19 August 2016, 05:30 am
TRAVELLING FILM SOUTH ASIA 2016 – A FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES
Programme Type
Festivals
TRAVELLING FILM SOUTH ASIA 2016 – A FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES
Drawing the Tiger (Nepal)
(92 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)
Directors: Ramyata Limbu, Amy Benson, Scott Squire
The UNICEF Award for Best Film on Children’s Issues, Film South Asia Festival, Kathmandu 2015
Filmed over seven years, Drawing the Tiger is an intimate portrait of a family in Nepal who get a chance to break their cycle of poverty
AT 19:40
Accesex (India)
(52 min; 2013; dvd; English and with subtitles)
Directed by Shweta Ghosh who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
Beautiful. Ugly. Complete. Incomplete. Able. Disabled. Within stifling dichotomies of normal and abnormal, lie millions of women negotiating with their identities. This film explores notions of beauty, the ‘ideal body’ and sexuality through four storytellers
