Shiva Beyond India
02 September 2014, 05:30 am
Shiva Beyond India
Programme Type
Talks
An illustrated talk on the diffusion of Saivite myths to Southeast Asia by Dr. Sachidanand Sahai, expert on Indian and Asian cultural relations and Advisor to APSARA Authority, a Royal Cambodian Government Agency for the Safeguard of Angkor
Chief Guest: Shri Kamlesh, poet and art critic
Chair: Dr. Ganga Nath Jha, Professor and former Chairperson, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, JNU
Open Frame Film Festival and Forum: 2 September 2014
02 September 2014, 05:30 am
Open Frame Film Festival and Forum: 2 September 2014
Programme Type
Festivals
10:00 to 13:30
Screenings and discussions Moderated by Manak Matiyani
The F Word (52 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Saba Rahman
The film chronicles and questions journey of self-discovery, of discrimination, conformity, stereotyping and the filmmaker’s negotiation with a bad body image
11:30
Keep Talking (12 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Radhika Murthy
Through a street play interrupted by conversations with a cross-section of men, the film engages exclusively with men on issues of patriarchy, equality and violence
Bol Ki Lab Aazad Hain Tere (12 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Sania Hashmi and Mohan Kumawat
The film on sexual harassment in public places through the eyes of four women who live and work in the city
12:45
Long Hair Short Ideas (26 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Pallavi Paul
The film attempts to create a conversation between the pressures of excavating a political moment and the elasticity of the documentary form
14:30 to 20:30
Can’t Hide Me (26 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Madhuri Mohindar
The film follows individuals who are taking extraordinary steps to reclaim the spaces that are rightfully theirs, fighting the often invisible barriers that keep women from freedom
15:30
Through the Looking Glass (08 min; dvd; 2006)
Director: Sheetal Gokhale and B. Prasad
The film spans a day in the life of a 24 year old man, caught by his sister experimenting with her clothes and make up one afternoon
15:45
Shame was a Place Inside (12 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Priyanka Chhabra
A moving train through the city. Reflections, windows and cars, carrying voices of people contemplating the nature of shame
16:30
Purple Skies (66 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Sridhar Rangayan
The film weaves together stories of pain, trauma, hope and happiness of lesbian, bisexual and trans (LBT) persons to offer an evocative, endearing tapestry of contemporary Indian LBT lives
18:00
Films introduced by Prof. Shohini Ghosh
Mardistan (Macholand): Reflections on Indian Manhood (26 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Harjant Gill
Through the experiences of four different men, ranging in age from 20s to 40s, Mardistan explores the notion of contemporary manhood in a rapidly globalising India
19:00
Being Bhaijaan (80 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Shabani Hassanwalia and Samreen Farooqui
Bhaijaan explores Indian masculinity by mapping the emotional, spiritual and philosophical contribution Salman Khan makes to the lives of three men in small-town India
Open Frame Film Festival and Forum: 1 and 2 September 2014
01 September 2014, 05:30 am
Open Frame Film Festival and Forum: 1 and 2 September 2014
Programme Type
Festivals
The following screenings and discussions moderated by Shabani Hassanwalia and Samreen Faruqui
10:00 to 14:00
Delhi Diary 2001 (55 min; dvd; 2001; English)
Director: Ranjani Mazumdar
The film attempts to understand the impact of the imposition of Emergency (1975-77) and the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 on the lives of people in the city of Delhi
Sagolgi Eigi Wari (Pony and Me)
(52 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Sunzu Bachaspatimayum
The film is an intimate journey that follows the trail of a society hit by armed conflict, caught up in ethnic politics and ignored by the larger mainstream consciousness
14:00 to 20:00
Screenings and Discussions moderated by Subasri Krishnan
Accounts and Accountability (30 min; dvd; 2001)
Director: Radhika Kaul Batra
The film shows how a group of villagers in Rajasthan, led by Aruna Roy, use the Right to Information Act as a powerful weapon to root out corruption
14:30
The Hunt (26 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Biju Toppo
The film explores the condition of human rights in the Naxal affected areas of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa
15:30
First Cry (52 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Ajay T.G.
This is the story of a remarkable hospital in the mining township of Dalli-Rajhara, Chattisgarh known as Shahid (Martyrs) Hospital
17:00
Passive Euthanasia: Kahaani Karuna Ki (52 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Chetan Shah
It tells the story of Aruna Shanbaug who has been in a persistent vegetative state for 40 years, following her rape
19:00
Candles in the Wind (52 min; dvd; 2014)
Director: Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena
Punjab - the food bowl of India - is in the news for policy induced non-remunerative agriculture and escalating farm suicides
Open Frame Film Festival and Forum: 29 August to 2 September 2014
29 August 2014, 05:30 am
Open Frame Film Festival and Forum: 29 August to 2 September 2014
The fourteenth edition of Open Frame 2014 will show case 40 documentaries by independent filmmakers - from first time to those widely celebrated and applauded. The films reflect on and engage with a variety of themes ranging from deep personal explorations to social commentaries on the worlds we inhabit
The festival includes workshops, discussions, and conversations. For details of the festival and screening schedule, kindly please log onto www.psbt.org and www.iicdelhi.in
