FILM CLUB SCREENING - Cine Lit Fest- To Kill A Mocking Bird (Eng/1962/129mins) Dir. Robert Mulligan. Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. Collab: American Cultural Centre

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Cine Lit Fest- Il Giardino Dei Finzi Contini (The Garden of the Finzi Contini) (Italian/1970/95mins) Dir. Vittorio De Sica. A lyrical war drama based on a book by Giorgio Bassani. In Ferrara, Italy, at the beginning of WWII, anti-Semitism is spreading. Mussolini has passed several laws that forbid Jews from going to public schools, joining the army, or marrying non-Jews. While many middle-class Jewish families flee the country, the Finzi-Continis believe it's safe inside their sprawling estate. As a wealthy, aristocratic Jewish family, they think their luxurious garden walls will protect them from fascism. Until the war, does close in on them. Winner of Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, 1971 Collab: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Cine Lit Fest- Someone To Run With (Hebrew with English subtitles/2006/120mins) Dir. Oded Davidoff. A heartfelt story of self-discovery based on the best-selling novel by David Grossman. The film is a riveting ride through Jerusalem at the end of a Labrador’s leash. Shy 17-year-old Assaf sets off to track down the owner of a lost dog wandering the streets. In the process, he pieces together the incredible story behind the owner’s disappearance. Tamar, a gifted musician, embarked with her dog on a quest into Jerusalem’s seamy underworld. Assaf, intrigued by this mysterious girl, has no choice but to follow her footsteps until their narratives converge. Collab: Embassy of Israel

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Cine Lit Fest- Muhafiz (Hindi/1994/126mins) Dir. Ismail Merchant. Music. Zakir Hussain Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Sushma Seth Based upon Anita Desai's 1984 Booker Prize nominated novel In Custody. Deven's position as a professor of Hindi at a local college is only a means to an end. His first love is the Urdu language and in particular Urdu poetry. Deven's multiple (and often stymied) attempts to interview the great Urdu poet, Nur, acts as a metaphor for the clash between modernization and tradition. Collab: Merchant Ivory Productions.

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Cine Lit Fest- Train To Pakistan (Hindi/1998/108mins) Dir. Pamela Rooks. Cast: Nirmal Pandey, Rajit Kapur, Mohan Agashe, Smriti Mishra & Divya Dutta. An adaptation of Khushwant Singh's 1956 historical novel by the same name set in the Partition of India of 1947. The film is set in Mano Majra, a silent village on the Indo-Pak border, close to the railway line near where it crosses the Sutlej River. The film develops around the love affair of small-time dacoit Jugga with a local Muslim girl, Nooran. The villagers are a mix of Sikh and Muslims, who live in harmony. Until 1947, when the Indian Muslims start to move towards the newly formed Pakistan, and the Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan migrate to refugee camps in India. One day, a train arrives from Pakistan, carrying the bodies of all the travellers butchered when they departed from Pakistan. The quiet village from thence, stands changed forever. Collab: NFDC

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Short Film Festival. A showcasing of critically acclaimed short films from across the world Collab: Shamiana

FILM CLUB DISCUSSION - Group meets to discuss I Was Born, But... (Japanese/Silent/1932/90mins) Dir. Yasujiro Ozu. A delightful portrait of a family, as told from the rascally point of view of a couple of stubborn little boys. It is a comedy that evolves into a poignant evocation of the tumult of childhood. Film Scholar Anupama Srinivasan will introduce the film and facilitate the discussion.

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Cine Lit Fest- Ghore Baire (Bengali/1984/140mins) Dir. Satyajit Ray. Based on the work of Rabindranath Tagore by the same name. Matters of self-identity, personal freedom, and religious belief are developed in the context of an involving family story and a love triangle. Collab: Directorate of Film Festivals

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Cine Lit Fest- Rokonok (Relatives) (Hungarian/2006/110mins) Dir. Szabo Istvan. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Zsigmond Moricz, a virtuous man discovers just how deep corruption can run, and how easily one can succumb to it, in this satiric comedy-drama. Collab: Hungarian Cultural Centre