About Kalpanirjhar

The Foundation has already made a mark with its highly successful annual Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival which has completed sixteen consecutive editions and is held over five days in the beginning of December every year, jointly with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, and the Kalpanirjhar Annual Lecture held in the beginning of April every year and delivered by eminent personalities on vital issues pertaining to cinema and the arts.

Founded in 2001, the Foundation is committed to developing a democratic platform for the study and creative use of the entire range of the audiovisual media, particularly in their role in social critique, change and development.

Aimed at practitioners and professionals, it is part of an informal network ready to share ideas and experiences and envisage and devise strategies and methods for positive changes in these fields and other related areas.

The Foundation is engaged in initiating and continuing and maintaining dialogues between the makers and the consumers/viewers/listeners, sustaining an interactive field of creativity for a cause.

Apart from the annual events, the Foundation also arranges and co-organises periodic lectures, workshops, debates, discussions, seminars, festivals and exhibitions related to cinema and other performing media and the visual arts and literature, and inter-disciplinary interactions and proposes to publish monographs, portfolios etc. to disseminate information and creative ideas in these fields.