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Film archives hold more than images on celluloid. They preserve performances, regional histories, scripts, posters, photographs and the records of people who…

Across small towns and big cities, intensive short courses have reshaped how new directors learn the craft. A well-run bootcamp compresses months of trial and…

For more than six decades, our organisation has gathered a remarkable collection of cinema memorabilia in Guwahati, each piece quietly tracing the arc of film…

For more than six decades, Gauhati Cine Club has worked to keep cinema alive as a conversation rather than reduce it to entertainment. Within that mission sits…

Tucked away in the archival room of the Gauhati Cine Club, dozens of dog-eared technical binders hold the secrets of cinema's mechanical era. The club, which…

A film club does not need a theatre to create a meaningful cinema experience. Sometimes the most productive conversations begin around small tables, with…

A restored silent film is rarely presented in absolute silence. Its images may have been photographed at an unstable speed, assembled from prints with missing…

A film frame can hold far more than a face, a costume or a carefully composed landscape. It can preserve the texture of a period, the ambition of a filmmaker…

Gauhati Cine Club has been part of Assam’s film culture since 1962, when cinema discussion was still largely organised through informal gatherings, imported…

Two cameras, three soft lights and fifty people who helped build Assamese cinema from the ground up. That, in practical terms, is the project we finished this…