Organised in collaboration with Impresario India

Surjer Antim Kiran Theke Surjer Prothom Kiran Porjonto

Director: Purnendu Bhattacharya, Theatre Platform

Followed by
Mahamaya

Director: Suhan Basu, Japonchitro theatre group

Ebrahim Alkazi: Holding Time Captive

By Amal Allana (Penguin Random House: 2024)

In Conversation with the Author
Amal Allana in conversation with Dr. Naman P. Ahuja, Cultural Historian

Followed by Readings from the book
By Sonam Kalra, Singer/Actress and Rehaan Engineer, Director/Actor

(Collaboration: Penguin Random House)

Champions (Campeones/Spain)
(124 min; 2018; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Javier Fesser

Multiple award winner including CEC Award for Best New Actor, Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 2019; Audience Award for Best Spanish Film, Fotogramas de Plata 2019; Award for Best Spanish Film, Sant Jordi Awards 2019; among others

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Campeones is a comedy-drama about a basketball team featuring actors with developmental disabilities. The movie explores the theme of prejudices in a hilariously heart-warming fashion. Marco is an assistant basketball coach for a major Spanish league team with attitude issues that have affected both his personal and professional life. After drunk driving into the back of a police car, Marco is ordered to do community service, by coaching a team of individuals with disabilities. 

(Collaboration: Action for Autism; and Embassy of Spain)
 

Illustrated lecture by Raghvendra Singh, former Secretary, Ministry of Textiles and the Ministry of Culture; former Director General, National Archives of India, National Library and the National Museum and the CEO, Development of Museums and Cultural Spaces, Govt. of India and curator of the exhibition “India’s Roots and Routes” currently on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

Chair: Dr. William Dalrymple, Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
 

Carnatic Classical Music – Vocal  Recital

By Elangovan Govidnarajan and party

(Collaboration: Gayathri Fine Arts)
 

For an Outstanding Woman Mediaperson of the Year

Followed by
B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture

Work and Wages: Old Challenges in the Age of Automation and AI
To be delivered by T.N. Ninan, Editor and author

(Organised by The Media Foundation)

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Sayani Chakraborty and Santanu Roy from Kolkata, disciples of Smt.  Rama Vaidyanathan and Shri. Samrat Dutta respectively.

At 19:00
Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Deepti Bansal from Delhi, disciple of Vidushi Savita Devi 
Accompanists: Pandit Bharat Bhushan Goswami (Sarangi); Shri Shokat Qureshi (Tabla) and Dr Ravi Pal (Harmonium) 

Concert – Piano Recital

By Prof. Laurens Patzlaff, well-known pianist from Germany

IAWRT Schedule

The 19th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival: 7 to 9 March 2024

The 19th edition of the festival brings together a collection of over 60 films from across 20 countries, directed by women filmmakers of Asian origin. The festival showcases feature films, documentaries, short fiction, animation, student films and experimental work and a focus on short fiction films from Iran. The festival includes a homage to Chandita Mukherjee with a screening of her film “Totanama” (32 min/1991). 

Organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio &Television, Chapter India; Embassy of France; Alliance Française, New Delhi; Institute Français; Breakthrough; Delhi Tourism; Max Mueller Bhavan-Goethe Institut; INKO Centre, Chennai; Kerala Travels; and Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation

Screenings will be held in the Auditorium on 7, 8 and 9 March 2024 from 09:30 onwards. Some of the filmmakers will be present for post-screening discussions 

Highlights of the festival include:

On 7 March 2024 at 18:00
Opening Ceremony
Followed by screening of the film
 

The Siren (France/Germany/Luxembourg/Belgium)
(100 min; 2023; Farsi with English subtitles) 
Director: Sepideh Farsi

Multiple award winning animated feature, celebrated all over the world. The film examines the human cost of war and how it scars generations

Exhibitions:
Daastaan-e-rafoo
Stories in stiches -an exhibition of embroidered works created by women of Rafooghar – The House that mends. The works on display are based on the themes of Mapping Mobility-Zindagi ka Naksha – maps of the domestic lives and daily routine of the women; and Expressive Portraits –Meri Pehchaan – embroidered portraits of women, centred around their identities

On view in the Foyer outside the Auditorium

The Love Lihaaf Baithak
A collective stitching experience – join the women of Rafooghar – The House that mends to add stitches to the work-in-process quilt
On display are process photographs, embroidered hoops, bags and story cloths

Learn Through Stories
An exhibition of illustrated books and stories by Alka Hingorani 

Both exhibitions are on view in the Quadrangle Garden from 7 to 9 March 2024

7 to 9 March 2024 in Conference Room I
Workshop from 10:00 to 17:30: Balancing Acts

A three-day workshop on balancing messaging and storytelling in films. Participants will be trained in writing scripts and making films which are both entertaining and gender sensitive

The Devourer (74 min; 2023; English)
Directed by Lavrenty Repin, journalist and filmmaker, who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Following the journey of a young traditional healer from South Africa, on a visit to an ailing elder shaman and his family, The Devourer reveals a misrepresented and endangered indigenous (!Xoon) community, living precariously on the border of Namibia and Botswana.