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Parlour 1: Exclusive Terrains |
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| Each society has formulated ways
to maintain exclusive territories- inevitably defining the “us”
and “them”. The unequal nature of human arrangement
perpetuated through centuries has spiralled in to the realms
of education, politics and professional life. This video parlour
tells the stories of people being victimized by caste mechanisms
and also the collective actions being taken by certain sections
of the civil society in order to be more inclusive. |
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SHIT / Director:
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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VANDE MATARAM - THE SHIT
VERSION / Director: Amudhan
R. P. / 5 min / 2005 / India
Rehman’s new version of Vande Mataram is an icon for
India’s modern and globalised image, but realities are
uncomfortable. |
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NOTES FROM THE CREMATORIUM
/ Director: Amudhan
R. P. / 25 min, 2005, India
The world of undertakers, a community that is only remembered
in the event of death. |
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THE DIE IS CASTE
/ Director: Ranjan
Kamath / 82 min / 2004 / India
An appraisal of three decades of the Naxalite movement in Bihar
- has any benefit accrued to the Scheduled Castes or, are they
mere pawns on the political chessboard? |
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BORN AT HOME
/ Director: Sameera Jain / / 61 min / 2000 / India
Indigenous birth practices and practitioners of rural and
urban India. |
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VOICES / Director:
Sameera Jain / 34 min / 2006 / India
Three most marginalised communities among Dalits in UP give
voice the oppression and marginalisation they have been subjected
to for centuries. |
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Parlour 2: Mapping Icons |
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| The films travel from paying a tribute
to man’s ability to reuse, recycle and reformulate existing
physical materials to create new and exciting styles of life.
It then goes on to reveal the life of a painter, who despite
his physical handicap creates a mesmerizing account on canvas.
It finally tracks the process of circulation of icons in a culture-
from their birth to their erasure. |
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A CAR FOR A DOLLAR
/ Director: Maximillian
Spohr and Reiner Derdau / 60 min / 2005 / Canada
The story of a unique creation known as the Trabant. |
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PRETTY DYANA
/ Director: 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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IN A FOREST HANGS A BRIDGE
/ Director: Sanjay
Kak / 39 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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DELINQUENT ANGEL
/ Director: David
Blackall / 48 min / 2000 / Australia
Life and work of John Perceval, famous Australian painter. |
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- MADE IN INDIA / Director: Madhusree
Dutta / 37 min / 2002 /India
A film on contemporary visual cultures in India.
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Parlour 3: Blurring the Edges |
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| This space called Blurring
the edges provides a perspective on the institutions
of information and education as well as the functioning of the
democratic process within an education system. Are information
and education within the reach of all and if they are, how do
they reshape identities and edges of the social boundaries around
us? |
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HOT OFF THE PRESS
/ Director: Bishakha
Dutta / 30 min / 2006 /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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- A, B, SHE / Director: Subas Das / 90
min / 2003 / India
Story of a school teacher and her attempts to reform the
education system.
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- BLACK PAMPHLETS / Director: Nitin
K. / 84 min / 2007 / India
A glimpse of democracy in practice through a chronicle of
a students' elections at the Delhi University.
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KAREN EDUCATION SURVIVING
/ Director: Scott
O’ Brien and Saw Eh Do Wah / 29 min / 2003 / Burma
& Thailand
The story of Karen villagers living internally displaced throughout
the Karen state in Burma. |
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Parlour 4: Of Bodies and Boundaries |
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| Of Bodies and Boundaries
raises multiple questions of not just the physical body and
the transformation it goes through in the event of a political
turmoil, a performance, violence or even liposuction but also
seeks to explore the boundaries that are set up when such processes
occur. In the face of such externalities when the body can no
longer survive in isolation, this video parlour expands the
horizons of what a body has come to mean in the contemporary
geo-political and social scenario. |
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SEARCH FOR FREEDOM: A STORY
ABOUT FOUR AFGHAN WOMEN / Director: Munizae Jahangir
/ 54 min / 2003 / Pakistan, USA
Four Afghan women recount their journeys through the turbulent
history of their country since the 1920s. |
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BREATHING WITHOUT AIR
/ Director: Kapilas Bhuyan / 23 min / 2004 / India
A rustic road show, Mundapota - the son buries his head in the
ground while his father beats the drum, thrilled viewers applaud;
but what happens in the darkness that engulfs him in the pit? |
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COLOURS BLACK /
Director: Mamta Murthy / 30 min / 2001 / India
An attempt to break the silences around sexual abuse within
the family. |
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SKIN DEEP / Director:
Reena Mohan / 83 min / 1998 / India
The eternal search for the ideal feminity and how it permeates
the self image of women. |
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WHERE THE HEART LIES
/ Director: Samar Minallah / 53 min / Pakistan
A film about the Afghan Refugee women living in the Northwest
Frontier Province of Pakistan. |
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Parlour 5: Searching Tolerance |
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| In Searching Tolerance,
we look at a range of films that tackle issues of state violence,
unfair foreign policies that benefit a certain section of the
world, images of war and who controls them and also movements
by social groups that raise awareness of the annihilation that
the world might be heading towards. We search for tolerance
in human minds and attitudes. |
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DOVE DAYS / Director:
