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The idea began on a monsoon evening in a village on the outskirts of Guwahati, where a schoolteacher held up a cracked smartphone so twenty-six children could…

For more than six decades, the Gauhati Cine Club has collected moving images that document Assam's relationship with cinema. Somewhere in our archive room sit…

Cinema is often discussed in terms of what appears on the screen: performances, editing, music, landscapes and memorable dialogue. Yet every film also has a…

A film club’s history is often told through screenings, festival programmes and photographs. Yet some of its most revealing records are quieter: a handwritten…

A film screening changes when the audience includes people who are blind or have low vision. Visual details that sighted viewers absorb without thinking—an…

A logo is often the smallest visible record of an organisation’s history. For Gauhati Cine Club, its changing form reflects more than shifts in lettering or…

A film club is built through gatherings that can seem fleeting: a screening, a lively discussion, a visiting filmmaker, a competition deadline or a member’s…

For many young Assamese writers, film criticism begins with a personal response: a screening that stays in the mind, a difficult scene discussed after the…

Film heritage is more than a collection of old reels. It carries the voices, landscapes, political memories and creative risks that shaped a region’s cinema.…

A 35mm film print arrives at the projector in a condition shaped by its entire history. It may have travelled between archives, cinemas, festivals and private…