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*Cinemela Collectives*

&

*JNU Students Union*

*School of Arts & Aesthetics *



in collaboration with



*Max Mueller Bhavan*

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invite you to

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*2nd CINEMELA*

*a festival of short films & documentaries*

*by young filmmakers*

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*Dates: *

Thursday, 12 April, 2007                               at  5.00 pm

Friday, 13 April 2007                                     at  2.30 pm
onwards

&

Saturday 14 - Sunday 15 April 2007          at 10.30 am onwards



*Venue:  *

School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium,

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi





The first Cinemela festival in 2006 received an overwhelming response from
viewers and filmmakers and was recognized by the Limca Book of Records. The
festival aims at presenting films created by young filmmakers to young
audiences and is an effort to create a space for new creative voices from
across countries. Cinemela believes that the works deserve attention for
their ability to go beyond local issues and provincial tastes while
simultaneously opening up a window into diverse cultures. The festival
aspires to provide an ideal opportunity to enjoy regional distinctiveness
through films in their universal appeal. It also provides a platform for
interactions and exchange among veteran film persons, young filmmakers and
audiences. With this aim in view Cinemela is working on taking these films
to many more schools, colleges and institutions. All young filmmakers and
those who consider themselves young in the field are encouraged to send in
their films to the festival.



Max Mueller Bhavan, Goethe-Institut, as part of the 2nd   Cinemela, presents
a series of prize winning short films by young film makers, titled 'Gestures
of Reconciliation'.  This series is the result of a short film competition
jointly organized by the "Remembrance and Future" Fund and the
Goethe-Institut in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Israel,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine and the United States. The
films portray gestures of reconciliation between nations and people affected
by WWII, made at political levels, social and religious initiatives, in the
realms of academia and the arts, and between individuals.





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*Schedule *

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*Thursday 12 April – *

*Inauguration 5.30 pm*




GADI LOHARDAGA MAIL

Dir: Meghnath & Bijju Toppo/ 27 Min / Jharkhand

A musical with popular Jharkhandi songs…the only visual documentation of the
historical train….

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BERLIN DIARY

Dir: Ester Amrami / 2005 / DV colour/ 15 min / Germany & Israel



This short semi-documentary film portrays the life of a young Israeli woman
in Berlin. It takes the form of

a video letter to her grandparents in Israel who had to emigrate from
Germany during the 1930s.

Ester Amrami, born in Israel in 1979, has lived in Berlin since 2003.




Friday 13 April 2.30-6.00pm


BILORI

Dir: Sandeip Modi /12.30 min/ Marathi

An innocent child grows up one night…



*SARA LOHA UNKA/ BABU NANDAN KI KEWAL DHAR *

Dir : Sunil Umarao & Ajita Singh/ 40 Min/ Hindi/Bhojpuri

A Dhobia folk artist expressing his world through singing and dancing…



*2800 KM FROM HOME *

Dir: Daniel Erb/   2005/HDV/ 19min/ GERMANY/RUSSIA

Somewhere in the Russian tundra Hans from Thuringia is driving along in his
jeep. Then, after several hours he stops and begins to dig ...

Daniel Erb was born in Karlsruhe ,Germany, in 1976. Specializations:
time-Iapse photography, long-term

exposure, in-camera effects.



*DEUS EX MACHINA*

Dir: Moonika Siimets/ 2005/ 6mm/ 11:48 Min/ Estonia



Former KGB spy Wilhelm tries to find his place in a newborn Estonian
Republic, but it seems that his past

has not forgotten him. One day strange things start to happen. A story about
fate and conscience.

Moonika Siimets was born in Estonia in 1980 and is a final year student at
the Film and Video Department

of the University of Tallinn .



*FREQUENCIES *

Dir: Priit Pääsuke/ 2005/DV/16:22 min/ Estonia



Oliver, a yuppie, lives with his disabled grandfather. The old man's reality
is constantly encroached upon by his past and Word War II. He also smells
and talks to his radio and Oliver is embarrassed by him.   When he starts an
argument with his girlfriend Liina, tragic events ensue

Priit Pääsuke was born in 1975 in Tallinn, Estonia. He is a film student at
Tallinn University.



*CALL OF THE HEART *

Dir: ]aanis Valk/2005/ Betacam SP/ 9:35 min/ Estonia



It has been decades since the occupation of the Estonian Republic by  the
Soviet Union. The country is free again but nevertheless, many Estonians are
still not capable of forgiving those whose only guilt was to believe in the
wrong ideology.

]aanis Valk was born in 1979 in southern Estonia. He has directed two start
fiction films and a feature length documentary film as his diploma film. He
has appeared in several Estonian fiction films as an actor and has worked as
assistant director on the production of a feature film.



*RANDOM VOICES FROM KASHMIR *

Dir. Dr Parvez Imam / 11 min / Hindi

…the people still speak of love, peace, brotherhood, fond memories.. will
they remain unheard for ever?

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*ANANT KALAKAR*

Dir: Sudheer Gupta/ 34 min / Hindi/ Rajasthani

A saga of the folk artists from Rajasthan…




Saturday 14 April 10.15am-6.00pm



*POORVAGRAH *

Dir: Surender Kumar/ 20 min/ Hindi

A film portraying discrimination on the basis of caste…

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*LANDMARKS - A JOURNEY IN JERUSALEM *

Dir: Carmit Shlomi/ 2005/ DV/ 8:23min

A very personal tour of Jerusalem portraying the city as an abandoned zone.

Carmit Shlomi was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1975 and graduated from the
Bezalel Academy of Art and

Design in Jerusalem in 2005.



*WITHOUT A WORD *

Dir: Alex Kreindlln /2005/ DV/ 10:30 min/ Israel

A black and white silent comedy that makes everything just confusing enough
to make the situation perfectly clear.

Alex Kreindin was born in Russia in 1981.



*DIM*

Dir: Anil Sadarangani /3.30min/ English

Two women from a minority community discuss the housing problem in Mumbai…





*IN INDIA *

Dir: V V Maheshwar Rao – 6 Min – English

A young foreigner studying in India talks about his experiences…



*AGAURAV *

Dir: Nakul Sawhney/ 13 Min/ Hindi

A young villager faces the city….



*JALLAH EUROPE *

Dir: Edit Sieradzky/ 2005/ DV/ 21:00 min/ Israel

Jean travels to Israel for a series of meetings concerning Israel's EU
affiliation. As he arrives with his

wife Marie, he finds out that the meetings were cancelled due to a terrorist
attack in Israel. Instead they let Hezi, an Israeli taxi driver, take them
on a journey full of discoveries about themselves.

Edit Sieradzky was born in Israel in 1976. She lives in Tel Aviv.



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Dir: Tal Kfir/ 2005/ DV/ 14:00 min/ Israel

The story of Tal and Shirin These two young women take part in a self help
group called "Bereaved Families

Supporting Peace, Reconciliation and Tolerance". Shirin has lost a brother
and Tal a sister in the long Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The film shows
the power of words and deeds that arise from silence and almost paralyzing
pain. Tal Kfir war born in Ashkelon, Israel, in 1977.



*BREAKING THE WALL OF IGNORANCE*

Dir: Ashish Bhatiya/ 6.34 min/ Hindi/

About children and young people suffering from Down Syndrome, Cerebral
Palsy, Autism, Hearing Impairment, Mental Illnesses…



*HUMAN STORY *

Dir: Mukesh Kabir Kapoor/ 5 Min/ English

How one human can torture the other without any hesitation or remorse…



*CELL DIVISION*

Dir: Liene Milgrave/ 2005/ mini DV/ 15:00 min/ Latria

A Russian prison in the 1980s. An old German prisoner meets a young Russian
criminal. The film

deals with the problematic situation when an ideology is confronted with
reality and the past has to be

re-evaluated.

Liene Milgrave was born in 1984 in Riga, Latvia.



*WAR GAMEZ*

Dir: Rafal Samusik/ 2005/ mini DV/ 15:00 min/ Poland

The small personal war of a little boy spending his summer vacation at his
grandfather's house in the

country. A perverse symbiosis takes shape between the child, who is
fascinated by the German army and the old Polish war veteran. Is it even
possible in peacetime to comprehend the reality of war? Is it not true that
the war is still going on?

Rafal Samusik was born in 1978. He holds a degree in Architecture and is
currently studying Film Directing

(second year) at the Silesian University, Faculty of Radio and Television.



*THE QUEST*

Dir: Khanjan Kishore Nath/ 12.54 Min/ Assamese

A rotten gourd, hardly sprouted, spotted in the backyard of the house of a
poor childless couple….



*LIVING UNDER BONDAGE *

Dir: Venkat/Veeramani/ 21 Min/ Hindi/English

The workers in a prestigious institute like JNU…




Sunday 15 April 10.15am-6.00pm





*LOHA GARAM HAI *

Dir: Meghnath & Bijju Toppo/ 47 Min/ Hindi

They live along with an Iron Sponge factory.. Do they live at all?



*GESTURES. RECONCILlATION ...*

Dir: Tschingiz F. Rasulzade / 2005/ Betacam SP/ 9:40 min/ Russia

Alexander Nikolayevich is very old The war rolled through his life like a
steamroller. He does not remember the war or the suffering He remembers
something else the gestures, the movements of hands his hands He has long
since forgiven everyone. He is willing to take the hand of the former enemy
But he cannot…

Tschingiz F. Rasulzade was born in 1972 in Baku, Azerbaijan , into a family
of engineers.



*THE BIRTHDAY*

Dir: Georgij Bagdasarov/ 2005/mini DV/14:59 min/ Russia

On his last birthday, Adolf Hitler decides he doesn't want to die after all
and orders his adjutant to kidnap

Charlie Chaplin, kill him and place his corpse in the Führer's bunker. That
war, he was able to take Chaplin's place and finally fulfil his dream of
becoming an artist.

Born in 1978 in Kzil-Orda, Kazachstan.



*SANGATI *

Dir: Vikram V Labhe/ 3.30 Min

She runs through the narrow lanes of the slum… she has to reach school on
time…





*BETWEEN THE LINES*

Dir: Dr Parvez Imam/11 Min/ Hindi

These lives are disowned by the both sides of the borders… we call them
'Bangladeshis'…



*CLAY PIGEON*

Dir: Milos Tomic/ 2005/ mini DV/ 6:45 min/ Czech Republic

A couple's romance and love games come to an abrupt end when the man is
drafted into the army. A long farewell, a sad farewell, which, still remains
a game

Milos Tomic has shot numerous short documentaries as well as
experimental,futuristic and avant-garde works and is active as a passionate
and patient collector/observer.



*PREJUDICE EXCHANGE*

Dir: Ivo Bystrican, Katerina Kacerovska, Radovan Sibrt / 2005/ DV/ 15:00
min/ Czech Republic

Czech and German historians come to a museum to design an exhibition on
Czech-German relations However, an embarrassing quarrel ends the endeavor. A
pseudo-documentary film about Czechs and Germans, about antagonistic
versions of their history, about prejudices stereotypes and the microcosms
of coexistence.



*OLD AGE *

Dir: Chetan Kumar/1 Min

They are not a burden…



*STOP CHILD LABOUR*

Dir: Chetan Kumar/ 1 Min

Nurture these little petals…





*UNDECIDED*

Dir: Nakul Sawhney /17 Min/ Hindi

A young journalist finds himself confronting a plethora of choices and
questions…





*YESTERDAY *

Dir: Sunali Aggarwal/ 9.50 Min/ English

We see what we want to see and hence get disappointed when reality reveals
something we never imagined…..



*THE GERMAN LESSON*

Dir: Igor Strembltskyy/ 2005/ mini DV/ 11:00 min/ Ukraine

In autumn 1942 Kalyna Bourkun was taken to Germany for forced labour. In
1945 she gave birth to her daughter Hanna in Berlin. For more than 38 years,
Hanna Bourkun has been teaching German in a Ukrainian vIllage school.

Igor Strembitsky was born in 1973 in the village of Paryshche , Nadvirna
district, Ivano.Frankivsk region, Ukraine.



*UTA *

Dir: Kim Spurlock/ 2005/ mini DV/ 13:00 min/ USA

An elderly German woman faces her troubled past in order to prevent a young
boy from repeating her mistakes.

Kim Spurlock was born in 1969 in Oregon, USA. She traces her roots to
Vietnam and Appalachia.



*FINAL LAP *

Dir: J. J. Adler/ 2005/ mini DV/ 12:15 min/ USA

Tom, 15, spends his days committing petty crimes with friend Lindsay. At
night he smokes alone on the roof, watching a mysterious car roar around the
block. On one night, when Lindsay joins Tom on the roof, the mysterious car
stops in front of the hause and reveals a painful reality in Tom's life.

J. J. Adler was born in New York,USA, in 1981.



*NEMESIS OF MOTHERHOOD *

Dir: Snehasis Das/ 28 Min/ Orriya

Women of Karijhola unknowingly essay the nation's highest maternal mortality
rate… also the world's highest…..



*AAP JAISA KOI NAHIN *

Dir: Samina Aslam (Pakistan)/ 20 Min/ English

A tribute to Nazia Hasan, a very popular singer in the Indian sub-continent
who died young….



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NEW DELHI PRIVATE LIMITED

Dir: Ravinder S Randhawa/ 20 Min/ Hindi/English

Delhi is being transformed… but at what cost….

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For more information contact :

Prakash K Ray, Convenor. 9811450214

cinemela at gmail.com

cinemela.blogspot.com

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-- 
Prakash K Ray
254, Sutlej, JNU, New Delhi-67
www.cinemela.org (available soon)
cinemela.blogspot.com
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