Screening of SCHINDLER'S LIST on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Pradarsh

screened

Steven Spielberg's

critically acclaimed

Schindler's List

Winner of 7 Academy Awards, 7 BAFTAs and 3 Golden Globes

on

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Friday, 27th January, 2012
at

3 p.m.
in the

Management School Auditorium

Schindler's List, a Steven Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. 

Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, it also won every major Best Picture award and an exceptional number of additional honors. Among them were seven British Academy Awards; the Best Picture Awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the Producers Guild, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the Chicago, Boston and Dallas Film Critics; a Christopher Award; and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Awards. Steven Spielberg was further honored with the Directors Guild of America Award.

The film presents the indelible true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference, and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film, which also won Academy Awards for Screenplay, Cinematography, Music, Editing and Art Direction, stars an acclaimed cast headed by Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle and Embeth Davidtz.

Screening of SPIELZEUGLAND and NIGHT & FOG

Pradarsh

screened the 

award winning French documentary 

Night & Fog

and the

Academy Award winning German short film Spielzeugland

on 

Friday, 20th January, 2012
at

4 p.m.
in the

Management School Auditorium

Screening of WALTZ WITH BASHIR

Pradarsh screened the Oscar nominated anti-war Hebrew film Waltz with Bashir on Friday, the 13th of January, 2012.

Screening of CLASSMATES OF ANNE FRANK

Pradarsh screened Eyal Boyers' documentary film Classmates of Anne Frank on Friday, 25th November, 2011 at the Management School Auditorium.

To comprehend fully the events in the life of Anne Frank, one must listen to the voices of the children who were there with her, of those who remember her.

Theo (Maurice) Coster, a famous games' creator from Israel, renews contact with five of his and Anne Frank's former classmates, only to discover an astonishing and confusing truth about the village where he was hiding during World War Two.

Set against his childhood locations in Amsterdam, Westerbork Transit Camp and their current homes in Holland and Israel, these former classmates discuss their relationships with Anne and how they survived the war. Through these discussions, the film takes a bold and illuminating look at the different Dutch attitudes towards the war years in the Netherlands and towards the Holocaust.

Anne Frank's diary confirms the tragedy of the Holocaust and continues to debunk Holocaust deniers. The documentation of Anne's classmates is not only illustrated through interviews and discussions between the classmates themselves, but also through photographs, archival footage, personal scrapbooks and letters and other new resources.

Screening of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

Pradarsh screened the 1959 classic The Diary of Anne Frank, which won three Oscars, on

Friday, 18th November, 2011.

Vox-Pop Film Competition

Pradarsh held a Vox-Pop Film Competition during the university's annual cultural festival of the academic year 2011-12, Abhivyanjana and screened films under the following themes

• Gender Segregation
• Moral Policing
• Gender Discrimination
• Student Life
• Examination Stress
• Student Activism

The three best films were later awarded. The term Vox-Pop is an abbreviation of the Latin Vox-Populi (Voice of the People). Vox Pop Films are short duration films, largely based on interviews. Each film was of only two minutes' duration. The competition was open to groups as well as individuals. There was no limit to the number of entries per competitor.

Screening of SPRING 1941

Pradarsh screened the award winning feature film Spring 1941 on Friday, 4th November, 2011 at the Management School Auditorium. The film's screenplay writer, eminent playwright Motti Lerner had given a lecture at the Gautam Buddha University under the auspices of its Dramatics Club, Dishayan, on Friday, 23rd September, 2011.

A Film by Uri Barabash
(2008, 35 mm - 122 Minutes, DVD - 97 minutes, Color, English, cast: Joseph Fiennes, Clare Higgins, Kelly Harrison, Neve McIntosh, Maria Pakulnis) In 1971, world famous Cellist Clara Plank returns to her homeland of Poland for the first time. She is the guest of honor in a gala concert to be held in her home town. But the familiar sights and faces are so powerful that her mind wonders to that one spring, 30 years earlier, when that terrible war came to destroy her world.

Spring 1941 is the story of the young Clara, her husband, and two daughters, a Jewish family seeking shelter as Nazis storm Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia, their local grocer. After her husband was taken to fight for his country and never came back, Emilia is all alone in the big house.Under the horrors of the war and the agony of death that surrounds them, an impossible love triangle erupts.
The fragile arrangement, made only in order to live, is tested again and again.

Will love be enough to keep them alive? Is it love or is it survival?