| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, December 3, 2011 | 12:30PM - 9:00PM | External Event, Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George) |
| Sunday, December 4, 2011 | 1:00PM - 8:00PM | External Event, Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George) |
The festival will consist of feature films based on stories by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and documentaries regarding this extraordinarily gifted poet, writer and educator whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated worldwide in 2011. A highlight of the festival will be the North American premier of Shey (He) a feature film by award-winning poet and filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta of India based on Rabindranath’s mischievous satire by the same title (never previously rendered as cinema). Mr. Dasgupta has won several national awards and a special jury prize for directing at 2000 Venice International Film Festival for his film The Wrestlers (Uttara). Recently he received the best feature film award at the 2011-54th Asia Pacific Film Festival held in Taipei for his latest Bengali movie, Window (Janala).
An additional attraction of the festival will be the first Canadian showing of Noukadubi (“Boat wreck”), a Bengali film directed by award-winning filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh released on January 2011. The movie is a period film set in the 1920s, based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Tickets: $10 one day; $15 both days
For information or to order tickets contact:
Kathleen or Joseph O’Connell: prof_oconnell@yahoo.ca
Soumidh (Somu) Mondal: smondal@gmail.com
Saturday, December 3:
12:30 – 2:00pm
Opening
Tagore Documentary by Satyajit Ray
2:00 – 4:30pm
Premier Canadian screening of Noukadubi (“Boat wreck”) by Rituparno Ghosh
4:30- 5:30pm
Documentary on Jorasanko the Tagore family mansion by Buddhadeb Dasgupta
6:00 – 9:00pm
Premier North American screening of Shey (“He”) by Buddadeb Dasgupta
Sunday, December 4:
1:00 – 2:00pm
Introduction
Gitanjali documentary by Reba Som
2:00 – 4:30pm
Shey (“He”) by Buddadeb Dasgupta
5:00 – 5:30pm
Documentary on Jorasanko, the Tagore family mansion by Buddhadeb Dasgupta
5:30 – 8:00pm
Noukadubi (“Boat wreck”) by Rituparno Ghosh
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