Jul 10 2026 to Jul 12 2026 7 p.m.

Price: Starts from INR 300 with an option of festival pass available.

Where

BLR Design Centre

6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001

Event Description

At the heart of this festival lies a simple, radical act: someone stands before their community and says, this film is part of me. Not because they made it, but because it made them—reshaping how they see light, silence, longing, or a faraway street they’ve never walked. These are the films we carry quietly for years, the ones we return to in moments of doubt or joy, whose frames have fused with our own memories. When a member shares such a film, they’re not just programming a screening; they’re offering a piece of their inner landscape, trusting others to step inside and look around. Every discussion becomes a meeting of biographies—the life of the film and the lives in the room—where strangers discover they’ve been moved by the same unspoken things. This is cinema not as distant art, but as shared memory, as intimate as a favourite book passed hand to hand.

Here's a few lines about the films being screened:  El (1953) – Luis Buñuel

A wealthy, paranoiac husband’s obsessive jealousy turns his marriage into a surreal prison. Buñuel dissects male possessiveness with surgical precision and a quietly seething absurdity. It’s a film that doesn’t just portray madness—it lets you feel its suffocating texture from the inside.

The Kingdom of Diamonds (1980) – Satyajit Ray

Goopy and Bagha wander into a glittering dystopia where a despot hoards both diamonds and minds. Ray turns a musical fantasy into a biting political fable, full of wordplay, wit, and defiant imagination. A deeply joyful reminder that the most powerful rebellion often arrives in the form of a song.

Gertrud (1964) – Carl Theodor Dreyer

A woman walks away from marriage and convention, pursuing an ideal of love that the world cannot accommodate. Dreyer frames her in long, luminous takes where every silence feels like a reckoning. It’s a last testament of radical honesty, devastating in its stillness and its refusal to compromise.

Yearning (1964) – Mikio Naruse

A widow pours her life into a family grocery store until a forbidden love forces everything into the open. Naruse charts the quiet devastation of duty and unspoken longing with almost unbearable restraint. In the end, it’s a film about the vast emotional earthquake that happens when a single glance says what years of silence could not.  

About Parallel Cinema Club: The Parallel Cinema Club is a community of film enthusiasts passionate about the art of cinema. It focuses on films often overlooked by mainstream audiences, and showcases international, experimental cinema, often from emerging filmmakers. TPCC hosts regular screenings across Bangalore, as well as Q&As with filmmakers, and discussions around the art of cinema.