India Habitat Centre - Habitat Film Club

FILMS IN MARCH, 2005

National Award Winnings Films, 2003
COURTESY : DFFI & FFSI

8th March

7.00 PM

Choker Bali (145 mins, Bengali subtitled)

Director: Rituparno Ghosh

Best Feature Film in Bengali Highlights the play of passions and breaking of social norms and taboos.

9th March

7.00 PM

Padam Onnu: Oru Vilapam (107 mins, Malayalam subtitled)

Director: T.V. Chandran

Best Film on Family Welfare. The film raises a voice against early marriage and for its advocacy of women's education in a conservative society.

14th March

7.00 PM

Dance Like a Man (101 mins, English)

Director: Pamela Rooks

Best Film in English. A powerful human drama that engages issues of creativity and gender dynamics.

15th March

7.00 PM

Shwaas (107 mins., Marathi subtitled)

Director: Sandeep Sawant

Best Feature Film. A sensitive and moving portrayal of the relationship between a grandfather and his grandson when the child is about to lose his vision.

17th March

7.00 PM

Margam (108 mins., Malayalam subtitled)

Director: Rajiv Vijay Raghava

Indira Gandhi Award for Best Film at a Director Captures poignantly the troubled journey of a middle-aged man reexamining his political past in the light of the prevailing socio-political values.

18th March

7.00 PM

Raghu Romeo (99 mins., Hindi)

Director: Rajat Kapoor

Best Feature Film in Hindi. A zestful spoof of popular culture where the boundaries of illusion and reality collapse and the common man turns into a Hero.

OTHERS FILMS

19th March

7:00 pm

ARNA'S CHILDREN (2003/85mins/subtitled) Dir. Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel. Mer was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, an alternative Nobel Prize. The film shifts back and for forth in time to reveal the tragedy and horror of lives trapped by the circumstances of the Israeli occupation. Collab: Jagori
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24th March

6.30 PM

FILM CLUB DISCUSSION Billy Wilder's "THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH" (USA/1955), starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell. The film will be introduced and facilitated by Divya Raina, Member, Journalism Department, Lady Shri Ram College and Former Principal, Times School of Journalism.

27th March

7.00 PM

"A Candle In The Wind" (2003, 120 mins) Dir. Pouran Darakhshandesh, Story of three young men who face numerous social and cultural challenges in connection with their families and the contemporary society and thus suffer unwanted anxieties. COURTESY: IRANIAN FILM CLUB.

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