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
