The Auroville Film Festival is pleased to do a public screening of an award-winning feature film from the festival. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Aurovilian Ann Riquier, originator of the film. When: 8pm, 28 April, 2022 Where: Cinema Paradiso Songs of the Water Spirits 2020, India, Documentary, English and Ladakhi, 1hr 40min The challenge of a society set […]
CMS VATAVARAN is a pioneering international film festival and forum on environment and wildlife. Using films as a window to delve into nature, the festival showcases the best of Indian and International films and documentaries. The festival presents nature stories from all over the world, stories on critical ecological and developmental challenges faced today, some […]
Butoh Dance Performance, ButoDocumentary Screening ‘Piercing The Mask’, Conversation on Butoh. Tea and Snacks When: 5:00 pm, 23 April, 2022 Where: Evergreen Forest, Community Kitchen, Auroville
EVER SLOW GREEN – Re-afforestation in Auroville, South India (N) Available for online streaming until 23 April 2022. https://www.indiascience.in/videos/ever-slow-green-re-afforestation-in-auroville-south-india-n “50 years ago, a unique afforestation project took root on an eroded desert plateau in Tamil Nadu, South India, when people from diverse countries came together to establish the international experimental township of Auroville. Driven by […]
The Auroville Film Festival is pleased to do a public screening of three films from the festival. The feature film, Nazarband (Captive), was not available on the online platform and this will be the only opportunity to watch it! When: 8pm, 14 April 2022 Where: Cinema Paradiso, Auroville Tuã Ingugu (Water Eyes) 2019, Brazil, Documentary, […]
When: Friday 8 April, 8:00 PM Where: Multi Media Centre Auditorium (Mmc, Town Hall) “Copying Beethoven” Director: Agnieszka HOLLAND, US/Germany/Hungary, 2006 With: Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Matthew Goode Synopsis: Vienna, 1824. In the days leading up to the first performance of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven needed help copying out his scores. A promising 23-year-old composition student, Anna Holtz, was […]
When: Friday 1 April, 8:00 PM Where: Multi Media Centre Auditorium (Mmc, Town Hall) “THE SEVENTH SEAL” Director: Ingmar BERGMAN, Sweden, 1957 With: Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, … Overview: Hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time – an undisputable classic of world cinema – for decades now. The title refers to a passage from […]
Award winning documentary screening ‘The Animal Communicator’ directed by Craig Foster, known for his latest film ‘My Octopus Teacher’.Aikya explored Interspecies communication with Anna Breytenbach and spent two weeks with Craig Foster in South Africa and will share some of her experiences. When: 5pm – 7pm, Friday 25 March 2022 Where: Pavilion of Tibetan Culture […]
The Auroville Film Festival is pleased to do a public screening of these two films from the festival. These films will be screened on Thursday the 24th of March at MMC/CP, Town Hall from 8pm onwards. The second film, Shut Up Sona, was not available on the online platform and this will be the only […]
Award winning documentary screening ‘The Animal Communicator’ directed by Craig Foster, known for his latest film ‘My Octopus Teacher’.Aikya explored Interspecies communication with Anna Breytenbach and spent two weeks with Craig Foster in South Africa and will share some of her experiences. When: 5pm – 7pm, Friday 25 March 2022 Where: Pavilion of Tibetan Culture […]
MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall) presentsFRIDAY 11 March, 8:00 PM“Dead Poets Society”Director: Peter WEIR, US, 1989With: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke Overview: Set in 1959 at the fictional elite conservative Vermont boarding school Welton Academy, the film tells the story of an English teacher (played memorably by brilliant Robin Williams) who […]
MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall)FRIDAY 11 FEBRUARY, 7:30 PM“COMING HOME” (original title: Gui lai)Director: Zhang Yimou, China, 2014With: Chen Daoming, Gong Li, Zhang Huiwen Overview: Set in the infamous Cultural Revolution of China in the 1970s, Coming Home is a profoundly moving portrayal of the traumas of betrayal, suffering and the convulsions of […]
MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall) FRIDAY 4 February 2022, 7:30 PM “Monsoon Wedding” Directed by: Mira Nair, India, 2001 With: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Vijay Raaz, Rajat Kapoor Overview: An Indian family, the Vermas, is preparing to celebrate the wedding of their daughter Aditi according to tradition. From all over the world, hundreds of […]
MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall) FRIDAY 28 JANUARY 2022, 7:30 PM “BABETTE´S FEAST” (Original title: BABETTES GÆSTEBUD) Directed by: Gabriel AXEL, Denmark, 1987 With: Stephane Audran, Birgitte Federspie, Bodil Kjer Synopsis: The film is set on a remote Danish island in the 18th century and it explores the puritanical world of a self-righteous group […]
MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall) FRIDAY 14 JANUARY 2022, 8:00 PM “The Color of Paradise” Directed by : Majid MAJIDI, Iran, 1999, Music by: Alireza Kohandairy With: Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi Synopsis: One of the most delicately crafted and spiritually uplifting films, The Colors of Paradise, is a remarkable work of art and a heart-rending gift from Persia, from […]
What’s going to happen??!! What about changing lockdown notifications?? We wish we had easy answers to these questions. It’s a difficult situation for us as we have no idea what is going to be announced after Pongal. However: If cinema theatres are allowed to run, we will be screening the films at MMC/CP, SAIIER and […]
MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall) FRIDAY 7 JANUARY 2022, 8:00 PM “The Little Prince” Directed by : Mark Osborne, France, 2015 Synopsis: Animated film based on the 1943 novella “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. At the heart of it all is a little girl who’s being prepared by her mother for the very grown-up world in which […]
Summary and podcast for this week`s Audible Weed Walk by Nina Sengupta is available HERE. The Kirloskar Vasundhara International Film Festival showcases thought-provoking films about flourishing nature, nutritious food and a healthy society. The free registration and schedule links for: online Kirolskar Vasundhara International Film Festival that starting on 14 December’21 (TODAY) showcasing many films […]
MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall) FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER 2021, 7:30 PM “PRATIDWANDI” (The Adversary) Directed by Satyajit RAY, India, 1970 With: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Asgar Ali, Arabinda Banerjee Synopsis: Satyajit Ray adapted Pratidwandi from the novel of the same name by veteran Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay. Siddhartha Chowdhury, a brilliant medical student, is forced to leave his studies […]
MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall) Friday 3 December 2021, 7:30 Pm “Tess” Directed by Roman POLANSKI, France – UK, 1979 With: Nastassja Kinski Peter Firth Leigh Lawson Synopsis: Tess is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel “Tess of the d’Urberville”. Wessex County, England during the Victorian era in the Great Depression (1873-1896). A clergyman and local […]
Multi Media Centre Auditorium (MMC, Town Hall) Presents FRIDAY 26 NOVEMBER – 7:30 pm “BOYHOOD”, Directed by Richard LINKLATER, USA,2014 Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke Synopsis: Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, “Boyhood” is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason who literally grows up […]
After having participated in 21 international film festivals around the globe most of which took place online only here is the first festival abroad that actually invites and hosts Christoph Pohl as the filmmaker to physically attend: The 5th Slemani International Film Festival in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. December 17 – 23, 2021. Christoph Pohl will […]
Apausalypse, Directed by Anni Ólafsdóttir and Andri Snær Magnason. Set in an unprecedented moment of global stillness, Apausalypse follows artists and thinkers in Iceland as they interpret a world gripped by the pandemic. Through dance, poetry, music, and visual art, they reflect on the possibilities for transformation that are held within this great pause. This […]
Multi Media Centre Auditorium (MMC, Town Hall) Presents Friday 22 October 2021, 7:30 PMDreams (“Yume”)Directed By Akira Kurosawa – Japan, 1990 With: Akira Terao as “I” in The Tunnel, Chishu Ryu as “Old Man” in Water mills, Martin Scorsese as “Vincent van Gogh” in Crows, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi Synopsis: A collection of 8 tales based upon the […]
It was put together during a masterclass session held by Auroville Film Institute A short film produced in Auroville under a Masterclass series, led by top cinema professionals, has been selected for screening at the fourth South Asian Short Film Festival 2021, scheduled to begin in Kolkata in mid-November. Coda, directed by Sudipto Acharyya, was put […]
