[Reader-list] Film screenings on 14th, 15th & 16th March, New Delhi

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

Dear Friends






The Kriti Film Club is bringing to you three day's of film screenings at the India Habitat Centre starting tomorrow until 16th March 2013..films for different people, on different issues or similar issues...hope to see some of you and if not able to come, do share the information with others. All screenings will be followed by discussions with the film makers present.


warmly
aanchal KAPUR

Kriti Film Club Screenings @Indian Habitat Centre



Dates: 14, 15, 16 March 2013 
Time: 7 pm onwards
Venue: Gulmohar Hall,IHC, Lodhi Road, New Delhi



14th March
Tibet Reels


The Sun Behind The Clouds
Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam| 75 mins| 2009| English 

The film updates the struggle for Tibetan independence, focusing upon the March 2008 demonstration against Chinese rule, the largest ever since the 1959 take-over of that nation. The Dalai Lama, living in exile in Northern India, is interviewed extensively and given the opportunity to explicate his "middle way," a compromise position he has to date been unsuccessful in getting the Chinese to accept. 
Supporters of Tibetan independence who are devoted to the Dalai Lama, but who nonetheless feel "the middle way" is an ineffective solution, appear in the film, detailing their more militant position.

15th March
Memory Reels


The End of Flight 
Tariq Theakekaraj| 30 mins| English/ 2009

Our country has seen riots, wars, murders, rapes and even genocides, all of which have left behind millions of victims whose wounds may never heal. The Partition of India and the Second World War forced millions into political refuge, but today more than 60 years down the line there are few to tell the tale. This film is a short series of firsthand accounts of how they made their way into India against all odds.

Dere-Tun-Dilli 
Divya Cowasji & Shilpa Gulati| 27 mins.|English| 2012

Eighty four-year old Bhagwani Taneja recalls the time when her entire community packed up their homes from Dera Ismail Khan, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, and moved to Delhi during the Partition. As she faces the camera, Bhagwani talks about the tough time she and others from Dera faced while trying to build homes and new lives in a divided nation. The community took their protest to the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's bungalow who greeted them warmly and lent his garden for them to stay a few nights. In the film, the makers have attempted to capture the turmoil that the Dera community faced during this period even as the trauma of time remains lost to the current generation. Screening followed by discussion with Film makers and some of the storytellers. 




16th March
Violence Reels

One Billion Rising
Eve Ensler & Ton Stroebel| 3 mins.| English| 2012 
An inspiring music video for the One Billion Rising campaign: women worldwide rising up and against all kinds of violence.

Lightning Testimonies 
Amar Kanwar|113 mins.| Several Languages with English Subs.| 2007 

The Lightning Testimonies reflects upon a history of conflict in the Indian subcontinent through experiences of sexual violence. As the film explores this violence, there emerge multiple submerged narratives, sometimes in people, images and memories, and at other times in objects from nature and everyday life that stand as silent but surviving witnesses. In all narratives the body becomes central -as a site for honour, hatred and humiliation and also for dignity and protest. Screening followed by discussion with film makers and women activists. 






OPEN FOR ALL!
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