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- SAA / 25 min / 1991 / India
- An exploratory journey seeking one's own rhythm, through
the magnetic flux of rural and urban rhythms.
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- LAST FAMILY / 26 min / 1995 / India
- Nine Experimental theatre groups from different parts
of the country meet in Chennai. Egos clash, fuse and melt.
A film as theatre.
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- FACE LIKE A MAN / 30 min / 1993 / India
- Nine painters try and express their preoccupations, in
their canvas. The filmmaker, with his own preoccupation,
strikes a relation.
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- THROUGH THE WINDOW / 30 min / 1993 /
India
- A painter and a filmmaker. A dialogue of non-figuration
and abstraction with the painter vis-à-vis filmmaking.
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- BLUE BLACK YELLOW / 6 min / 1995 / India
- A quizzical journey, through colours, forms, space, movements
and gestures.
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- THE VOYEUR / 29 min / 2000 / India
- Preparing for the Act: The Other Festival, Chennai, 1999.
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- LINES OF MAHATMA / 20 min / 1999 / India
- The spirit of Mahatma Gandhi through the drawings of Adimoolam,
a Chennai-based artist.
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- WHERE ARE YOU? / 154 min / 2003 / India
- An impressionistic ethnography, reflecting on shadow puppet
theatre, history, mythology, cinema and our lives.
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| 20:20 - 21:20 |
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Conversation with filmmaker: R. V.
Ramani |
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- IIC
Conference Room 1, Wednesday, 30 April 2008
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- BRAHMA VISHNU SHIVA / 20 min / 1999 /
India
- An exploration of the process of creation, sustenance
and destruction.
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- ONE TWO THREE FOUR / 28 min / 1995 /
India
- An exploration into the world of children and their school
life. Neela dreams, snake drank water, rabbit woke up, monkey
jumped.
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- LANGUAGE OF WAR / 51 min / 1996 / India
- A bilingual play based on the Mahabharata, on the dilemma
of Arjuna - the rehearsals become performance.
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Films by Sehjo
Singh |
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Born in 1963, Sehjo is an independent
filmmaker working on issues of socio-political concern since
1987. She completed her Masters in Mass communications from
the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia,
in 1987.
Her most important work has been on land rights,
on which she produced and directed three well known documentaries.
The first among these, also her first independent film, The
Women Betrayed won the Special Jury Award in Tokyo, and
the National Award for Best film on Social Issues. Sona
Maati – A Very Ordinary Gold won the Special Jury
Award at the National Awards, and the Golden Conch, for the
Best Film at Bombay Documentary Festival. Kol Tales
won the International Jury Award at the Bombay film festival,
where it was premiered and then travelled to various International
film festivals.
She has also worked in various capacities as
director, script writer and producer in numerous other documentaries
and feature films on a wide range of social themes. She also
conducts workshops, teaches and writes on films. |
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| IIC
Conference Room 1, Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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- THE WOMEN BETRAYED / 40 min / 1993 /
India
- Why women in Jharkhand are branded and hunted as witches.
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- WHO IS AFRAID OF LITTLE GIRLS? / 32 min
/ 1993 / India
- What forces the people of Rajasthan to push their little
children into matrimony?
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- SONA MAATI - A VERY ORDINARY GOLD / 38
min / 1996 / India
- One woman's fight for land rights in Bikaner.
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Conversation with filmmaker: Sehjo Singh |
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Films by Paromita
Vohra |
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Paromita
Vohra is a documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. Her
films as director are Un-limited Girls, a personal take on
engagements with feminism in urban India which mixes fiction
and non-fiction, Annapurna (1995), about a women
food worker’s cooperative in Bombay's textile mill area,
A Woman’s Place (1999), an hour-length documentary
for PBS on how women negotiate the space between law and custom
to change their lives and those of other women in South Africa,
the USA and India and A Short Film About Time (2000)
an independent short fiction film about the funny-sad relationship
between a young Bombay woman with a broken heart, her psychotherapist
and his watch.
