06 March 2014, 05:30 am
10TH IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL 2014
Programme Type
Festivals

Watermelon, Fish and Half Ghost (11 min; 2013; short fiction; India)

Director: Payal Kapadia

A fable about life in a chawl where superstitions, relationships and crisis unify families into a community

 

Haze (6 min; 2013; experimental; India)

Director: Kanika Gupta

A journey from the concrete to a space without well defined forms

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

 

Bandish (7 min; 2013; experimental; India)

Director: Adwaita Das

A young woman observes herself through the camera seeking a deeper truth

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

 

For You and Me (11 min; 2013; experimental; India)

Director: Tanushree Das

A film about yearning and the struggle to sustain relationships in a society of technological proximity and physical distance

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

 

At 11:30

Ingirinthu (114 min; 2013; feature fiction; Sri Lanka)

Director: Sumathy Sivamohan

Combining multiple genres and narrative forms, the film is an epic narration of the minority Tamil tea plantation community's struggle to survive

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

 

At 14:30

Crossings Love (83 min; 2012; documentary; Taiwan)

Director: Kuo Shiao-Yun

An exploration of domestic violence and how such an experience would influence the abused children when they grew up

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

 

At 16:45

The Breadfruit Tree (22 min; 2013; short fiction; India)

Director: Priyamvada Narayanan

Complex layers of love, loss and meaning unfold in a Bandra home

Followed by a discussion with the production designer, Jenny Pinto

 

A Summer Flu (17 min; 2013; short fiction; India)

Director: Priyanka Chhabra

A young girls reminisces a childhood spent in the summer in Delhi

 

At 18:30

Sleepless Nights (128 min; 2012; documentary; Lebanon)

Director: Eliane Raheb

Through the stories of former high ranking intelligence officer and the mother of a young communist fighter who is missing, the film asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible