We all watch films. Some of us study them, theorising extensively on frames, actions and dialogue. Some of us watch them simply as a source of entertainment. Films are in fact, deeply polarising as well as unifying. Depending of course, on the kind of film you are watching. I grew up with films. Of various […]
Little Cinema, as part of its summer-long programme of travel took an assortment of films to Kaikala gram, Hooghly, a village situated a few stations from Singur. We had been invited by the local organisation Kaikala Chetana, which has been working on issues of alternative education in the area for more than twenty years now. […]
“শত শত চোখ আকাশটা দেখে… আকাশে বসত মরা ঈশ্বর নালিশ জানাবে ওরা বল কাকে?” নালিশ জানাতে চাই, কাকে জানাবো? এই দেশের স্বাধীনতা উৎযাপনের খবরের ভিড়ে পাঁচ দিনের মধ্যে সরকারি হাসপাতালে তেষট্টি শিশুর নিথর হয়ে যাওয়া খবরের কবর দেওয়া হয়ে যাবে। শিশুদের সৎকার নাকি মাটিতে পুঁতে হয়। হা ঈশ্বর! তুমিও কবরেই তবে, খবরে তোমার ‘ভক্তকুল’ শুধু। […]
‘Ma’am we are already excited’, said some of the girls from Muralidhar Girls School before entering the hall. This was their first time at Kolkata Peoples Film Festival and I found them poring over the festival pamphlet. After a brief introduction to the festival and the Little Cinema initiative, Subhashish da introduced the first film, […]