Screening of Award-winning films from Public Service Broadcasting Trust

 

Journey to Nagaland (26 min; 2010; dvd; English)

Director: Aditi Chitre

 

Recipient of the Golden Conch for Best Animation Film, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2012; Best Animation Short Film, INFOCOM-ASSOCHAM Excellence in Media & Entertainment Awards, 2011; Best Animation Film & Special Jury Mention for Sound Design, 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala 2011

 

The story of a young girl who is led to a distant land by the force of her visions and her mother’s spirit to discover the latter’s roots, and possibly her own

 

Qissa-e-Parsi (30 min; 2014; dvd; English)

Directors: Divya Cowasji, Shilpi Gulati

 

The film explores the history of the Parsi community, its relationship to the Indian state and association with the city of Mumbai. It strives to understand the Zoroastrian faith, the philosophy to live, laugh and love that is the backbone of the Parsi way of life and what makes it so endearingly unique and beloved.  It is an attempt to understand a community that has always been numerically small, yet, culturally and socially formidable

 

So Heddan So Hoddan (52 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)

Directors: Anjali Monteiro, K.P. Jayasankar

 

Recipient of the Basil Wright Prize, 13th Royal Anthropological International Festival of Ethnographic Films, Edinburgh, 2013; Best Film, 2nd International Folk Music Festival, Nepal, 2012; Silver for Cinematography, Silver for Sound Design and Silver for Script, Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA) Awards, 2010

 

Mustafa Jatt sings Bheths, narratives of longing, sung by the Jatts, pastoral Muslim communities that live on the edge of the Great Rann of Kutch, in Gujarat, separating India and Pakistan. The film is a journey into the music and everyday life of these communities, set against the backdrop of the Rann and the pastoral Banni grass lands