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Cities of Sleep (India)
(74 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Shaunak Sen

 

Cities of Sleep is set in a world where just being able to secure a good night’s sleep often becomes a matter of life and death

 

AT 16:00 

My Name is Salt (India)

(92 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Farida Pacha

 

Multiple award winner including Golden Award for Medium Film, Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2015; First Appearance Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2015; Golden Conch for Best International Documentary Film/Video Above 60 minutes & International Jury Award for Best Cinematography, Mumbai International Documentary, Short and Animation Film Festival 2016; Best Documentary Feature Film & EDA Award-Special Commendation, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014; among many others

 

The desert extends endlessly – flat, grey, relentless. This is the Little Rann of Kutch, 5000 sqkms of saline desert in India. And for eight months of the year, Chhanabhai and his family live here without water, electricity or provisions – tirelessly extracting salt from this desolate landscape

 

AT 18:00 

Phum Shang (Floating Life; India)

(52 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Haobam Paban Kumar

 

Loktak, the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, characterised by its unique floating biomass phumdi, is the primary source of livelihood for the fishermen who live on huts built on the phumdis. Today it is considered a dying lake

 

AT 19:00 

A Walnut Tree (Pakistan)

(81 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Ammar Aziz

 

Recipient of the Ram Bahadur Trophy, Film South Asia, Kathmandu 2015

 

An old man reminisces about a distant homeland. He wants to return. Internally displaced from Swat as a result of the ongoing conflict between the Pakistan army and the Taliban and forced to live in a camp, the family is caught between memories of what life was, an insecure present and a bleak future