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FEB 4 SATURDAY REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - ’s Entry for the Oscars is about an Bhavan 4.30 pm elderly couple yearning to go on Haj. (101 min) (Courtesy: ) Dir: Salim Ahamed TRIBUTE Max Mueller 6.30 pm- as the quintessential Kashmir KI KALI (168 min) Bhavan 8.30 pm singing-dancing hero falling in love in Dir: Shakti Samant scenic Kashmir. Launch of The 48 Hr Music Museum 12.00 pm - Aspiring film makers get an opportunity Video project Viewing Centre 1.00 pm to shoot, edit and present a music video featuring the Kala Ghoda Festival in 48 hrs and win a prize. CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - An early cult example of German- The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Viewing Centre 4.30 pm Expressionist films of the 1920’s, this Dir: Robert Weine silent horror film played in a French (71min) 1920 theatre for seven years straight besides begetting ‘film noir’ and fantasy genres. This film is presented by Enlighten. POPULAR Museum 6.30 pm- Three friends take a road trip in Spain Viewing Centre 8.30 pm just before one of them is to get Dir : ( 155 min) married, little knowing that this trip will change their lives forever. FEB 5 SUNDAY Max Mueller 11.00 am - Written, directed, produced and acted CHILDREN Bhavan 01.00 pm by Charlie Chaplin, "The Kid" is a story The Kid (68 min) of a tramp adopting an abandoned baby. This film is presented by Enlighten.

REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - A National Award winning film about Kutty Srank Bhavan 4.30 pm the life and loves of a sailor. Malayalam (127 min) (Courtesy Reliance Entertainment) Dir: Shaji Karun FILM

TRIBUTE Max Mueller 6:30 pm- Shammi Kapoor plays a singer who Teesri Manzil (172 min) Bhavan 8:30 pm is suspected of murder. Is considered Dir: one of the great musicals of all times in . TRIBUTE Museum 11.00 am - After an accident, the protagonist in the Kashmakash (125min) Viewing Centre 01.00 pm film discovers that the woman he has Dir: brought home with him is not his wife. (Courtesy Mukta Arts).

CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - Alfred Hitchcock’s last silent film The Manxman (90 min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm before he transitioned to talkies with Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Blackmail. A key cult film especially for 1929 Hitchcock fans. This film is presented by Enlighten. POPULAR Museum 6.30 pm- A fresh coming of age tale, rated as one Bubblegum Viewing Centre 8.30 pm of the best films of 2011 Dir: Sanjivan Lal (Courtesy Sanjivan Lal)

FEB 6 MONDAY Max Mueller 11.00 am - A tribute to who TRIBUTE Bhavan 01.00 pm scored memorable music for the film. (128 min) A story about a professional mourner Dir: who through out her lifetime of misfortune has never cried. REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - A tribute to ’s classic Autograph Bhavan 4.30 pm "Nayak" in contemporary form. Bengali (120 min) (Courtesy: Madhu Mantena) Dir: TRIBUTE TO ANAND Max Mueller 6:30 pm- plays a double role in this Hum Dono (164 min) Bhavan 8:30 pm classic about an army captain who is Dir: Vijay Anand forced to impersonate a lookalike FILM

TRIBUTE TO TAGORE Museum 11.00 am - A bed ridden child imagines life outside Dak Ghar Viewing Centre 01.00 pm his window. (61min) (Courtesy NFDC) Dir: Zul Vellani

CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - Perhaps the wildest of all classic science Bride of Frankenstein(75 min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm fiction films, Bride of Frankenstein is Dir: James Whale 1935 morbid and sparkling at once. Sequel to the 1931 film Frankenstein the film expands on Mary Shelly’s subplot about the creation of a mate for Dr Frankenstein’s monster! This film is presented by Enlighten. CULT FILMS Museum 6.30 pm- The film that launched Billy Wilder Double Indemnity (107 min) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm as the most significant American Dir: Billy Wilder (1945) filmmakers of his time. A quintessential film noir about an insurance agent who gets caught in a labyrinth of duplicity when he attempts an insurance fraud with his girlfriend. This film is presented by Enlighten. DOCUMENTARIES & SHORTS BNHS 11.00 am - Whose Wadi?Dir:ShraddhaSakhalkar, 01.00 pm Khara Karodpati -Dir: Piyush Thakur Hamara Mazhab - Dir: Ashish Shrivastav Hot&Fast - Dir: Rajinder Singh

