Book Discussion Group
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
The UK and India: Myths, Reality and Prospects
Address by H.E. Sir James Bevan, KCMG, British High Commissioner
Introduction: Shri Vijay Naik, Convener, IAFAC
Welcome: Dr Kavita A. Sharma, Director, IIC
The Churches of Goa
Illustrated lecture by Dr K.K. Mohammed, distinguished archeologist
Chair: Dr. Lotika Varadarajan
QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: A FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ENVIRONMENT
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
QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: A FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ENVIRONMENT
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
GOLDEN JUBILEE LECTURES ON ENVIRONMENT
The Himalayas and Our Future
Speaker: Prof Shekhar Pathak, well-known environmentalist, historian, and Editor, PAHAR
Chair: Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC - Asia Project
Magen David - The Star of David
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
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
Of Gods and Men
(122 min; 2010; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Recipient of the Grand Prix Award, Cannes Film Festival
Inspired by true events, this powerful and affecting film tells the story of a group of Cistercian monks living in the remote mountains of North Africa. Building to an extraordinarily moving climax, this beautifully directed, immaculately performed and award-winning drama has been acclaimed as a masterpiece
GOLDEN JUBILEE CONCERT
By Aman Ali Khan, son and disciple of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
Song of the Sibyl
Director: Carles Magraner
