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When the 2020 pandemic lockdown closed cinemas, community halls and universities across Assam, Gauhati Cine Club faced a question that reached beyond…
Gauhati Cine Club has preserved an important part of Assam’s cinema culture since 1962. Alongside screening records, festival material and club publications,…
Every 2 May, admirers of Satyajit Ray have a reason to gather around a screen. Born in Kolkata in 1921, Ray became one of world cinema’s most influential…
Jahnu Barua has developed one of the most recognisable visual voices in Indian regional cinema. His films often place ordinary people within landscapes that…
The story of Gauhati Cine Club begins with a simple but far-reaching idea: cinema deserved to be discussed as an art, not consumed only as entertainment. In…
Film can make a distant place feel close without reducing it to a postcard. A child in Guwahati may recognise the nervousness of a new student in a Japanese…
The projector was ready, the chairs were full, and the room at Gauhati Cine Club carried the particular quiet that comes before an important screening. People…
A filmmaker’s personal archive can reveal far more than a list of films. It can show how stories were developed, how crews worked with limited resources, how…
A film screening lasts a few hours, yet the conversations around it can shape a community for years. At Gauhati Cine Club, the monthly screening bulletin…
A program note is a small piece of writing with a demanding job. It gives audiences a way into a film without reducing the experience to a plot summary,…
