Filmsociety Bhubaneswar

Indian Cinema, as a term, is misleading in the singular, it is to mistake it for a search of a singular, rather than exploring the multitudes that exist in the diversity of the 1.3 billion people. The question is of increased importance today, with increased vehemence since 2014, the imposition of a 'singular' national culture, ema- nating from a very constricted reading of nation and its culture. Every year we have remarkable films made in various Indian languages. They are generally called...

As we welcomed the new year, the city experienced a respite from the heat, fleeting, as the heat seems to be back, the world was shaken by the killing of Iranian General Suleimani - an imminent call to destruction, students were attacked by masked goons at JNU, Delhi and we have witnessed young people and women on the streets across India - a Civil Disobedience in the making. As we learn and try to understand the issues, we are wracked by anxieties of lack of public response in our city to...

The effort in this edition, as has been before, is to showcase contemporary Indian Cinema - films that are primarily made outside the mainstream, in cities and small towns that are non-traditional filmmaking sites, those which in a broader sense represent the diversity of India, there is a persistent focus on debutant filmmakers and narratives that challenge the existing social order, issues of caste, gender, class, and ecology. 2021 was the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, major...