Upcoming
The Inner Unfolding: From Self to Story
16th to 25th March, 2026 at Auroville Film Institute
Adivasiyat
From 12th March to 2nd April 2026 at Netarhat, Jharkhand
Archive
Multiplicity and the Expanded Screen with Dr Soudhamini
20th, 21st, 22nd & 23rd Dec, 25 at Auroville Film Institute
Body, Network, Archive and Mediated Life: Approaching Contemporary Art Practices
9th, 10th, 11th & 12th December, 2025 | ONLINE & PRESENCIAL
Craft, Ritual and Cinema: Mani Kaul’s Mati Manas
29th & 30th November, 2025 | Online
Documentary as Situated Inquiry: Research Methodology towards Audio-visual Art
5th, 6th & 7th November, 2025 | Online
Composing Reality: Structures of Mediation in Documentary Editing
8th and 9th November, 2025 | Online
Spatial Poetics in Nonfiction Cinema
3rd August, 2025, 01 day
Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh
12th July to 8th September 2025
1 Year PG Diploma: Open Space Documentary Arts Program, 2025
in collaboration with HIAL, Ladakh: starting 12th July, 2025
Hands On Filmmaking Workshop at Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj
with Kamal Swaroop | From 11th January to 13th February 2025
Gesture and Posture
Mondays and Tuesdays, 19:00 to 22:00 hrs IST / From 19 Nov to 23 Dec 2024 _ ONLINE
Film-Philosophy with ‘Diary of a Country Priest’ by Robert Bresson
with Deb Kamal Ganguly: 9th-10th November 2024_ONLINE 14:30 to 18:30 IST
Space, Time, Subjectivity in Cinema
6th and 7th July 2024, ONLINE
Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh
24th June to 17th August 2024 (55 Days)
Psychology and Cinema: Through a Glass Darkly
8th and 9th June, 2024 | ONLINE
Ecofiction as Epiphany – Introduction to the Cinematic Mise-en-scène
A Masterclass with Dr. Soudhamini
10th to 13th May 2024 in Auroville
TOUCH & TRY – Photo and Cine Tech Demo
On 9th May 2024, 14:00 to 20:00 IST
What is CONTINUITY?
30th April 2024
Sacred Rhythms & Film Philosophy: Deleuze’s Concepts of Movement Images
18th to 20th April 2024
The Documentary Impulse
24th to 29th March 2024, 14:30 to 18:30 IST _Online.
Macbeth in Spotlight
08th to 10th March 2024, 20:00 to 23:00 IST _Online.
1 Year PG Diploma: Open Space Documentary Arts Program
in collaboration with University of Ladakh: March 2024 – February 2025
Contemporising Katha Sarit Sagara
Online with Kamal Swaroop: 12 Weekends, Starting 17 February 2024
3E – Explore, Experiment, Express
in Auroville with R.V. Ramani: 8 January – 11 February 2024
The Art of Pitching, Impact & Distribution
with Irena Taskovski in Auroville: 3-7 January 2023
Time and Cinema
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 25-26 November 2023
Abbas Kiarostami: The Face of Poetry at the Window of Cinema
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 7-8 October 2023
Ashad Ka Ek Din: Mani Kaul and Search for New Cinematic Form through Theater
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 2-3 September 2023
Directing Actors and Performing for Camera
in Auroville with Anupam Barve: 18-29 April 2023
Real Sites to Cinematic Spaces
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 27-28 May 2023
Film-Philosophy with ‘Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall his Past Lives’
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 6-7 May 2023
The Alluring Melodrama of Pedro Almodovar
Online with Anupam Bavre: April Weekends 2023
The Mime of Things
in Auroville with Drupad Gaonkar: 14-24 April 2023
Still to Motion Photography
in Auroville with Rrivu Laha: 6 March – 29th May 2023
Hands On Documentary Film Workshop
in Ladakh with Richa Hushing & Rrivu Laha: 5 June – 16 July 2023
Film-Philosophy with ‘Once upon a time in Anatolia’
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 4-5 March 2023
Acting in Cinema
in Auroville with Pushpendar Singh: 20 March – 2 April 2023
The Encounter with the Real
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 27 December 2022
Residency
in Auroville with Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar: 7-10 November 2022
Hands On Documentary Film Workshop
in Rann of Kutch with Richa Hushing & Rrivu Laha: 14 November to 18 December 2022
Space in Cinema – Time in Architecture
in Auroville with Avijit Mukul Kishore & Rohan Shivkumar: 1-4 September 2022
Ritwik Ghatak: Cinema of Rupture & Epic Imagination
with Deb Kamal Ganguly: September Weekends 2023 14:30 to 18:30 IST, Online
The Devi in the Diva
Online with Dr. Shyaonta Talwar: 18-21 August 2021
Fictional Tools: From Literature to Cinema
Online with Sudipto Acharyya: 29 April-1 May & 27-29 May 2022
KNOTS – A Masterclass in Dialogue Scenarios
Online with Kamal Swaroop: 12 February – 13 March 2022
COLLAB |residency |pitch
On Site: to be rescheduled
Approaches to Cinematic Construction: An Appreciation of Film Editing
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 5-8 August 2021
Hands On Documentary Filmmaking Workshop
in Ladakh with Richa Hushing & Rrivu Laha: 21 August – 30 September 2021
Emotional Impact of Tones and Tonal Progressions
Online with Ustad Bahauddin Dagar & Madhu Apsara: 24-25 July 2021
Shot by Shot Analysis: Understanding Farhadi’s A Separation
Online with Kamal Swaroop: 15-18 July 2021
Seperation: Analysis and Filmmaking Workshop
Online with Kamal Swaroop: 15 July – 31 August 2021
Structural Possibilities in Short Films
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 3-4 July 2021
Action in Silent Articulation
Online with Drupad Gaonkar: 19 June – 18 July 2021
Fictional Tools: From Literature to Cinema
Online with Sudipto Acharyya: 14-16 May 2021
Female Subjectivity and the Cinema of Satyajit Ray
Online with Debkamal Ganguly: 10-25 April & 1-2 May 2021
Dark & Light
Online with Ranjan Palit: 21-26 March 2021
Study of Character and Plot Flips in Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Shoplifters’
Online with Putul Mahamood: 6-7 March 2021
Shot by Shot Analysis of ‘Mulholland Drive’
Online with Kamal Swaroop: 23-31 January 2021
Understanding film Shot by Shot
Online with Kamal Swaroop: 12-13 December 2020
Hands On Documentary Film Workshop
in Ladakh with Richa Hushing & Rrivu Laha: 18 May – 21 June 2020
Art History Lecture Series
Online with Dr. Deborah Stein: 10, 17, 24 November & 1 December 2020
3 days Appreciation of Experimental Cinema
Online with Sudipto Acharyya: 30 October – 1 November 2020
Space in Cinema-Time in Architecture
To be rescheduled
I See Ghosts
Online with Kamal Swaroop: 5-27 September 2020
Unlock!: An 8 Day Hands On Film Workshop
Online with Aloke Thakore: 10– 17 August 2020
Me & My World: Filmmaking Photography & Storytelling
Online with Sanket Ray: 27 July – 3 August 2020
Hands on!: Basic Film Orientation
Online in collaboration with Film & Television Institute of India: 6-14 July 2020
Unlock!: An 8 Day Hands On Film Workshop
Online with Richa Hushing & Rrivu Laha: 18–25 June 2020
3rd Edition: Film your Thoughts in Lockdown
Online with Aloke Thakore, Richa Hushing, Rrivu Laha & Sanket Ray: 25–31 May 2020
2nd Edition: Film your Thoughts in Lockdown
Online with Aloke Thakore, Richa Hushing, Rrivu Laha & Sanket Ray: 11-17 May 2020
1st Edition: Film your Thoughts in Lockdown
Online with Aloke Thakore, Richa Hushing, Rrivu Laha & Sanket Ray: 27 April – 3 May 2020
Sound Design Masterclass
in Auroville with Madhu Apsara: 8-11 January 2020
Editing Masterclass
in Auroville with Amitabh Chakraborty: 4-7 January 2020
Cinematography & Production Masterclass
in Auroville with Shanti Bhushan Roy, Sudipto Acharyya & Dawn Vincent: 28 December – 3 January 2020
Foundation in Direction
in Auroville with Sudipto Acharyya: 24-27 December 2019
Master Class Production Series
in Auroville with Shanti Bhushan Roy, Sudipto Acharyya, Amitabh Chakraborty & Madhu Apsara: 19 December – 20 January 2020
Hands On! shoot a short with Umesh Kulkarni
in Auroville with Umesh Kulkarni: 11-17 November 2019
Film Appreciation: History & Aesthetics
in Auroville with Sudipto Acharyya: 7 October – 30 November 2019
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