Bharatamata ki Jai (27 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Directors: Amol Ranjan; Anurag Mazumdar; Arpita Chakraborty; Avadhoot Khanolkar; & Shweta Radhakrishnan
A lively and exuberant story of a 75 - year old cinema based in Mumbai's working class locality

Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers

Vanity Box (21 min; 2011; short fiction; India)
Director: Diksha Grover
Stories come tumbling out in a beauty parlour. What really lies inside the vanity box?

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Boxing Ladies (26 min; 2010; documentary; India)
Director: Anusha Nandakumar
The story of three remarkable sisters, national level women boxers who also happen to be Muslim

Colours (4 min; 2012; short fiction; Iran)
Director: Naghmeh Dehghani
A child's hand draws a picture; the picture changes as the home environment changes

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

20 Fingers (72 min; 2004; feature; Iran)
Director: Mania Akbari
A precisely crafted film with just two actors revealing the divergent points of view of men and women

From 14:30 - 16:00
My Sweet Baby (68 min; 2010; documentary; South Korea)
Director: Ryu Mi-rye
The director observes herself as a mother and as a person during the past 10 years as she brings up three children

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 16:20 - 18:10
Presence (17 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Directors: Yashaswini B. R. & Ekta Mittal
A film about stories of ghosts narrated by migrant workers who inhabit a city in transition

Where Do I Belong? (68 min; 2008; documentary; Iran)
Director: Mahvash Sheikholeslami
A powerful documentary on Iranian women who marry Afghan men and live on either side of the Iran-Afghanistan border

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 18:30 - 20:10
The Girl Princess (81 min; 2011; documentary; South Korea)
Director: Kim Hye-jung
The film looks at traces of female Gukgeuk, a type of Korean musical with an all female cast, which enjoyed a golden age during the 1950s
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Vayro (20 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Director: Aashini Shah
A film about three middle-aged people who are trying to bond with a younger generation

Assimilation (20 min; 2012; short fiction; Hong Kong)
Director: Cheung Wai Yin
Britman, a little boy who grows up in Hong Kong with a British-style education and his struggles in secondary school where Chinese and Mandarin is the norm

The Two Lines (82 min; 2011; documentary; South Korea)
Director: Ji-min
A filmmaker questions the meaning of marriage through her own story of being an unwed mother

From 14:15 to 16:00
Rup Rupantar (19 min; 2009; documentary; India)
Director: Viveka Chauhan
A film about the folk art form of Bohurupias, who are trying to keep their own space in a modern world

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

My Grandfather's Yakshi (14 min; 2011; short fiction; India)
Director: Anoodha Kunnath
A young man reminiscences about his late grandfather, reliving a story once told to him

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Sawali (16 min; 2012; short fiction; India)
Director: Arya Rothe
A young woman can't eat, smell, digest food. Her hunger creates a shadow that eats

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Dhadi: The Ballads of Punjab (16 min; 2011; documentary; India)
Director: Nupur Nijhawan
Film on Dhadi Kala or the tradition of reciting tales from history accompanied by the powerful strains of folk music to glorify a patron which has survived many masters through the centuries until today

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 16:20 to 18:15
Because (17 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Director: Neetole Mitra
An attempt to understand power struggles in a romantic man-woman relationships

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

The Creeper, the Alien & Other Stories (21 min; 2011; documentary; India)
Director: Sandhya Ramachandran
Ashish Lakhia tells us about The Creeper, the Alien & other stories through objects that he has collected over the years

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Breakin' Mumbai (33 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Directors: Aakriti Kholi; Gin Khan Siam; Sandeep Kumar Singh; Shweta Ghosh; & Sumit Singh
The film tries to understand the dynamics of breaking; exploring questions of space and the avenues for leisure in Mumbai

Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers

Thus a Noise Speaks (38 min; 2010; documentary/fiction; Japan)
Director: Kaori Oda
The filmmaker returns home from abroad and comes out to her family

Wakefulness (13 min; 2010; short fiction; Iran)
Director: Noushin Meraji
Accompanied by his young son on a jungle road, a man is looking for his lost wife

Moones (15 min; 2011; short fiction; Iran)
Director: Afsaneh Mohtashami
The gentle rhythm of the everyday life of a couple who seek to have a child but can't

