| IIC
Auditorium, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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| 9:00 - 11:25 |
STORY TELLERS / Prasanth
Kumar R. and Daya J. / 25 min / 2006 / India
Challenges in the life of a shadow puppeteer and his art.
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HOT OFF THE PRESS / Bishakha
Dutta / 31 min / 2004 / India
‘Khabar Lahariya’, published every fortnight
from a small town in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot district,
covers all the news that mainstream media forgot.
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IN THE FOREST HANGS A BRIDGE
/ Sanjay
Kak / 40 min / 1999 / India
The indigenous Adi tribe in Arunachal, north-east India,
gathers to build a 1000 ft long bridge of cane and bamboo.
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PRETTY DYANA / Boris
Mitic / 45 min / 2003 / Serbia
Gypsy refugees in a Belgrade suburb make a living by transforming
Citroen's classic 2CV and Dyana cars into Mad Max-like recycling
vehicles. But the police doesn't always find these strange
vehicles funny.…
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| 11:50 - 13:30 |
PORTRAIT OF SAKHI / Karenza
Bowen / 8 min / 2003 / Australia
Journey of an asylum seeker, an Afghani artist who was forced
to flee his home to escape the Taliban.
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MONSOON CLOUD / M. S. Prakash
Babu / 13 min / 2005 / India
A surreal look into the a few hours in an old man’s
life as he encounters a series of situations and emotions.
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HOPE DIES LAST IN WAR /
Supriyo Sen / 80 min / 2007 / India
Struggle of the families of the prisoners of the 1971 Indo-Pak
war to get their loved ones back.
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| 14:30 - 17:40 |
NUSRAT HAS LEFT THE BUILDING, BUT
WHEN? / Farjad
Nabi / 25 min / Pakistan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s metamorphosis from a genuine
popular artiste to a mass produced exotica of the east.
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PLANETA ALEMANIA / Dogfilm
& Companeros / 38 min / 1999 / Germany
A cinematic portrait of a woman living and working in Germany
like a “criminal”, but without having committed
any “crime”.
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SCRIBBLES ON AKKA / Madhusree
Dutta / 57 min / 2000 / India
A musical documentary on the 12th century saint-poet Mahadevi
Akka.
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WORD WITHIN THE WORD / Rajula
Shah / 76 min / 2007 / India
Seeks to comprehend and expand upon the spirit of Bhakti
Movement, comprising of mystic poets like Kabir, Gorakhnath
and others, blooming from within the ‘wretched of the
earth’ and coming to form cogent dialogues across socio-philosophic
fractures in an ancient landscape ravaged by history.
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| 18:00 |
COMICS, ANIMATION, FILMS: PACKAGE OF
ANIMATION FILMS, Curated by Orijit
Sen |
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| IIC
Conference Room 1, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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| 9:00 - 11:00 |
MY LAND MY LIFE / Rehad
Desai / 52 min / 2002 / South Africa
The complexities of a fast changing political landscape
in Zimbabwe.
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AUTUMN'S FINAL COUNTRY /
Sonia Jabbar / 66 min / 2003 / India
Four women speak about the circumstances leading to their
rootlessness, revealing an intimate dimension of the Kashmir
conflict.
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| 11:30 - 13:30 |
WAY BACK HOME / Supriyo
Sen / 120 min / 2003 / India
A family’s journey back to their homeland in Bangladesh
after more than fifty years.
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| 14:30 - 16:10 |
RIGHT TO INFORMATION / Anurag
Singh / 33 min / 1999 / India
Battle of common people against corruption in rural India.
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INVISIBLE / Roz
Mortimer / 63 min / 2006 / UK
When scientists tested breast milk from Inuit mothers, they
were shocked to find the milk loaded with chemicals migrating
from the south.
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| IIC
Conference Room 1, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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| 14:30 - 16:02 |
- CODING CULTURE / Gautam
Sonti / 92 min / 2006 / India
- A series of three films that explores the diverse cultures
of work in Bangalore’s software outsourcing industry.
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