11:00 AM Rear Window (UK) 

(111 min; 1954; English)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards. Ranked among AFI’s 100 Greatest American Films.

2:00 PM Tár (US)

(2022; 158 min; 2022; English)

Director: Todd Field

Nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress (Cate Blanchett). Won Golden Globe for Best Actress.

8:30 PM An Officer and a Gentleman (US) 

(124 min; 1982; English))

Director: Taylor Hackford

Recipient of 2 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor (Louis Gossett Jr.) and Best Original Song (‘Up Where We Belong’).

10:00 AM Arth (India)

(138 mins; Hindi; 1982)

Director: Mahesh Bhatt

1:00 PM All About Eve (US) 

(1950; 138 min; English)

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Recipient of 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture.

4:00 PM Erin Brockovich (US) 

(2000; 130 min; English)

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Recipient of Academy Award for Best Actress (Julia Roberts)

8:30 PM Rudali

(128 mins;1993; Hindi)

Director: Kalpana Lajmi

12:30 PM Mary Poppins (US) 

(1964; 139 min; English)

Director: Robert Stevenson

Recipient of 5 Academy Awards including Best Actress (Julie Andrews).

3:00 PM The Nun’s Story (US) 

(1959; 152 min; English)

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Actress (Audrey Hepburn).

8:30 PM Meghe Dhaka Tara

Director: Ritwik Ghatak

A tribute on his 100th birth anniversary

Working for an Equal World
Panel Discussion by leading women from Northeast

Panelists: Ms Patricia Mukhim, social activist, writer, journalist and Editor of The Shillong Times; Prof Rakhee Kalita Moral, Professor and Head Department of English and Chair, Centre for Women’s Studies Cotton University; Dr Stuti Goswami, Associate Professor, Department of English, The Assam Royal Global University, Guwahati; and Dr Purnima Burman, Indian wildlife biologist
Moderator: Sanjoy Hazarika, writer, journalist and human rights activist

Chair: Rami Chhabra, veteran Media person, author and social activist
 

Panel Discussion
Role of Women in Politics in India- Then and Now
 

Panel Discussion with Aparajita Sarangi; Bansuri Swaraj, Atishi Marlena, Sudha Ramakrishnan, and Iqra Hasan

Chair: Sonia Singh, former Editorial Director, Anchor, NDTV Group
 

Women, Work, Resilience and Peace
SEWA’s role in Empowerment of Women in India’s informal economy 
 

Keynote Speaker: Reema Nanavaty, Director SEWA

Chair: Dr Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK; Former Director, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

Video Screening of “Swacch Aakash” followed by summary Remarks
 

Women in Architecture in India: Changing the Historical Canon
 

Illustrated talk by Madhavi Desai, Architect, researcher, writer and teacher

Chair: Mr. Abhay Purohit, President, Council of Architecture, Nagpur
 

Breaking the Frame: Women’s Shifting Roles in Media
 

Panel discussion with Malini Parthasarthy, Palki Sharma, and Neerja Choudhury
Chair: Sonia Singh, former Editorial Director, Anchor, NDTV Group
 

Film Screening and Conversation 
 

‘The Last Migration – Wild Elephant Capture in Sarguja’ 
(49 mins, 1994, English)
Directed by Mike Pandey
A Conversation with Mike Pandey, Indian film maker and conservationist

Moderator: Madhur Nangia, wildlife and landscape photographer
 

Nangiar Koothu
Emancipation of Ahalya
 

Presented by Usha Nangiar a seasoned Koodiyattam and Nangiarkoothu artist with Rajeev, Mizhavu artiste, Kalamandalam Vineesh, a Mizhavu performer, Kalanilayam Unnikrishnan, an Edakka specialist and Athira Hariharan.

Chief Guest: Shri K.N.Shrivastava, Director, IIC