Sita ke Badalte Roop (The Changing forms of Sita/India)
(80 min; 2022; Hindi with English subtitles)
Directed by Pushpa Rawat who will introduce the film
Pushpa Rawat plays Sita in the local Ramlila, opening up public spaces for women in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
This film is a part of the exhibition “Create, Collaborate, Catalyse: Reflections on Sexual Violence in South India” on view at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex
Before you Were My Mother (Nepal/India)
(73 min; 2022; Nepali/Meitei/Newari with English subtitles)
Director: Prasuna Dongol
Prasuna tries to come to terms with the differences she has with her mother and seeks a way to define her own life
AT 14:00
Gay India Matrimony (India)
(67 min; 2019; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Debalina
Gay India Matrimony is a film that revolves around three characters exploring their marriage prospects, with one of them documenting their travails.
AT 15:15
Iqraar-naama (The Agreement/India)
(55 min; 2021; Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu)
Director: Priyanka Chhabra
A story of love and loss – an archive of “Home” in a partitioned subcontinent
AT 16:15
This Stained Dawn (Pakistan)
(89 min; 2021; Urdu with English subtitles)
Director: Anam Abbas
Karachi’s young feminists organize a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right.
AT 17:50
Gaine (Nepal)
(25 min; 2019; Nepali with English subtitles)
Director: Pradeep Dhakal
Recipient of the Award for Best Student Film, Film Southasia, Kathmandu 2022
…a journey into the lives of musician of a dying folk form that has been critical to a culture but has also been a vehicle for the dissemination of news in an era before the digital age - From the Jury Statement
AT 18:30
Taanga (Longing/India)
(90 min; 2021; English/Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu)
Director: Bani Singh
Recipient of the Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film, Film South Asia, Kathmandu 2022
This poignant film pans out from an individual’s life, making powerful connections to a larger historical narrative, a process in which a history of loss, home, fraught relationships and identity at large continue to cast a dark shadow on the present realities of the subcontinent - From the Jury Statement
