Experiences
An audience is people choosing to give their attention to the same thing at the same time. Film societies, festivals, cinemas, a television channel and home video: Enlighten makes many places for that to happen.
Taj Enlighten Film Society
Great films will be made only when we become a great audience.
- India's largest film society, certified by the Federation of Film Societies of India.
- 10,000+ members.
- Weekly world cinema on the big screen in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Surat.
- Programming for 37 partner film societies.
- Films shown uncut, as the filmmaker intended.
- Federation of Film Societies of India
Festivals & Retrospectives
- Naya Cinema Festival: new Indian cinema and premieres, in Mumbai and at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
- Iranian Month: with the Culture House of Iran and the Consulate General of Iran. Baran, The Colour of Paradise, Father and Children of Heaven.
- An animation film festival for Mumbai.
- French Film Nights, with Institut français.
- Asian Film Festival, with the Third Eye Asian Film Festival.
- Animal, Human & Nature Continuum: an environmental film festival.
- Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema: programming.
- Delhi International Film Festival at the American Center, New Delhi.
- Indian section, Gulf Film Festival, Dubai.
- Director retrospectives and world-cinema classics.
Cinemas
Liberty Cinema · Programming
The Art Deco landmark at Marine Lines.
Matterden CFC at The Deepak, Lower Parel
India's first international film centre, in a heritage single-screen cinema. Classics, world cinema, secret screenings, workshops and a café.
French Cinema at Matterden CFC
A night of French film every week, with Alliance Française de Bombay, Institut Français and the French Embassy.
- Alliance Française
TV & Streaming
Tata Sky World Screen
A world-cinema channel on Tata Sky.
Cineoo
Streaming.
Cultural Exchange
- Gulf Film Festival: the Indian section, curated with the Indian delegation.
- BRICS, Moscow.
- Russian House, Mumbai: Russian cinema and culture.
- Shanghai–Mumbai Hand in Hand.
- Gulf Film Festival
- BRICS
Cultural projects
Home Video & Retail
500 Masters: Enlighten's home-video label for world cinema. Each title has its own cover, booklet and multi-language subtitles. Packaging with Ink Inc. Launches and kiosks at Crossword and Landmark.
Guests and friends
The people who join us on stage, present their films and spend an evening with our audience.
Taj Tareef Award
Our honour for the people who shaped Indian cinema.
Also with us: Naseeruddin Shah · Farhan Akhtar · Saif Ali Khan · Imtiaz Ali · Ketan Mehta · Sudhir Mishra · Sriram Raghavan · Sujoy Ghosh · Vivek Agnihotri · Siddiq Barmak · Tapan Sinha, and filmmakers from Iran, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Argentina and the US.