Barri Cohen / 47 min / 2002 / Canada
A critical view of the role of western media in selling war
and blood, especially after 9-11. |
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DOWNWIND: DEPLETED URANIUM
WEAPONS IN THE AGE OF VIRTUAL WAR / Director: Jawad
Metni /
50 min / 2000 / USA
Blending broad issues of history and memory with the near ubiquitous
control of war imagery by the military, this film raises questions
about the true human cost when the desire for total victory
outweighs the moral obligations of 'humanitarian intervention'. |
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GREEN GOLD / Director:
Heidi Bachram / 29 min / 2003 / UK
The story of Sajida Khan, a South African woman with a hazardous
dumpsite on her doorstep. |
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PASSENGERS; A VIDEO JOURNEY
IN GUJARAT / Director: Nooh Nizami and Akanksha Joshi
/ 52 min / 2003 / India
A tribute to the survivors of one of the worst failures of state
machinery since the partition. |
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IMAGES
OF DEVELOPMENT / Director: Pramod Gupta / 25
min / 2002 / India
How the process of planning and development works by excluding,
if necessary by force, the poor and the marginalized. |
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IN
WHOSE INTEREST? / Director: David
Kaplowitz / 27 min / 2002 / UK
A historical journey through the past 50 years of United States
intervention, questioning motives and examining effects of US
foreign policy. |
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Parlour 6: Turbulent Currents |
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| With the prediction of a global water
scarcity fast becoming a reality, what happens when certain
power groups do not address these warnings and continue ravaging
this natural resource? Turbulent currents hosts
a range of films that address this issue while at the same time,
acknowledging the collective action being taken by people, who
might just be on the brink of a clash between man and nature. |
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BETWEEN
THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA / Director: Saraswati
Rao Kavula / 73 min / 2005 / India
A film on the troubles and travails of the traditional marine
fisher folk from Andhra. |
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RESTLESS
SHORES / Director: Noel Rajesh / 20 min / 2003
/ India
Challenges before the traditional fisherfolk from commercial
trawlers, and their struggle to maintain control over local
fishing grounds, their fishing livelihoods and economic security. |
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CALL
OF THE BHAGIRATHI / Director: Anwar Jamal /
47 min / 1992 / India
A film predicting the disasterous impact of the Tehri Dam. |
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WORDS
ON WATER / Director: Sanjay
Kak / 86 min / 2003 / India
In a world where the use of violence has become the arbiter
of all political debate, Words on Water is about a sustained
non-violent resistance, that almost joyous defiance, which empowers
the people as they struggle for their rights. |
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Parlour 7: Contested Commons |
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| The physical as well as the intellectual
climate of the world are increasingly being overshadowed by
a looming threat; the former by the excesses of man-made entities,
corporatism and materialism and the latter by a highly protectionist
attitude that denies the right of survival to a vast section
of the world. When different power groups such as that of the
state or the corporate try to wrest authority over land and
intellectual creations, the Commons becomes a highly contested
territory. |
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ONLY
AN AXE AWAY / Director: P. Baburaj and C. Saratchandran
/ 40 min / 2005 / India
A film on the struggle to save the unique ecosystem of Silent
Valley. |
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SUITS
AND SAVAGES: WHY THE WORLD BANK WON'T SAVE THE WORLD
/ Director: Zoe Young and Dylan Howitt / 44 min / 2000 / UK
The Global Environment Facility looks promising on paper. But
does this newest of the international financial institutions
live up to its own rhetoric? |
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FROM
DUST / Director: Dhruv
Dhawan / 56 min / 2005 / UAE
The untold story of a ‘100 metre rule’ after the
Tsunami. |
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PATENTS
OR PATIENTS? / Director: Joost de Haas / 25
min / 2002 / The Netherlands
Do the pharmaceutical companies really spend as much on the
development of new medicines as they say they do? And do they
need patents to protect their huge profits? |
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TRINKETS
AND BEADS / Director: Christopher Walker /
52 min / 1996 / UK
Funny, heartbreaking and thrilling story of the battle waged
by a small band of Amazonian warriors to preserve their way
of life. |
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THE
BITTER DRINK / Director: P. Baburaj and C.
Saratchandran / 26 min / 2003 / India
A film on the adivasi struggle against Coca Cola in Plachimada,
Kerala. |
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TUNIN'
TECHNOLOGY TO ECOLOGY / Director: Izzy
Brown / 15 min / 2002 / Australia
This fun doc shows how easy it is to reduce your ecological
footprint while having a great time! |
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Parlour 8: New Maps |
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| In charting new worlds, a space of
new maps has been marked, where global concerns
against a vast spectrum of discrepancies are voiced and addressed.
The World Social Forum visualizes and almost prophesizes the
dream of a better world that is waiting to take birth. |
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HOPE
WILL WIN OVER FEAR / Director: Andreas Hernandez
/ 60 min / 2003 / Brazil
An exploration of the various meanings of the World Social Forum
as an event and process as well as its historical importance
coming out of 500 years of colonialism, developmentalism and
neo-liberalism. |
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RUMBLE
IN MUMBAI / Director: Jawad
Metni / 74 min / 2004 / USA
An extensive documentation of the World Social Forum held in
Mumbai, India, in January 2004, that was attended by over 100,000
people, all looking to build solidarity -- and a better world. |
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WORK
IN PROGRESS / Director: Paromita
Vohra / 60 min / India
A journey from being a document of the 2004 World Social Forum
in Mumbai to becoming an impression of a worldwide movement
for economic, political and cultural justice and a travelogue
of ideas for change. |
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| *Programme subject to last minute changes |
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