On Wednesday, 27 March 2024 @ 8pm @ Cinema Paradiso, Auroville, INDIA Thomas Karrer & Karin Bucher’s The power of Utopia LIVING WITH LE CORBUSIER IN CHANDIGARH OFFICIAL SELECTION Venice Architecture Film Festival 2023 The Power of Utopia: Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh Switzerland, 2023, Dir. Thomas Karrer & Karin Bucher, Documentary-Architecture, 84mins, German-French-English […]
Wednesday, 6 March 2024 @ 8pm Cinema Paradiso, Auroville, INDIA Austria-Colombia-Germany-India-Nepal, 2023, Dir. Heinz Kasper w/Juana Del Mar JimÉnez Infante, Experimental-Essay Film, 63mins, no dialog w/ animation in Sanskrit-English-German-Spanish, Rated: NR (G) This subtle art film is about the element of light in its all-encompassing intensity. Where all spectra combine to form one element. Rapid […]
Please come … and share widely! Let’s overfill the cinema again and require a 3rd screening in order to further build Auroville’s relationship and solidarity with this sister community experiencing eerily parallel (and also inverse) crises. You can watch the preview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-2Y6w7gec
Date & Time: 7 March 2024, 11 am – 7 pm Venue: DEMMC Auditorium, Silver Jubilee Campus, Pondicherry University Morning Session: 10:30 am – Inauguration; 2 pm – 4 pm – Short Films Screening (Khayali Pulao, Dostinagar, As Far as They Can Run, Goddesses) Afternoon Session: 4 pm – 5 pm – Panel Discussion Evening […]
Bharat Nivas INDIA SPACE Auroville Film Institute invites you to the screenings of specially curated films and a book reading. Please register via WhatsApp (+91 9769976898). Voluntary contributions are welcomed. Screening of Macbeth Adaptations is part of the ‘Theatre & Cinema series’ Macbeth in Spotlight’ programme (8th-10th March 2024). sundanc SCOTLAND, PA Thu, 22th Feb. […]
Findhorn is the “other” large, well-known, international, spiritual community and has also been in crisis the past few years. I think it will be powerful and poignant to watch and discuss this beautiful documentary together. Please share widely and I hope you can make it! You can watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-2Y6w7gec
SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2024, 5.00-7.00 PM at Aurofilm, Kalabhoomi (next to CRIPA) If you like to discuss, share and learn more about films and Cinema, we invite you to our this chapter led by Philippe May on “THE GENIUS OF ORSON WELLES” Overview: Orson Welles was a talented actor, a very creative director and scriptwriter […]
Join us for the Director’s Retrospective featuring Olga Delane with exclusive film screenings. Mark your calendars for 9th January at 18:00 IST to watch “Final Destination Krasnokamensk” (2013, 88 mins). Continue the cinematic journey on 10th January with “Siberian Love” (2016, 80 mins) and the short film “Dorotchka” (2018, 20 mins).
Kino Kabaret is back! Are you ready to write, shoot, edit, and upload a film within 48 hours? Kino Kabaret is open to anybody ready to become a producer, writer, director, actor, cameraman, soundman, or editor for 2 days, even if you don’t have any clue how it could be. The 5th Kino Kabaret will start on Thursday […]
AUROFILM presents “CINE-MASTER CLASS” on SUNDAY 19 Nov. 5.00 – 7.30 pm at Aurofilm (Kalabhoomi, next to CRIPA) If you like to discuss, share, and learn more about cinema, we invite you to our Cine-Master classes! Welcome to this chapter led by Dr. Alexander Pereverzev on “RUSSIAN ARK” by Alexander Sokurov (2002) Original title: Русский […]
In commemoration of 60 remarkable years of National Theatre, UK,we are delighted to extend an invitation to you for a special and complimentary screening of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, Othello, presented by the British Council. Immerse yourself in the captivating narrative of Othello, directed by Clint Dyer. This production boasts an exceptional cast, featuring the talents […]
India, 2022, Dir. Ektara Collective w/ Manisha Soni, Muskan, Aakash Jamra, and others, Drama, 88mins, Hindi w/ English subtitles, Rated: U (G) Yet another much acclaimed film from the makers of “Turup”/Checkmate (which was first screened at the Cinema Paradiso, then at the Auroville Film Festival where it won the Best Film award, and recently […]
Exclusive screening of the documentary The Social Distance we are hosting at Art Brute this Friday (11th Aug) at 730 pm. (This is a special one since we have the film maker with us & I’m sure there’s going to be a super engaging conversation with him after the screening)
Ever Slow Green tells the story of Auroville’s 50-years-young forest through some of the diverse characters who have dedicated their lives to bringing it to fruition.
