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Goddess in the trap – Meenakshi Shedde (Mumbai)
DEVI, which Ray filmed after the Apu trilogy, is a family drama about the conflict between faith and reason. Ray fearlessly and critically tells a reversal of the Oedipus myth, […]
more information › A double look at class relations: Satyajit Ray’s SEEMABADDHA – Daniel Fairfax (Frankfurt)
The films of Satyajit Ray’s Calcutta trilogy, made between 1970 and 1976, illuminate the educated, urban burgeoisie of his hometown. Realized between PRATIDWANDI (The Rival, 1970) and JANA ARANYA (The […]
more information › “The Wanderer’s Melody”: A new look at APUR SANSAR (1959) – Moinak Biswas (Kolkata)
APUR SANSAR (1959), the third film in the Apu trilogy, paints a picture of domestic happiness in the midst of economic hardship. At the same time, the richness of nature […]
more information › Ray beyond realism: On the irrational and non-human in MONIHARA and DEVI – Meheli Sen (New Brunswick)
Satyajit Ray occupies a central position in research on Indian cinema. His films are usually read in terms of humanism and realism. DEVI and MONIHARA (The Lost Jewels), the centerpiece […]
more information › Tourism, Landscape and Interiority in ARANYER DIN RATRI – Ranjani Mazumdar (Delhi)
Four tourists from the city travel to the Bengal countryside and experience the ecology of the forests, the tribal life of the indigenous people and their village festivals. The journey […]
more information › The course of the world – Manishita Dass (London)
APARAJITO tells two intertwined stories, that of a boy’s exciting departure into the world and that of the loss of his mother at his departure. The film can be seen […]
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Memories of a Milk City (1991) and Tales of Planet Kolkata (1993)
Ruchir Joshi (film-maker, columnist and writer based in Calcutta) This program includes two essay films Memories of a Milk City (1991) and Tales of Planet Kolkata (1993) by Ruchir Joshi, […]
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The Party | with lecture by Dr. Cord Schmelzle (political scientist)
GB 2017 | Director: Sally Potter | Running time: 71 minutes To celebrate her appointment as Health Minister in the British shadow cabinet, Janet invites her friends to a party. […]
more information › Diplomacy | with lecture by Dr. Stefan Kroll (peace researcher)
D/F 2014 | Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Running time: 84 minutes Paris, 1944: German General Dietrich von Choltitz is on the verge of giving the order to destroy Paris before […]
more information › Lifeboat/Das Rettungsboot | with lecture by Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger (film scholar)
USA 1944 | Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Running time: 96 minutes After a German U-boat sinks a US passenger ship during World War II, some American survivors find themselves on […]
more information › The leaden time | with lecture by Prof. Dr. Hanna Pfeifer (radicalization researcher)
BRD 1981 | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Running time: 106 minutes In 1970s Germany, the two sisters Juliane and Marianne fight for social change. While Juliane campaigns for women’s […]
more information › Inherit the Wind/Who sows the wind | with lecture by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (political philosopher)
USA 1960 | Director: Stanley Kramer | Running time: 123 minutes Tennessee, 1925: At a small-town school, the young teacher Cates dares to teach the theory of evolution according to […]
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