More NE in the capital. IICs focus on NE cinema. Entry free, first-come-first-served basis. FILM CLUB INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE November 2014 India International Centre Film Club will present a festival of films from North East India with a screening of award-winning contemporary features from Arunachal Pradesh; Assam; Meghalaya; and Mizoram INDIAN CINEMA TODAY: FOCUS ON THE NORTH EAST MONDAY 10 RI - HOMELAND OF UNCERTAINTY (Meghalaya) (117 min; 2013; Blu ray; English subtitles) Director: Pradip Kurbah Recipient of the Rajat Kamal Award for Best Feature Film in Khasi Language, 61st National Film Awards 2013 Ri is a gripping account of militancy/ insurgency and its variegated perspectives and also the diminishing returns of militancy. Filmed partly in Bangladesh where all the arms deals happen, Ri is a true to life account of militancy in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya ■ AUDITORIUM AT 18:30 TUESDAY 11 THE RAID OF KHAWNGLUNG (Khawnglung run; Mizoram) (122 min; 2013; Blu ray; English subtitles) Director: Mapuia Chawngthu Based on a true story that took place during 1856-1859 Mizoram. The story of a typical Mizo village during that period where every village had to keep a look out for possible raid from rival tribes around them. Khawnglung, otherwise a peaceful village had just broken its peace terms with the dreaded ‘Pawih ral’ (mostly Fanai tribes) and became the victims of one of the most infamous raid in Mizo history. Chala who was away while his village was attacked returned home only to find that his lover, Thangi was captured by enemies. Determined to save his lover, Chala made his way into enemy territory which was considered “lu zuar”(having a death wish) at the time and no self respecting tribe would let a “lu zuar” survive. Following Chala on his mission to rescue his lover, Khawnglung run is packed with the right mix of action, drama and romance. The scenic landscape and the culture and traditions of Mizoram have been highlighted splendidly in this film ■ AUDITORIUM AT 18:30 WEDNESDAY 12 CROSSING BRIDGES (Arunachal Pradesh) (103 min; 2013; Blu ray; English subtitles) Director: Sange Dorjee Thongdok Recipient of the Rajat Kamal Award for Best Feature Film in Sherdukpen Language, 61st National Film Awards 2013 Tashi, a man in his early thirties is forced to come back to his village in the remote northeast region of India after eight years when he loses his job in the city. As he stays in the village waiting for news of any new job in the city to go back to, he begins to experience the life and culture of his native place and his people. He gradually begins to rediscover his roots, which he had paid scant attention to earlier. He meets and falls in love with a girl, Anila, a school teacher in the village who helps him in the process. The experience in the village begins to slowly change him ■ AUDITORIUM AT 18:30 TUESDAY 18 INVINCIBLE (Ajeyo; Assam) (116 min; 2014; Blu ray; English subtitles) A film by Jahnu Barua Recipient of the Rajat Kamal Award for Best Feature Film in Assamese Language, 61st National Film Awards 2013; and Prag Cine Awards 2014 for Best Feature Film Directed by the award winning Assamese filmmaker, Jahnu Barua, Ajeyo is the story about the struggles of an honest, ideal revolutionary youth, set during the years of Mahatma Gandhi’s freedom movement and building up to 1947. Based on the Sahitya Akademi Award winning Assamese novel Ashirbador Rong, written by Sri Arun Sarma, Ajeyo is the story of Gojen Keot, who fought against social evils in rural Assam during the freedom movement in India. Set in a small village of Assam in 1946, Gojen, an honest yet short-tempered young man, supports Gandhi and believes that once India becomes independent, social injustice will end. However, when things are far from better, Gojen goes up against the richest man in town, who sees Indias partition as an opportunity for land-grabbing. Thus begins Gojen’s struggle for freedom and equality in Independent India ■ AUDITORIUM AT 18:30 TUESDAY 25 A SILENT WAY (Ko: Yad; Assam) (90 min; 2012; dvd; English subtitles) Director: Manju Borah Recipient of the Rajat Kamal Award for Best Feature Film in Mising Language; and Best Cinematography, 60th National Film Awards 2012 It is not very often that the everyday struggles of the marginalized and dispossessed become the central theme of an epic film produced in India. Assamese filmmaker Manju Borah’s critically acclaimed and much-awarded Mising-language film Ko:Yad (A Silent Way) is nothing if not a tale of extraordinary dimensions. What makes it even more exceptional is that it is a visually stunning, emotionally wrenching story, woven entirely around the tough life of an ordinary man who cannot escape his destiny no matter how hard he tries. Ko:Yad (a Mising expression that means whirlpool) goes where no Indian film has ever done – to a scenic part of Assam where life literally floats on water. The film narrates the compelling story of a poverty-stricken but dogged boatman from a tribal community whose travails have rarely been portrayed on the big screen so vividly. Misings reside in some districts of Assam (besides parts of Arunachal Pradesh). They are the state’s second largest tribal group after the Bodos. But their numbers are not big enough to make a film in their own language commercially viable. “I made Ko:Yad because I felt the urge to take the lives of the Mising people to a wider world,” says Borah, whose filmmaking career began in 1999 with the widely lauded Baibhab. Ko:Yad is Borah’s seventh feature film, but the first that she has not made in Assamese language ■ AUDITORIUM AT 18:30
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