Habitat Film Club


The Habitat Film Club was started in March 2000. A Member of the Federation of Film Societies of India, Habitat Film Club promises film buffs a rich fare of meaningful and entertaining films from across the world, Masterclasses and interactive sessions with Directors, Producers, Actors, Retrospectives and much more. Members are exposed to the wealth and variety of cinema - from the early classics to the works of the new filmmakers as well as refreshing departures in mainstream cinema. It also aims to facilitate for members insights into the history of cinema and awareness on contemporary trends. The film club's two standalone annual festivals, namely Habitat International Film Festival in March celebrating critically acclaimed International Cinema, and Habitat Film Festival in May showcasing award winning Pan Indian Cinema, have become indispensable forums for film lovers in the city.

MEMBERSHIP TO HABITAT FILM CLUB IS CLOSED TILL FURTHER NOTICE.

For more information email us on habitatprogrammes@gmail.com

Films This Month!

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    FILM - Women’s Day Special. Meelon Dur/Miles Away (2023/Docu/ Bundeli with Eng subs/50 mins) Dir. Megha Acharya. Prod. Chambal Media, Paula Chakravartty, Michelle Buckley. The everyday-lives of three female labourers working in a brick kiln in India take an upsetting turn after unexpected rainfall halts their work. What unfolds is a disturbing tale of unorganised labour and economic debts in a rapidly urbanising India. Followed by a discussion with the film team. Collab. Kriti Film Club.

    Venue : Gulmohar

    07:00 pm
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    HIFF 2024 - Opening film. Focus Country Germany. Das Lehrerzimmer/The Teachers' Lounge (Germany/ German, Turkish, Polish, English/ 2023/98 mins) Dir. İlker Çatak.

    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    06:00 pm
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    HIFF 2024 - Shayda (Australia/ English, Farsi/ 2023/ 117 mins) Dir. Noora Niasari.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    09:00 pm
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    HIFF 2024 - MUBI Specials. The Delinquents (Argentina, Brazil/ Spanish/ 2023/ 190 mins) Dir. Rodrigo Moreno.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    10:30 am
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    HIFF 2024 - MUBI Specials. Women in Film. Priscilla (United States, Italy/ English/ 2023/114 mins) Dir. Sofia Coppola.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    02:00 pm
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    HIFF 2024 - MUBI Specials. Los Colonos /The Settlers (Chile, Argentina, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Germany, Sweden, France, Denmark/ Spanish, English/ 2023/ 97 mins) Dir. Felipe Gálvez Haberle.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    04:00 pm
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    HIFF 2024 - Luto (Docu - Montage/Mexico/Spanish, English & Wixarika/ 2023/ 110 mins) Dir. Andres Arochi Tinajero.
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    Venue : Gulmohar

    07:00 pm
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    HIFF 2024 - MUBI Specials. Passages (France/ English, French/ 2023/ 90 mins) Dir. Ira Sachs.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    09:00 pm
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    HIFF 2024 - The Promised Land/ Bastarden (Denmark, Sweden/ Danish/ 2023/ 127 mins) Dir. Nikolaj Arcel.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    11:00 am
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - Focus Country Germany - Childrens’ Films. Mission Ulja Funk ( Germany/ Luxembourg/ Poland/ German/2021/93 mins) Dir. Barbara Kronenberg.
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    Venue : Gulmohar

    12:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - Women in Film. The Peasants (Animation/ Poland, Serbia, Lithuania/ Polish/ 2023/ 114 mins) Dir. DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    02:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Focus Country Germany. The Ordinaries (Germany/German/2022/124 mins) Dir. Sophie Linnenbaum.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    04:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - Master Class on Editing by Kai Eiermann.
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    Venue : Casuarina

    06:30 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - NETPAC Award Winners. Introduced by Bina Paul, Joint President, NETPAC. Sunday/Yakshanba (Uzbekistan/ Uzbek/ 2023/ 97 mins) Dir. Shokir Kholikov.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    07:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - The Klezmer Project (Docu-Fiction/Austria, Argentina/Spanish, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Romanian, English, German/115 mins) Dirs. Leandro Koch & Paloma Schachmann.
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    Venue : Gulmohar

