Open Frame Film Festival and Forum: 1 and 2 September 2014

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

Amoolya

A collection of textile art and scarves in silk using innovative resist-dyeing techniques
Created by Neha Puri Dhir

Inauguration by Shri Rajeev Sethi on Wednesday, 20th August 2014 at 18.30

Maharashtra Sanskritik Diwas

An Evening of Film Songs

By Samir Date and Dipalee Somaiya, Marathi playback singers from Mumbai

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

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Lakshmi Parthasarathy Athreya from Chennai, disciple of Smt Chitra Visweswaran

On the occasion of Birth Centenary of the Iconic Thespian, Shombhu Mitra

Chand Baniker Pala

A bi-lingual presentation of the maestsro"s opus by Bengali Theatre groups of Delhi

Directed by Santanu Bose

Music: Kajal Ghosh

Benares on the Rhine: India in German Literature – An Overview

Speaker: Prof. Martin Kaempchen, well-known Tagore scholar, author and translator

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Prof. Achin Vanaik, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi; Prof. Peter Ronald de'Souza, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; and Shri Harsh Mander, Social worker and activist will discuss Democracy and the Crisis of Inequality (Delhi; Primus Books, 2014) by Zoya Hasan

Chair: Dr. Sudhai Pai, Rector & Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jumpstart

Learning Through Play
A workshop for teachers organised by Pratham Books

Conducted by Ms Amukta Mahapatra, independent consultant who has been involved with school education for several decades; and Dr. Asha Singh who teaches at the Department of Human Development & Childhood Studies, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi

Keys to India – Where the Piano Meets the Piano

A piano duet with Anil Srinivasan, Chennai-based western classical pianist; and Sharik Hasan, eminent jazz pianist

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