IIC

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

Jinnah: His Success, Failures and Role in History
By Ishtiaq Ahmed (Penguin Viking, New Delhi: 2020)

Discussants: Dr. Siddiq Wahid, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research and former Vice Chancellor, Islamic University, Kashmir; Prof. Mridula Mukherjee, well-known historian, formerly Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library; and Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, Stockholm University, Sweden and author of the book

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Indian Society of International law and Distinguished Fellow, Symbiosis University