FILM FESTIVAL FOR GENERATIONS: 24 TO 26 SEPTEMBER 2018

 

Benche Thakar Gaan (The Song of Life; India)

(123 min; 2016; dvd; Bengali with English subtitles)

Directors: Abhijit Guha & Sudheshna Roy

 

Benche Thakar Gaan is set in an old age home where Paromita, a young gerontologist lands up leaving a lucrative career as a psychiatrist in the city

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Mr. Matthias Roos

 

AT 17:00

The Song of Life (Das lied des lebens; Germany)

(90 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Irene Langemann

 

With admiration for the beauty of the old 'wrinkled' voices, the composer Bernhard Koenig imparts to seniors the meditative, mournful, affectionate, enlightening, protesting, marvelous and joyful experience of music

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with students of South Asia Institute, Institute of Gerontology and Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies

 

AT 19:30 IN C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

Sputnik Moment 30 Extra Years (Sputnik Moment – 30 Gewonnene Jahre; Germany)

(60 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Lukas Schmid

 

A documentary film that has been inspiring people to talk about the age (s), the demographic change and the chances of a longer life 

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Mrs Wackernagel – Jacobs

Living Climate: A Tale of Three Cities

An exhibition of photographs by Andre Lutzen from Germany

 

Preview on Tuesday 25 September 2018 at 18:30 

 

The exhibition focuses on three cities with very different weather conditions: Kochi in Southern India, Arkhangelsk in North-West Russia and Khartoum in Sudan. The photographer approaches the question of how climate influences people and their ways of living. Documenting how climate circumstances define living situations and effect a very diverse interplay between private and public. Photographs taken between 2014 and 2017

 

(Collaboration: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan)

CANCELLED

A Song of Andalucia

Illustrated talk by Dr. Geeti Sen on her recent adventure in Spain 

 

Geeti Sen is a well-known cultural historian, writer and intrepid traveller; she is beginning to document her journeys. She is former Chief Editor at the IIC Quarterly and Director, The Indian Cultural Centre, Nepal

 

To Mark the Centenary of Naina Devi

Pran Nevile pays homage to  Naina Devi

 

Followed by 

Concert 

By Poonam Chauhan

 

(Collaboration: K.L. Saigal Memorial Circle)