Screenings will be followed by discussions with directors present

 

Good Stuff (Israel; 25 min; 2013) Dir: Neta Braun

A claustrophobic journey filled with extreme encounters

 

Cleaning Time(Israel; 15 min; 2013) Dir: Alamork Marsha

An Ethiopian cleaning woman’s routine of looking after rich homes go awry one afternoon

 

An Untitled Life (Myanmar; 22 min; 2008) Dir: Shin Daewe

A look at how an easy-going artist has managed to survive a sizable chunk of Myanmar’s chequered history

 

Amhya – Share (Myanmar; 18 min; 2014) Dir: Mya Darli Aung

Looks at the an age-old but now dwindling tradition whereby monks cook you a meal from leftovers with sharing in mind

 

Followed by discussion with Thet Su Hlaing, filmmaker from Yangon Film School

 

12:15 – 13:30  

Soundphiles

A Celebrations of Listening

 

Pahadi Pastoralists (05:26) by Aditi Pinto

Lonely Lives (03:12) by Itika Singh

Emergency Control Room (07:04) by Maraa [Ekta Mittal, Angarika Guha, Shruthi Menon]

Saving Disgrace (03:25) by Pooja Das Sarkar & Vimal Mylon

Swimming Pool (04:02) by Madiha Aijaz

Riverrun 2013 (02:35) by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy

Levels (04:33) by Sindhu Thirumalaisamy

Number Unreachable (05:00) by Usha Rao

 

Followed by a discussion with the sound artists

 

14:30  – 15:40 

Play on the Play (Animation; Afghanistan; 5 min; 2013) Dir: Lajaward Haqiqi

The story of a man living inside a locked room

 

The Reel (Animation; Experimental;  Afghanistan; 4 min; 2012) Dir: Lajaward Haqiqi

How listening to music is a legitimate need of all human beings, and for the people of Afghanistan

 

Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan (Documentary; India; 23 min;2013) Dir: Mithila Hegde

Film on 105-year-old Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, the oldest living (and practising) Hindustani vocalist 

 

Basheera (India; 14 min; 2014) Dir: Ratika Singh

The film explores a man’s ever-deepening desire to reunite with his first and most memorable friend from school

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

 

16:00 – 17:20 

COMPILATION OF EXPERIMENTAL FILMS -I

Faraways (Australia; 10 min; 2012) Dir: Audrey Lam       

An empty urban landscape echoes the isolation of two girls far from home

 

Black Sun (Vietnam; 11 min; 2010) Dir: Que Chi Truong

Young couple, strolling around Saigon, the most exciting city of Vietnam

 

Jo Ha Kyu (Vietnam; 11 min; 2012) Dir: Nguyen Trinh Thi

Conflict and the co-existence of concrete and abstract worlds

 

Qian Men No. 1 Hostel (China; 12 min; 2008) Dir: Tan Tan   

Film about time, history, and memory

 

Sewing Room (Singapore; 5 min; 2005) Dir: Ang Sookoon 

The monotonous daily routine of a sewing room extends beyond its contained realm

 

Mount Song (India/USA; 8 min; 2013) Dir: Shambhavi Kaul

A current creeps under the door, makes its way into the cracks, revealing, obfuscating or breaking as clouds in the sky

 

Scientist Meets the Storyteller (UK; 5 min; 2011)Dir: Aindri Chakraborty

A moth collector finds an artefact that belongs to a storyteller 

 

Followed by discussion with the filmmaker

 

18:00 – 20:30

FELICITATION OF FILMMAKERS AND SOUND ARTISTS

 

The Fried Fish (Animation; Iran; 11 min; 2014)Dir: Leila Khalilzadeh

The fish is yearning to see the sea once again… But what is the price he pays to go home?

 

Profession: Documentarist (Iran; 80 min; 2013) 

Dir: Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei

Seven independent female documentary film makers from Iran talk about their personal and professional lives, concerns and challenges in a seven- part autobiographic film

 

Followed by a discussion with Sahar Salahshoor