Director: Paul Cowan

 

Recipient of the Banff Rockie Award for Best History & Biography Program, Banff Television Festival 2009; Gemini Awards 2010 for Best History Documentary Program

 

2:00 pm War Horse (USA)

(146 min; 2011; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Director: Steven Spielberg

 

Multiple award winner including AFI Awards USA 2012 for Movie of the Year; NBR Award for Top Film of the Year, National Board of Review, USA 2011; NYFCO Award for Top Films of the Year, New York Film Critics, Online 2011; among others

 

6:30 pm Draupadi

Adaptation of Mahasweta Devi’s short story ‘Draupadi’

Presented by Kalakshetra, Manipur

Director: Heisnam Kanhailal

 

 

FOOD FESTIVAL : FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY

8:00 pm Food Festival: A Naga Table 

Prepared by Karen Yepthomi, Dzükou Restaurant

 

(128 min; 1989; dvd; English)

Director: Peter Weir

 

Multiple award winner including Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, Academy Awards, USA 1990; BAFTA Film Award for Best Film & Best Original Film Score, BAFTA Awards 1990; César for Best Foreign Film, César Awards, France 1991; and David for Best Foreign Film, David di Donatello Awards, Italy 1990; among others

 

2:00 pm Good Will Hunting (USA)

(126 min; 1997; dvd; English)

Director: Gus Van Sant

 

Multiple award winner including Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, Academy Awards, USA 1998; Golden Globe for Best Screenplay-Motion Picture, Golden Globes, USA 1998; Silver Berlin Bear for Outstanding Single Achievement, Berlin International Film Festival 1998; ALFS Award for Best Supporting Actress of the Year, London Critics Circle Film Awards 1999; among others

 

5:00 pm Release of the IIC Quarterly: Autumn 2014

Edited by Omita Goyal, Chief Editor IIC

 

To be released by Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC

 

Venue: Gandhi-King Plaza

 

6:30 pm Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Manjusha Kulkarni Patil, Gwalior Gharana, disciple of Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar

Accompanists: Shriram Hasabnis (harmonium); and Mayank Bedekar (tabla) 

 

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

 

The Poll Diaries (Poll; Germany)

(129 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Chris Kraus

 

Multiple award winner including Bavarian Film Awards 2011 for Best Production Design, Best Actor & Best Young Actress; Film Award in Gold for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role; Best Cinematography; Best Production Design & Best Costume Design, German Film Awards 2011; Politeama Catanzaro Award & Special Jury Prize, Rome Film Festival 2010; among others

 

 

FOOD FESTIVAL : FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY

8:00 pm Food Festival: Maharashtra on a Plate 

Prepared by Machindra Kasture, Executive Chef, Ashok Group of Hotels

 

Recipient of the Prix Jean Vigo 2007 for Feature Film; Festival Award for Best Director-Fiction, Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival 2008

 

2:00 pm Between Wars (Australia)

(100 min; 1974; dvd; English)

Director: Michael Thornhill

 

Winner of the Cinematographer of the Year, Australian Cinematographer’s Society 1976

 

4:00 pm The Woman and the Stranger (Die frau und der Fremde; Germany)

(98 min; 1985; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Rainer Simon

 

Recipient of the Golden Berlin Bear, Berlin International Film Festival 1985; Jury Prize for Best Direction, Best Young Actress, Best Cinematographer, Best Film Score & Best Art Direction, Eberswalde Film Festival 1986

 

6:30 pm Natwari Kathak Nritya

By Vishal Krishna from Benaras

Accompanists: Pt. Mohan Krishna (bol padhant); Kushal Krishna (tabla); Brijesh Mishra (vocal & harmonium); Sanish Gyawali (flute); and                 (sitar)

 

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

Oh! What a Lovely War (UK)

(144 min; 1969; dvd; English)

Director: Richard Attenborough

 

Multiple award winner including Golden Globes, USA 1970 for Best English Language Foreign Film; BAFTA Awards 1970 for Best Supporting Actor; Best Art Direction; Best Cinematography; Best Costume Design; and Best Sound Track; among others

 

FOOD FESTIVAL : FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY

8:00 pm Food Festival: Jaunpuri Dastarkhwan 

Prepared by Atiya Zaidi

Carnatic Vocal Recital (11:00  AM )

By Lalitha and Haripriya, The Hyderabad Sisters

 

Accompanists: R. Dinakar (violin); D.S.R. Murthy (mridangam); and P.V. Ramanamurthy (ghatam)

 

Venue: Auditorium
 

FOOD FESTIVAL : FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY
1:00 pm Food Festival: A Taste of South India

 

2:00 pm People, Places and A War: A Festival of Films

 

Tribute: Gabriel Garcia Márquez (1927-2014)

No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba; Mexico)

(118 min; 1999; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Arturo Ripstein

 

Recipient of the Latin American Cinema Award, Sundance Film Festival 2000

 

6:30 pm Folk Dance and Songs of the Cossacks

Presented by Stanitsa Cossack Dance Ensemble from Krasnodar, Russia

Director of the ensemble: Anatoly Krugly

 

Dancers:  Manakova Maria, Buneeva Julia, Moiseenko Anzhela, Chekemes Maria, Volkova Iuliia, Pogorelaia Anastasia, Buneev Dmitry, Kovalev Andrey, Kopitun Aleksandr, Kanashian Sarkis, Zheltonoga Vladislav, Nichegovskii Aleksandr, and Kruglyy Dmitry

 

Vocalists: Borisenko Anastasia, Gorokhova Liliya, Gorokhov Andrey and Pinchuk Andrey

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of the Russian Federation; and Russia Beyond the Headlines) 

 

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

 

Tribute: Gabriel Garcia Márquez (1927-2014)

Of Love and Other Demons (Del amor y otros demonios; Colombia)

(95 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Hilda Hidalgo

 

Recipient of the Feature Film Trophy for Best Art Direction, Cine Ceará – National Cinema Festival 2010

 

 

FOOD FESTIVAL : FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY

8:00 pm Food Festival: Russkaya Kukhnya 

Prepared by Embassy of the Russian Federation

 

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