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Auditorium, Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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| 9:00 - 11:10 |
BORN AT HOME / Sameera
Jain / 61 min / 2000 / India
Indigenous birth practices and practitioners of rural and
urban India.
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SNAPSHOTS FROM A FAMILY ALBUM / Avijit
Mukul Kishore / 63 min / 2004 / India
A critical time in a family’s history: that moment
when the idea of ‘home’ is being reconfigured
across three distinct cities and cultures.
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| 11:30 - 13:40 |
P(L)AIN TRUTH / Ilppo Pohjola / 16 min
/ 1993 / Finland
The pain of a man trapped in a woman’s body.
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GENDER TROUBLE / Roz
Mortimer / 24 min / 2004 / UK
Four inter-sex women speak about their lives.
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THE PINK MIRROR / Sridhar Rangaiyhn /
41 min / 2002 / India
Underneath a humorous exterior, an exploration of the Indian
gay landscape, underlining the deep, humanly tender bondings
that exist between drag queens.
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MILIND SOMAN MADE ME GAY / Harjant
Gill / 27 min / USA
About desire and notions of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’,
juxtaposing memories of the filmmaker’s past against
stories of 3 gay South Asian men living in the diaspora.
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CALCUTTA PRIDE MARCH 2004 / Tejal
Shah / 12 min / 2004 / India
A march to assert the rights of sexuality and gender minorities.
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| 14:30 - 18:10 |
MANJUBEN TRUCKDRIVER / Sherna Dastur
/ 52 min / 2002 / India
A woman who has broken the stereotypes that are part of
the social landscape she lives in, her identity is deliberately
‘male’, that of a macho trucker. But is she a
crusader?
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THEY WHO WALKED MOUNTAINS / Manju Kak
/ 33 min / 2002 / India
A film on the Bhotias, an ancient trading community of the
Himalayas.
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NIMA TEMBA SHERPA / Margriet Jansen /
52 min / 2003 / The Netherlands
A Sherpa, who climbs for the umpteenth time one of the highest
Himalayan summits. But his life and achievements are seldom
in the spotlight.
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KAMLABAI / Reena Mohan / 48 min / 1992
/ India
Kamlabai, one of the first actors of India, and the first
lady of Indian film.
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SUNDARI - AN ACTOR PREPARES / Madhusree
Dutta / 30 min / 1999 / India
An exploration of feminity and performence, through the
tale of a popular female impersonator of early 20th century.
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| 18:30 - 19:30 |
LITERATURE, THEATRE, FILMS: THE
LIFE AND WORK OF HABIB TANVIR, Illustrated talk by
Sudhanva
Deshpande |
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| 19:35 |
TANVIR KA SAFARNAMA / Ranjan
Kamath / 79 min / 2007 / India
The enthralling theatrical journey that happens when a pipe-smoking
urban sophisticate like Habib Tanvir travels via Europe to
return to his homeland - in Chhattisgarh - to create an essentially
Indian theatre. (Delhi Premiere)
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*Programme
subject to last minute changes |
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