Lend Me Your Eyes, Baltazars
11 May 2020, 05:30 am
Lend Me Your Eyes, Baltazars
Programme Type
Film Club
Director: Dora Elek
Recipient of the Best Director, Documentary Feature Film Category, Jaipur International Film Festival 2018
The Baltazar Theatre, founded in 1998, is the only professional theatre company in Hungary whose members are mentally disabled actors. In the last 22 years, the company has become a significant part of Hungarian theatrical life. The Baltazar Theatre breaks new ground by putting actors’ disabilities in the background and emphasizing their talent instead. Since the very beginning, the purpose of the Baltazar Theatre is to get disabled and non-disabled parts of society closer to each other. Several years of artistic work with the actors of Baltazar has showed us that the word ”disabled” means nothing when it comes to art.
Lend Me Your Eyes, Baltazars is infused with the naturalness, lyricism and humour flooding from the entertainers as the film talks about the journey of two young Hungarian women who travel to the southern part of India in search of self-discovery. The film follows the journey of the entertainers from Tamil Nadu to Vaiteeswaran Koil.
Organised in collaboration with Hungarian Information & Cultural Centre
Framing Lives - I
11 May 2020, 05:30 am
Framing Lives - I
Programme Type
Film Club
A selection of six award-wining documentaries by independent filmmakers from India. Commissioned and produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), the films present a different, more complex panorama of life through work that offers a distinctive presentation of issues and situations that affect the everyday life of the people of a complex society, coming to grips with fundamental transformation, and which attempts a deeper level of reflection and analysis
Organised in collaboration with Public Service Broadcasting Trust. Public Service Broadcasting Trust is a not-for-profit that nurtures and supports the production of documentary films by independent filmmakers. Over the past twenty years, it has mentored 500 of mostly young, starting out talents, producing over 700 documentary films on myriad themes and subjects, travelling to over 1860 film festivals worldwide and winning more than 320 Awards, including 53 National Film Awards, from the President of India.
Framing Lives - I
A selection of six award-wining documentaries by independent filmmakers from India. Commissioned and produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), the films present a different, more complex panorama of life through work that offers a distinctive presentation of issues and situations that affect the everyday life of the people of a complex society, coming to grips with fundamental transformation, and which attempts a deeper level of reflection and analysis
Organised in collaboration with Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The six films listed below are available viewing on the following links given below with English subtitles:
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A Drop of Sunshine (39 min/ 2011) Recipient of the National Film Award for Best Educational Film 2011; and Indian Documentary Producers' Association Awards, New Jersey, USA |
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I'm Jeeja (28 min/2016) Recipient of the Best Film Award on Social Issues, National Film Awards; National Film Awards; Award, FilmSaaz International Film Festival, Aligarh; We Care Fest, New Delhi; among others Filmmaker Swati Chakraborty beautifully captures the enriching life of Jeeja Ghosh, who was born with cerebral palsy, in the 28-minute documentary, I Am Jeeja. The film focuses on the extraordinary woman, who not only holds a double master’s degree from the University of Delhi and the University of Leeds (UK), but also has defied every stereotype and expectation to become a social worker |
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Nirnay (56 min/2012) Recipient of the Pramod Pati Award for Most Innovative Film, Mumbai International Film Festival; Indian Documentary Producers’ Association Awards; Best Documentary, Mumbai Women's International Film Festival; among others The Film is Pushpa’s journey as she tries to make sense of her own life and those of her women friends. Set in a lower middle-class colony in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, it explores the lives of women, who are young, educated and bright, but feel bound and helpless when it comes to taking any major decision regarding their lives |
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Journey to Nagaland (26 min/2010) Recipient of the awards for Best Animation Film and Special Jury Mention for Sound Design, with citation 4th IDSFFK, 2011; Best Animated Short Film (Professional Category), INFOCOM–ASSOCHAM EME AWARDS, Kolkata, 2011; and Golden Conch, MIFF, for Best Animation Film, Mumbai 2012; among others Journey to Nagaland is a short animated documentary about a young girl who is led to a distant land by the force of her visions and goes on a journey to discover her mother’s origins |
