6-10 Dec; online and physical
Day 3, 8 Dec; Online Shows!
1) I Want My Father Back
Dir: Suma Josson; 50 min; Marathi with English subtitles; 2007; India; Doc; Retro I
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It is a documentary on the suicide of farmers in Vidarbha, Maharashtra.
It is a portrayal of a 55-year-old woman who has modeled for art students and artists for 30 years.
3)Thar
Dir : Sanjiv Shah; 60 min; English; 1995; India; Doc; Retro II
Migration due to lack of opportunities, natural calamities, civil strife and forced displacement due to ‘development’ projects have made India a country with one of the largest homeless populations in the world. The film argues for broader and inclusive imagination of our villages, towns and cities; acknowledgement of the fundamental rights of people to shelter and food and a model of development that is rooted in the ecology of the land.
5) Hockey in My Blood
Dir : Sandhya Kumar; 52 min; Eng, Kodava Takk with Eng subtitles; 2015; India; Doc; Filmmaker
in Focus
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2) Butterfly Stand Still
Dir: 20 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2011; India; Doc; Retro I
Dir: 20 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2011; India; Doc; Retro I
It is a portrayal of a 55-year-old woman who has modeled for art students and artists for 30 years.
3)Thar
Dir : Sanjiv Shah; 60 min; English; 1995; India; Doc; Retro II
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A minister of the Govt. of India, or may be a leading politician of the time, was once being taken on a tour of the Jaisalmer district. Travelling for a while through the region and song the lush green Khadins, the water filled nadis, and the not-so-poor looking people, he kept on saying that this was not a 'registaan' ('ise registaan kahte ho?'). The journey continued and he kept on castigating the local people for insisting on calling the land a 'barren desert';. The sun climbed on and lunch was taken. The journey resumed and the temperatures outside rose to unbearable limits. The minister desired the cavalcade to stop for a brief rest. But where were they to stop. For miles on end there were no trees and no shade. All was dry; barren and bleak. And one of the local persons accompanying the minister said, & 'Sab, ye registaan hai!';
Apocryphal though the story may be, it succinctly illustrates the paradox that is the Thaar. A unique landmass that looks bleak and hostile with undulating sand dunes, lowly rock hills bereft of vegetation, saline marshes, and little vegetation, and yet supports a large human and anima population an moderate comfort. The documentary attempts to capture the spirit of the land and the people, who together have evolved into a rich, multifaceted society, and survived through centuries of droughts and scarcities. And the fate of the same land and people now, when the promise of modern science, knowledge and 'development', has brought them on the crossroads which lead into the unknown future.
Redemption or destruction is the question. And which road to travel on, what direction to take?
4) A Place to Live
Dir : Sanjiv Shah; 92 min; multiple Indian languages with Eng subtitles; 2018; India; Doc; Retro II
A minister of the Govt. of India, or may be a leading politician of the time, was once being taken on a tour of the Jaisalmer district. Travelling for a while through the region and song the lush green Khadins, the water filled nadis, and the not-so-poor looking people, he kept on saying that this was not a 'registaan' ('ise registaan kahte ho?'). The journey continued and he kept on castigating the local people for insisting on calling the land a 'barren desert';. The sun climbed on and lunch was taken. The journey resumed and the temperatures outside rose to unbearable limits. The minister desired the cavalcade to stop for a brief rest. But where were they to stop. For miles on end there were no trees and no shade. All was dry; barren and bleak. And one of the local persons accompanying the minister said, & 'Sab, ye registaan hai!';
Apocryphal though the story may be, it succinctly illustrates the paradox that is the Thaar. A unique landmass that looks bleak and hostile with undulating sand dunes, lowly rock hills bereft of vegetation, saline marshes, and little vegetation, and yet supports a large human and anima population an moderate comfort. The documentary attempts to capture the spirit of the land and the people, who together have evolved into a rich, multifaceted society, and survived through centuries of droughts and scarcities. And the fate of the same land and people now, when the promise of modern science, knowledge and 'development', has brought them on the crossroads which lead into the unknown future.
Redemption or destruction is the question. And which road to travel on, what direction to take?
4) A Place to Live
Dir : Sanjiv Shah; 92 min; multiple Indian languages with Eng subtitles; 2018; India; Doc; Retro II
Migration due to lack of opportunities, natural calamities, civil strife and forced displacement due to ‘development’ projects have made India a country with one of the largest homeless populations in the world. The film argues for broader and inclusive imagination of our villages, towns and cities; acknowledgement of the fundamental rights of people to shelter and food and a model of development that is rooted in the ecology of the land.
5) Hockey in My Blood
Dir : Sandhya Kumar; 52 min; Eng, Kodava Takk with Eng subtitles; 2015; India; Doc; Filmmaker
in Focus
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Hockey in my Blood is a film about hockey in Coorg, told through the story of the Kodava Hockey Festival, a tournament played between the families of Coorg. Kodavas, the people of Coorg, are a martial-tribal community known for strong ties to land and family. Every year, players from over 200 families come together to play in their own hockey tournament – The Kodava Hockey Festival. There is no bar on age or gender. The only rule of forming a team is that all members must be from the same family. Young boys and girls, fathers, uncles, mothers, professionals and even former Olympic heroes, are all players. With the families playing for bragging rights for the rest of the year, victories are hard fought and competition can get heated. At the end of the month-long event, there will be just one winning team but many winners, the sport and the sense of community not least among them.
Welcome to The Kodava Hockey Festival!
6) Memory of a Light
Dir: Sandhya Kumar; 26 min; English; 2014; India; Doc; Filmmaker in Focus
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Memory of a Light is a visual essay on nostalgia for the childhood house. What makes the experience of the first home so unforgettable? Does the core of this experience lie in the structure and design of the house or in things that cannot be measured, yet make impressions on the senses? From memories of architectural details to accounts of lived experience, the film moves between many rooms, many corners of a past and windows of the present, exploring the core of the childhood home.
7) Via Frequency
Dir: Susanna Cherian; 4.07 min; English; 2019; India
7) Via Frequency
Dir: Susanna Cherian; 4.07 min; English; 2019; India
The Community radio at Vizhundamavadi acts as a means of informing and mobilizing the coastal communities in times of natural disasters. During Cyclone Gaja, the Kalanjiam Samuga Vanoli played a crucial role in providing relief information and in aiding the locals to safety. The Radio has its own rural reporters. The radio station which is 3kms from the coast, does not cover just local issues but has also emerged as an opportunity for young local talent to get recognized through sharing their music and stories. Thus, even when there is no calamity, the radio station serves as a medium of educating and empowering the masses.
9) Two Autumns in Wyszogród
Dir: Amit Mahanti & Ruchika Negi; 60.03 min; Polish with Eng subtitles; India; 2020
Dir: Amit Mahanti & Ruchika Negi; 60.03 min; Polish with Eng subtitles; India; 2020
In 2015, the wreckage of a Soviet Red Army plane shot down by the Nazis at the end of World War II was excavated from a tributary of the Vistula River, near the town of Wyszogród in Poland. The Soviet origin of the plane drew a lot of attention because of Poland’s tenuous relationship with Russia (and erstwhile USSR) and the continuing debate over its communist legacy. Was the wreckage a symbol of Poland’s war-torn past that should be commemorated, or a bitter reminder of another nation’s domination and control? What did the wreckage mean for Wyszogród and why did it choose to house it?
10) Pena
Dir: Ilya Povolotskiy; 85 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2019
10) Pena
Dir: Ilya Povolotskiy; 85 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2019
SUBPOLAR COWBOYS OCCUPY THE RUINS OF EMPIRE ‘Froth’ depicts the customs and
everyday life on the coast of the Barents Sea. At the heart of the narrative are the stories of three
ordinary people. The characters are united by an incredible blend of humility, inherent rebelliousness, a very specific moral code, and attitude towards life. Nowhere except for these hills and severe sea can they find peace, while they hustle through the days and the waves making froth.
11) El Padre Medico
Dir: Vytautas Puidokas; 102 min; Portuguese-Spanish-German-French-Lithuanian; Brazil,
Lithuania; 2019
WHO ARE YOU – THE LOCAL HERO OF AMAZONIAN JUNGLE AND SAVIOR OR BRUTAL ABUSERAND MURDERER?
A Lithuanian doctor, priest and a war refugee Alexander Ferdinand Bendoraitis (1919-1998) resettles to the Amazonian jungle in the 1960's and becomes a local hero: establishes a boat-clinic network, first jungle radio, starts the pacification of local indigenous tribes and builds the most modern hospital in the Amazonia. Yet, as he gets involved in a brutal crime, countless fake narratives that he had created around himself begin to resurface.
12) Long Live King David
Dir: Ido Zand & Yael Leibovitz; 59 min; Hebrew with Eng subtitles; Israel; 2019
Is the Biblical story about David's legendary Kingdom indeed true? The film takes us on a journey to find the answer and reveals unexpected findings – about the present.
