HISTORY OF FEAR / GREENR, SHAHPUR JAT, NEW DELHI / 24TH AUG / 7PM
A hot summer. A private district with an enormous park. An abandoned plot of land in the suburbs and an uncontrollable wave of smoke spark uncertainty and chaos.
THE TENANT / GREENR, SHAHPUR JAT, NEW DELHI / 12 AUG / 7PM
In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors. Meanwhile he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trelkovsky feels obsessed for her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also commit suicide.
STHANIYA SAMBAAD / GREENR, SHAHPUR JAT, NEW DELHI / 3 AUG / 7PM
Situated on the southern fringes of Calcutta, the bustling, sunny Deshbandhu colony, a settlement of refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), has a lot going on. In the evening market, two thieves swoop on Ananya's long plait and chop it away. Atin, the dreamy poet and Ananya’s secret admirer, is worried as he does not find her the next day. He seems oblivious of the fact that his home is facing demolition.
THE FACE OF ANOTHER / GREENR, SHAHPUR JAT, NEW DELHI / 27 JULY / 7PM
A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy from a psychiatrist, and obtains an amazingly lifelike mask from the doctor. Soon after being fitted for the mask, he seduces his wife and succeeds. But his wife claims she was aware all along who he was and believed that both were just masquerading together as most couples usually do in different ways. Strangely enough, his personality seemingly begins to change after he puts on the mask as if the mask has influenced his personality.
JAGTE RAHO / GREENR, SHAHPUR JAT, NEW DELHI / 20 JULY / 7PM
In hopes of improving his lifestyle, a poor peasant re-locates to Bombay virtually penniless. It is late at night and he is thirsty, and he is unable to find water anywhere. A singing drunk offers him money to buy some alcohol, but the money is snatched away by a taxi-driver. In desperation, the peasant attempts to drink from a fire hydrant, but is stopped by a Police Constable. Then he sneaks into a multi-storied apartment complex, and is mistaken for a thief. The entire building, which consists of over 200 units, housing nearly a 1000 people, set out to hunt him down.
NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS / GREENR, SHAHPUR JAT, NEW DELHI / 13 JULY / 7PM
Life in a middle-class neighbUorhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after
the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of
safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which runs on fear. Meanwhile, Bia, married and
mother of two, must find a way to deal with the constant barking and howling of her neighboUr's
dog. A slice of 'Braziliana', a reflection on history, violence and noise
EYES WITHOUT A FACE / GREENR, SHAHPUR JAT, NEW DELHI / 6 JULY / 7PM
EYES WITHOUT A FACE / 90 mins / 6th JUL / 7 PM
After causing an accident that left his daughter Christiane severely disfigured, the brilliant surgeon Dr.Génessier works tirelessly to give the girl a new face. He does so however by kidnapping young women and attempting face transplants. He has been woefully unsuccessful to date. The doctor's world begins to collapse around him when his daughter realizes just what he has been doing
HORROR IN THE BYLANES / GREENR, SHAHPUR JAT, NEW DELHI / 29 JUN – 24 AUG / 7PM
A series of horror films set in the city, about the city, forged largely from the perspective of the casual visitor, the immigrant character or the tourist – centrally, an outsider. The series will attempt to construct a narrative of essential modernity – of industries, apartment complexes, institution premises, office campuses, landfills – which automatically, in their wake, elicit both confusion and terror for our new entrant protagonist, uninitiated as he is in the methods of this entirely new arrangement: the modern city.
Horror in the Bylanes opens with M
M / 88 mins / 29th JUN / 7 PM
In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious killer who preys on small children. The film is acknowledged as one of the first to employ actual locations in the city of Los Angeles to create its regime of terror and paranoia.
YOUSSEF CHAHINE RETROSPECTIVE / ZIZO, CONNAUGHT PLACE, NEW DELHI / 28 JAN – 18 FEB / 7PM
CAIRO STATION / 77 mins / 28th JAN / 7 PM
Kinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed by Hannouma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she treats Kinawi in a sympathetic way and jokes with him about a possible relationship, She is actually in love with Abu Sri', a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
THE RING SELLER / 95 min / 4 FEB /7 PM
In a peaceful village, the mayor, seeing that the population is bored with tranquility, invents the mystical figure of Rajeh, and tells stories to villagers about the exploits of Rajeh, who kills and maims and steals. One day the mayor (Nasri Shamseddine) tells the villagers that Rajeh is heading to the village itself and they better be careful. Two smart men notice that the mayor was lying and that it is all his imagination. So they go on making good on the fictitious person and steal money and assault the mayor in the dark saying that they were Rajeh. Eventually, an old man with the name of Rajeh arrives in the village, amid public fears. Then it became obvious that Rajeh was merely a seller of rings for weddings and he wanted to marry his son to Fairuz the nephew of the mayor. The two bad guys willingly go to jail for making use of the mayor's joke.
