07 March 2013, 05:30 am
9TH IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL 2013
Programme Type
Festivals

Bharatamata ki Jai (27 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Directors: Amol Ranjan; Anurag Mazumdar; Arpita Chakraborty; Avadhoot Khanolkar; & Shweta Radhakrishnan
A lively and exuberant story of a 75 - year old cinema based in Mumbai's working class locality

Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers

Vanity Box (21 min; 2011; short fiction; India)
Director: Diksha Grover
Stories come tumbling out in a beauty parlour. What really lies inside the vanity box?

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Boxing Ladies (26 min; 2010; documentary; India)
Director: Anusha Nandakumar
The story of three remarkable sisters, national level women boxers who also happen to be Muslim

Colours (4 min; 2012; short fiction; Iran)
Director: Naghmeh Dehghani
A child's hand draws a picture; the picture changes as the home environment changes

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

20 Fingers (72 min; 2004; feature; Iran)
Director: Mania Akbari
A precisely crafted film with just two actors revealing the divergent points of view of men and women

From 14:30 - 16:00
My Sweet Baby (68 min; 2010; documentary; South Korea)
Director: Ryu Mi-rye
The director observes herself as a mother and as a person during the past 10 years as she brings up three children

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 16:20 - 18:10
Presence (17 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Directors: Yashaswini B. R. & Ekta Mittal
A film about stories of ghosts narrated by migrant workers who inhabit a city in transition

Where Do I Belong? (68 min; 2008; documentary; Iran)
Director: Mahvash Sheikholeslami
A powerful documentary on Iranian women who marry Afghan men and live on either side of the Iran-Afghanistan border

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 18:30 - 20:10
The Girl Princess (81 min; 2011; documentary; South Korea)
Director: Kim Hye-jung
The film looks at traces of female Gukgeuk, a type of Korean musical with an all female cast, which enjoyed a golden age during the 1950s
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker