Illustrated lecture by Dr Lisa N. Owen, Associate Professor, South Asian Art History, University of North Texas

Chair: Prof Himanshu Prabha Ray, Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient History, JNU

Through an analysis of two Jain caves at Ellora, the speaker will show that initial Jain activity started much earlier than the ninth century as attributed, while the work done in the ninth century demonstrates that these caves contributed to the development of imagery in Hindu monuments. Challenging the notion that the caves were created in separate religious phases, under successive Rashtrakuta kings, she invites us to view Ellora's monuments as products, not of imperial sponsorship, but of devotional interaction across chronological and religious boundaries

Highway to the Asian Century
(52 min; 2012; dvd; English)
Directed by Suhas Borker who will introduce the film

Chief Guest: Shri Ranjan Mathai, Foreign Secretary
Guest of Honour: Lise Grande

Chair: Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson IIC - Asia Project

Closing remarks: Shri K.P. Fabian, Chair, K.P.S. Menon School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam

The film makes a 7600-km-long journey on the road from New Delhi to Hanoi, through Bangladesh, India's North East, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam, focusing on the intensification of India's relations with the ASEAN and the vision of an "Asian Economic Community"

G.P. and Pakistan
Panelists: Shri Satinder K. Lambah, former High Commissioner to Pakistan; Shri Inder Malhotra; and Shri G. Parthasarathy, former High Commissioner to Pakistan

Chair: Shri K. Natwar Singh, former Minister for External Affairs, and former High Commissioner to Pakistan
On display will be two panels of photographs of G.P. in various contexts

Prof Namwar Singh, Professor Emeritus, School of Modern Indian Languages, JNU; Prof Bhagwan Singh Josh, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU; and Prof Bibek Debroy, CPR, discuss The Indus People: Saraiki Saga and Sufi-Sant Renaissance by Girija Kumar (New Delhi: Vitasta, 2013)

Chair: Shri Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, President, IGNCA

Address by H.E. Sir James Bevan, KCMG, British High Commissioner

Introduction: Shri Vijay Naik, Convener, IAFAC
Welcome: Dr Kavita A. Sharma, Director, IIC

Illustrated lecture by Dr K.K. Mohammed, distinguished archeologist

Chair: Dr. Lotika Varadarajan

FRIDAY 7
From 09:30 onwards 
SURVIVAL
Cotton for My Shroud - Directors: Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl
7 Short Films on the Commons - Director: Amar Kanwar
My Home is Green - Director: Sajan Sindhu
Baiga - The Medicine Man - Director: Sumit Sisodiya
Get Up Stand Up - Director: Sreemith N.
Timbuktu - Directors: Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh

From 14:30 to 17:25
CONSERVATION
A Pestering Journey - Director: K.R. Manoj
Mangroves - Director: Mike H. Pandey
Half a View - Director: Ankit Pogula
The Lost Forest - Ishani K. Dutta

At 17:35
Panel discussion

At 18:50
To be announced

Fifth edition of the bi-annual film festival presenting films that depict the stark environmental challenges and conflicts confronting us in present times. The festival focuses on four categories of environmental concern: the Earth, Water, Wildlife and Sustainability. The festival also includes a separate section on international films and will include a panel discussion

Inauguration

From 10:30 to 13:57
WILDLIFE
Tiger Dynasty - Director: S. Nallamuthu
The Jungle Gang (Rhino) - Director: Krishnendu Bose
The Jungle Gang (Bear) - Director: Krishnendu Bose
Gaur in My Garden - Director: Rita Banerjee
A Cat Diary - Director: Nutan Manmohan
Chambal Gharial Crisis - Directors: Ajay Bedi & Vijay Bedi

From 14:30 to 16:44
WATER
Aanchar - Director: Shafqut Habib
The End Game - Director: Snehasis Das
Blue Goes Black - Director: Ishani K. Dutta
A Dam Old Story - Director: Tarini Manchanda
Flowing Forever - Director: P.C. Anto

From 17:00 to 19:42
Tar Sands (USA) - Director: Christopher Walker
Le Burmese (France) - Director: Thomas Renaud
E-Wasteland (Australia) - Director: David Fedele
Ant Wars (Germany) - Director: Stefan Geier

The Himalayas and Our Future
Speaker: Prof Shekhar Pathak, well-known environmentalist, historian, and Editor, PAHAR

Chair: Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC - Asia Project

An exhibition presenting works by leading Israeli artists - painters, photographers and quilters
Curator: Rachel Ziv

Opening on Tuesday, 4th December 2012, at 18:30

As part of this exhibition there will be a screening of two documentary films

On 4th December at 19:00 in Lecture Room - II, Annexe
Six Million and One
(Shisha Milyon Ve-echad)
(93 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)
Directors: David Fisher & Irit Shimrat

The filmmaker David Fisher and his two brothers and sister travel to Austria and the USA, retracing the steps of their father Joseph Fisher, a Holocaust survivor whose memoir was discovered only after his death. His children refused to confront its contents, except for David, for whom it became a compass for a long journey

On 5th December at 18:30 in Lecture Room - II, Annexe
A Film Unfinished
(Shtikat Haarchion)
(88 min; 2010; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Yael Hersonki

Recipient of the NBR Award for Top Five Documentaries, National Board of Review, USA 2010; The Jewish Experience Award, Forum for the Preservation of Audio-Visual Memory, Jerusalem Film Festival 2010; and World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award, Sundance Film Festival 2010

At the end of World War II, 60 minutes of raw film was discovered sitting undisturbed in an East German archive. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply "Das Ghetto", this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes and cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage