Upcoming
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
Archive
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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