FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS

10:00 am   
Golmaal (India)
(160 min; 1979; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

1:30 pm

The Great Dictator (USA)
(128 min; 1940; b/w; English)
Writer & Director: Charles Chaplin

4:00 pm
    To be or Not to be (USA)
(99 min; 1942; b/w; English)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch

8.30pm

Intimate Lighting (Intimní osvyetlení/Czechoslovakia)
(72 min; 1965; b/w; Czech with English subtitles)
Director: Ivan Passer
 

FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS
 

Chalti ka Naam Gaadi (India)
(178 mins; 1958; b/w; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Satyen Bose

4:45 pm  His Girl Friday (USA)
(92 min; 1940; b/w; English)
Director: Howard Hawks

8.30 PM  Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Les vacances the Monsieur Hulot/France)
(83 min; 1953; comedy; b/w; French with English subtitles)
Director: Jacques Tati
 

12:30 pm    FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS
The Cameraman (USA)
(69 min; 1928; b/w; silent with English intercuts)
Directors: Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton 

2 pm    Duck Soup (USA)
(68 min; 1933; b/w; English)
Director: Leo McCarey

3:30 pm    Modern Times (USA)
(87 min; 1936; b/w; silent with English intercuts)
Writer & Director: Charles Chaplin

8:30 pm    Ninotchka (USA)
(110 min; 1939; b/w; English)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
 

FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS

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

The General (USA)

(78 min; 1926; b/w; silent with English intercuts)
Director: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton

 Songs of Resistance, Songs of Hope

Presented by Sumangala Damodaran, singer and composer who has archived and documented the musical tradition of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)

Accompanists: Pritam Ghosal (sarod & composer); Ahsan Ali (sarangi); and Mark Aranha (guitar)

Chief Guest: Dr. Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, the University of Manchester

Colourful Cosmopolitanism: Art and Music in the History of Indian Anti-Colonial Nationalism 

Keynote Address by Prof. Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC 

Treasures of Lakshmi: The Goddess who Give
Edited by Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal (Penguin: 2024)

Discussants: Ms Vidya Shah, well-known Hindustani vocalist and music scholar; Amb. Lakshmi Puri, former Assistant Secretary- General, United Nations, former Deputy Executive Director, UN Women and former Indian Ambassador to Hungary; Dr. Alka Tyagi; Ms Namita Gokhale and Prof. Malashri Lal, co-editors of the book 

Fado Music of Goa

Presented by Franz Schubert Angelo de Miranda Cotta and Sherwyn Filipe Francisco Correla (guitar); Srushti Abhijit Prabhudesai; and Swaraa Ahijit Prabhudesai (vocals)

A creative performance-dialogue in dance
By Geeta Chandran, well-known artist and Padma Shri awardee

Using the metaphor of water as a leitmotif for both protest and building bridges, No More War weaves the tapestry of peace in the rhythm of life; a poetic symphony amidst global violence and strife

Specially choreographed to mark 25 years of WISCOMP

(Collaboration: Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace) 
 

By Jazzkia - Saskia Laroo Jazz Quartet

With Saskia Laroo (trumpet, sax, vocals); Warren Byrd (piano, vocals); Maarten Russchen (bass, guitar); and Willem Smid (drums)

Presented by Ila Singh, Cultural Impresario

The artists will present original compositions and jazz standards

(Collaboration: The Netherlands Funds for Culture and Arts; Cultmix Foundation; and Embassy of The Netherlands, New Delhi)