screening & sharing by Cho Yong-kyu cinematographer of Secret Sunshine Lee shot in CinemaScope for the first time. “Most suspense movies aren’t made in CinemaScope,” he said, “but I thought it would be a good way to show the little things, the details in our daily life. I felt that CinemaScope could be a way […]
Abstract Awareness In Art The Workshop session will begin with: INTRODUCTION: Essentials of abstraction in temple pantheon & iconography DEMONSTRATION: Abstract painting in acrylic on paper STEP BY STEP: Guidance on how to construct an abstract painting and express oneself V.Hariram is naturally an expressionist. An intense experience of the unknown is transplanted within him, […]
3 Screenings of ‘Janani’s Juliet’ in Pondicherry(India’s Official entry to the Oscar’s) 20th Dec — 10.30 am @ Adishakti21st Dec — 8pm @ Cinema Paradiso, Auroville23rd Dec –3.30 PM @ Pondicherry UniversityAll screenings will be followed by a discussion with the Director– Pankaj Rishi Kumar
ALT EFF 2022 will take place as a hybrid festival with screenings in cities across India and an online edition which will available on a ‘pay-as-you-feel’ model. Join us as we open the biggest ALT EFF with 55 films in the program and 33 exclusive India premieres; fill in the EOI by clicking the button […]
ALT EFF 2022 will take place as a hybrid festival with screenings in cities across India and an online edition which will available on a ‘pay-as-you-feel’ model. Join us as we open the biggest ALT EFF with 55 films in the program and 33 exclusive India premieres; fill in the EOI by clicking the button […]
Welcome to your online theatre, presented by Kriti Film ClubCelebrate International Peace Day and Watch PEACE REELS from 21st – 30th Sept. 2022Click on the title of the films to watch! https://doculive.blogspot.com/p/now-showing_14.html?m=1 LYARI NOTES Please enter password lyarinotesnov212015 (70 mins/ Urdu, English with Eng. subtitles/ 2015/ Pakistan, India)by Maheen Zia and Miriam Chandy MenacherryAbout the Film: Through the lives of […]
In Conversation with the Museum Rietberg:Annette Bhagwati, Director of the Museum Rietberg in conversation with Kamini Sawhney When: Wednesday, 7th September, 6:30 PM (IST) Register here A visit to the Museum Rietberg, not far from Lake Zurich, takes visitors on a journey around the world: the collection comprises art from Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania. […]
Der Junge muss an die frische Luft (All About Me, 2018), D: Caroline Link Even as a child of the 70s in the Ruhr Valley – a region marked by coal and Carnival – little Hans-Peter makes the people around him laugh; this talent will later make him one of the best-known German comedians. Yet […]
When: AUGUST 27th, 5.00 – 7.30 pm Where: Kalabhoomi (next to CRIPA) If you like to discuss, share and learn more about films and Cinema, we invite you to our Cine-Master-classes! Welcome to this chapter led by Jean-Luc B on actor Jean-Paul Belmondo “Léon Morin prêtre” (Leon Morin, Priest) by Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1961 Overview: […]
When: AUGUST 26th, 8:00 pm Where: Multi Media Centre Auditorium (Mmc, Town Hall) “SUNDAYS AND CYBELE (original title: Les Dimanches de Ville D’Avray) Directed by: Serge Bourguignon, France, 1961 With: Hardy Krüger, Nicole Courcel, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel, André Oumansky Synopsis: Back from a Vietnamese village where he had been a soldier, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. […]