Insights

Every week, Mitali Deka travels roughly 50 kilometres from Jagiroad to Guwahati for an evening of cinema. The journey takes time, planning, and patience, yet…

A successful film series is more than a sequence of screenings. It is an argument made through images, filmmakers, languages, eras, and audiences. Each title…

The Gauhati Cine Club’s 60th anniversary celebration represented six decades of serious engagement with cinema in Assam. Founded in 1962, the club has treated…

A retrospective on Bhabendra Nath Saikia’s films screened at the club offers more than a sequence of celebrated Assamese movies. It creates a space to examine…

Joining Gauhati Cine Club is a way to take part in Assam’s continuing conversation about cinema. The organization treats film as an art form, a social record,…

The year 2024 was a period of active cultural work for Gauhati Cine Club. From film screenings and festival engagement to screenplay development and archival…

I joined Gauhati Cine Club expecting to find a community of people who loved good films. I discovered something wider: a living archive of memory, language,…

A logo is often the smallest visible expression of an institution’s identity. For a film organisation, it can suggest movement, projection, light,…

A film screening can become a live event when musicians, actors, and audiences share the same room. That idea shaped Gauhati Cine Club’s collaboration with a…

The city had quietened by the time I reached the screening venue. Shops were pulling down their shutters, traffic had thinned to a soft hum, and the night…