[Reader-list] [Announcements] invitation: 3 Screens film Festival, Delhi
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Wed Nov 8 18:58:26 IST 2006
You are invited to the
3 SCREENS FILM FESTIVAL
at the Public Ka Multiplex
India Social Forum
WHAT: 3 Screens. 3 Days. 99 Films
WHERE: at the India Social Forum,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Grounds, New Delhi
WHEN: 10-11-12 November 2006
10am - 10pm (approx,. depending on date)
The film festival is OPEN TO ALL
(entry is through a one-time registration at the ISF entrance)
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SHORT SYNOPSIS:
The 3 Screens Film Festival put together by the Delhi Film Archive at the Public Ka Multiplex features four sections:
New Images – 35 recent films by Indian filmmakers (and a few International films that are about Indians).
Other Worlds Are Breathing – 22 films shown at World Social Forum, Brazil 2005.
Working Lives – 22 films in an international package of films on Labour in the time of globalisation
Directors Cut – 10 films by invited Indian documentary filmmakers, who also show a film each of their choice
Additionally, each day, in each auditorium Open Space has been kept aside for ISF participants to register films directly.
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SECTION 1: New Images
In early 2004, Films For Freedom put together its first package of 64 new documentaries during the Vikalp film festival in Mumbai. These films have since then travelled across many cities in India and to Europe and the USA. These films were reflective of the richness of the Indian documentary and the wide range of subjects that were being tackled by the filmmakers. They were also evidence of the diverse forms that were being used to narrate stories. The 3 Screens festival provides us with an opportunity to map the developments that have taken place in the last three years in the Indian documentary practice. This section will also showcase filmmakers from other countries whose films deal with an Indian subject
3 MEN AND A BULB
Dir: Pankaj Rishi Kumar
The hopes and anxieties of three men who earn a livelihood from their watermill in the foothills of the Himalayas.
74 min / 2006 / Hindi (English subtitles) / kumartalkies (at) yahoo.com
1000 DAYS AND A DREAM
Dir: P Baburaj and C Saratchandran
Tracing the journey of the nearly 5 year old anti Coca-Cola struggle in Plachimada in Kerala.
77 min / 2006 / Malayalam and English / sarat (at) satyam.net.in
AFSPA, 1958
Dir: Haobam Paban Kumar
A diary of events in 2004 as the people of Manipur rose up in protest against the Armed Forces Special Power Act.
77 min / 2006 / English and Manipuri / haobampaban (at) gmail.com
AMERIKA AMERIKA
Dir: K P Sasi
A satirical but severe indictment of America’s role in escalating world conflict.
5 min / English and Tamil / films4peace (at) gmail.com
BARE
Dir: Santana Issar
A daughter’s search to find meaning, if any, in her relationship with her alcoholic father.
11 min / 2006 / English / santanaissar (at) gmail.com
BHAL KHABAR (GOOD NEWS)
Dir: Altaf Mazid
A writer looks for a bit of good news in the days of the Assam Movement (1979-85).
18 min / 2005 / Assamese (English subtitles) / tayaba (at) sancharnet.in
BHANGON (EROSION)
Dir: Sourav Sarangi
600,000 people have become homeless as river banks in West Bengal in India are getting eroded at an unprecedented pace.
60 min / 2006 / Bengali (English subtitled) / souravsarangi (at) gmail.com
BULLSHIT
Dir: Peå Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian
Vandana Shiva, Indian activist and physicist, campaigns against globalization, patenting and bio-piracy.
73 min / 2005 / English / pea.holmquist (at) chello.se / www.peaholmquist.com
CALCUTTA PRIDE MARCH 2004
Dir: Tejal Shah
Transsexuals and gay men walk down the streets of Calcutta to assert the rights of sexual and gender minorities.
12 min / 2004 / Hindi and Bengali (English subtitles) / ts (at) vsnl.net
CONTINUOUS JOURNEY
Dir: Ali Kazimi
In 1914, a ship carrying immigrants from British India was wrongfully turned away by Canada. An investigation into the past and its reverberations in the present.