13) Vovan
Dir: Alexandra Zaytseva; 12.42 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2019
Vladimir Kolokoltsev, a senior sergeant in Fire Department No. 42, risks his life every day to save people from the fire, despite his family's disapproval.
14) Edit as if I disappeared
Dir: Oksana Timchenko; 15.09 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2019
15) Bamboo Ballads
Dir: Sajid Naduthody; 29.49 min; Malayalam with Eng subtitles; 2020
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It is the story of a school student Naina Febin who uses music to conserve her favorite plant, Bamboo. She plants bamboo saplings in every available space. She distributes bamboo saplings to the families in her neighborhood. Naina is writing a book on bamboo. She has formed a bamboo music band that uses instruments only made out of bamboo.
16) The Last Illusion
Dir: Vladimir Feklneko; 15.57 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
17) Performance
Dir : Nina Moiseeva,; 20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
An artist fakes suicide during a performance in order to learn what it’s like to be dead.
18) I want to go home
Dir: Tatyana Lyalina; 14.05 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
He wanted to go home so badly that he just got up out of his grave and went. But it turns out that his home was now occupied.
19) Tooth
Dir: Siman Lyashenko; 7.58 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A young father preparing for the public protest is distracted by his six-year-old son who has loose tooth. While the father is persuading his son to pull it out, the police come up to their front door.
20) Talent
Dir: Oleg Ageychev; 9.57 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A young actor decided to play grief for real...at the real funeral...
21) Tsoy is Dead
Dir: Alexander Solovyov; 5.20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
21) Tsoy is Dead
Dir: Alexander Solovyov; 5.20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
Nine-year-old Kim lives in North Korea. Surrounded by a totalitarian regime every day is the same - until the moment when Viktor Tsoy’s rock concert interferes with the usual TV Signal. Kim is shocked by what he sees and becomes obsessed by the rock star, trying to move and dance like him. Kim is not the same person anymore, but will his new personality be accepted by his surroundings?
22) Under the Stork’s Nest
Dir : Ani Oganesyan; 20 min; Armenian with Eng subtitles; Armenia; 2020
The film takes place in a small Armenian village. The main character Aaron during a football game unsuccessfully kicks the ball right into the tandoor. The loss is not great, but the ball is not his but his friend Grieg’s. Moreover, it was brought from the World Cup. Now Aaron must return the same ball to him.
23) Freedom of Choice
Dir : Alexey Medvedev; 21 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020
A fatal accident - hostage-taking in a faraway country - brings together an important diplomat, his unfaithful wife and her lover. To be saved, they need to act together, but is it possible when hatred is stronger than the desire to live, a sense of duty is more important than reputation, and betrayal is higher than love?
24) Pe (The Umbrella)
Dir : Rakesh Moirangthem; 8.49 min; Manipuri with Eng subtitles; India; 2019
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An old and torn umbrella, but a protection for this poor father and son in the days of rain and heat. The next moment of the fearsome wind blew that very umbrella down to the river. The son filled with excitement whilst the father trying his best from the river back to get his jewel back. Seeing the father, the son remembers all those days where that old and torn umbrella protected them from heat and the rain. What does he do?
25) Wantok
Dir : Dmitrii Komarov; 7 min; Tok Pisin with Eng subtitles; Papua New Guinea
The boy forced to run away from his home village of Papua New Guinean remote province overtaken by conflict between neighboring tribes into the country capital. The path is dangerous but he meets a militiaman on his way, who seems volunteering to assist in reaching of his destination.
26) In Shadows We Hide
Dir : Malyaj Awasthi; 25 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2019
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The film is a modern day tale set in Urban India, portraying the turmoil of city life through the protagonist’s eyes. Arjun, an unemployed youth, is looking for an ATM to withdraw money, where he rushes an unconscious man, a stranger, to the hospital. What transpires is a day of reckoning for him and his relationship with people in his life and around him. As Arjun tries to cope up with the reality of a failed marriage and a lost family, a single day in his life gives us a glimpse of the solace urban life.
27) Songs For Babasaheb
Dir : Aranya Sahay; 11.49 min; Marathi, Hindi, English with Eng subtitles; 2019
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‘Songs For Babasaheb’ attempts to explore the tradition of Shahiri (poetry & music) in Mahrashtra and various other art forms that have been fundamental to the expression of Dalits in Maharashtra.
