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Joining a film club can feel exciting and slightly uncertain. New members may recognize familiar faces, discover an archive filled with decades of cinema…

A film festival catalogue is more than a schedule of screenings. It can preserve the names of films, directors, writers, actors, programmers, jurors, venues,…

Some of the most intriguing stories in Assamese cinema are hidden in brief screen credits, yellowing newspaper columns, and memories that were never formally…

The projector began its familiar hum just after sunset. Outside, Guwahati was settling into its evening rhythm: buses moving through damp streets, tea stalls…

The Brahmaputra is more than a recurring landscape in Assamese cinema. It is a route, a livelihood, a border, a source of memory and a force capable of…

Assamese cinema has always carried a distinctive rhythm: the cadence of the Brahmaputra, the intimacy of village courtyards, the quiet force of monsoon…

Cinema is often described as a visual medium, yet its emotional force does not depend on sight alone. Dialogue, music, silence, rhythm, performance, and the…

Before film culture moved into databases, shared drives, and instant messages, a cine club’s memory often lived in notebooks. Pages of handwritten minutes…

A filmmaker’s signature can appear modest: a name, a date, perhaps a few words written in haste between a screening and a conversation. Yet when those…

Gauhati Cine Club has long treated cinema as a shared cultural experience rather than a form of passive entertainment. Since 1962, its screenings, discussions,…