87 min / 2004 / English, Punjabi (English subtitles) / ali.kazimi (at) sympatico.ca
DELHI-MUMBAI-DELHI
Dir: Saba Dewan
An intimate look into the lives of dance-bar girls, shot against the backdrop of the Maharashtra government’s controversial move to ban them from dancing.
63 min / 2006 / Hindi (English subtitles) / sabadewan (at) gmail.com; khel (at) vsnl.com
FISTFUL OF STEEL
Dir: Leena Rani Narzary, Nidhi Bal Singh, Sabir Haque
Yet more concrete structures are being planned along the Yamuna river bed that will displace peasants.
26 mins / 2006 / Hindi (English subtitles) / sabir.haque (at) gmail.com
GAON KE NAON THEATRE, MOR NOAN HABIB (MY VILLAGE IS THEATRE, MY NAME IS HABIB)
Dir: Sanjay Maharishi & Sudhanva Deshpande
A journey into the creative work and politics of the legendary theatre director Habib Tanvir, and his troupe, Naya Theatre.
73 min / 2005 / Hindi and Chattisgarhi (English subtitled) / sanjay.maharishi (at) gmail.com
HEALTH MATTERS
Dir: Shikha Jhingan
A panoramic look at health care in India through the everyday experiences of patients.
60 min / 2005 / English / shikhaj (at) vsnl.com
KAYA POOCHHE MAYA SE (JOURNEYINGS AND CONVERSATIONS)
Dir: Arvind Sinha
The many faces of Howrah Station, one of the world’s busiest ‘happenings’ on rails; and the varied creatures that exist on the banks of the Ganga flowing nearby.
88 min / 2003 / Hindi (English subtitles) / arvindsnh (at) yahoo.com
KINJAL
Dir: Vaani Arora
A film that raises questions of gender through the story of a young, school going but ‘employed’ girl in a working class family.
13 min / 2005 / Hindi (English subtitles) / vaaniarora (at) gmail.com
KITTE MIL VE MAHI (WHERE THE TWAIN SHALL MEET)
Dir: Ajay Bhardwaj
A window onto Dalit aspirations to carve out their own cultural and religious space. Filmed in Punjab.
72 min / 2005 / Punjabi (English subtitles) / ajayunmukt (at) yahoo.com
MANY PEOPLE MANY DESIRES
Dir: T Jayashree
The place of a gay, lesbian or transgendered person in Indian civil society, explored through personal narratives.
45 mins / 2005 / English (with subtitles) / jsree.t (at) gmail.com
MINDLESS MINING – THE TRAGEDY OF KUDREMUKH
Dir: Shekar Dattatri
People campaign against continued mining in the Kudremukh National Park in southern India.
12 min / 2003 / English and Kannada (with subtitles) / www.shekardattatri.com
NALINI BY DAY, NANCY BY NIGHT
Dir: Sonali Gulati
On the outsourcing of American jobs to India through call centres; and the complexities of globalisation, capitalism, and identity.
26 min / 2006 / English / sonalifilm (at) yahoo.com
NATAK JARI HAI (THE PLAY GOES ON)
Dir: Lalit Vachani
About the JANAM theatre group, and what it means to perform socialist ‘agit-prop’ theatre in an India of increasing intolerance and inequality.
84 min / 2005 / Hindi, English (with subtitles) / lvachani (at) del6.vsnl.net.in
NOTES FROM THE CREMATORIUM
Dir: Amudhan R P
About undertakers, a community remembered only in the event of death and held as one of the lowest in the caste hierarchy.
36 min / 2005 / Tamil (English subtitled) / marupakkam (at) rediffmail.com
ONE DAY FROM A HANGMAN’S LIFE
Dir: Joshy Joseph
After many years, an execution took place in India in 2004. The media whipped up a frenzy that turned hangman into hero.