    07:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Croma Kid (Dominican Republic/ Spanish, French/ 2023/ 92 mins) Dir. Pablo Chea.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    09:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Women in Film. Club Zero (Austria, United Kingdom Germany, France, Denmark,Qatar/ English/2023/ 110 mins) Dir. Jessica Hausner.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    02:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - NETPAC Award Winners. Solids by the Seashore (Thailand/ Thai/ 2023/ 93 mins) Dir. Patiparn Boontarig.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    04:30 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - The New Boy (Australia/ English/ 2023/ 116 mins) Dir. Warwick Thornton.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    06:30 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Konkeuriteu yutopia/ Concrete Utopia ( South Korea/ Korean/ 2023/ 130 mins) Dir. Um Tae-hwa.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    09:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Women in Film. Six Weeks (Hungary/ Hungarian/2023/ 95 mins) Dir. Noemi Veronika Szakonyi.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    02:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai/ Evil Does Not Exist (Japan/ Japanese/ 2023/106 mins) Dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    04:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Hypnosen/The Hypnosis (Sweden, Norway, France/ Swedish, Norwegian/ 2023/ 98 mins) Dir. Ernst De Geer.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    06:30 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - NETPAC Award Winners. The Missing (Animation/ Philippines,Thailand/ Filipino and Ilocano/ 2023/ 90 mins) Dir. Carl Joseph E. Papa.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    09:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Women in Film. Sages-femmes/Midwives (France/ French/ 2023/ 110 mins) Dir.Léa Fehner.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    02:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Uśmiech Losu/Song Of Goats (Poland, Greece, Ireland/ English/ 2023/104 mins) Dir. Andrzej Jakimowski.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    04:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Focus Country Germany. Ingeborg Bachmann - Reise in die Wüste/ Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey Into The Desert (Germany, Luxembourg/ German/ 2023/ 110 mins) Dir. Margarethe von Trotta.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    06:30 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Un amor (Spain/ Spanish/ 2023/ 129 mins) Dir. Isabel Coixe.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    09:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Women in Film. Le Théorème de Marguerite/ Marguerite's Theorem (France/ French/2023/110 mins) Dir. Anna Novion.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    02:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Focus Country Germany. Orphea In Love (Germany/ German/ 2023/ 107 mins) Dir. Axel Ranisch.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    04:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Focus Country Germany. Perfect Days (Japan, Germany/Japanese/ 2023/123 mins) Dir. Wim Wenders.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    06:30 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Un amor (Spain/ Spanish/ 2023/ 129 mins) Dir. Isabel Coixet.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    09:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Women in Film. Laissez-Moi/ Let Me Go (Switzerland, France, Belgium/French/ 92 mins) Dir. Maxime Rappaz.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    02:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - NETPAC Award Winners. Rahas Kiyana Kandu/Whispering Mountains (Sri Lanka/ Sinhalese/ 2023/ 87 mins) Dir. Jagath Manuwarna.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    04:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Lo Capitano (Italy/ Wolof, French/ 2023/ 121 mins) Dir. Matteo Garrone.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    06:30 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Focus Country Germany. Sieben Winter in Teheran/Seven Winters In Tehran (Docu/Germany, France/2023/ Farsi/ 97 mins) Dir. Steffi Niederzolla.
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    Venue : Gulmohar

    07:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Kaibutsu/Monster (Japan/Japanese/ 2023/ 132 mins) Dir. Kore-Eda Hirokazu.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    09:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - The Zone of Interest (UK, Poland/ English/ 2023/ 106 mins) Dir. Jonathan Glazer.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    11:00 am
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Women in Film. O Corno /The Rye Horn (Spain, Portugal, Belgium/ Galician, Portuguese/ 2023/ 105 mins) Dir. Jaione Camborda.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    02:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - La Sombra Del Sol/The Shadow of The Sun (Venezuela / United States /2023/ Spanish, Venezuelan Sign Language/100 mins) Dir. Miguel Ángel Ferrer.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    04:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Kuolleet Lehdet/Fallen Leaves (Finland/Germany/ Finnish/ 2023/ 81 mins) Dir. Aki Kaurismäki.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    06:30 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Five Films For Freedom. 5 LGBTQIA+ themed short films from around the globe.
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    Venue : Gulmohar

    07:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - HIFF 2024. Focus Country Germany. Sisi und ich/Sisi And I (Germany, Switzerland/ German/2023/ 132 mins) Dir. Frauke Finsterwalder.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    09:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Kuru Otlar Üstüne/ About Dry Grasses (Turkey, France, Germany/ 2023/ 197 mins) Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    10:30 am
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Focus Country Germany - Childrens’ Films. One in A Million (Germany/ English, German/2022/ 85 mins) Dir. Joya Thome.
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    Venue : Gulmohar

    12:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - Women in Film. Tu Man Nieko Neprimeni/ Slow (Lithuania, Spain, Sweden/Lithuanian, English/ 2023/108 mins) Dir. Marija Kavtaradzė.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    02:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - HIFF 2024. Lubo (Italy/Italian, Swiss German, Jenisch/2023/175 mins) Dir. Giorgio Diritti.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    04:00 pm
  • Film
    HIFF 2024 - FILM - CLOSING FILM Inshallah A Boy/ Inchallah Un Fils (Jordan, France, KSA,Qatar/Arabic/2023/113 mins) Dir. Amjad Al Rasheed.
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    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    07:30 pm
  • Film
    FILM - The Stork Saviours (2019/Docu/English, Assamese with Eng subs)/27 mins) Dirs. Vijay and Ajay Bedi. This short film outlines the tireless and innovative efforts of wildlife biologist Purnima Devi Barman and the Hargilla Army -- a conservation group comprising rural women -- to protect the rare Greater Adjutant Stork in Assam.
    Winner, National Film Award
    Nominee, Jackson Wild Media Awards
    The Last Hop(e) (2020/Docu/English, Kannada with English subtitles)/20 mins) Dirs. Dheeraj Aithal and Pradeep Hegde. Unplanned urbanisation and mindless development have subjected wildlife in India to immense biotic pressure. This documentary looks at conservation efforts to offset the effects of such activities on the frogs of the Western Ghats. Collab. Global Wildlife Fair, Wildlife Trust of India, PSBT India and Moundain Films

    Venue : Gulmohar

    07:00 pm
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    FILM - Manu Rewal’s Architecture Films Indian Modernity, the Architecture of Raj Rewal (2017/Docu/English & French (with English subs)/92 mins). Wri. & Dir. Manu Rewal. Raj Rewal learnt from Western modern architecture and masterpieces of Indian architecture, to create his unique style. Pragmatic, yet respecting nature, it puts man at the centre of his architecture. Spanning 6 decades and a historic turning point, major works of Raj Rewal, including individual as well as group housing, offices, exhibition halls, university campuses and a Parliament Library, have participated in the invention of modern India. Screening followed by QnA with the filmmaker. Venue: Stein Auditorium. Coproduced with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of the world’s leading museums of contemporary art.

    Venue : Stein Auditorium

    07:00 pm
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    FILM - The World is Family (2023/Hindi and English with English Subtitles/ Docu/96 mins) Dir. Anand Patwardhan. Through insightful conversations with family members, including his parents, Patwardhan explores the tumultuous journey of India from a colony to an independent nation. Collab. Express Film Club. Screening followed by a discussion with Shubhra Gupta, Film critic, Indian Express. Entry through prior online registrations for IHC Members only.

    Venue : Gulmohar

    07:00 pm
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    FILM - Manu Rewal’s Architecture Films. Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's vision in stone (1998/Docu/English/31 mins). Wri. & Dir. Manu Rewal. Created in 1571 by Akbar, the greatest of the Mughal Emperors, Fatehpur Sikri’s architecture reflects his free-thinking, open-minded and innovative attitude. Exquisite Miniature paintings from the AkbarNama and three Hindustani classical ragas, which are said to have been composed by Tansen, the legendary "jewel" of Akbar's court, accompany the images. Lutyens’ New Delhi (1997/Docu/English/30 mins) Wri. & Dir. Manu Rewal. When the British decided to shift the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911, Edwin Lutyens combined beaux-arts planning with garden city ideals for the new city. He also designed the Viceregal Palace, now the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, by fusing Western and Indian forms to create a unique Anglo-Indian style. Screenings followed by QnA with the filmmaker.
    Awards: Prix Archives Ethniques: UNESCO Film Festival on art and education, Paris, France.

    Venue : Gulmohar

    07:00 pm