FILM CLUB SCREENING - Buntat na L. (L's Revolt) (Bulgaria/2006/115mins) Dir.Kiran Kolarov. On the night of the graduation ball the pride of the English Language School tries to escape to the West, but he is betrayed and captured. Accused of a political crime, Loris is sentenced. The year is 1986. The prison. “If you don’t know – we will teach you, if you can’t – we will show you how, if you don’t want to – we will force you!” The slogan written in red letters on the wall is put into practice. Torture, cynicism, and physical violence turn the talented young man into an impassive and cold-blooded observer. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Loris is granted an amnesty. Already free but alienated and indifferent to the world, he is turned into a mission man. In his desperate escape from reality Loris avenges his ruined life and takes the road to his own destruction. But he meets love! Loris tries to find salvation in a new flight... Collab: Embassy of Bulgaria

DOC FILM - Filmbooth presents WED ’11 A festival celebrating World Environment Day with screening of award winning short films and talks focusing on environment, sustainability and awareness on climate change. Opening Film- Shores Of Silence (Eng/2000/24mins) Dir.Mike Pandey Speakers: Bahar Dutt, Environment Reporter, CNN IBN, Rahul Ram, Bass Guitarist, Indian Ocean, Vimlendu Jha, Executive Director, Swechha & Jatin Singh, MD, Skymet

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Mindscape- A series of films drawing upon an allegory of climate portraying the vast landscape of human emotions. Still Life (Mandarin/2006) Dir.Jia Zhang Ke. Coalminer Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. The couple meet on the bank of the Yangtze River and vow to remarry. Nurse Shen Hong also comes to Fengjie from Taiyuan in Shanxi to look for her husband who has not been home for two years. The couple embrace each other and waltz under the imposing Three Gorges dam, but feel they are so apart and decide to have a divorce. The old township has been submerged, while a new town has to be built. Life persists in the Three Gorges – what should be taken up is taken up, what should be cast off is cast off. Collab: Enlighten Film Society

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Mindscape- Winter Light (Swedish/1962) Dir.Ingmar Bergman. Perhaps the most spiritually bleak and visually stark of Ingmar Bergman's religious chamber series, Winter Light, the second film of the trilogy, is a transitional film, both thematically and conceptually. It marks Bergman's final exploration of religious faith, and serves as a prelude to the human relational drama of his subsequent work. Similar to Through a Glass Darkly, minimal cast, dialogue, and scenery pervade the film, distilling the atmosphere, and story, to its fundamental essence: God's silence. The use of monologues, prolonged silences, and extreme close-ups convey character introspection and emotional isolation. Furthermore, the barren landscape, seasonal climate, and Tomas' illness serve to further reflect the cold emptiness of his soul. Collab: Enlighten Film Society

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Mindscape- Red River (1948/English) Dir.Howard Hawkes. Shot on location in Arizona and Mexico, the film chronicles an epic, bleak and tough journey, fraught with external dangers, threats, tests of strength, and internal contentious tensions between its two strong-willed, conflicting leaders: a hard-nosed, bitter, ruthless and tough commanding father and his men, defiantly led by his less harsh, surrogate, adopted son. Collab: Enlighten Film Society

DOC FILM - Mindscape- Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic (Si      lent/1922/79mins) Dir.Robert Flaherty. Documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit) and his family. The doc-feature describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. Nanook Of The North was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history. Collab: Enlighten Film Society

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Mindscape- The Ice Storm (1997/English) Dir.Ang Lee. Set against the backdrop of a massive late-November ice storm that blankets New Canaan with a frozen glaze, the film is a story  about two dysfunctional New Canaan, Connecticut families who are trying to deal with tumultuous political and social changes of the early 1970s, and their escapism through alcohol, adultery, and sexual experimentation. Collab: Enlighten Film Society

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Mindscape- Frozen (Hindi/Ladakhi/2007/109mins) Dir.Shivaji Chandrabhushan Cast: Danny Denzongpa. The touching and somber journey of Lasya, who lives with her father Karma and younger brother Chomo in a remote village in the Himalayas. When the army moves in to settle a hundred yards across their doorstep, the last bit of comfort the family draws from their familiar surroundings changes into a harsh ceaseless irreversible conflict. Collab: Enlighten Film Society

DOC FILM - Mindscape- Human, Too Human (French/1975/75mins) Dir.Louis Malle. Working with Etienne Becker, who also shot most of Phantom India, Louis Malle explores the inner workings of the Citroën factory in Rennes, Britanny. At first, the film seems to be a celebration of the idea of teamwork, of the many talents and skills that go into the construction of even a single automobile, but gradually the film takes on a darker tone, as the routine of the job and the physical discomfort of the environment itself start to take their toll. Collab: Enlighten Film Society

FILM CLUB SCREENING - Mindscape- Inconvenient Truth (English/2006) Dir.Davis Guggenheim. Cast: Al Gore, Billy West The documentary explores US President Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide. A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way, stripping his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions in a charming, funny and engaging style, and having everybody by the end, on the edge of their seats, gripped by his haunting message. An Inconvenient Truth is not a story of despair but rather a rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share. Collab: Enlighten Film Society