83 mins / 2005 / Bengali, Hindi (English subtitled) / jjoshy (at) gmail.com
ONE SHOW LESS
Dir: Nayantara C Kotian
Usha Talkies is a low-priced one-screen cinema hall with a raucous, seat breaking, working class public. What will happen if the hall closes down?
19 min / 2005 / Hindi / nayantara.kotian (at) gmail.com
PRINTED RAINBOW
Dir: Gitanjali Rao
An old woman and her cat rummage through match-boxes whose labels transport them into myriad magical wonderful worlds.
13 min / 2006 / English / gitanjalirao (at) gmail.com
RIVER TAMING MANTRAS
Dir: Sanjay Barnela, Vasant Sabherwal
The politics of flood management in India and the corruption that lies behind it.
35 min / 2004 / Hindi, English (with subtitles) / moving (at) vsnl.com
SHE WRITE
Dir: Anjali Monteiro & K.P. Jayasankar
Four Tamil women poets write on sexuality and desire in the face of severe threats of violence by male peers and “custodians” of culture.
55 min / 2005 / Tamil (English subtitled) / monteiro (at) tiss.edu; umctiss (at) vsnl.com
SMARANA – REMEMBERING LOST CHILDREN (SMARANA – THRIGIRANI BIDDALA KOSAM)
Dir: C Vanaja
On the agony of mothers who have lost their children in the naxalite movement in Andhra Pradesh.
31 min / 2004 / Telugu and English (English subtitled) / vanajac (at) yahoo.com / http://vanajac.blogspot.com
TALES FROM THE MARGINS
Dir: Kavita Joshi
About the anguish, rage and resolve of Manipur’s women as they wage an extraordinary protest against the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
23 min / 2006 / Manipuri with English subtitles / kj.impulse (at) gmail.com / http://kavitajoshi.blogspot.com
TEMPORARY LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Dir: Monica Bhasin
A poetic essay that explores the ideas of borders, boundaries, limits and forbidden spaces.
35 min / 2005 / English (with subtitles) / monicabhasin (at) yahoo.com
THE GREAT INDIAN SCHOOL SHOW
Dir: Avinash Deshpande
About a school that monitors every action of its students across every inch of its premises using 185 closed circuit cameras.
53 min / 2005 / Marathi (English subtitled) / avinashdesh (at) gmail.com; avinashd (at) indiamail.com
THE HOUSE ON GULMOHAR AVENUE
Dir: Samina Mishra
What does it mean to be a Muslim in today’s India? A personal journey into the ideas of identity and belonging.
30 min / 2005 / Hindustani and English (with English subtitles) / samina (at) vsnl.com
THE STORY OF A GOLDEN RIVER
Dir: Soumitra Dastidar
The river-water rich North-East region of India will have 163 dams in the coming years. But why? And what price will the riverine people pay?
40 min / 2006 / with English subtitles / soumitra_dastidar (at) rediffmail.com
VANDE MATARAM (THE SHIT VERSION)
Dir: Amudhan R P
The popular version of Vande Mataram is used as a soundtrack for images of manual scavengers at work.
5 min / 2005 / Hindi / marupakkam (at) rediffmail.com
WAITING
Dir: Atul Gupta & Shabnam Ara
As men go ‘missing’ in Kashmir, their wives live out endless years as ‘half widows’.
30 mins / 2005 / Kashmiri (English subtitles) / arashabnam (at) hotmail.com
Signature Film: 3 Screens Film Festival
BAAT EK BAT KI
Dir: Nandita Jain
A curious bat goes on a spree gathering random everyday objects… Only to come up with a “whole” that is more than just “the sum of its parts”.
<nanduzki at gmail.com>
SECTION 2: Other Worlds Are Breathing:
Other Worlds Are Breathing 2005 is an attempt to explore alternatives to neoliberal, capitalistic globalisation through the medium of films, and put together for the World Social Forum at Porto Allegre, Brazil in 2005.
In order to curate a package of this kind we had to first define for ourselves the term ‘alternatives,’ one that is really quite broad. After all, the WSF process itself is a search for alternatives. Hence, we have sifted through the different meanings and nuances of the term ‘alternatives’ to focus on that precise subsection that resonates our concern. And our concern is with the politics of change. Thus, this package is a search for those actual lived experiences that have attempted to delineate a different world.
The Package was curated by the Magic Lantern Foundation for the World Social Forum, Brazil, 2005
A NIGHT OF PROPHECY
Dir: Amar Kanwar
The poetry of resistance, as it is imagined, written, voiced and sung across the breadth of India.
77 mins / 2002 / India / amarvg (at) vsnl.com
AN EVERGREEN ISLAND
Dir: Amanda King, Fabio Cavadini
For 9 years, a people in Papua New Guinea survive a military blockade. Their ‘crime’ – closing a vast mine that was devastating their lands.
45 min / 2000 / Australia / cavadini (at) tpgi.com.au
CARDBOARD DAYS
Dir: Verónica Souto
About the lives of waste collectors who scavenge the streets of Buenos Aires; also about the biggest economic and social crisis in Argentina's history.
51 min / 2003 / Argentina / diasdecarton (at) yahoo.co.uk
EL MUNDO DEL MALEK
Dir: Natalie Muntermann, Andrea Schultens
The Paladine puppeteers of Ecuador and their struggle to survive.
11 min / 2004 / Germany / natalie.muntermann (at) gmx.de
http://www.ladoc.de
JUCHITÁN QUEER PARADISE
Dir: Patricio Henriquez
How is it that the Zapotec Indians of Juchitán (Mexico) are remarkable tolerant towards homosexuals....
65 min / 2002 / Canada / macumba (at) macumbainternational.com, www.macumbainternational.com
KAREN EDUCATION SURVIVING
Dir: Scott O' Brien, Saw Eh Do Wah
The Karen people of Burma organise schools for their children in an effort to survive the military junta's genocidal activities.
30 min / 2003 / sobrien1988 (at) hotmail.com
MONEY
Dir: Isaac Isitan,
Why is it that people in Turkey and Argentina lost their entire savings overnight? And what did they do to overcome this crisis?
65 min / 2003 / Canada / isca (at) lesproductionsisca.ca, www.lesproductionsisca.ca
NAZRAH: A MUSLIM WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE
Dir: Farah Nousheen
Muslim women living in the Pacific Northwest in the USA discuss their views on Islam and the challenges in seeking equality.
55 min / 2003 / USA / alex (at) arabfilm.com / www.arabfilm.com
PEACE ONE DAY
Dir: Jeremy Gilley
For 5 years, one man attempts to persuade the world via the United Nations to sanction a global ceasefire day.
80 min / 2004 / UK / info (at) peaceoneday.org / www.peaceoneday.org
PRETTY DYANA
Dir: Boris Mitic
Gypsy refugees in Belgrade make a living by transforming ordinary Citroen cars into Mad Max-like recycling vehicles.
45 min / 2003 / Serbia / borismitic (at) hotmail.com / www.dribblingpictures.com
RED BUTTERFLIES WHERE TWO SPRINGS MERGE
Dir: Gaukhar Sydykova and Dilia Ruzieva
A portrait of 64 year old Janyl, a village woman who became famous across Europe for her traditional felt carpets.
14 min / 2002 / Kyrgistan / ordo (at) elcat.kg; p.schreiner (at) soros.org
RUMBLE IN MUMBAI
Dir: Jawad Metni
The film documents the 2004 World Social Forum that was held in Mumbai, India, and was attended by over 100,000 people.
58 min / 2004 / USA / jawad (at) pinholepictures.com, www.pinhole.com
THE ART OF VIYE DIBA – THE INTELLIGENT HAND
Dir: Claudine Pommier
A Senegalese artist uses his work to raises environmental and socio-political consciousness. A film on the relationship between the artist and society.
52 min / 2003 / Canada / steinpom (at) shaw.ca http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4808/
THE LEGENDS OF MADIBA
Dir: Helen Henshaw
Set in South Africa, this film focuses on the vital role that music plays in the face of racism and oppression.
45 min / 2003 / Canada / hhenshaw (at) videotron.ca
THE LIJJAT SISTERHOOD
Dir: Kadambari Chintamani / Ajit Oomen
Seen through the eyes of four women, this film is about the Shri Mahila Griha Udyog that helps thousands of poor women achieve self reliance.
30 min / 2003 / India / psbt (at) vsnl.com, www.psbt.org
THE ROCKSTAR AND THE MULLAHS
Dir: Ruhi Hamid / Angus Macqueen.
Rock group Junoon and its lead singer Salman Ahmad fight to keep music alive in the face of growing religious intolerance in Pakistan.
50 min / 2003 / UK / rebecca.morris (at) octoberfilms.co.uk , www.octoberfilms.co.uk
THE TAKE
Director: Avi Lewis
In Argentina, thirty unemployed workers refuse to leave their idle factory, in a “take-over” that turns the globalization debate on its head.
87 min / 2004 / Canada / klp1 (at) sympatico.ca; www.nfb.ca/thetake
THIRST
Dir: Alan Snitow / Deborah Kaufman
Is water a basic human right or is it a commodity up for global trade? People in Bolivia, India and USA ask this fundamental question.
62 min / 2004 / USA / amsnitow (at) igc.org
TRAJE: WOMEN AND WEAVING IN GUATEMALA
Dir: Phoebe Hart
Changing values, global economies and racial discrimination are all threatening the weaving and the wearing of the ‘traje’ in Guatemala.
10 min / 2004 / Australia / phoebehart (at) hotmail.com; www.hartflicker.com
VENEZUELA BOLIVARIANA: PEOPLE AND STRUGGLE OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR
Dir: Marcelo Andrade Arreaza.
On how the ‘Bolivarian revolution’ transcends the national frontiers of Venezuela and contributes to the fight against neo-liberal capitalism…
76 min / 2004 / Venezuela / marcelo (at) calleymedia.org; lino (at) calleymedia.org , www.calleymedia.org
WATERWORKS INDIA: FOUR ENGINEERS AND A MANAGER
Dir: Pradip Saha
Five unsung people keep the intricate traditional science of water management alive against modern onslaught.
22 min / 1998 / India / psaha (at) cseindia.org; www.cseindia.org
WORK IN PROGRESS: AT THE WSF 2004
Dir: Paromita Vohra
A document of the World Social Forum 2004, Mumbai. Created from video material gathered by student crews across this 5-day event.
59 min / 2004 / India / parodevi (at) mtnl.net.in
SECTION 3: Working Lives:
For some time now it has become evident that the situation of Indian labour has, in some sense, been resistant to ‘normal’ representation. The Indian State, triumphant Capital, the mainstream media and even the trade unions – all seem to be playing out a well rehearsed, and now tired, script of an imaginary battle, a battle whose results have been already foretold.
These are a selection of films that enter the inner spaces of people’s struggles, their triumphs and setbacks. They use various narrative approaches to reveal the lies of the propaganda machines of governments and industrial empires, they document strikes, they expose the murder of labour activists, they take a close look at production processes, and they examine the intersection of gender and labour. The films, question, disturb and inspire. Together they unfurl a vibrant panorama of alternative ways of seeing, thinking and acting.
5 FACTORIES - WORKERS CONTROL IN VENEZUELA
Dir: Oliver Ressler, Dario Azzellini
An insight into workers struggle for co or self-management in companies across Venezuela.
83 min / 2006 / Austria / http://www.ressler.at/
A DAY'S WORK, A DAY'S PAY
Dir: Jonathan Skurnik, Kathy Leichter
The fight of three American for programs to help them move off ‘welfare’ and into paid jobs.
57 min / 2002 / USA / kathy (at) mintleafproductions.com
BLOSSOMS OF FIRE
Dir: Maureen Gosling, Ellen Osborne
A look at the fiercely independent women of Juchitán (Mexico): their lives, work culture and politics.
72 min / 2000 / Mexico Canada / http://www.maureengosling.com/
BREAKING WALLS
Dir: Nir Nader, Video 48
In an Arab village in Israel, an American agit-prop artist paints a mural on worker issues. Why?
47 min / 2004 / Israel / nirnader (at) yahoo.com / www.hanitzotz.com/video48/breaking-walls.htm
CLASS DISMISSED
Dir: Loretta Alper, Pepi Leistyna
On the narrow representation of the working class in American television from its early days to the present.
62 min / USA / 2005 / maggie (at) mediaed.org, pleistyna (at) hotmail.com
CSR PROMISES RESPONSIBILITY
Dir: Emanuel Danesch
Two big Austrian companies promise corporate responsibility. But who does their lack of responsibility affect?
68 min / 2006 / Austria / http://www.danesch.at/
DANCE WITH FARM WORKERS
Dir: Wu Wenguang
A dance performance empowers 30 poor farm workers by placing them centre stage – a space they’ve never occupied.
90 min / 2001 / China / wu-wenguang (at) 263.net
FRIEND OR FOE
Dir: Labour News Production, Seoul
The struggle and betrayal of 7000 workers fired by one Korean company in the wake of globalization propelled downsizing.
24 min (excerpt) / 2003 / Korea / www.euromayday.org/
HAMMER AND FLAME
Dir: Vaughan Pilikan
A look at the ship breaking yards of Gujarat, where titans are broken using the simplest of tools.
10 mins/ 2004 / UK / info (at) greyfilms.com
MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA
Dir: David Redmon
Behind the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the grimy reality of the lives of sweatshop workers in China who make products for it.
71 min / 2005 / USA / ashley (at) mardigrasmadeinchina.com
MEXICAN HOLIDAY INN-WORKERS
Dir: Michael Moore
Mexican Holiday Inn workers risk being deported from the U.S.A. for creating a union.
12 min (excerpt from “The Awful Truth”) / 2004-05 / USA / www.euromayday.org
MURDERED COCA-COLA UNIONISTS IN COLOMBIA
Dir: Baerbel Schoenafinger
The nexus between MNCs, the government and the paramilitary in the murder of hundreds of unionist workers in Colombia.
59 min / 2004 / Germany / www.kanalb.de/
NEW PENELOPE
Dir: Georgii Dzalaev
Tajik men become migrant labour; the women try to keep their families alive. A look at their hardships and living conditions.
25 min 48 sec / 2006 / Tajikistan / vitenberg (at) lfond.spb.ru, mmgp (at) genderpolicy.ru
PLAN OF REGENERATION
Dir: Wang Hsiu-ling, Lo Shin-chieh
Tiawanese employees fight – and win – against dismissal orders, turning a new page in the history of their labour movement.
109 min / 2004 / Taiwan / akai8128 (at) ms32.hinet.net
RAILROAD OF HOPE
Dir: Ning Ying
Thousands of impoverished Chinese peasants make long journeys on ‘labour trains’ with the hope of a better life.
56 min / 2001 / China / eurasia (at) public3.bta.net.cn
SANTA’S WORKSHOP
Dir: Lotta Ekelund, Kristina Bjurling
A journey into the real world of China's toy factories: long hours, low wages and dangerous workplaces.
33 min / 2004 / Sweden / info at fairtradecenter.se
TALE OF AN IMMIGRANT
Dir: Bernadette Felber
An intimate look at the lives of people migrating into Mexico City in the hope of a better future.
8 min / 2001 / Mexico Austria / www.ifoi.at/felber
THE BIG AVENUES
Dir: Colectivo Presente
The social consequences of Chile’s military dictatorship and the neo-liberal economic system imposed by it.
76 min / 2004 / Chile Germany / steenotor (at) riseup.net
WE ARE WORKERS, OR NOT?
Dir: Mirye Kim
The long struggle waged by truck drivers in the Korean construction industry against the industry’s refusal to legally recognise them as workers.
60 min / 2003 / Korea / docu (at) mi-re.com /
WHO WILL SING A LULLABY…
Dir: Nina Rudik
Two men from Kiev dare to use their right to take parental leave. A film challenging traditional gender roles.
28 min 32 sec / 2006 / Ukraine / vitenberg (at) lfond.spb.ru /
WORKING MAN’S DEATH
Dir: Michael Glawogger
Is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? A journey into workers’ lives across the world.
122 min / 2005 / Austria / www.workingmansdeath.com
ZAPATISTAS COMPILACIÓN IX: COLLECTIVE WORK IN RESISTANCE
Dir: Promedios de Comunicación Comunitaria A.C.
The communities of Zona Norte experience autonomy through collective work; in the process fighting marginalisation.
18 min / 2000 / Chiapas/Mexico / Kdemigue (at) gmx.de
SECTION 4 : Director’s Cut:
Other worlds are breathing, and as documentary filmmakers, we have been privileged to witness those breaths – the long thoughtful intake, the quickened compulsive ones, the slow exhaling of ideas that disperse into a seemingly amorphous audience. Images and sounds drawn from many worlds have come together as documentary films that inform, reflect and challenge. There is a landscape of documentary films in India and it is a landscape that abounds in diversity. Director’s Cut is a first attempt to explore this diversity, reflect on the journeys that made this diversity possible, and contemplate a future.
The Delhi Film Archive set upon the difficult task of selecting documentary filmmakers from across India, because we see this is as a way of initiating a dialogue about our work. Documentary films are about dialogue – about issues, people, every day life. They are also about ways of looking and ways of creating art. And so, what better way is there to talk about them than to talk around them.
The set of filmmakers selected to present their film along with another film of their choice, represent the diversity of documentary filmmaking in India. These filmmakers have engaged rigorously with the documentary form over a period of time and their work has been closely
connected to the development of documentary filmmaking in India.
AMAR KANWAR
A SEASON OUTSIDE
30 Minutes / 1998 / English
Shot at the Wagah border between India and Pakistan, this film is a personal journey through the shadows of past generations, conflicting positions, borders and time zones...
Director’s Choice
UNEDITED FOOTAGE FROM MANIPUR shot by various persons
30 Minutes / 2004
Raw footage of the mass protests that erupted in Manipur in 2004 against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
ANAND PATWARDHAN
IN THE NAME OF GOD (RAM KE NAAM)
75 minutes / 1991 / English & Hindi
In The Name Of God focuses on the campaign waged by Hindu militants to destroy a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya; and the challenge that this fundamentalism poses to India's extremely strained social fabric.
Director’s Choice
AUTUMN'S FINAL COUNTRY by Sonia Jabbar
66 min / 2003 / English & Hindi with English subtitles
Four women from disparate backgrounds who all live in the state of Jammu and Kashmir are cruelly impacted by religious or political conflict.
DEEPA DHANRAJ
SOMETHING LIKE A WAR
53 Minutes / 1991 / Hindi, Marwari with English subtitles
The film traces the history of India’s family planning programme from the perspective of women; and exposes the cynicism, corruption and brutality which characterize it.
Director’s Choice
A CERTAIN LIBERATION by Yasmine Kabir
37 Minutes / 2003 / Bangla with English subtitles
A film on Gurudasi Mondol who gave herself up to madness in 1971 as she saw her entire family being slaughtered during the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
K P SASI
THE SOURCE OF LIFE FOR SALE
2004 / 58 Minutes / Malayalam and Hindi with English subtitles
A documentary on the impact of privatisation of water bodies in India and the subsequent struggles of the local people against the sale of their rivers.
Director’s Choice
VOICES FROM BALIAPAL by Ranjan Palit and Vasudha Joshi
1988 / 43 Minutes / Oriya with English subtitles
Voices from Baliapal protests about a missile testing range in Orissa, India; and the non-violent struggle of 70,000 people to save their ancestral land.
MADHUSHREE DUTTA
SEVEN ISLANDS AND A METRO
100 Minutes / 2006 / English, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi and Bombayia
A tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai - the El Dorado; structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis.
Director’s Choice
THE BOY IN THE BRANCH by Lalit Vachani
26 Minutes / 1993 / English subtitles
About the indoctrination of young Hindu boys by a branch of the RSS, the foremost Hindu fundamentalist organisation in India.
MANJIRA DATTA
SACRIFICE OF BABULAL BHUIYA
63 Minutes / 1988 / Oriya with English subtitles
A portrait of the community of the undead and an investigation into the murder of Babulal Bhuiya, a casual worker who was killed in 1981 by the industrial security guards of a coal washery.
Director’s Choice
THE FARM by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus
96 Minutes / 1995 / English
The Farm has been shot in a penitentiary in Louisana where ‘lifers’ are housed. It’s a gaol where a very high percentage of inmates are black, and only 15% of them will ever come out alive.
MEGHNATH and BIJU TOPPO
DEVELOPMENT FLOWS FROM THE BARREL OF THE GUN
54 Minutes / 2004 / with English subtitles
The film documents acts of violence by the Indian state upon indigenous people affected by development projects in India. It explores the relationship between violence, the new economic policy and globalisation.
Director’s Choice
NAATA by Anjali Monteiro and K.P.Jayasankar
45 Minutes / 2004 / with English subtitles
Bhau Korde and Waqar Khan, two activists and friends, have been organizing neighbourhood peace committees in the gigantic slum of Dharavi, in Mumbai.
PAROMITA VOHRA
Q2P
54 Minutes / 2006 / English and Hindi
Q2P peers through the dream of Mumbai as a future Shanghai and finds…public toilets… not enough of them. It’s an absence that raises many questions – about gender, about class, about caste and most of all about urban development and the myth of the global metropolis.
Director’s Choice
AND I MAKE SHORT FILMS by S. N. S. Sastry
16 Minutes /1968 / English
An impressionistic portrayal of short film making by a short filmmaker. With wry humour and irony, the film explores the process, ideas and the context of documentary filmmaking in India at that time – art or documentation of reality.
R V RAMANI
BRAHMA VISHNU SHIVA
19 Minutes / 1998 / No Dialogues
A Japanese sculptor tries working with sand as the medium on a beach. A film happens, revealing the process of creation, sustenance and destruction, all happening at the same time.
Director’s Choice
PORTRAITS OF BELONGING: BHAI MIAN by Sameera Jain
30 Minutes / 1998 / Hindi with English subtitles
A kite maker lives in the last historic sub-city of Delhi – Shahjahanabad. A portrait of the man in his context, a man whose ordinariness barely conceals his imagination and resilience.
VIPIN VIJAY
VIDEO GAME
30 minutes / English / 2005
A complex video journey on a MOTORCAR, that incorporates mythic themes of searching, the need for being, for love, for a home and for a promise of a different future.
Director’s Choice
F for FAKE by Orson Welles
1972 / 88 Minutes / English
Welles the legendary filmmaker (and self-described character) gleefully engages with the central preoccupation of his career – the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
The Delhi Film Archive:
Amar Kanwar / Anupama Srinivasan / Atul Gupta / Gargi Sen / Gurvinder Singh
/ Kavita Joshi / Manak Matiyani / Nakul Sood / Nitin K / Rahul Roy / Ranjan
De / Raj Baruah / Ranjani Mazumdar / Saba Dewan / Sabeena Gadihoke /
Sabina Kidwai / Sameera Jain / Samina Mishra / Sanjay Kak /
Sanjay Maharishi / Sanjay Mohan / Santana Issar / Sherna Dastur /
Shikha Jhingan / Shohini Ghosh / Shubhradeep Chakravorty /
Shuddhabrata Sengupta / Uma Devi / Yousuf Saeed
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