[Reader-list] film festival

[zehra rizvi]

for those in the area...(karachi).
im not using this as an annoucement but rather as info as to what desi film 
makers and content is out there...( i swear monica, thats really the reason 
:))

z

---- Original Message -----
From: Ajmal Kamal
To: ajmalkamal at hotmail.com
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:04 PM
Subject: Traveling Film South Asia: A Documentary Film Festival



Travelling Film South Asia
at
Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture


May 21 to May 24,
every day from 5 pm to 8 pm.

The Festival, organized by Himal, the South Asian Magazine based in 
Kathmandu, is part of an endeavour to promote non-fiction films from the 
South Asian region throughout the world. The films are on a 'travelling 
tour'. Fifteen of the best documentaries from the region were hand picked by 
a jury chaired by the maestro film-maker Shyam Benegal at the Annual South 
Asian Film Festival 2001. The films are from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and 
Pakistan.

The makers of these films are a good mix of amateur and professional 
film-makers. Many have worked on several projects and have gone on to win 
prestigious awards. Like Anjali Montiero and K.P. Jayasankar who together 
present the film "The Loom" in this festival. They have won ten national and 
international awards between them including the Prix Futura Berlin in 1995 
and Best Innovation Award at Astra Film Festival 1998 in Romania. For others 
like Dhruba Basnet, "The Killing Terraces" is his first independent 
documentary.

The collection of films comprises a vast canvas of themes and techniques. 
"The Bee, the Bear and the Kuruba" is about the Kuruba people who have been 
forcibly evicted from their ancestral home in India. "A rough cut on the 
life and times of Lachuman Magar" is the personal recounting of this man's 
relationship with women.

To add to this already varied and wondrous body of work, 5 silent 
documentaries have been added. These are short films, each not more than 6 
minutes long.

Extending over four days, the Documentary Film Festival promises to be an 
enriching viewing experience for the casual viewer as well as the avid movie 
buff.


Day 1: 21 May 2002

The Bee, the Bear and the Kuruba
(63 minutes)
India
Director: Vinod Raja
The tribe, the forest and modern man.

King for a Day
(33 minutes)
Bangladesh
Director:Alex Gabbay
Clinton is coming.so what?

Born at Home
(60 minutes)
India
Director: Sameera Jain
North Indian Midwifery

Naheed's Story
(22 minutes)
Pakistan
Director: Beena Sarwar
She wants to dance but.


Day 2: 22 May 2002

Between the Devil and the Deep River
(65 minutes)
India
Director: Arvind Sinha
              Woe, the embanked river


A sun sets in
(45 minutes)
Pakistan
Director: Shahid Nadeem
The bishop's ultimate sacrifice

My Migrant Soul
(35 minutes)
Bangladesh
Director: Yasmine Kabir
A Bangladeshi worker in Malaysia dies

Ramlila
(28 minutes)
India
Directors: Ananta Sridhar, Sanjay Pande, Subhash Kapoor
Street theatre in Delhi


Day 3: 23 May 2002

Jari Mari: Of Cloth and Other Stories
(74 minutes)
India
Director: Surabhi Sharma
Mill workers in Bombay are laid off

Colours Black
(30 minutes)
India
Director: Mamta Murthy
Child abuse in Bombay

The Killing Terraces
(62 minutes)
Nepal
Director: Dhruba Basnet
Face to face with the Maoist insurgency



Day 4: 24 May 2002

The loom
(49 minutes)
India
Director: J.P. Sankar
A poet and a painter on Bombay


We home chaps
(70 minutes)
India/Nepal
Director: Kesang Tseten
Old students talk about school


A Rough Cut on the Life and Times
of Lachuman Magar
(39 minutes)
Nepal
Director: Dinesh Deokota
A naughty old man


Silent films

Keyhole
(6 minutes)
Pakistan
Director: Abuzur Khan
Looking through the eyes of a child

I, Ranu Gayen
(6 minutes)
India
Director: Shaymal Karmakar
Saving a pet fish


The Godfather IV
(3 minutes)
Pakistan
Director: Ahmad Ali Manganhar
This one will blow your mind

Play.Stop.Rewind
(4 minutes)
India
Director: Sudesh Unni Raman
X is waiting for a phone call


Voice Vendor
(6 minutes)
Pakistan
Director: Sikandar Mufti
Voices are sold in wrong bottles





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