FILM FESTIVAL: WOMEN AT THE CENTRE

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’).

FILM FESTIVAL: WOMEN AT THE CENTRE

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

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FILM FESTIVAL: WOMEN AT THE CENTRE

12:30 pm Mary Poppins (US) 

(139 min;1964; English)

Director: Robert Stevenson

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

3:00 pm The Nun’s Story (US) 

(152 min; 1959; English)

Director: Fred Zinnemann

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

8:30 pm Meghe Dhaka Tara

Director: Ritwik Ghatak

(135min; 1960; Bengali with English subtitles)

A tribute on his 100th birth anniversary

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Stree Ratnas- Women Composers of Bharat 

Traditional storytelling form from South India, a composite art form including storytelling; poetry; music; drama; and dance

Presented by Vishakha Hari who will focus on women composers. 

Accompanists: Idappally Ajith Kumar (violin); S.J. Arjun Ganesh (mridangam)

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

FILM FESTIVAL: WOMEN AT THE CENTRE

2:00 pm   Kshudhita Pashan (The Hungry Stones)

(109 mins;1960; Bengali with English Subtitles)

Director: Tapan Sinha

National Film Award for 2nd best feature film,1960.

8:30 pm Pride and Prejudice (UK)

(127 min; 2005; English)

Director: Joe Wright

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Actress (Keira Knightley). Won BAFTA for Best Costume Design.

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Film Screening and Conversation

‘The Last Migration – Wild Elephant Capture in Sarguja’ (49 mins)

Directed by Mike Pandey

A Conversation with Mike Pandey, Indian film maker and conservationist

Moderator: Madhur Nangia, wildlife photographer

Depth Sounding Our Unseen Histories

Keynote Address

By Smt Mrinal Pande, Eminent Writer, Journalist and Ex-Chairperson of Prasar Bharati

The lecture explores how women’s identities have been reduced to motherhood, and how social structures often bind individuals to biology.

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

FILM FESTIVAL: WOMEN AT THE CENTRE

Curator: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, award-wining filmmaker and Archivist, Director, Film Heritage Foundation

Bhumika(India)

(142 mins; 1977; Hindi)

Director: Shyam Benegal

(Remembering Smita Patil on her 70th Birthday)

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Annual Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)

Nepal 2043: The Road to Prosperity

By Sujeev Shakya (Penguin, 2025)

Discussants: Yet to be finalized