INTACH–IIC Children’s Film Festival Open Futures: Filmit India

Films made by school children from 42 schools in Delhi on the culture of Delhi

 

(Collaboration: INTACH)

 

Much Ado about Knotting (India)

(56 min; 2012; dvd; Hindi/English)

Directors: Geetika Narang, Anandana Kapur

 

Recipient of the award for Best Film, International Film Festival, Ferizaj, Kosono

 

Born into a society obsessed with marriage, a young girl, a not-so-young man and an NRI couple are compelled by tradition to look for matches via classifieds, matchmaking bureaus and websites. The film is a light-hearted chronicle of the marriage predicament          

 

HEALTHCARE IN INDIA

 

Stroke Awareness

Speaker: Dr. Chandril Chugh, Senior Consultant and Head Interventional Neurology, Max Saket Hospital, Delhi

 

Direction & Editing: Sanjiv Shah who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The Constitution of India deems that the right to shelter is a fundamental right. However, there is no law in the country to protect this right. The film is structured around conversations with people: their idea of home, their struggles to find a place to live – those forced to the margins of society, as well as those within the system but unable to find/afford it

 

 

The US-Iran Crisis

 

Panelists: Prof. Gulshan Dietl, former Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Maj. Gen. B.K. Sharma, Director, United Services Institute of India

 

 

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

 

 

The ongoing crisis between the US and Iran did bring the world to the brink of a disastrous war in early January 2020. The crisis is not showing any sign of resolution. We shall look into the genesis of the crisis, the dangers it poses to the two countries, the region, the rest of the world, and in particular to India; the role of the external actors and their goals; and how rational diplomacy can help untie this Gordian knot

 

  

A group Odissi performance by Sutra Foundation

 

Artistic Direction: Ramli Ibrahim, Chairman Sutra Foundation, Kuala Lumpur

 

 

Dancers will include Ramli Ibrahim

 

(Collaboration: Sutra Foundation, Malaysia)

GANDHI MATTERS

 

Bhartiya Adhunika: Gandhi Nehru Samvad

By Purushottam Agrawal

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Henrik Ibsen in Translation

 

Readings in the original Norwegian and Hindi by Astri Ghosh, interpreter, teacher, writer and translator who has translated twelve plays by Henrik Ibsen into Hindi

 

 

 

Readings by Ila Arun and Astri Ghosh

 

Followed by a panel discussion with Ila Arun; Anuradha Kapoor; Prof. Harish Trivedi; and Astri Ghosh

 

 

 

Moderator: Antara Dev Sen

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Norway)

Neeli Raag (True Blue)

(85 min; 2018; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Directed by Swati Dandekar who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Indigo is not just a colour, it never was…it was wealth, it was mystique, it was colonialism, tyranny and protest. It made history, but itself fell prey to the events and processes of time, until one day it seemed to disappear. As the world begins to demand natural dyes once again, it is back in the spotlight. Traversing the verdant monsoon of Tamil Nadu, the earthy expanse of springtime Telangana, and the wintry desert of Kachch, Neeli Raag  is an attempt to tell the story of indigo as it is practiced today