FILMS ON MUSIC BNHS 2.30 pm - The film is based on Nazir Jairazbhoy’s Folk Music of Pakistan (64 min) 4.30 pm field trip to Pakistan in 1975. Dir: Amy Caitlin-Jairazbhoy FILM

Whistling Woods Presents BNHS 6.30 pm- Films by the students of Whistling 8.30 pm Woods FEB 7 TUESDAY Max Mueller 2.30 pm - An ordinary man’s struggle to fulfill his REGIONAL GEMS Bhavan 4.30 pm son’s desire to experience 5 star luxury Taryanche Bait (Courtesy: Balaji Telefilms) Marathi (155 min) Dir: Kiran Yadnopavit TRIBUTE TO DEV ANAND Max Mueller 6:30 pm- Dev Anand plays Raju Guide whose Guide (183 min) Bhavan 8:30 pm love for the dancer Rosy takes him from Dir: Vijay Anand the depths of despair to sainthood TRIBUTE TO DICKENS Museum 11.00 am - Perhaps the best ever Dickens’ Great Expectations (118 min) Viewing Centre 01.00 pm adaptation for screen, the story Dir: David Lean (1946) focuses on Pip, a young boy of humble means whose life is dependent on a mysterious benefactor. Courtsey: British Council CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - The political noir set against the Army of Shadows (140 min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm backdrop of French Resistance was Dir : Jean Pierre Melville(1969 ) shunned by Cahiers du Cinema at the time of its release resulting in its lapse into oblivion. A reappraisal by them in the mid 90s however led to the film’s re-release in 2006 making it an instant cult hit of current times. This film is presented by Enlighten. CULT FILMS Museum 6.30 pm- The black-and-white independent Down by Law (107 min) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm film centres on the arrest and escape Dir : Jim Jarmusch (1986) of three jail convicts. The film stars musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits and Academy Award winning actor and director Robert Benigni. This film is presented by Enlighten. FILM

DOCUS & SHORTS BNHS 11.00 am - Three lives & a beach. Three decades Revolution (76 min) 01.00 pm & a book. Dir: Mustafa Zaveri FILMS ON MUSIC BNHS 2.30 pm - The definitive film on RD Burman’s Pancham Unmixed: 4.30 pm music. Mujhe Chalte Jaana Hai (120 min) Dir: Brahmanand Singh FTII Films BNHS 6.30 pm- Shorts by students of FTII 8.30 pm FEB 8 WEDNESDAY

REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - A day in the life of six men changes Aranya Kandam Bhavan 4.30 pm everything. This critically acclaimed Tamil (153 min) film has been dubbed as one of the top Dir: Thiagarajan Kumararaja films of 2011.

TRIBUTE TO Max Mueller 6:30 pm- Remembering the filmmaker who (82 min) Bhavan 8:30 pm passed away in 2011 with one of his Dir: Mani Kaul best known films based on a folk tale by Vijay Dan Detha TRIBUTE TO DICKENS Museum 11.00 am - An adaptation of Dickens’ first novel Pickwick Papers (109 min) Viewing Centre 01.00 pm about a bunch of oddballs running a Dir : Noel Langly (1956) newspaper. (Courtsey: British Council) CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - Shot in 16 mm and black-and-white, (Mala Noche)Bad Night (78min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm Gus Van Sant’s debut film is based Dir :Gus Van Sant (1986 ) on an autobiographical novel by an American poet Walt Curtis. This film is presented by Enlighten. FILM

CULT FILMS Museum 6.30 pm- The film which brought director Wong Chungking Express (98min) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm Kar-Wai to international fame is set Dir : Wong Kar Wai (1994) in Hong Kong’s infamous Chunking Mansions from which it derives its name and its shabby setting. This film is presented by Enlighten. DOCUS & SHORTS BNHS 11.00 am - The story of a boy who runs an illegal Videokaaran (73min) 01.00 pm video parlour Dir: Jagannath Krishnan FILMS ON MUSIC BNHS 2.30 pm - This National Award film is about the Leaving Home: The Life & 4.30 pm path-breaking music band. Music of Indian Ocean (115min) Dir: Jaideep Verma Shamiana Short Film Club BNHS 6.30 pm- Selection 8.30 pm FEB 9 THURSDAY

REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - A compassionate look at farmer Goshta Choti Dongraevadhi Bhavan 4.30 pm suicides in rural Marathi (160 min) (Courtesy: Nagesh Bhonsle) Dir: Nagesh Bhonsle TRIBUTE TO Max Mueller 6.30 pm- A film written by Satyadev Dubey, Junoon (141 min) Bhavan 8.30 pm based on a story about Dir: an Indian warrior’s forbidden love for a British girl, set during the freedom struggle FILM

TRIBUTE TO DICKENS Museum 11.00 am - A television film adapts Dickens’s novel A Christmas Carol (75min) Viewing Centre 01.00 pm which centres on an unscrupulous Dir : Catherine Morshead (2000) Eddie Scrooge who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three ghosts. (Courtsey: British Council)

CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - A supremely stylish sequel to Fallen Angels (90min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm Chungking Express, this Wong Kar-Wai Dir :Wong Kar Wai (1995) film follows a paid hitman finding desperate measures to forget his love. This film is presented by Enlighten. CULT FILMS Museum 6.30 pm- This black-and-white film stars Johnny Dead Man (121min) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm Depp as an accountant William Blake Dir: Jim Jarmusch (1995) who after murdering a man runs into a strange Indian called ‘Nobody’. The film was dubbed as a “psychedelic western” by Jim Jarmusch. DOCUS & SHORTS BNHS 11.00 am - An indepth look into the Nepali migrant’s Bahadur: The Accidental 01.00 pm life, his struggle for survival, his Brave (65 min) helplessness in improving his lot in life in Dir: Aditya Seth a socio-economic/political context. DOCUS & SHORTS BNHS 2.30 pm - Disparate characters who are bound together You Dont Belong (75 min) 4.30 pm by a filmmaker’s search for the elusive author Dir: Spandan Banerjee of a song, popular in collective memory as a traditional folk song. 48 Hour Film Project BNHS 6.30 pm- Screening of select shorts from the 48 8.30 pm Hour Project collection. FEB 10 FRIDAY FILM

REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - The story of a filmmaker and his actress ABOHOMAN Bhavan 4.30 pm muse. Bengali (122 min) (Courtesy Reliance Entertainment) Dir: Rituparno Ghosh

TRIBUTE TO MARIO MIRANDA Max Mueller 6.30 pm- As a tribute to Mario Miranda, a film shot Trikaal (137 min) Bhavan 8.30 pm in the great artist’s ancestral home in Dir: Shyam Benegal TRIBUTE TO DICKENS Museum 11.00 am - Polanski adapts the famous Dickens’ tale Oliver Twist (130 min) Viewing Centre 01.00 pm of an orphan boy called Oliver Twist. Dir: Roman Polanski (2005) (Courtsey: British Council)

CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - The film which deals with a brother Children of Heaven (90min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm and sister who lose a pair of shoes was Dir: Majid Majidi 1998 nominated for Academy award for Best Foreign Film.

CULT FILMS Museum 6.30 pm- The film which inspired Martin Scorsese’s Infernal Affairs (101 min) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm Departed is about a mole in the Police Dir: Andrew Lau and Alan Mak: 2002 Department and an undercover cop. This film is presented by Enlighten DOCU & SHORTS BNHS 11.00 am - Piecing together experiences while Had Anhad (103 min) 1.00 pm journeying across India and Pakistan to Dir: Nitesh Mohanty learn more about the mystic and ‘his Ram’, the film provides an insight into the politics of Kabir’s dohas (poetry) and a genre of folk music that has evolved in the process.

