DOCUMENTARY BEARS WITNESS: TRAVELLING FILM SOUTHASIA 2018 - A FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES

DOCUMENTARY BEARS WITNESS: TRAVELLING FILM SOUTHASIA 2018 - A FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES

1 TO 4 AUGUST 2018

 

A festival of 12 exceptional nonfiction films from South Asia produced in the last two years. The festival encapsulates the flavors of the Subcontinent with filmsabout people from Afghanistan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The festival includes the award winners of Film Southasia Festival 2017, Kathmandu as well as other films selected to showcase the variety, treatment and intensity that marks the world of Southasian documentary and non-fiction. Organised with Film Southasia, Kathmandu; and in collaboration with New Imaginations: Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat

 

AT 18:00

Introduction

By Ms Mitu Varma, Director Film Southasia, Kathmandu

 

Followed by

Amdavad Ma Famous (Famous in Ahmedabad; India)

(30 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Hardik Mehta

 

Set during the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the biggest kite-flying festival in India, Amdavad ma Famous, an uplifting transformation of 11-year-old Zaid from child to passionate and aggressive kite-runner

 

AT 18:45 

Demons in Paradise (Sri Lanka)

(94 min; 2017; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Director: Jude Ratnam

 

A Tamil documentary filmmaker in Sri Lanka analyses the two-and half decade long civil war from the inside