Festival schedule for 6th March 2021
Films available for viewing for 48 hours from 8:00 am on 6th March to 8:00 am on 8th March 

The 13 filmmakers in this section use multiple film practices and aesthetic choices to explore the world around them. Their films examine formal possibilities that push the boundaries of cinema

Website link: http://iawrtindia.org/festival-2021
 

Space Dialogues (India) |  (8 min 30 sec/ 2020/Hindi, English)

    Director: Shaswati Talukdar 
    Experimental
    

Blanket Talk (Taiwan) | (6 min 34 sec/2019/Chinese)
    

  Directors: Jennifer Li, Samantha Chang, Janette Peng 
Animation 

For Tashi (USA) |  (7 min 35 sec/2020/English)

    Directors: Rebecca Ruige Xu, Jiayue Cecilia Wu 
    Experimental

 Parwareshgah (The Orphanage) | (Denmark, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Afghanistan, Qatar) | (90 min/2019/Dari, Russian, Hindi-Urdu)


    Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat 
    Fiction
    

Soyabean Biryani (for Junaid) | (Finland/12 min/2019/Hindi)

    Director: Vidha Saumya 
   Fiction  
    

Tombé (Armenia) (20 min) | Armenia / 2018 / Armenian
 

    Director: Diana Kardumyan 
    Fiction  
    

Retirement (India) | (4 min 29 sec/2019)
 
    Director: Sawanti Das
   Animation
    

Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu (It's Easier to Raise Cattle/Malaysia) | (18 min/2017/Malay)


    Director: Amanda Nell Eu 
    Fiction
  

 Honar Dar Khatar Zendegi Kardan (The Art of Living in Danger/ Iran, Germany) | (87 min/2020/Farsi)


    Director: Mina Keshavarz
    Non-fiction
    

Bebaak (Dying wind in her hair/India) | (21 min/2019/Hindi, Urdu)
 
    Director: Shazia Iqbal
   Fiction
    

A Can of Fish (India) | (8 min/2018)

    Director: Aditi Chitre
   Animation
    

Baatein (India) | (7 min 30 sec/2020/multilingual)

    Director: Shruti Jain 
   Animation
    

Yahan Wahan Saare Jahan (Here and Everywhere/ India) | (5 min 24 sec/2020/Hindi)


    Director: Maya Janine D'Costa
    Experimental
  

 Panel Discussion: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM 
Experiments with Media with Shahrbanoo Sadat, Shashwati Talukdar, Jennifer Li, Samantha Chang, and Jannette Peng, Rebecca Ruige Xu, and Jiayue Cecilia Wu 
Moderated by Surabhi Sharma  

This discussion will facilitate a conversation between filmmakers who, through their experiments with form, nudge us to engage with unusual stories and aesthetic practices. 

Masterclass: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Editor as Outsider with Jabeen Merchant 
Facilitated by Bina Paul

How do choices made at the editing table shape the structure and narrative of a film? In this session, renowned film editor Jabeen Merchant will take us through her ouvre in fiction and non-fiction films.
 

Festival schedule for 5th March 2021

Films available for viewing for 48 hours from 8:00 am on 5th March to 8:00 am on 7th March 

Screening of 9 films that explore ideas of conflict, resistance, and yearning at the individual and collective level

Website link: http://iawrtindia.org/festival-2021

 Village Des Femmes (Village Of Women) | (Armenia/83 min/2019/Armenian)  

 Director: Tamara Stepanyan
 Non-fiction

 Pani Paata Poratam (Songs of Our Soil) | (India/52 min/2019/Telugu)

   Director: Aditi Maddali 
   Non-fiction   

 Drapchi Elegy (India) | (17 min/2017/Tibetan)
  

 Directors: Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam 
Non-fiction 

About Mumma (India) | (40 min/2020/English, Hindi)
  

 Director: Maanvi Chowdhary 
Non-fiction 
    

Anyday, Everyday, One Fine Day! | (India/6 min 30 sec/2020/English)

    Director: Raashi Borade
  Animation
    

A little more blue (India) | (4 min/2020/English) 

    Director: Sugandha Bansal
   Animation 
    

Saakhya (India) | (29 min/2020/Marathi)

    Director: Kunika Kharat 
   Fiction

Broken Harmony: China’s Dissidents | (USA/51 min/ 2019/Chinese/Mandarin, English)
 
    Director: Risa Morimoto
    Non-Fiction
    

The Hour of Lynching (India) | (19 min/2019/Hindi)

    Directors: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya 
    Non-fiction 
  

 Panel Discussion: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm 
Towards Nurturing Peace with Aditi Maddali, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, Tamara Stepanyan

Moderated by Chandita Mukherjee 

The discussion will focus on the varied documentary practices of the filmmakers, linked to the ideas of oppression, resistance, and possible resolutions towards nurturing peace.

Masterclass: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Decoding Sound Practice with Amala Popuri  
Facilitated by Shikha Jhingan

How does sound change the way we experience a film? Sound designer and production mixer Amala Popuri will give us a ringside view, covering both fiction and non-fiction cinema. 
 

An Open House meeting will be held on Monday, the 15th March 2021 at 4 pm at the Centre  under  the Chairmanship of Justice Shri B.N. Srikrishna, Chairman, House Committee. It is also informed that arrangements will be made for Members who wish to join the Meeting through online mode (video-conferencing).

The House Committee deals with the matters relating to functioning of Hostel, Food and Catering services, the upkeep and maintenance and the general ambience of the Centre.  

Suggestions are welcome from Members which may reach the undersigned by 10th March 2021 at secretary.iic@nic.in. The suggestions for the House Committee should be restricted to the overall improvements rather than individual issues.  

Preceding the meeting, tea will be served between 3.30 pm and 4 pm.

Members are requested to kindly attend.

Kanwal Wali
Secretary
 

To remember founder President, Dr. C.D. Deshmukh, the Centre organises the C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on his birthday, on 14th January every year.  

Shri Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, former Chief Justice of India has consented to deliver the next C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on “Indian Constitution: What it should mean today.”

Owing to the current pandemic situation and the NCR Government Guidelines on adherence to the safety protocol, the      C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture which was to be held on the 14th January 2021 has been rescheduled to be held on virtual mode at 1700 hrs on Saturday, 20th March 2021.    

Kanwal Wali
Secretary IIC
 

Poet and Storyteller
 

Keki N. Daruwalla, poet and author in conversation with Amrita Bhalla, Associate Professor in English, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi and Steering Committee Member, DSC Prize for South Asian Writing

(Collaboration: Parzor and Jiyo Parsi)

https://youtu.be/lpFNa2BR7Cs

A photographic journey to Antarctica with Dr. Ajit K. Huilgol, ARPS

The online exhibition is on view from 1st to 14th March 2021 on www.iicdelhi.in

About the exhibition
There is possibly no place on earth more remote, more forbidding, more harsh than the continent of Antarctica - characterized by high winds, rain, snow, ice and cold temperatures that make anyone planning to visit it, have second thoughts. 
    
It is no wonder, therefore, that very few people have actually set foot on this remarkable place. I have been one of the fortunate few. I spent a month photographing the iconic landscape and the animals and birds that inhabit this wilderness, and came back with over 30,000 photos, some of which I would like to share with you. So, join me as I take you on a photographic journey to one of the last, relatively unexplored frontiers on earth. 

On this journey, you will see penguins, seals, icebergs and other wonders, and also learn about the whaling industry and some of the early explorers and adventurers.  

 
Dr Ajit K. Huilgol is a man who wears, or has worn, many hats – pioneer kidney transplant surgeon, hypnotist, cricket commentator, and wildlife photographer.
He was in the team that did Karnataka’s first successful kidney transplant in May, 1983. Since then, in these 37 years, he has done almost 2500 transplants, both in India and abroad, and specializes in doing multiple artery transplants and double ureter transplants. He started transplant programs in several hospitals – MS Ramaiah Hospital, Wockhardt, Yellamma Dasappa, Ashok Nursing Home, Columbia Asia Hospitals in Bangalore and Mysore, to name a few. He has also established transplant centres in Jalandhar, India, and in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been a consultant for Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, and other African countries.

Dr Huilgol was a cricket commentator in English for All India Radio from 1972 to 2005, and has been a commentator for Doordarshan for a few cricket matches, including some One Day Internationals.

An image that he took in the Nagarhole Tiger Reserve in Karnataka of a leopard descending vertically down a tree won him the coveted Runner-up Award in the highly prestigious BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award in 2009. He is also an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society since 2008, and now proudly wears the suffix, ARPS, after his other medical degrees.

Dr Huilgol was given the title of Hon Special Police Officer in the Karnataka Forest CID wing for his courageous role in nabbing over 40 tiger, and other rare-animal, poachers who were operating in the Nagarhole Tiger Reserve.

Dr Huilgol is married to Dr Medha, Anesthesiologist, and has two sons (both reputable lawyers in the Karnataka High Court), and two grandchildren.

Contact: ajithuilgol@gmail.com
 

Day & Date:  Saturday & Sunday, 27th and 28th February 2021

Member’s Lunch:  “PARSI FOOD FESTIVAL”

  India’s National Security Challenges and the Way Ahead

Presentation by Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy, Director General, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
 
 Discussants: Admiral Arun Prakash (retd.),   PVSM, AVSM, VrC, VSM, ADC, former Chief of the Naval Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee;  Lt. Gen. Deependra S. Hooda (retd.), PVSM, AVSM, VSM, BAR, ADC, former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, who is presently Senior Fellow, Delhi Policy Group; Dr. Ajai Sahni, Executive Director, Institute of Conflict Management, New Delhi; Air Vice Marshal (Dr.) Arjun Subramaniam (retd.), AVSM, accomplished military historian, author of India’s Wars and Full Spectrum and is the President’s Chair of Excellence in National Security Affairs, National Defence College, New Delhi  ; and Lt. Gen. Philip Campose (retd.), PVSM, AVSM & Bar, former Vice Chief of Army Staff and Administrative Member, Armed Forces Tribunal (Principal Bench), New Delhi

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

 Discussion on Three Farm Laws and Ground Reality – Land to Market

Speakers: Prof. Vikas Rawal, Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Siraj Hussain, Visiting Senior Fellow, ICRIER and former Secretary, Agriculture, Govt. of India; and Dr. Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Ashoka University ; Shri Devinder Sharma, Agriculture, Food and Trade Policy Expert
 
Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies and Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)

For more than three months, thousands of farmers have been protesting at Delhi's borders seeking a repeal of the new farm laws. The agitation has now fanned protests across Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. The farmers say that the three farm laws will erode their bargaining power, weaken a system of assured prices and make them vulnerable to exploitation by big agri businesses.

On the other hand, the government has maintained the laws aim to ease restrictions on farm trade by setting up free markets, allow traders to stockpile large stocks of food for future sales and lay down a framework for contract farming.

 
The negotiations between the farmers and the government have repeatedly failed and are in a deadlock. The Supreme Court has ''suspended'' the ''implementation'' of three farm laws "until further orders" in a bid to persuade farmers agitating against them to come to the ''negotiating table". The Supreme Court also set up a four-member expert committee to talk to farmers and report back. One member of this four-member expert committee has recused himself. Farmers’ groups, pushing for repeal, have said they won't appear before the committee. The stalemate continues.

What are the ground realities? Is there a way out of this imbroglio?

The webinar marks the 29th anniversary of the Working Group on Alternative Strategies
 
(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)