People, Places and A War: A Festival of Films   

(11:00 am)

 

Tribute: Suchitra Sen (1931 – 2014)

Deep Jwele Jaai (To Light a Lamp; Bengali)

(132 min; 1959; b/w; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Asit Sen

 

With Suchitra Sen, Anil Chatterjee

 

2:00 pm Saat Paake Badha (Marriage Circle; Bengali)

(133 min; 1963; b/w; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Ajoy Kar

 

With Suchitra Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee

 

Silver Prize for Best Actress, Moscow International Film Festival 1963

 

5:00 pm The Great War: Poetry from the Trenches 

Readings by Bhaskar Ghose, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Keki N. Daruwalla, Sunit Tandon and Soumya Dasgupta who will read from War Poets of England, Australia, Canada and Germany. Letters from Indians who fought in Europe and Mesopotamia will also be read

 

Venue: Auditorium

 

6:30 pm An Evening of Classical Jazz 

Presented by Aditya Balani Group from Delhi – Smiti Malik (vocal); Aditya Balani (guitar & voice); Pawan Benjamin (saxophone); Jayant Manchanda (bass); Kartikeya Srivastava (drums); and Rohit Gupta (piano)

 

8:00 pm People, Places and A War: A Festival of Films

Tribute: Suchitra Sen (1931 – 2014)

Aandhi (Storm; India)

(133 min; 1975; dvd; English subtitles)

A film by Gulzar

 

With Sanjeev Kumar, Suchitra Sen

 

Filmfare Awards 1976 for Best Actor and Best Film-Critics

 

FOOD FESTIVAL : FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY

8:00 pm Food Festival: Brazil on a Plate 

Prepared by Embassy of Brazil

 

The Stilwell Road
(11:00 am) 

An exhibition of photographs 

 

By Findlay Kember who traveled the length of the Stilwell Road from Ledo in Assam to northern Myanmar and to Kunming in the south-western Chinese province of Yunnan

 

Inauguration by   

 

On view in the Annexe Art Gallery and Lecture Room II

 

11:00 am People, Places and A War: A Festival of Films

The Blue Max (UK)

(156 min; 1966; dvd; English)

Director: John Guillermin

 

Recipient of the BAFTA Award 1967 for Best British Art Direction

 

2:00 pm Passchendaele (Canada)

(114 min; 2008; dvd; English)

Director: Paul Gross

 

Multiple award winner including CSC Award for Best Cinematography in Theatrical Feature, Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards 2009; DGC Craft Award for Production Design – Feature & DGC Team Award for Feature Film, Directors Guild of Canada 2009; Genie for Best Motion Picture, Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design, Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Achievement in Overall Sound, Best Achievement in Sound Editing & Golden Reel Award, Genie Awards 2009; and Audience Award, Sudbury Cinéfest 2008; among others

 

5:00 pm Jaisalmer Yellow 

An exhibition of paintings by twenty-five leading artists from eight SAARC countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

 

Works by Abdul Shokoor Khasrawe and Dr. Yousof Asefi from Afghanistan;  Abdus Shakoor Shah and Murtaja Baseer from Bangladesh; Tshewang Tenzin from Bhutan; Akhilesh;  Anjana Mehra;  Anupam Sud; Bandeep Singh; Gopi Gajwani; Jatin Das; Manish Pushkale; Manisha Gera Baswani; S. Harshavardhana; Shamshad Husain; and Yogendra Tripathi from India; Ragini Upadhyay from Nepal; Afzal Hasab Shaafiu (Afu) from Maldives; Ali Raza; Roohi Shafiq Ahmed; Saba Khan; and Waseem Ahmed from Pakistan; Anoma Wijewardene; Anup Vega; and Jagath Ravindra from Sri Lanka

 

Conceptualised and curated by Sanjeev Bhargava

 

Inauguration by Shri Satish Mehta, Director- General, ICCR 

 

On view in the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex

 

The exhibition will remain on view until 26 October 2014

 

(Collaboration: Indian Council for Cultural Relations; and Seher)

 