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Morality TV and the Loving Jehad (30 min/2007) Recipient of the Award for Best Documentary, International Film Festival, Kerala The film looks outside the frames that weave the frenetic tapestry of breaking news on India’s news channels, to uncover a town’s complex dynamics – the fear of love, the constant scrutiny and control of women’s mobility and sexuality, a history of communal violence, caste brutalisation and feudal mindsets |
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On and Off the Records (57 min/2014) Tareque Masud Award for Best Debut, Film Southasia, Nepal The post-twentieth-century history of Hindustani music and the story of recording in India are inseparable. The former has constantly been influenced by the growth chart of the latter. How does this constant and continuous interplay affect the aesthetics of one of the oldest musical tradition of the world? The film tries to understand the equation through intimate discussion on the issue with a group of concerned, conscious, and convincing individuals |
Two Women- Dramatised Readings from Jorasanko
04 May 2020, 05:30 am
Two Women- Dramatised Readings from Jorasanko
Programme Type
Cultural
Author of the novel: Aruna Chakravarti
Dramatised readings by Minoti Chatterjee and Averee Chaurey
Music: Jayati Ghosh
Jorasanko – a novel based on the lives of the Tagore women during the period 1859 to 1902 – a unique phase in the history of Bengal. The Tagore mansion of Jorasanko was at the hub of the Bengal Renaissance with the family at the forefront of the movement and its women playing a pivotal role
Collaboration: Impresario India
Programme held on 16th May 2012
Dramatised readings by Minoti Chatterjee and Averee Chaurey
Music: Jayati Ghosh
Jorasanko – a novel based on the lives of the Tagore women during the period 1859 to 1902 – a unique phase in the history of Bengal. The Tagore mansion of Jorasanko was at the hub of the Bengal Renaissance with the family at the forefront of the movement and its women playing a pivotal role
Collaboration: Impresario India
Programme held on 16th May 2012
HEALTHCARE IN INDIA How Can we Stop India’s Youth from Killing Themselves?
09 July 2019, 05:30 am
HEALTHCARE IN INDIA How Can we Stop India’s Youth from Killing Themselves?
Programme Type
Talks,
Webcasts
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building
Speaker: Prof. Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Professor, Dept. of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
Programme held on 9th July 2019
Ladakh Revealed
04 May 2020, 05:30 am
Ladakh Revealed
Programme Type
Discussions
Speakers: Mr Bill Aitken on “Introduction to the Himalayan Club Collection”
Dr Janet Rizvi on “Ladakhi Trade Routes”
Dr Chhaya Bhattacharya-Haesner on “The Nubra Valley and Central Asian Trade”
Shri Viraf Mehta on “Hidden Petroglyphs of Ladakh”
Chair: Dr M.S. Gill, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
Programme held on 23rd August 2012
Day of Hungarian Film: A Festival of Classic Comedies
04 May 2020, 05:30 am
Day of Hungarian Film: A Festival of Classic Comedies
Programme Type
Film Club
Organised in collaboration with Hungarian Information & Cultural Centre, New Delhi
Screening of eight feature films to celebrate the Day of Hungarian Film. Presented by the Hungarian National Film Institute, a selection of some of the best, unforgettable Hungarian comedies from the past 80 years have been made available online for free, with English subtitles. These include masterpieces such as Hyppolit, the Butler, The Witness, Dollybirds, and Moszkva Square, plus many others
The classic Hungarian comedies listed below are available from 4th to 10th May 2020 on the following links with English subtitles:
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Hyppolit, the Butler / Hyppolit, a lakáj (1931/77 min) |
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Mickey Magnate / Mágnás Miska (1948/95 min) |
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Liliomfi (1954/109 min) |
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Sparrows Are Birds Too / A veréb is madár (1968/80 min) |
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The Witness / A tanú (1969/103 min) |
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Don’t Panic, Please! / Csak semmi pánik (1982/87 min) |
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Dollybirds / Csinibaba (1997/100 min) |
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Moscow Square / Moszkva tér (2001/88 min) Recipient of the awards for Best Debut Film, Best Supporting Actress & Internet Audience, Hungarian Film Week 2001 1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions |
