[Reader-list] [Announcements] [DFA:] Invitation: IAWRT IIC Asian Women's Film Festival 2007

Sat Mar 3 13:21:33 IST 2007

INVITATION:-

IAWRT IIC Asian Women's Film Festival 2007
Reflections: Women Imaging Realities

March 7th and 8th 2007
10 AM - 8:30 PM
at the India International Centre
Lodi Estate, New Delhi

ENTRY IS FREE. NO PASSES NEEDED. 

A two-day event, to mark the International Women's Day (on 8th March).
This year's festival will present films that explore how women negotiate, resist or document political, social, environmental or other issues. How are women filmmakers widening the frame for issues concerning women? The festival will showcase documentary films by women covering a range of genres. It will also include animation and fiction short films. Among other films, the festival includes Q2P by Paromita Vohra; 7 Islands and a Metro by Madhushree Datta; Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi by Saba Dewan; Tales from the Margins by Kavita Joshi; and Bare by Santana Issar. The festival also features docus and animation from Taiwan, Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan; and films by the Asian diaspora.

Download the SCHEDULE (as PDF) here:
http://base.google.com/base_media?q=hand-411915045118389357&size=8

Or see the TEXT version  below

with best wishes
Kavita Joshi
http://kavitajoshi.blogspot.com

[TEXT VERSION OF SCHEDULE]

7TH WED

10:00 AM
INAUGURATION
followed by

Madsong
19 min
2006
India
Natasha Mendonca
In a nameless timeless place in India, an ordinary woman living an ordinary life wants to plan an extraordinary party in celebration of her lover's return. What happens when he comes home?
followed by

Call It Slut
14 min
2006
India
Nishtha Jain
A mini-portrait of a transgender person who is more than a woman.
followed by

Dedicated to Unicorn
4 min
2006
Taiwan (ROC)
Soo You
Time turns into a blended state as a simulation of dreams. A woman's unconscious reminisce.

11:00 AM
BREAK

11:30 AM
Moustaches Unlimited
29 min
2006
India
Vasudha Joshi
Exploring masculinities and femininities through moustaches.
followed by

Q2P
53 min
2006
India
Paromita Vohra
About toilets, gender and the city. Raising questions about male and female; about class, caste, urban development and the twisted myth of the global city.

1:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK

2:30 PM
Tales from the Margins
23 min
2006
India
Kavita Joshi
About the fast-to-death of Irom Sharmila, the naked demonstration by Manipuri women activists and the epic protests by the women of Manipur in their fight against the AFSPA.
followed by

PRESENTATION by Kavita Joshi: on video and gender training material being developed with IAWRT support

3:30 PM
BREAK

4:00 PM
Story Maker: Story Taker
38 min
1995
India
Anjali Monteiro and K P Jayashankar
About the stories and paintings of the Warli tribes.
followed by

Acting Like a Thief
15 min
2005
USA
Shashwati Talukdar and P Kerim Friedman
Through theater, members of a stigmatized tribal community have found the means to express themselves and to transform their world.
followed by

Between the Lines
18 min
2006
India
Vaidehi Chitre
About the filmmaker's search for Dr. Anandi Joshi, India's first woman doctor.

5:30 PM
BREAK

6:30 PM
National Pudding and Indigenious Salad
11 min
2004
India
Pushpamala N
A playful look at the modern Indian family as it imagined itself soon after Independence.
followed by

Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi
63 min
2006
India
Saba Dewan
Ria, a bar dancer, travels from her home in Delhi to Mumbai where hundreds of working class girls come in search of work and a future.

8:15
CLOSE

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8TH THU

10:00 AM
When Women Call the Shots
30 min
2001
India
Charu Gargi
Through the work of three women technicians, the film examines the representation of women in Bollywood films made by women.
followed by

Sharira
30 min
India
Ein Lall
einlall2004 at yahoo.co.uk
On the acclaimed choreographer-dancer Chandralekha and her unwavering faith in her mission to set free the body through dance.

11:00 AM
BREAK

11:30 AM
The Mall on Top of My House
6 min
2006
India
Aditi Chitre
On rampant land reclamation and the consequent displacement of the fishing community.
followed by 

Bare
11 min
2006
India
Santana Issar
A daughter's search to find meaning, if any, in her relationship with her alcoholic father.
followed by 

Their Story
10 min
2005
India
Reema Borah
A poignant tale about the daily struggles, hope and crisis in the midst of a land and people torn by armed conflict.
followed by 

6 Yards to Democracy
55 min
2007
India
Nishtha Jain and Smriti Nevatia
On the lives of poor women in Lucknow in the context of cynical electoral politics.

1:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK

2:30 PM
PRESENTATION by Giti Thadani: Erasure of the Feminine and New Renewals

3:30 PM
BREAK

4:00 PM
Crossing Fires - Blurring the Divide
22 min
2006
Sri Lanka
Sharmini Boyle
Two communities of women in the LTTE controlled Kilinochi district push the frontiers in a patriarchal society.
followed by 

Live Containers
26 min
2002
Kaza-khstan
Orzu Sharipov
Women ex-prisoners are forced into smuggling heroin in their bodies as a way to get out of poverty and stigma.
followed by 

Assimilation - No, Integration - Yes
24 min
2006
Canada
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
In a housing community in a Swedish town, young second generation Muslim immigrants are adjusting to life in a new country.

5:30 PM
BREAK

6:30 PM
7 Islands and a Metro
100 min
2006
India
Madhushree Dutta
To the seven goddesses who reign over Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai.

8:15 PM
CLOSE

SCREENINGS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION WITH THE DIRECTOR, IF PRESENT.
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