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…  

In the Age of AI | (113 min; 2019; English)
Directors: Neil Docherty, David Fanning

PBS International Frontline investigates the promise and perils of AI; from fears of work and privacy to rivalry between the U.S. and China. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance

Ladies and Gentlemen…Mr. Leonard Cohen (Canada) | (44 min; 1965; b/w; English & with subtitles)
Directors: Don Owen & Donald Brittain
Produced by National Film Board of Canada

Recipient of the Canadian Film Award for Best TV Information, Canadian Film Awards 1966

An informal portrait of Leonard Cohen that captures the noted poet and novelist before he launched his career as a singer-songwriter in 1967. The film follows Cohen at age 30 on a visit to his hometown of Montreal, where he comes “to renew his neurotic affiliations.” Interspersed with interviews and Cohen’s own poetry readings mostly taken from The Spice-Box Earth and Flowers for Hitler   

Hindustani Vocal 
By Ashish Ranade from Nasik, disciple of Pt. Anand Bhate

Followed by
Kathak
Group recital by Deepak Aurora and party from Gurgaon/Delhi, disciple of Pt. Rajendra Gangani

Speakers: Dr. Ashis Nandy, political psychologist, social theorist, Trustee, IIC; Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence & Peace Studies, and Vice-Dean, School of Law, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat

Moderator: Rajni Bakshi, freelance journalist and author

Ahimsa Conversations is an online forum for a wide range of reflections on the possibilities of nonviolence. The Conversations feature activists, ecologists, scholars, philosophers, politicians and people from the world of business sharing their experiences and ideas about their experiments with nonviolence. In this Webinar, the eminent scholars will critically contextualize this attempt to widen the space for Ahimsa in the public discourse. Based on their own intensive experiences with the striving for nonviolence, Dr. Nandy and Prof. Jahanbegloo will explore what challenges and difficult questions must be addressed through Ahimsa Conversations going forward.

A Bit of Everything    

A devastating exploration of what it means to lose one’s home, A Bit of Everything lays bare the many ways in which the violence of a land tears apart the everyday lives of its people.

Discussion based on the book A Bit of Everything (New Delhi : Westland Publications, 2020) by Sandeep Raina

Panelists: Ms Anita Nair, Author & High Profile Supporter- UNHCR; Mr Omair Ahmed, Managing Editor, Third Pole (South Asia); and Sandeep Raina, Writer and Author of the Book

Chairman: Ms Janani Ganesan, Editor at Context (Westland Publications)

Supernova | (78 min; 2019; Polish with English subtitles)

Director: Bartosz Kruhlik

Three men, one place and one event that will change the life of each one of them. A universal tale, kept in a realistic style, tells the story of a few hours in the life of a rural community. The film takes a look at the condition of a man in a borderline situation and raises questions about the essence of chance and destiny. A bloody story, oscillating on the edge of drama, thriller and disaster cinema

Winner of the Best Polish Film Association of Polish Filmmakers Critics Awards 2019; winner of the Best Film at Dublin International Film Festival 2020; winner of the Best Debut Director at Polish Film Festival 2019

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  

Of Animals and Men | (70min; 2019; Polish with English subtitles)

Director: Lukasz Czajka

The key aim of every zoo is to protect animal species from extinction. In times of war, the most endangered species was the man. Under the Nazis' noses, about 300 people, mainly Jews, found shelter at the Warsaw Zoo during the Second World War. With the help of re-enacted scenes with animals, interviews with the survivors, and archive footage, we are going to revive the surreal atmosphere of those events

Received the Bei Doc Award at the Italian Bellaria Film Festival 2020; awarded the  Best Arthouse Film at the Chinese GZDOC 2019 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival 2019

Rembrandt (UK) | (85 min; 1936; b/w; English)
Director: Alexander Korda

With Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester

NBR Award for Top Foreign Films, National Board of Review, USA 1936

A luminous biopic of the legendary Flemish painter. Alexander Korda considered this to be his finest film. A subtle, touching performance from Laughton as the ageing painter coming to terms with both the death of his beloved Saskia (Lanchester) and an increasing hostility to his work.