[Reader-list] [DFA NewsLetter] Delhi International Ethnographic Film Festival : Schedule for 29 Nov

[Rahul Roy]

* Delhi International Ethnographic Film Festival
                               26 -30 November 2008

DIEFF screening on 29 and 30 November will take place only at Alliance
Francaise, Lodi Estate, New Delhi. The screenings at Delhi University and
Jamia Millia Islamia end on 28 Nov.


DIEFF Schedule for 29 November

Venues:  Alliance Francaise, Lodi Estate.

Time: 11:00 AM to 8:15 PM
For More information: http://sociology.du.ac.in/dieff/
                                     or search the web for -- DIEFF

 Panel Discussion:

Entering The World of Jean Rouch: Francoise Foucault / David MacDougall /
Shohini Ghosh / Marilda Batista

7:15 pm / 29 Nov / Alliance Francaise / Lodi Estate
*

**

**

*Petit a Petit* at 11:00 am / 29 Nov / Alliance Francaise / Lodi Estate



*Dir: *Jean Rouch / 90 min / France**



Damouré, the manager, along with Lam and Illo, of an import/export firm in
Ayorou called *Petit à Petit*, decides to build an apartment block and
leaves for Paris to find out  "how people can live in houses with more than
one storey". In the city, he discovers the curious lifestyle and thinking of
the Parisian tribe, who he describes in "Persian Letters" sent regularly to
his companions, until one of them, believing him to have gone mad, sends Lam
out after him. In Paris, Damouré and Lam buy a Bugatti convertible and meet
Safi, Ariane and a "tramp", Philippe. The group decides to go back to
Africaand build a new house. But the two women and Philippe are unable
to get used
to this new life and leave. The only thing left to do for the three friends
is to withdraw to a cabin on the riverbanks and mediate upon "modern
society".

*Tempus de Baristas* at 2:00 pm / 29 Nov / Alliance Francaise / Lodi Estate



*Dir:* David MacDougall / 100 min / dir. present



*Tempus de Baristas *follows the lives of three generations of goatherders
in the mountains of Eastern Sardinia.  Pietro, 17, loyally helps his father
in the herding and milking of their goats.  His father, Franchiscu, 62,
would like his son to stay in the mountains but knows he will probably have
to leave to pursue his education and future prospects. Their friend Miminu,
in his 40s and still unmarried, knows all his goats by name but faces a
future of increasing poverty and isolation.  For Pietro, the lives of his
father and Miminu provide reference points against which to measure himself
and consider his future.



*Delhi- Mumbai- **Delhi* at 4:00 pm / 29 Nov / Alliance Francaise / LodiEstate



*Dir:* Saba Dewan / *63 min / **India*



Riya dances in the beer bars of Mumbai to make a living. The documentary
follows her from her home in Delhi to Mumbai where hundreds of working class
girls come in search of work and a future. Riya's future is unpredictable
and the present is marked with its own difficulties. The police harass her
family in Delhi, there is constant pressure from her agent in Mumbai to
attract more tips and the work itself is demanding. However, there are other
girls to have fun with, there is money to dress well and then there are men…
admirers promising the moon. The documentary is an intimate portrait of the
everyday in the life of the girls, their agents and their neighbourhoods.

Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi, shot in the backdrop of the Maharashtra Governments'
controversial move to ban girls from dancing in beer bars, interweaves
stories of gender, labour, sexuality and popular culture within an
increasingly globalised economy.





*Chronique D'un Ete *at 5:30 pm* */ 29 Nov / Alliance Francaise / LodiEstate

* *

*Dir:* Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin / 90 min / France



In the summer of 1960, Edgar Morin, a sociologist, and Jean Rouch conducted
an enquiry into the daily lives of young Parisians in an attempt to
understand their concept of happiness. This experimental film follows, over
a period of several months, both the investigation itself and the
development of its main characters. The initial question "How do you live?
Are you happy?" very quickly raises others on a number of key issues:
politics, hopelessness, boredom, solitude… The interviewees eventually meet
as a group at the showing of the film, to discuss and approve or disapprove
of it.

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
Please DO NOT REPLY to the sender. 
To contact the MODERATOR: delhifilmarchive [at] gmail.com

To UNSUBSCRIBE: send an email to 
delhifilmarchive-unsubscribe at googlegroups.com

More OPTIONS are on the web: 
http://groups.google.com/group/delhifilmarchive

Our WEBSITE: www.delhifilmarchive.org
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---