New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival

Knife in the Water (Nóz W Wodzie/Poland)

(94 min; 1962; b/w; dvd; Polish with English subtitles)
Director: Roman Polanski

Recipient of the FIPRESCI Prize, Venice Film Festival 1962

 New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival

The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coup/France)

(99 min; 1959; dvd; b/w; French with English subtitles)
Director: François Truffaut

Multiple award winner including Award for Best Director & OCIC Award, Cannes Film Festival 1959; Critics Award for Best Film, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 1960; NYFCC Award for Best Foreign Language Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1959; among others

New Wave – Rebellious Poets of Cinema: Film Festival

Curated by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, award-winning filmmaker, archivist and Director, Film Heritage Foundation
 

Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledované vlaky/Czechoslovakia)

(92 min; 1966; dvd; Czech & German with English subtitles)
Director: Jiri Menzel

The film will be introduced by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

Oscar Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards, USA 1968; and Grand Prize, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival 1966

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Workshop
Conducted by  Prof. Balázs Varga , Associate Professor, Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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Wild Roots (Külön Falka)
(98 min; 2021; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Hajnis Kis

Recipient of the Audience Award for Best Film, Jury Prize for Best Film & Best Actor, Riviera International Film Festival 2022; Golden Barge Award for Best Film, Vukovar Film Festival 2022; and Winner, International Competition for Best Actor, Bosphorus Film Festival 2021

Wild Roots, which world premiered in competition at Karlovy Vary in 2021, follows ex-con Tibor, who works as a bouncer in a night club. 
 

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Conducted by Prof. Balázs Varga, Associate Professor, Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time 
(Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre)
(95 min; 2020; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Lili Horvát

Multiple award winner including Golden Hugo, New Director’s Competition, Chicago International Film Festival 2020; Dublin Film Critic’s Award for Best Director, Dublin International Film Festival 2021; Best Actress Award, Golden Spike Award for Best Film & Pilar Miró Award for Best New Director, Valladolid International Film Festival 2020; among others

Márta Vizy is a 39-year-old Hungarian neurosurgeon who returns to Budapest for a romantic rendezvous at the Liberty Bridge with János, a fellow doctor…

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Workshop 
Conducted by Prof. Balázs Varga, Associate Professor, Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről)
(116 min; 2017; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Ildikó Enyedi

Multiple award winner including FIPRESCI Prize, Competition, Golden Berlin Bear for Best Film, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury & Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost" Awards, Berlin International Film Festival 2017; Awards for Best Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress & Grand Prize for Best Film Awards, Hungarian Film Week 2018; Sydney Film Prize for Best Film, Sydney Film Festival 2018; among others

Hungarian auteur Ildiko Enyedi returns with a strangely hypnotic and unique love story with Body and Soul.
 

WORKSHOP & FESTIVAL 

A festival of award-winning contemporary films by Women Directors from Hungary. The festival includes a Film Workshop conducted by Prof. Balázs Varga, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE University), Budapest. Organised in collaboration with Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies, University of Delhi; and Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre.

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Workshop 
Conducted by Prof. Balázs Varga, Associate Professor, Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He writes and lectures on modern and contemporary Hungarian cinema, contemporary European cinema, production studies, popular cinemas and documentaries. He is a founding editor of Metropolis, a scholarly journal on film theory and history based in Budapest. 

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One Day (Egy nap)
(99 min; 2018; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Zsófia Szilágyi

Multiple award winner including FIPRESCI Prize, Director’s Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2018; Best Actress Award, International Competition, Cairo International Film Festival 2018; Awards for Best Actress & Best Screenplay, Hungarian Film Week 2019; among others

This intense, intimate debut film shows 36 hours in a disintegrating marriage from the point of view of the stressed-out wife.
 

To be delivered by Hon’ble Shri Arif Mohammed Khan, Governor of Kerala

Welcome Address: Shri Prabhat Kumar, President, IC Centre for Governance

Presidential Address: Shri Harivansh, Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha

(Collaboration: I.C. Centre for Governance)
 

Ismat Chughtai’s short stories

Reprised by Sunil Mehra in Dastongoi
 
Sunil Mehra reprises Chughtai’s bittersweet stories of marriage, fidelity and sexual liberation
 

(31 min; 2019; English)
Directors: Dr. SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda, Hiranya Malwatta 

Introduction: Shri Benoy K. Behl

Recipient of the Best Short Documentary Film Award, Mokkho International Film Festival, Pondicherry 2021; Best Short Documentary, Rome International Movie Awards 2022; Short Film Award, Mumbai International Film Festival 2022; Best Documentary Short Film Award, International Motion Picture Festival of India 2022

Dr. SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda will briefly introduce the film, highlighting the link between history, culture and the environment, a story which has several parallels with the history of India

Screening will be followed by a discussion

In Search of the Malwatu Oya is a journey to the heart of an ancient civilization. Starting from the holy mountain of Ritigala, Malwatu River, the second longest river (102 miles) in Sri Lanka, flows across the face of the Raja Rata (Land of the Kings) to enter the Bay of Mannar of the Indian Ocean. The most historic river basin in Sri Lanka, called Malwatu Oya in the native language, the River of Flower Gardens, lies at the very heart of the beginning of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization.