Insights

Gauhati Cine Club began its film discussion group for senior citizens in Guwahati because cinema can keep people connected across generations, languages and…

For a film society rooted in the Brahmaputra valley, the joy of curating conversations with visiting directors is shadowed by a stubborn logistical puzzle. A…

Our film society in Guwahati has spent the past several months piecing together a retrospective devoted to Assamese filmmaking from the 1960s, a decade we have…

Inviting a filmmaker from another Indian state can give a cinema club a wider view of regional storytelling, production cultures and artistic practice. For…

For more than six decades, the Gauhati Cine Club has kept a steady rhythm of screenings, script circles and publication projects across Assam. The club's…

In the autumn of 1974, an unfamiliar queue gathered outside the hall on Paltan Bazaar where our society held its Saturday screenings. A retired schoolteacher…

Walking into the Gauhati Cine Club building, visitors see more than chairs and a screen. A long mural runs along the main hall, charting Assamese cinema from…

A single screening can sometimes reroute the trajectory of a film culture. When the Gauhati Cine Club, founded in 1962, programmed Akira Kurosawa's 1950…

A film poster can announce a screening, but it can also carry the texture of a place. At Gauhati Cine Club, poster exhibitions become opportunities to connect…

For more than forty years, members of the Gauhati Cine Club had searched for the original soundtrack of a forgotten Assamese film. Every few years, a postcard…