Insights

The story of Gauhati Cine Club begins with a simple but far-reaching idea: cinema deserved to be discussed as an art, not consumed only as entertainment. In…

Film can make a distant place feel close without reducing it to a postcard. A child in Guwahati may recognise the nervousness of a new student in a Japanese…

The projector was ready, the chairs were full, and the room at Gauhati Cine Club carried the particular quiet that comes before an important screening. People…

A filmmaker’s personal archive can reveal far more than a list of films. It can show how stories were developed, how crews worked with limited resources, how…

A film screening lasts a few hours, yet the conversations around it can shape a community for years. At Gauhati Cine Club, the monthly screening bulletin…

A program note is a small piece of writing with a demanding job. It gives audiences a way into a film without reducing the experience to a plot summary,…

Long before film trivia became a popular feature of pub nights, school events and online communities, Gauhati Cine Club created a space where movie knowledge…

Gauhati Cine Club is continuing work on an important piece of its moving-image heritage: the restoration of the club’s vintage 16mm projector. The machine…

Classic Assamese cinema carries voices, expressions and social histories that are difficult to reproduce through a quick translation. For audiences outside…

A member’s journey from attendee to curator over three decades often begins quietly: a borrowed seat in a darkened hall, a programme folded into a notebook,…