6:30 pm Koto Recital 

Concert by Noriko Matsuzaka and Tomoya Nakai from Japan

 

The artists will present a concert ranging from classical to contemporary 

 

(Collaboration: The Japan Foundation)

 

8:00 pm People, Places and A War: A Festival of Films

Forty Thousand Horsemen (Australia)

(100 min; 1941; dvd; b/w; English)

Director: Charles Chauvel

(FOOD FESTIVAL FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY)

8:00 pm Food Festival: Japanese Cuisine - Seasonality and Variety 

Prepared by Kuuraku Restaurant

 

An exhibition of photographs, books, frontispieces and objects from the collection of the Hazrat Shah Waliullah Public Library; and from the private collections of Abdul Sattar and Naseem Beg Khan Changezi

 

Photographs by Neeraj Singh; Saurabh Prasad and photographs of Matia Mahal by Ram Rahman

 

Demonstration by Shri Ammeenur Rahman, calligrapher from Pahari Imli on Friday, 10 October and Sunday, 12 October from 11 am to 6 pm

 

Inauguration by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson IIC Asia Project and Life Trustee IIC

 

On view in Conference Room I 

 

5:30 pm
Emergence 

A multi-media installation by Pierre Legrand and Anuradha Majumdar

 

The installation invites the viewer to walk through light, translucent architecture, made of poetry and experience, a porous, luminous and musical space

 

Inauguration by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan 

 

On view in the Gandhi-King Plaza

 

6:30 pm
Inauguration of the Festival

By Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC

 

Concert

Presented by Rida and The Musical Folks from Meghalaya

Rida Gatphoh (songwriter & vocals); Bah Rojet Buhphang and Bah S. Malngiang (duhalias – traditional folk musicians); Peter Marbaniang (duitara & guitar); Amarnath Hazarika (composer & guitar); Sean Menzies Nongrum (percussion & bass); Benedict Skhemlang Hynniewta (flute); Bahduh Risingbor Kurkalang (duhalia artist; duitara, maryngod & sitar); and Shaun Nonghuloo Morehead (percussion & ksing)

 

The artists will present an evening of music, story-telling and recitations from the Khasi and Jaintia traditions

 

 

8:00 pm
People, Places and A War: A Festival of Films

The Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion; France)

(114 min; 1937; dvd; b/w; English subtitles)

Director: Jean Renoir

 

Recipient of the NBR Award for Best Foreign Film & Top Foreign Films, National Board of Review, USA 1938; Award for Best Overall Artistic Contribution, Venice Film Festival 1937; and NYFCC Award for Best Foreign Language Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1939

FOOD FESTIVAL: FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY
8:00 pm
Food Festival: A Taste of Europe and the Swedish Smorgasbord 

Prepared by Vijay Thukral, Executive Chef IIC and Embassy of Sweden

 

By Sergey Markarov

 

First Russian UNESCO Artist for Peace, Markarov has been performing at prestigious halls such as the Carnegie Hall in New York.  He is presently Professor at l’EcoleNormale de Musique de Paris

 

Improving Tax Administration and Processes

 

Keynote Speaker: Shri S.S. Khan, former Member, Central Board of Direct Taxes

 

Introduction: Shri Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary

 

Chair: Dr. Parthasarthi Shome, Chairman, Tax Administration Reform Commission, Govt. of India

 

 

Aesthetics of Excess and Transgression

Speakers: Prof. Ashis Nandy; Shri Kamlesh Shukla; Prof. Purushottam Agrawal; and Shri S Kalidas

Coins as Chronological Factor: Evidence from Lal Kot Excavations

Speaker: Dr. G.S. Khwaja, Archaeological Survey of India

With one Voice: Awaken to the Really that Unites us All (2009; 78 min; dvd)

Directed by Eric Temple

 

Winner of Telly Award, Best Overall Documentary and Best Spiritual/Religious documentary (2009); Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival (2009); Chesapeaks Film Festival (2009); and Global Peace Film Festival (2009)

 

The film features mystics from many of the great spiritual traditions around the world, whose lives have been dedicated to answering the mysteries of existence