Insights

A film screening becomes significant when it reveals more than the title on a programme sheet. It can show what audiences wanted to see, how cinephiles…

A film club’s YouTube channel can function as much more than a video feed. It may preserve conversations that would otherwise disappear, offer glimpses of past…

For Gauhati Cine Club, cinema has always been more than a screening on a large screen. Since 1962, the organization has connected audiences with significant…

A film festival poster is often the first point of contact between an audience and a programme. Before anyone reads a screening schedule or explores a…

Since 1990, the Gauhati Cine Club’s screenplay competition has offered Assamese writers a space to develop stories for the screen. Its importance extends…

A film career rarely begins with a single breakthrough. It often grows through conversations after screenings, practical feedback on an unfinished script, a…

Cinema can entertain, disturb, inform, and create a sense of connection across borders. For Gauhati Cine Club, these possibilities have always been central to…

A film collection is more than a group of reels, discs, posters, scripts, and photographs. Each item carries evidence of a particular moment in cinema history,…

Jahnu Barua’s early films occupy a defining place in the history of Assamese cinema. Made during a period when regional filmmakers were working with limited…

Since 1962, Gauhati Cine Club has helped Assam engage with cinema as an art form, a public conversation, and a record of social life. Screenings, film…