Chitraanjali – Stefan Norblin in India | (59 min; 2011; dvd; English)

Director: Malgorzata Skiba

The film tells the forgotten story of Polish artist, Stefan Norblin(1892-1952), who found safe haven in India during WWII and spent six eventful years working for the royal families of Morvi, Ramgarh and Jodhpur. The film is a tribute to the art of the Polish painter and brings back to limelight the fascinating landscape of the Art Deco period in Poland and in India

Organised in collaboration with Polish Institute, New Delhi. The festival presents 8 award-winning feature and documentary films from Poland. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in January 2021. The password for accessing each film will be shared by email one day before the screenings 

On Saturday, 23^rd January 2021 from 12:00 to 11:59 hrs

Birds are Singing in Kigali (Ptaki spiewaja w Kigali) | (113 min; 2017; Polish with English subtitles)

Directors: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Kruze

Multiple award winner including Best Actress Awards at Chicago International Film Festival 2017 & Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017; Best Performance Award, LET’s CEE Film Festival 2018; Best Feature Film, Best Actress & Best Editing, Polish Film Festival 2017; Grand Prix, 10^th CinÉast Film Festival 2017; among others

Birds are Singing in Kigali is a multi-layered drama of two women who survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Polish ornithologist Anna Keller and Rwandan Claudine Mugambira. Both women, suffering deeply, engage in a complex and piercing psychological process of healing and restoration of their daily lives… 

A Beautiful Equation – Einstein, Bohrs and Grandmothers | (53 min; 2014; English)

Director: Robin Truesdale

Recipient of the Platinum Remi Award, Houston Worldfest 2015; and Best International Film, Sunrise Film Festival, Nova Scotia 2015

Eight grandmothers join forces to perform a theatrical production about two historic physicists, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. As they reveal untold chapters in the famed scientists’ biographies, they also discover new stories about themselves. Their powerful message extends beyond age, gender, and even science – an affirmation of the value of playfulness and imagination within us all

Gandhiji’s views on Arts, Aesthetics and Culture

Speaker: Dr. Varsha Das, former Director, National Book Trust and National Gandhi Museum and art critic

The talk explores Gandhiji’s views on art and culture, his views on beauty and aesthetics and the role of art in life

Screening of NHK documentary films on Japan’s history, literature, art, culture and heritage. Organised with the support of NHK World and Embassy of Japan, New Delhi

Tsubo-niwa | (28 min; 2016; English and with subtitles)

Traditional Kyoto Machiya townhouses have narrow entrances, and are long and deep. At the back lie small Tsubo-niwa gardens (courtyard gardens), enclosed on all sides. Originally serving to provide light and ventilate the house, they enabled residents to comfortably endure the intense, summer heat. The gardener does not fill it up the space, instead he carefully arranges a few items and links the garden compositionally to his home. And he exploits numerous untouchables: wind direction, sounds, seasons, sunlight, the true and apparent dimensions of empty space.

An exhibition from the collection of Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi Circle’s archives. On view are reproductions of archival photographs, lithographs, sketches of the medieval monument by engineers and artists including engineer Ensign Blunt from 1794 and the camera’s used for documenting the site

The exhibition is on view from 18^th to 31^st January 2021, 11 am to 7 pm at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex

(Collaboration: Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi Circle)

Welcome Remarks: Professor Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, RIS

Inaugural Remarks: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Chair: Shri Rajnish Kumar, Former Chairman, State Bank of India

Panellists: Professor Ananth Narayan, Associate Professor (Adjunct), Head of Public Policy, SPJIMR, Mumbai; Dr. Amey Sapre Assistant Professor, NIPFP, New Delhi; Professor Manmohan Agarwal, Senior Adjunct  Fellow, RIS

This webinar is first in the series of banking and finance. The panellists will explore the different aspects of economic development, trade, investment and technology through the webinar.

Organised in collaboration with Polish Institute, New Delhi. The festival presents 8 award-winning feature films from Poland. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in January 2021. The password for accessing each film will be shared by email one day before the screenings  

All for My Mother (Wszystko dla mojej matki) | (103 min; 2019; Polish with English subtitles)
Director: Małgorzata Imielska

Recipient of the Best Debut Actor award, Polish Film Festival 2019; Audience Award and Special Mention, Warsaw International Film Festival 2019

Olka, a tomboyish seventeen year old must endure life in a court-ordered reformatory as she plots a way to find her mother…
    

Organised in collaboration with Polish Institute, New Delhi. The festival presents 8 award-winning feature films from Poland. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in January 2021. The password for accessing each film will be shared by email one day before the screenings  

A Coach’s Daughter (Córka trenera) | (93 min; 2018; Polish with English subtitles)
Director: Lukasz Grzegorzek

Recipient of the Best Youth Film Award, Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema, 2018; and Distinction for Best Actor & “Rising Star” awards, Polish Feature Competition, International Independent Film Festival ‘Off Camera’, 2019

During one hot summer season, Maciej Kornet (47) and his beloved daughter Wiktoria (17) set out on another journey across Poland for a long series of tennis tournaments. The two are inseparable, training together for twelve years, Wiktoria meticulously follows her father’s routine. But at one of the tournaments, the dynamics of their relationship changes with the arrival of Igor, a young, promising tennis player…