She is scriptwriter of Khamosh Pani
(Golden Leopard, Locarno Film Festival, 2003), a Pakistani
feature film about a woman abducted during Partition, whose
past unravels as her son gets involved in the fundamentalist
politics of Zia-ul-Haq’s regime (dir: Sabiha Sumar),
A Few Things I Know About Her (Silver Conch, Mumbai
International Film Festival 2002), a documentary that explores
the many traditions that have sprung up around the life of
Mirabai, a princess and mystic poet from 16th century North
India (dir: Anjali Panjabi), and Skin Deep (dir:
Reena Mohan), a faux documentary about women, body image and
self identity. Paromita is also an author and teaches filmmaking. |
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| IIC
Conference Room 1, Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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- ANNAPURNA / 27 min / India
- A portrait of a women's group named Annapurna. Started
in 1975 by 14 khanawalwalis - women who prepared meals for
migrant workers, thus earning the name food-lady.
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- COSMOPOLIS: TWO TALES OF A CITY / 15
min / India
- Two short tales wonder about the idea of Bombay as a great
cosmopolis while examining its divisions of class, language
and food.
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- WHERE'S SANDRA? / 19 min / India
- Who is Sandra? And if she's from Bandra, where is she?
If you saw her would you know her? The film wanders around
Bandra wondering about Sandra – stereotype or fantasy?
Affectionate parody or vicious mockery? Still here or just
a figment from the past?
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| IIC
Conference Room 1, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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| 16:40 - 17:35 |
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- Q2P / 55 min / India
- A film about toilets and the city. It peers through the
dream of Mumbai as a future Shanghai and searches for public
toilets in Bombay with a small detour in Delhi, watching
who has to queue to pee.
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| IIC
Conference Room 1, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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- UNLIMITED GIRLS: A FEARLESS TALE OF FEMINISM
/ 95 min / India
- An exploration of engagements with feminism in contemporary
urban India. It is told through the conversations of a narrator
called Fearless who starts accidentally in a chatroom and
embarks on a journey where she encounters diverse characters,
all talking of their engagements with feminism and its place
in their lives today.
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Conversation with filmmaker: Paromita
Vohra |
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Films by Madhusree
Dutta |
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Madhusree Dutta
is a filmmaker; also a curator, pedagogue, researcher, producer
and activist. Though visual culture is the key to her works,
multi-disciplinary initiatives and multi-layered representations
frame her myriad engagements. An alumni of Jadavpur University,
Kolkata and National School of Drama, New Delhi, she currently
lives in Mumbai.
Madhusree is the founder and Executive Director
of Majlis, a centre for rights discourse and multicultural
art initiatives in Mumbai, India. A winner of several national
and international awards for her films, she has also received
citizens' honours, such as the Salaam Mumbai award, Bharat
Nirman award and Stree Shakti Sanman. |
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| IIC
Conference Room 1, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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- I LIVE IN BEHRAMPADA / 49 min / 1993
/ India
- On a Muslim ghetto during the Bombay riots in 1992-93.
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- AILO BAILO SAILO / 13 min / 1999 / India
- A musical on the fear of young girls’ sexuality
and trafficking.
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- SCRIBBLES ON AKKA / 57 min / 2000 / India
- A musical documentary on the 12th century saint-poet Mahadevi
Akka.
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- Conversation with filmmaker: Madhusree Dutta
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Conference Room 1, Wednesday, 30 April 2008
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- SUNDARI: AN ACTOR PREPARES / 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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- 7 ISLANDS AND A METRO / 100 min / 2006
/ India
- A tale of Mumbai through a tapestry of fiction. Or On
the bodies and cities that make Bombay/Mumbai.
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Films by Rehad
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Rehad
Desai is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He studied
history in Zimbabwe, where he lived for three years. On his
return to South Africa, Rehad became a media and training officer
for the South African trade union movement. He then worked in
HIV prevention, before entering the world of film and television
as a producer/director in 1997 after completing a Masters Degree
in Social History. Starting his career as TV journalist he moved
on to both direct and produce numerous award winning documentary
films through Uhuru Productions in Johannesburg, his own company.
He is an Executive Director of the 3 Continents Film Festival
and Chairperson of the newly formed South African Screen Federation. |
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| IIC
Conference Room 1, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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- BORN INTO STRUGGLE / 75 min / 2004 /
South Africa
- A personal journey mirroring a nation’s fight for
freedom.
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- BUSHMAN'S SECRET / 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.
* Another film by Rehad Desai, MY LAND MY LIFE
is showing under Refractions on 29 April. |
*Programme subject to last minute changes |
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