DOCUS & SHORTS BNHS 2.30 pm - The National Award-winning film in the life Hans Akela (90 min) 4.30 pm and work of the iconic Dir: Dr Jabbar Patel FILM

48 Hr Music Video BNHS 6.30 pm on All the music videos shot by the aspiring Presentation filmmakers in the KGAF 48 HR Music Video Project will be screened . FEB 11 SATURDAY

TRIBUTE TO Max Mueller 11.00 am - As a tribute to Jagjit Singh, the award Arth (138 min) Bhavan 1.00 pm winning film about a woman’s coming Dir: Dr to terms with her husband’s infidelity, for which he composed and sang great songs. REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - Two underprivileged boys struggle to Champions Bhavan 4.30 pm get an education. (Marathi) (120 min) (Courtesy Aishwarya Narkar) Dir: Ramesh More AVID Learning presents Institute of 5:00 pm - Rohan Sippy, Film Producer & Director The Changing Face of Indian Contemporary 6.30 pm , Film Director & Cinema: Tribute to the Indian Art Screenwriter Legends Gallery Sidharth Bhatia, Journalist & Author Registration required (Presentation, Q & A) Email : [email protected] TRIBUTE TO SIDNEY LUMET Max Mueller 6.30 pm- A powerful film about how one man’s 12 Angry Men (96min) Bhavan 8.30 pm courage prevents miscarriage of justice Dir: Sidney Lumet

TRIBUTE TO TAGORE Museum 11.00 am - The bodies of a naughty boy and his Icchapuran ( 67 min) Viewing Centre 1.00 pm father get swapped and they discover Bengali what it's like to be in the other person's Dir: shoes. (Courtesy CFSI) FILM

CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - A fast-moving action drama that explores Breaking News (90 min) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm the role of media in current events. This Dir: Johnnie To Kei -Fung 2004 film is presented by Enlighten

POPULAR Museum 6.30 pm- Stories of ordinary people in a chaotic Shor In The City (100min) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm collide in unexpected ways Dir: DK-Raj Nidimoru (Courtesy: Balaji Telefilms) FEB 12 SUNDAY

Children's Film Max Mueller 11.00 am - A young boy Stanley gets an Stanley ka dabba (96min) Bhavan 1.00 pm elaborate lunch box to keep his Dir: Amol Gupte greedy teacher at bay REGIONAL GEMS Max Mueller 2.30 pm - An emotional story of a surrogate Mala Aai Vhyachya Aahe Bhavan 4.30 pm mother Marathi (131 miin) (Courtesy: Samruoddhi Porey) Dir: Samruoddi Porey TRIBUTE TO JEHANGIR Max Mueller 6.30 pm- A film on the art of Jehangir Sabavala SABAVALA Bhavan 8.30 pm Colours of Absence (90 miin) Dir: Arun Khopkar TRIBUTE TO TAGORE Museum 11.00 am - A bored little girl's life turns magical WOH (Hindi) Viewing Centre 1.00 pm when a character from her grandfather's Dir: Buddhadev Dasgupta writings turns up. (Courtesy CFSI) FILM

CULT FILMS Museum 2.30 pm - A wildly imaginative man cannot The Science of Sleep (105 miin) Viewing Centre 4.30 pm balance his prolific dreams with his Dir : Michel Gondry (2006 ) reality. This film is presented by Enlighten. POPULAR Museum 6.30 pm- The rise and fall of a movie sex symbol (144 miin) Viewing Centre 8.30 pm called Silk Dir:Milan Luthria (Courtesy: Balaji Telefilms)

Acknowledgements: Enlighten Film Society, Balaji Telefilms, National Centre for the Perfoming Arts, Reliance Entertainment, Children Films Society of India and Mukta Arts. And all the filmmakers who readily agreed to share their work.

Note: Schedule is subject to change.