Conceptualised by Dr. Ashwani Kumar

From 10:00 to 13:00
Screening Workshop on Eye Diseases Leading to Blindness
Screening workshop for refractive error, glaucoma, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration with stations for IOP measurement, Fundus examination and refraction. The workshop includes a public awareness programme about eye donation  

Open to IIC members and staff members of IIC

At 16:00
Can you Prevent Blindness? The Avoidable Blindness: Preventable and Treatable
Speaker: Dr. Jeewan S. Titiyal, Chief and Professor of Ophthalmalogy, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Chair: Dr. Ashwani Kumar

The talk will address the various causes of blindness that can be avoided and which are both preventable and treatable across different age groups. The important causes of preventable blindness among children including corneal scars due to vitamin A deficiency, infections, injuries, iatrogenic etc. as well as treatable causes such as paediatric cataract, glaucoma, retinopathy of prematurity and uncorrected refractive errors. The leading causes of avoidable blindness among the adult population including cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, age related macular degeneration and uncorrected refractive errors.

A curated package of films by women directors from Ukraine organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio and Television, India Chapter and Ukrainian Female Film Industry

FILM FESTIVAL POSTER

FILMS SYNOPSES

Introduction

14:30 to 15:45: Fiction Shorts (I)
Оh! (Olga Zolotareva/Ukrainian /16:37 min)
A family sets out for a visit to the countryside. The children squabble in the back of the car, distracting their parents. Somehow, an old woman ends up riding with them. And then... 

Doors (Natalia Davydenko/Ukrainian /9:31 min)
A young man rides through a vast desert landscape. His bike breaks down. And he is faced with a choice. This short leavens metaphor and philosophy with dark humour and optimism. 

Seed (Ksenia Bugrimova/no dialogue/23:10 min)
A woman buys a special seed which she plants in a barrel and nurtures in secret, in this non-verbal short.  Fantasies mingle with reality... until things take an unexpected turn.

Hermit Crab Master Of Escape (Larissa Gutarevych/Ukrainian/20:29 min) 
Vitalina is 13 years old, at a new school, and her parents are getting divorced. And then her pet crab adds to the confusion, but ensuing events bring solace and insight.

A Hanging Coffee (Oksana Taranenko/Ukrainian/5:50 min)
A stylised fable-like sequence of events set in a coffee shop on a rainy morning. More than coffee hangs in the balance in this hangout space. 

15:45 - 16:15: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers

16:45 - 18:00: Film  
The Earth is Blue as an Orange (Iryna Tsilyk/Ukrainian & Russian/2020/74 min)
Against the background of an ongoing historical conflict, Anna and her children make a film together about their life, to cope with their daily trauma and surreal surroundings. Winner at Sundance for Direction, this documentary has won many more awards – best film, direction, cinematography – at major international film festivals.

18:00 - 18:30: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers

18:30 - 19:30: Fiction Shorts (II)
Solatium (Christina Tynkevych/Ukrainian & Russian /10:43 min)
Anna, an ambulance doctor, responds to a night call which brings back a painful past and challenges her moral compass.

Man (Oksana Artemenko/Ukrainian /6:20 min)
When a father is called to fight for his country, his toddler decides to be a grown-up for mother’s sake. A family vignette with an unexpected visual ending.   

Broken (Solomia Tomaschuk/ /Ukrainian /20:16 min)
Two old acquaintances home from the army meet on a suburban bus. Their unfolding interactions show how you can leave the war, but war leaves its imprint on you. The short expressively conveys their need for support and yet the need to appear strong; their vulnerability is shot through with moments of grace. 

Heartbreaker (Oleksandra Brovchenko/no dialogue/5:14min)
A delicious non-verbal romance plays out in the unlikely setting of supermarket aisles and counters.  

Unwanted People (Loolie Mamontenko/Ukrainian/2021/15:19 min)
This stunningly filmed short with minimal dialogue strikes deep emotional chords, through the two contrasting worlds that Ludmila inhabits (three, if we include her dream and fantasies) – the nightclub where she works, and her home where she is alone yet not alone, both linked by her walks through a hard wintry landscape. 

