| IIC
Auditorium, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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| 9:00 - 11:50 |
BUSHMAN'S SECRET / Rehad
Desai / 65 min / 2006 / South Africa
One cactus stands between hope and hunger – Hoodia,
a cactus used by Bushmen for centuries, has caught the attention
of a giant pharmaceutical company.
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HOLIDAY CAMP / Jennifer
Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell / 47 min / 2002 / Australia
Investigates the current Australian immigration policies
in the context of 200 years of colonization.
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FROM DUST / Dhruv
Dhawan / 56 min / 2005 / UAE
The untold story of a ‘100 metre rule’ after
the Tsunami.
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| 12:10 - 13:50 |
NARROW IS THE GATE / Katarina
Uibo / 65 min / 2002 / Estonia
Sister Teodora, the 86 year-old gatekeeper of the Granica
convent, an isolated Serbian enclave in post-war Kosovo, balances
her hostility to Albanians and her religious calling to love
them.
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MY MIGRANT SOUL / Yasmine
Kabir / 34 min / 2000 / Bangladesh
A young migrant worker from Bangladesh left for Malaysia
in search of work, only to experience disillusionment, misery
and frustration.
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| 14:20 - 17:50 |
SHIT / Amudhan
R. P. / 25 min / 2003 / India
A day in the life of Mariammal, a woman sanitary worker,
who cleans the shit from a lane in Madurai.
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TALES FROM THE MARGINS /
Kavita
Joshi / 23 min / 2006 / India
The grim human rights situation in Manipur and the extraordinary
protests by its womenfolk for justice and peace.
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TEMPORARY LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
/ Monica Bhasin / 35 min / 2005 / India
An exploration of the boundaries of internal and external
spaces of people in exile.
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WAITING ... / Shabnam Ara
& Atul Gupta / 39 min / 2005 / India
On women and children surviving amongst conflict in war-torn
Kashmir.
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- A CERTAIN LIBERATION / Yasmine Kabir
/ 38 min / 2003 / Bangladesh
- Gurudasi had lost her entire family during the Liberation
war 30 years ago. But through her indomitable presence today,
she has kept alive the spirit of the Liberation War.
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- SOMEWHERE IN MAY / Amar
Kanwar / 37 min / 2005 / India
- 17th of May in 2004, the Norwegians celebrate their National
Day. The same day, the Burmese military dictatorship begins
a sham National Convention for Democracy in Burma. The 'Democratic
Voice of Burma', a small radio station in Oslo, reports
on this sham convention, secretly heard by thousands within
Burma.
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| 18:20 - 19:20 |
HAMLETMACHINE - A play by Best
of Kolkata Campus |
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| 19:25 - 20:45 |
- A NIGHT OF PROPHECY / Amar
Kanwar / 77 min / 2002 / India
- A film about poetry and witnessing the passage of time.
Through poetry emerges the possibility of understanding
the past, the severity of conflict and the cycles of change.
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20:47 - 21:05
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- FILMS ON BURMA / Amar
Kanwar
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| * Programme subject to last minute
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