September 2021
Films
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Saturday 09 May 2015 | 7:00 PM
Directors: Satyajit Ray
54min | 1961 | INDIA
Genre: Documentary
Rabindranath Tagore is a 1961 black-and-white short film directed by an Indian director Satyajit Ray on the life and works of noted Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore. Ray started working on the documentary in the beginning of 1958 and it was released during the birth centenary year of Rabindranath Tagore, who was born on May 7, 1861.Ray avoided the controversial aspects of Tagore's life in order to make it as an official portrait of the poet. Though Tagore was known as a poet, Ray did not use any of Tagore's poetry as he was not happy with the English translation and believed that "it would not make the right impression if recited" and people would not consider Tagore "a very great poet", based on those translations. Satyajit Ray has been reported to have said about the documentaryRabindranath Tagore in his biography Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye by W. Andrew Robinson that, "Ten or twelve minutes of it are among the most moving and powerful things that I have produced".
GHARE BAIRE
Sunday 10 May 2015 | 11:00 AM
Director: Satyajit Ray
140min | 1985 | India
Genre: Drama
In the early 1900s, Nikhilesh (Victor Banerjee), a wealthy Westernized Hindu in colonial East Bengal, feels compelled to test the love of his wife, Bimala (Swatilekha Chatterjee). He introduces her to his friend Sandip (Soumitra Chatterjee), a politician agitating against British rule, and Bimala is equally taken with both Sandip's anti-colonial fervor and the man himself. Personal and political tensions subsequently flare as the now assertive Bimala has to make a crucial decision.
Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) is a 1984 Indian Bengali romantic drama film by director Satyajit Ray, based upon the novel Ghare Baire by Rabindranath Tagore. It features Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Jennifer Kendal (in her last film appearance) and Swatilekha Chatterjee (Sengupta). Ray prepared a script for it in the 1940s, long before he made his first film Pather Panchali. It deals with a subject that has often appeared in Ray's work: the emancipation of women and what it does to them and to the men who love them. The film was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
WHOLETRAIN
Friday 15 May 2015 | 6:30 PM
Directors: Florian Gaag
82min | 2006 | Germany
Genre: Drama
Wholetrain is a German feature film, the graffiti in public space and the milieu of the graffiti artist has on the subject. The film came in Germany on 5 October 2006 in the cinemas.The screenplay was by Florian Gaag written, the same also directed and led Soundtrack produced. Gaag was himself a former active as writer and graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts in New York a four-year study film. After he returned to Germany, began working with Wholetrain for him. The implementation of his film was difficult. The first hurdle in finding a production that was through the support of Christian Cloos from ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel easier. The Gold Child film production saw the potential and took over the production activity. The next hurdle was to find a railway company that was willing to let paint their trains as the German Railways refused to support him in this project. In addition, they wanted to stop the project in Europe and warn other transport companies. Ultimately, said the city of Warsaw and gave him permission to shoot.
THE INTERNET's OWN BOY
Saturday 16 May 2015 | 07:00 PM
Director: Brian Knappenberger
65min | 2014 | USA
Genre: Documentary
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.
BATTLE FOR HAITI
Saturday 23 May 2015 | 7:00 PM
Director: Dan Reed
60min | 2011
Genre: Documentary
In 2010 the earthquake hit Haiti. Quarter of a million people died. The world promised to help the Haitians rebuild a new and better country. Yet something happened that day that has left those promises and the future of Haiti hanging in the balance. On January the 12th, the day of the earthquake, the national penitentiary held 4,500 inmates - powerful gang leaders and hundreds of their foot soldiers, men accused of robbery, kidnapping and murder.
