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Since 1962, Gauhati Cine Club has documented a living culture of cinema through screenings, festivals, screenplay work, publications and discussion. Its…

Gauhati Cine Club has promoted cinema as an art and a means of public conversation since its founding in Guwahati in 1962. Our archive and activities place us…

Since its formation in Guwahati in 1962, Gauhati Cine Club (GCC) has treated cinema as a meeting place and a reason to argue. Its programmes have grown from…

At Gauhati Cine Club in Guwahati, a folded programme can do more than identify a film. Its paper carries the date, venue, language, ticket price, names of…

When Bhupen Hazarika made an unannounced visit to Gauhati Cine Club, no gala programme was waiting for him. The lasting memory is not a ceremony but a…

Since 1962, Gauhati Cine Club has treated cinema as a meeting place for films, writers and audiences. Our screenwriting programme carries that mission into the…

A film location is more than a backdrop. A tea garden, riverbank, market street or railway platform can carry memory, history and social meaning long after the…

The story behind the club’s first film screening in a village without electricity is remembered as a collective undertaking rather than a conventional…

Cinema posters do more than announce a film. Their printing, lettering, colours and wear record the tastes and working methods of a particular place and…

Cinema from Assam carries the texture of the Brahmaputra valley, the rhythms of Bihu, the pressures of migration and the complexity of life across many…