Films curated by Partha Chatterjee who will introduce the films

 

Court (Hindi/English/Gujarat/Marathi)

(116 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Chaitanya Tamhane

 

Multiple award winner including Golden Lotus Award for Best Feature Film, National Film Awards, 2015; Luigi de Laurentiis Award & Venice Horizons Award for Best Film, Venice Film Festival 2014; Awards for Best Actor; Best Film – International Competition; Fipresci Prize-Competition; & SIGNIS Award, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2015; among others

 

The film examines the Indian legal system through the Mumbai Sessions Court trial of an ageing protest singer, Narayan Kamble, who is accused of encouraging a manhole worker to commit suicide through one of his folk songs