19:30 - 20:00: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers

A talk by Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey, filmmaker and historian of science and technology, Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru

And In Conversation with Amb. Bhaskar Balakrishnan, former Indian Ambassador to Greece and Cuba, Science Diplomacy Fellow, RIS

Chair: Amb. Bhaskar Balakrishnan

Writer, Rebel Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya

By Akshay Mukul (Penguin Random House India: 2022)

Discussants: Dr. Purushottam Agrawal, Visiting Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, scholar on medieval and early modern Hindi poetry; Prof. Malavika Maheshwari,  Assistant Professor, Ashoka University; and Shri Akshay Mukul, author of the book

On the Waterfront (USA) | Click here to watch
(108 min; 1954; b/w; English)
Director: Elia Kazan

With Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

Multiple award winner including Oscar Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Black-and-White and Best Film Editing, Academy Awards, USA 1955; BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor, BAFTA Awards 1955; OCIC Award, Pasinetti Award and Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival 1954

Marlon Brando plays Terry Malloy, a retired prize-fighter who has started running errands for the Dockers Union, a mob-controlled organisation that has intimidated the workers into silence. When Malloy finds himself involved in the murder of Joey Doyle, and becomes involved with the dead man's sister Edie (Eva Marie Saint), he begins to wonder whether he too should stand up and be heard.

On the Waterfront explores the difficulties and corruptions of working stiffs with a realism, sensitivity and intelligence that has seldom been matched since.

https://archive.org/details/On.the.Waterfront.1954.720p.BRrip.x265.HEVC…

Songlines, Dreamtime, and the Visionary Realm of the Aborigines | Click here to watch
(50 min; 2009; English)
Director: David Shadrack Smith

National Geographic joins Wade Davis on a journey deep into the Australian outback to document the disappearing cultures of Australia's Aborigines, thought to be one of the oldest groups of peoples on earth. After losing clan members to disease, war, and famine-as well as battling enforced relocations-small Aboriginal clans must fight to keep traditions alive for the next generation.

https://vimeo.com/33979224

Food, Inc. (USA) | Click here to watch
(94 min; 2008; English)
Director: Robert Kenner

With Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser and Richard Lobb

Multiple award winner including Gotham Independent Award for Best Documentary, Gotham Awards 2009; NBR Award for Top Five Documentaries, National Board of Review, USA 2009; Emmy Awards for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form and Best Documentary, News and Documentary Emmy Awards 2011; among others

Perhaps the definitive cinematic investigation of the modern American food industry, the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc. exposes a system rife with corruptive, secretive and abusive practices, and whose products contribute to the rising epidemic of obesity and all the deadly diseases that result.

The reality of agriculture in America is no longer the romantic farmer with the white picket fence and the sputtering tractor. Food production has become entirely corporatized, and it operates with limited regulations and absolute impunity. The demands of mass production have led to disastrously diminished quality standards, and have placed the health of all consumers in peril.

https://vimeo.com/31813990

(75 min; 2002; French with English subtitles)
Director: Simon Brook

An intimate portrait of director Peter Brook by his son, Simon Brook.

Screening to mark the passing of Peter Brook (1927-2022), well-known British theatre and film director

A six part BBC series with Michael Mosley who takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.

Episode 2: What Is The World Made Of? (60 min) | Click here to watch
Director: Nat Sharman

In this episode, Michael Mosley demonstrates how our society is built on our search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world. This is a story that moves from the secret labs of the alchemists and their search for gold to the creation of the world's first synthetic dye - mauve - and onto the invention of the transistor. This quest may seem abstract and highly theoretical. Yet it has delivered the greatest impact on humanity. By trying to answer this question, scientists have created theories from elements to atoms...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x66clvi

(60 min;1993; English)
Director: Sarah Mondale

Deftly blending the personal and the historical, the film is an illuminating and accessible introduction to the life and work of Marcel Proust, whose novel Remembrance of Things Past changed the face of literature. Interviews with writers Dame Iris Murdoch, Shelby Foote, and writer-critic Roger Shattuck highlight the magnitude of Proust’s accomplishment, while dramatizations of key scenes from Proust’s life combine with rare archival footage to place his personal struggle in a historical context. The film was co-produced by William C. Carter, author of the critically acclaimed Proust biography. Archival interviews include Jean Cocteau, François Mauriac, and Celeste Albaret, Proust’s long-time friend and assistant.