Programs

Multidisciplinary artistic research retreat and workshop Tracing Durga Edition 1, 2026 A World of Ritual, Performance & Symbols 7-24 October 2026 | Kolkata, West Bengal with Mousumi Bhowmik Tapati Guha Thakurta Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri Bhabatosh Sutar Ashish Avikunthak Sukanta Majumdar Goutam Bhadro Parag Roy Buddhaditya Chattopadhyay Goutam Chakrabarti Sumit Roy Debkamal Ganguly Soumodeep Ray Nilanjan Bhattacharya Kaur Chimuk Mom Bhattacharya Shruti Ghosh Saikat Mullick Programme Director - Anirban Datta Co facilitator - Rrivu Laha

13th and 14th June 2026 | ONLINE | with Debkamal Ganguly

9th – 10th May 2026 | ONLINE | with Debkamal Ganguly

28th February and 1st March 2026 | ONLINE | with Debkamal Ganguly

16th to 25th March, 2026 at Auroville Film Institute

Adivasiyat

From 12th March to 2nd April 2026 at Netarhat, Jharkhand

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

29th & 30th November, 2025 | Online

5th, 6th & 7th November, 2025 | Online

8th and 9th November, 2025 | Online

3rd August, 2025, 01 day

12th July to 8th September 2025

in collaboration with HIAL, Ladakh: starting 12th July, 2025

with Kamal Swaroop From 11th January to 13th February 2025

Mondays and Tuesdays, 19:00 to 22:00 hrs IST / From 19 Nov to 23 Dec 2024 _ ONLINE

with Deb Kamal Ganguly: 9th-10th November 2024_ONLINE 14:30 to 18:30 IST

6th and 7th July 2024, ONLINE

24th June to 17th August 2024 (55 Days)

8th and 9th June, 2024 | ONLINE

10th to 13th May  2024 in Auroville 

On 9th May 2024, 14:00 to 20:00 IST

30th April 2024

Sacred Rhythms & Film Philosophy: Deleuze’s Concepts of Movement Images

18th to 20th April 2024

24th to 29th March 2024,  14:30 to 18:30 IST _Online.

08th to 10th March 2024,  20:00 to 23:00 IST _Online.

in collaboration with University of Ladakh: March 2024 – February 2025

Online with Kamal Swaroop: 12 Weekends, Starting 17 February 2024

in Auroville with R.V. Ramani: 8 January – 11 February 2024

with Irena Taskovski in Auroville: 3-7 January 2023

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
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

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