Urban Lens Film Festival

Opening remarks: Dr. Leonhard Emmerling, Director Programme, South Asia, Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan

 

Followed by screening of

Pichla Varka (62 min; 2018; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Priyanka Chhabra who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by Priyanka Chhabra in conversation with Anupama Srinivasan

 

Dadi and her friends share a common history: of being Partition refugees who came to India after the state of Pakistan was created and eventually settled in the capital, Delhi. The film looks at the experiences of ordinary women who lived through the violence, uncertainty and trauma of leaving their homeland (mulk) to enter a new country in 1947. How does history play out on ordinary lives, where do households and properties merge

 

(Collaboration: Indian Institute for Human Settlements; and Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan)