Jun 21 2025 to Jun 21 2025 6:30 p.m.

Price: Rs 100 Book/Buy

Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

About the event:

Gautam Sonti brings a rough cut of his film “TechnoCats”. The screening of the film will be followed by an open conversation with the filmmaker. 

About TechnoCats:

The CEOs of Google, IBM and Adobe are all graduates of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Seven young students from seven parts of the country - the ‘Seven Samurai’ - dream of being admitted to this institution. Competing against one million applicants, they gain admission to IIT, but are soon disillusioned. Will they make their presence felt on the world stage? Or will they burn out along the way? 

At IIT, 'Cats' dominate—acing grades, sports, and cultural activities in a ruthless, quantifiable competition. Winner takes all and losers are not cool. The filmmaker, an IIT alumnus, follows the Seven Samurai over seven years—from their first semester to the third year of their careers—offering an intimate look at India's education system. What emerges is a portrait of Indian society and its educational institutions that push young people to the brink, in pursuit of material success. 

Interwoven with their journey are four of the filmmaker’s classmates from 35 years ago, including one who made an audiovisual on IIT student life. As he rediscovers old slides and struggles to sync them with the audio track, this forgotten past frames the film’s exploration of ambition, success, and failure - in the race to win at all cost.

More about the film: https://www.technocats.in/

About the Gautam Sonti:

Gautam Sonti dived into filmmaking soon after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.  One of his interests has been the intersection of technology with our lives.  This has led to two films that enter the world of engineers and a third that examines the impact of technology on society.  Many of his films follow the lives of people over time, sometimes years.  They have been screened at documentary film festivals around the world, but also at festivals that celebrate the ethnographic method.  

For more: www.gautamsonti.com 

Age 14+