Open Frame 2012: A Festival of Films
10:00 Sadir to Bharatanatyam (27 min; 2012)
Director: Viveka Chauhan
11:00 Rice and Rasam (52 min; 2012)
Director: Ramchandra P.N.
12:30 The Ageless Tramp (52 min; 2012)
Director: Nimesh Desai
15:00 Marine Drive (52 min; 2012)
Director: Krishna Bagadiya
16:00 Memories and Forgetfulness (52 min; 2012)
Director: Ani Thomas
17:30 Timbaktu (30 min; 2012)
Directors: Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh
18:15 Stir. Fry. Simmer (54 min; 2012)
Director: Vani Subramanian
19:15 Discussion on The Politics of Food
Screenings of award-winning documentaries followed by discussion with directors, and film-appreciation workshops Film synopses at www.psbt.org
A Festival of Films
Screenings of award-winning documentaries followed by discussion with directors, and film-appreciation workshops Film synopses at www.psbt.org
The State of Surveillance and the Contested Self
10:00 Tales from a Place Less Travelled: Azamgarh (52 min; 2011)
Director: Shakeb Ahmed
11:30 This or that Particular Person (27 min; 2012)
Director: Subasri Krishnan
12:30 The Right to Live (52 min; 2002)
Director: M.S. Sathyu
Discussion with Usha Ramanathan and filmmakers moderated by Iram Ghufran
14:30 Rough 'Em Up (40 min; 2012)
Director: Sanjay Barnela
15:30 Fragments of a Past (54 min; 2012)
Director: Uma Chakravarti
17:00 The Women in Blue Berets (48 min; 2012)
Director: Farida Pacha
18:00 The Saroj Khan Story (57 min; 2012)
Director: Nidhi Tuli
19:45 Cancer Katha (26 min; 2012)
Director: Vasudha Joshi
Discussion moderated by Anupama Srinivasan
Open Frame 2012: A Festival of Films
Screenings of award-winning documentaries followed by discussion with directors, and film-appreciation workshops Film synopses at www.psbt.org
The Politics of Freedom
10:00 Whistles and Bullets (54 min; 2012)
Director: Devi Prasad Mishra
11:30 Freedom Song (52 min; 2012)
Directors: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Subi Chaturvedi
Discussion moderated by Subasri Krishnan
14:00 Gaur in my Garden (26 min; 2012)
Director: Rita Banerji
14:45 Light on the Dark Side (26 min; 2012)
Directors: Geeta & Avinash Kumar Singh
15:30 Nirnay (Decision) (56 min; 2012)
Directors: Pushpa Rawat & Anupama Srinivasan
17:00 Much Ado about Knotting (52 min; 2012)
Directors: Geetika Narang Abbasi & Anandana Kapur
18:30 A Farmer from Kuttanad (52 min; 2012)
Director: Santosh Sivan
Discussion moderated by Akanksha Joshi
Yak Horns: Notes on Contemporary Tibetan Writing, Music, Film and Politics
Author Bhuchung D. Sonam will be in conversation with Mr Tenzin Tsundue
Chair: Ms Swati Chopra, author of Dharamsala Diaries
Poetry Readings
By Virginia Jealous from Australia
A freelance travel writer and former emergency relief worker, Virginia Jealous' writing is informed by a sense of "place""”as an outsider looking in or an insider looking out. Her collection, Things Turned Upside Down, was published by Picaro Press in 2011
Chair: Dr H.K. Kaul
The Room (60 min)
Director: Vikramjit Sinha
Presented by Kalasmriti Productions, with Farhad Colabavala, Zain Khan, Dhruv Raj Gupta, Panchali Dutta, Anasuya Agarwala, Anuradha Khera and Arjun Khera
This contemporary adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's The Rope (1929) is set in a Delhi farmhouse, where two upper-middle-class youths who commit murder brazenly throw a dinner party to which they invite the victim's relatives and close friends
Ritu ke Rang
Presented by Ustad Aslam Hussain Khan, senior artiste, with Ustad Vajahat Hussain Khan
A programme of rare ragas to mark the birth centenary of Gayan Samrat Ustad Azmat Hussain Khan
Odissi Recital
By Rajnita Banerjee from Kolkata, disciple of Guru Ratikant Mohapatra and Smt. Sujata Mohapatra
TAANA BAANA: The Warp and Weft of India
(22 min, 2012,
A film by Q
Set as a musical, Taana Baana: The warp and weft of
Golden Jubilee Lecturs on Governance
Governing Diversity
Speaker: Dr. Amitabh Kundu, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, JNU
Chair: Dr. Ajay K. Mehra, Director (Honorary), Centre for Public Affairs
