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Cinema Meets Assamese Literature in Our Regular Screening Series

For more than six decades, Gauhati Cine Club has treated cinema as a living conversation rather than a one-way broadcast. Since 1962, the organisation has…

Safeguarding the Vision of Assamese Documentarists Through Collective Action

For decades, the camera has wandered the floodplains of the Brahmaputra, the misty edges of the hills where the sun sets early, the courtyards of weavers, and…

How historical maps helped us rebuild our first screening venue

When the Gauhati Cine Club began thinking about how to mark decades of bringing film culture to Assam, we found ourselves asking a simple question: where…

Tracing Assamese Cinema Through Family-Donated Film Memorabilia

Assamese cinema carries the weight of a century of storytelling, song, and social change. From the silent-era experiments of Jyotiprasad Agarwala to the…

Why our club records every post-screening conversation

Every screening at Gauhati Cine Club ends with a question from the floor. For more than six decades, the room has held filmmakers, students, and curious…

When a Club Member Built a Projector from Scratch

In the narrow lanes of Guwahati, where the Brahmaputra hums in the distance and monsoon light filters through old Assam-type buildings, a quiet kind of…

How Gauhati Cine Club's Film Appreciation Course Has Evolved

Two decades ago, when the Gauhati Cine Club launched its Film Appreciation Course in a small hall overlooking the Brahmaputra, the syllabus was printed on…

A Night at the Club: Screening a Debut Director Before Fame

The evening arrived with a quiet hum at the Gauhati Cine Club, the kind of hum that gathers when a packed hall waits for a single reel to begin turning.…

Why we document the restoration of every old film print

An old film print is more than a carrier of images. It can hold the texture of a period, the choices of a filmmaker, the sound of an audience, and evidence of…

The Saturday Classics: Six Decades of Cinematic Stewardship at Gauhati Cine Club

Every Saturday evening since 1964, a quiet ritual has defined the cultural pulse of Gauhati Cine Club. Members and visitors gather for the Saturday Classics, a…