THE SPARROW/ 105 min / 11 FEB / 7 PM
A vivid portrait of a nation in chaos, The Sparrow is set against the background of Egypt’s shocking defeat in the 1967 Six-Day War with Israel, a traumatic event that transformed Egyptians' confidence in Nasser into ambivalence towards a leader suddenly revealed to be deeply fallible. Eschewing traditional narrative in favor of an episodic ensemble piece focused on the hunt for a politically connected crime kingpin, The Sparrow'sheady combination of realist and expressionist elements is meant to disorient the viewer and evoke Chahine’s vision of a country suddenly gone far astray.
ALEXANDRIA...WHY? / 113 min / 18 FEB / 7 PM
The film marked a radical, newly introspective turn in Chahine’s active career, a sharp departure from his Fifties musicals and melodramas and his later epics and political films. The first of Chahine's four film semi-autobiography, entitled “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” Alexandria, Why? focuses on a precocious adolescent whose dreams and colorful attempts to become an actor unfold against the vivid backdrop of Alexandria during World War II. A rich ensemble cast inspires Chahine's young thespian hero with a wealth of dramatic subplots—at turns hilarious and touching—about wartime life. The autobiographical nature and nostalgic flavor of Alexandria, Why? make it one of Chahine’s most accessible works, a charming and entertaining film that also delivers a potently subversive and impassioned anti-war message.
SEQUENCES – NARRATIVES OF ANIMATION / INSTITUTO CERVANTES, NEW DELHI / 18 – 20 DEC 2015
FRIDAY, 18TH DECEMBER / DAY 1
5PM: Opening
EARLY ANIMATION
● Film festival trailer [04m]
● Panel discussion with teachers and practitioners on India’s legacy and the future of animation featuring Shilpa Ranade and Vivekananda Ghatak.
6PM
Glimpses of Indian Animation (R. Swamy, 1997) [30m]
7PM
A Selection of films from Films Division
You Said It(Ram Mohan, 1972) [08m]
Connoisseur(R.R. Swamy, 1988) [03m]
The Thinker?(A.R. Sen, 1981) [9m]
The Balloon(B.R. Shendge, 1980) [07m]
Ek Anek Aur Ekta(Vijaya Mulay, 1974) [07m]
Abid(Pramod Pati, 1972) [05m]
Trip / Udaan(Pramod Pati, 1970) [04m]
This Our India(Pramod Pati, 1961) [08m]
SATURDAY, 19TH DECEMBER / DAY 2
3PM
Arrugas / Wrinkles(Ignacio Ferreras, 2011) [Spanish / 90m]
5PM
Student Film Screenings from Chitrakatha [ 60 - 70 m ]
Spanish Film: Berbaoac (5m) [Free Entry]
6PM
SESSION | Animation for Storytelling: A Student’s Perspective
by Sandhya Visvanathan
7PM
CONTEMPORARY ANIMATION
Brief talk on current trends in the animation industry
Fisherwoman and Tuk Tuk(Suresh Eriyat, 2015) [15m]
Journey to Nagaland(Aditi Chitre, 2010) [26m]
Raju and I(Gayatri Rao, 2006) [30m]
Printed Rainbow(Gitanjali Rao, 2006) [15m]
Spanish Films: [Free Entry]
Amar (Isabel Herguera, 2010) [8m]
Bajo la Almohada (Isabel Herguera, 2012) [8m]
SUNDAY, 20TH DECEMBER / DAY 3
Friday, Day 3
3PM Repeat:
A Selection of films from Films Division
You Said It(Ram Mohan, 1972) [08m]
Connoisseur(R.R. Swamy, 1988) [03m]
The Thinker?(A.R. Sen, 1981) [9m]
The Balloon(B.R. Shendge, 1980) [07m]
Ek Anek Aur Ekta(Vijaya Mulay, 1974) [07m]
Abid(Pramod Pati, 1972) [05m]
Trip / Udaan(Pramod Pati, 1970) [04m]
This Our India(Pramod Pati, 1961) [08m]
4:30 PM
Chico Y Rita(Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba, 2010) [87m] [Free Entry] 6:30PM:
A Selection of Films from CFSI
Closing Films
Manpasand (Dhvani Desai, 2007) [11m]
The World of Goopi and Bagha (Shilpa Ranade, 2013) [1h 19m]