The Rock (10 min; 2010; animation; Iran)
Director: Sarah Namjoo
In a barren landscape a solitary man prays to a huge rock everyday

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Sick (10 min; 2012; short fiction; Hong Kong)
Director: Chu Hoi Ying
A girl notices her mother's strange behavior one night"¦

21 Days and Me (58 min; 2011; documentary; Iran)
Director: Shirin Barghnavard
The filmmaker shares her dilemma of whether she should be a mother or not

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 14:30 to 16:20
Hoi Choi (96 min; 2012; feature; India)
Director: Debarati Gupta
The trials and tribulations of a small independent theatre group

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 16:40 to 18:10
American Alley (90 min; 2008; documentary; South Korea)
Director: Kim Dong-ryung
The film follows the lives of migrant women who live and work as entertainers in GI clubs in Dongducheon area

From 18:30 - 20:30
Green Grey (20 min; 2010; documentary; Iran)
Director: Laleh Barzegar
An experimental piece imbued with love and longing for trees in the urban jungle of Teheran

A Woman Sings Under the Ice (10 min; 2011; animation; Iran)
Director: Maryam Khalizadeh
A poignant tale of a father and son living a lonely life

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Self Portrait with 3 Women (75 min; 2010; documentary; China)
Director: Mengqi Zhang
Mengqi's own search, delving into her life and that of her mother and grandmother

Shame Was a Place Inside My Heart
Installation by Priyanka Chhabra and Manmeet Kaur

The installation explores the psychology of the emotion of shame, where it stems from and how it comes to make a home in women's bodies and minds

Inauguration

Followed by
Facing Mirrors (Iran)
(120 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Negar Azarbayjani

Screening will be followed by a discussion with the producer, Fereshteh Taerpour

Delhi premiere of a film about being transgendered in Iran, made with affection and sensitivity

Community Radio and Democracy in South Asia
The seminar looks at the journey of the people of South Asia for self-expression through community radio. Community radio practitioners/activists/legal experts from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan will speak about their respective country's experiences and the obstacles

Welcome address: Anupama Srinivasan, Secretary, IAWRT
Introduction: Ratnabali Mitra, radio broadcaster and trainer for the last 30 years who has conceived and coordinated the seminar

Keynote address by Rukmini Vemraju, Programme Officer (Livelihood), Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (Cemca)

Presentation by Algole Narsamma, Sangham Radio, DDS

The 9th edition of the festival of films by Asian women filmmakers includes a range of genres - animation, documentary, experimental, short fiction and fiction feature. A focus on films from Iran and South Korea; and a special package of outstanding student films from India. Apart from films, the festival also includes two exhibitions and a seminar. Organised in collaboration with IAWRT India Chapter; Korean Cultural Centre; Goethe Institute; ActionAid; Sangat South Asia; UNESCO; Public Service Broadcasting Trust; and Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communications

Fragments
Two filmmakers observe the residual, the transient and the intricate in everyday life through their photographic works
Photographs by Monica Bhasin on the streets of Panjim; and Uma Tanaku on ordinary spaces, activities and objects

Opening on Saturday, 2nd March at 18:30

Planning for a Safer City
Speakers: Prof. Amitabh Kundu; and Ms Kalpana Vishwanathan, Jagori

Qawwalis
Presented by Janab Wajahat Hussain Badayuni and party, from the family of the legendary Ustad Zafar Hussain Badayuni

Launch of the Qawwali Heritage Museum

Qawwalis
Presented by Janab Rizwan- Muazzam and party from the family of legendary Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from Pakistan

A symposium on the traditional art form of Qawwali. It includes papers by leading scholars of this art form, and screening of documentary films on Qawwali and on the lives of practitioners

Welcome by Ms Manjari Chaturvedi, President, Sufi Kathak Foundation
Inaugural address by Shri Suresh K. Goel, Director General, ICCR

AT 18:30 IN THE ROSE GARDEN
Qawwalis
Presented by Janab Wajahat Hussain Badayuni and party, from the family of the legendary Ustad Zafar Hussain Badayuni

Launch of the Qawwali Heritage Museum

Qawwalis
Presented by Janab Rizwan- Muazzam and party from the family of legendary Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from Pakistan