A Matter of Life and Death

22 March 2021, 12:00 am
A Matter of Life and Death
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions

A Matter of Life and Death (UK) | (104 min; 1946; English) | Click here to watch
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

With David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring

Recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Foreign Film, Bodil Awards 1948
A Matter of Life and Death is undoubtedly one of the best films ever made - cheerful, whimsical, fantastical and full of human warmth and cheer. Nearly every moment drips with style, loving enthusiasm and balls-to-the-wall filmmaking skill. Powell and Pressburger mine the heavenly situation with wit, intelligence and infectious good humour, delivering a solid-gold screenplay using the archetype of a courtroom drama, blending it superbly with melodrama, a red-blooded romance and a great buddy story
 

ESPACIO FEMENINO/FEMININE SPACE

27 March 2021, 12:30 am
ESPACIO FEMENINO/FEMININE SPACE
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions

Después de… Atado y bien atado | (99 min; 1981; Spanish with English subtitles)

Director: Cecilia Bartolomé y José Juan Bartolomé

This film was made between April 1979 and the end of 1980, three years after Franco's death. During those months, the directors tried to reflect the feelings and opinions of the street after the transition from dictatorship to democracy. As well as the conflicts that threatened democratic normalization and that culminated in the coup attempt on February 23, 1981, shortly after the film ended.

https://cultura.cervantes.es/manila/en/despu%C3%A9s-de...-atado-y-bien-…
 

ESPACIO FEMENINO/FEMININE SPACE

24 March 2021, 12:30 am
ESPACIO FEMENINO/FEMININE SPACE
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions

A festival of Spanish films directed by women filmmakers organized in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi. The five award winning films to be screened have been made by film directors who made their cinematic debut in the 1950s and 1960s and are pioneers in the history of Spanish cinema. The films not only reflect the work and aesthetics of these women directors, they also present an interesting portrait of the historical period in Spain from 1953 to 1981. Two films will be screened every Wednesday and Saturday in March 2021 accessible for a duration of 48 hours. Vimeo links to the films will be posted in the IIC website (www.iicdelhi.in) and sent by email.


Después de… No se os puede dejar solos | (90 min; 1979; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Cecilia y José Juan Bartolomé

Recipient of the Premio Ace Award for Best Actress, Premio Ace Awards 1984

Después de... is a documentary film that shows some of the keys to the social and political crisis which Spanish democracy faces, since it includes the changes registered after Franco's death, the reactions of the Spanish to the new situation and the problems posed by a democracy born, without rupture, from the previous dictatorship.

https://cultura.cervantes.es/manila/en/despu%c3%a9s-de...-no-se-os-pued…

Book Discussion Group A Thousand Cranes for India

06 November 2020, 04:00 pm
Book Discussion Group A Thousand Cranes for India
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts

A Thousand Cranes for India
A discussion based on the book of the same title edited by Pallavi Aiyar
 
Panelists: Salil Tripathi, senior journalist, Contributing Editor, Mint and Caravan, Chair, PEN International Writers in Prison Committee; Natasha Badhwar, author, columnist, filmmaker, journalist and media trainer; and Jonathan Gil Harris, Professor and Head, Dept. of English, Ashoka University
 
Moderator: Pallavi Aiyar, award-winning foreign correspondent and author
 
A Thousand Cranes for India attempts to direct our attention to the spirit of solidarity that still endures in India and why. This anthology uses origami cranes as a way to create conversations about the fault lines in India
(Collaboration: Seagull Books)

Kindly please click on the registration link below:
http://webcast.streaminglive.in/iicwebinar/signup.php
 

In the Times of Covid – What we do, What we don’t, and What we should?

04 November 2020, 04:00 pm
In the Times of Covid – What we do, What we don’t, and What we should?
Programme Type
Seminars, Webcasts

In the Times of Covid – What we do, What we don’t, and What we should?

Illustrated lecture by Prof. Naresh Gupta, MD, Medical Consultant, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and Advisor for Haemophilia, Govt. of NCT Delhi

 

Chair: Dr. Amita V. Joseph, Director, Business & Community Foundation India

Kindly please click on the registration link below:
http://webcast.streaminglive.in/iicwebinar2/signup.php

 

The talk will focus on the relevance of safeguards and preventive measures in the prevailing times of the Covid-19 pandemic. Starting with some of the salient features in the virus infection, its transmissibility, and the masquerading nature of Covid. The uncertainties and constant accumulation of information creating anxiety and stress in the mind and the action of common citizens. The knowledge-based interventions to be practiced and needed to make precautions more effective for safe and harmonious living in the current times.

 

(Collaboration: Health Environment Foundation)


DUTCH CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL 2020

02 November 2020, 05:30 am
DUTCH CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL 2020
Programme Type
Festivals
 
DUTCH CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL 2020
A weekly screening of four award winning children’s films organized in collaboration with Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Delhi to celebrate National Children’s Day. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in November 2020. A link to the film is given below; the film can be accessed for a period of 36 hours from Saturday 9 am to Sunday 11:55 pm. The password for each film will be communicated by email to all members
 
Saturday 7th to Sunday 8th November 2020
Secrets of War (95 min; 2014; Dutch with English subtitles)
Director: Dennis Bots
 
Multiple award winner including Audience Award for Narrative Feature, Berkshire International Film Festival, 2015; Rembrandt Award for Best Dutch Youth Film, Rembrandt Awards 2015; Adult’s Jury Award for Live-Action Feature Film or Video, Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 2014, among others
 
Against the backdrop of WWII, Tuur’s friendship with Lambert is tested when both boys befriend new girl Maartje. The secret she holds will put all three lives in danger. It is 1943, but for 12 year old Tuur and Lambert, the German occupation is merely inspiration for their exciting cave-war games…
 
 

Beethoven @250 – Concert 2 (46 min)

02 November 2020, 05:30 am
Beethoven @250 – Concert 2 (46 min)
Programme Type
Cultural
Beethoven @250 – Concert 2 (46 min)
Beethoven’s song cycle An die ferne Geliebte, or To the Distant Beloved and Busslied or Penitence
Presented by Subin Sebastian Mathai (countertenor) and Nadine Jo Crasto (piano)
 
Followed by
Beethoven’s Spring Sonata in F major
By Josh Henriques (violin) and Nadine Jo Crasto (piano)
 
Video recording of the concerts for IIC online programmes

The Parsi Ghazal Queen

02 November 2020, 05:30 am
The Parsi Ghazal Queen
Programme Type
Cultural
The Parsi Ghazal Queen
 
Penaz Masani, well-known classical ghazal singer in conversation with Sameena Ali, stage and television anchor and scriptwriter
 
In a free-wheeling conversation interspersed with archival photographs and video recordings, Penaz re-traces her unusual journey as a Parsi in the world of ghazals. Beginning with her training in classical Hindustani music to her introduction to ghazals under the tutelage of the then Queen of Ghazals, Madhurani; her work in the film industry; and as a performing artist
 
 
Organised in collaboration with Parzor Foundation and Jiyo Parsi

IIC Double Bill – Classical Music Recitals

02 November 2020, 05:30 am
IIC Double Bill – Classical Music Recitals
Programme Type
Cultural
IIC Double Bill – Classical Music Recitals
 
Hindustani Violin Recital (33 min)
By Asghar Husain from Delhi, disciple of Ustad Zahoor Ahmed Khan and Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan
 


Followed by

Hindustani Flute Recital (34 min)
By Sudip Chattopadhyay from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Debaprasad Banerjee
 
Accompanied by Subrata Gupta on the tabla

Video recording of a performance for IIC online programmes
Accompanied by Ustad Akhtar Hasan on the tabla
 
 
 

FOCUS JAPAN

02 November 2020, 05:30 am
FOCUS JAPAN
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
FOCUS JAPAN
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 
 
A Culinary Tale - Trails to Oishii Kyoto 
(49 min; 2020; English)
Kyoto's cuisine is marked by an interplay between ingredients and seasonality. The city long served as Japan's capital, during which time it developed a unique culinary culture that lives on to this day. That culture includes dining on hamo, a kind of eel, at open-air, riverside restaurants, and feasting on fine vegetables that evolved thanks to Kyoto's distinct terroir. Kyoto's colourful, elaborate cuisine is the basis of fine Japanese cooking. Discover what makes Kyoto so delicious: so "oishii."