28) Moti Bagh
Dir: Nirmal Chander; 59.23 min; English subtitles; 2019; India; Doc; Director’s Cut
83 year old Vidyadutt Sharma holds the record for growing the heaviest radish in India weighing 23 kgs. He now aims to beat the world record of 31 kgs. Over the last five decades, he has built up Moti Bagh, his 5 acre farm in a small Himalayan village in northern India. Around him lie 7000 ghost villages, left to die, with no one to till the land – a chilling testimony to large scale migration by locals in search of employment in the cities.
With no manpower at their disposal, the few locals are employing Nepali labour. But there is unease because of this dependence and the growing influence of the Nepalis.As market forces exert pressure, family dynamics are also changing. Vidyadutt’s journalist son, Tribhuvan, lives and works in Pauri, a large town 35 kms from Moti Bagh. His two children wish to chase their own dreams in the metros.
Vidyadutt Sharma, farmer, activist and poet, chronicles the changing landscape in verses of resistance. As he and Ram Singh, his Nepali farmhand, plough the fields to keep a dream called Moti Bagh alive, we wonder if it will ever return to its old glory.
29) Mod Bhaang
Dir: Renu Savant; 60 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; 2019; India; Doc; Director’s Cut
Forming a continuum of my documentation in the Indian village of Mirya, Mod Bhaang (The Ebb
Tide), is the second in a trilogy of films about this place. Mirya is my ancestral village on the western coast of India and lies beside the sea. Fishing is one of the main activities of livelihood here.
Shooting within Mirya as an insider-outsider and negotiating with caste, gender and cultural politics in the village as a woman filmmaker, has been the major part of my work in the past three years.
30) God On The Edge
Dir: Ashok Patel; 46 min; English, Bengali with Eng subtitles; 2015; India; IDPA
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On the 6th of December 1961, a life altering choice was made by Mohammed Jaan Baksh. He chose to dedicate his life to serve elephants. He was only eleven years old. His brotherhood with elephants began as the assistant Mahut (Elephant Keeper) to & ‘Shivprasad’, the elephant who became the catalyst for much pain and disillusion in his life a few years later. He abandoned his family on more than one occasion to be with elephants.
The growing ‘Man’ ‘Animal’ conflict is a worry for Mohammed Jaan Baksh and many other elephant lovers like him. As this battle gets intense every day, elephants are fast losing their ground. They are no match to a 1000 ton moving metal at 80 km/h on a rail track. They are no match to a weak looking, rational thinking humans invading & fragmenting their home. Numerous elephants and humans die in this battle of ownership.
Millions of Indians celebrate and worship ‘Lord Ganesha’ the Elephant God. Folding our hands in prayers we ask the Lord to fulfill our dreams and to take away our sorrows. But do we ever hear the Lord’s painful cries ? Do we even care he exist ?
31) Vilakshan Pratibha (Amazing Talent)
Dir: Bipin Choubal; IDPA
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The village of Budhela, in India’s Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh, India, could possibly have one of the wonders of the world – a school of about 300 children who are trained to be ambidextrous. Ambidexterity is defined as the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well. Birangad Prasad Sharma, the founder and Principal of Veena Vadini Public School, trains children from an early age to write using both hands at the same time. These children not only learn to write six different languages - Hindi, English, Urdu, Sanskrit, Roman and Arabic - but also can write in two different languages at the same time. With about only one percent of the population having the ability to be naturally ambidextrous, this documentary explores the unusual but amazing talent of an entire school being able to do so.
The documentary also presents opinions and views of ex-students, parents who have enrolled their children, adults who have enrolled themselves and experts from the fields of Psychology and Psychiatry. While there is consensus that Veena Vadini Public School is training students in a remarkable skill, it remains to be seen how relevant this skill will be in the overall development of a child and if this ability can be successfully used in other facets of life.
32) ARDDHSHAKTI – WE THE POLITICAL WOMEN
Dir: Vatsala Shoukla; 28 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; Doc; IDPA
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The documentary film, Arddhshakti – We the Political Women, portrays the voices and standpoints of phenomenal women in Mumbai. It traces the journey of women’s struggle for political representation, which began in early 20th century with an incredible strength and solidarity of Indian women’s movement. Set against the backdrop of nearly two and a half decades of women’s political participation in urban governance, the film showcases the stories of courage and confidence of fifty women corporators.
The film is premised upon two broad movements that grew in India - the movement for women’s political voice and the demand for democratic decentralization. The film highlights and integrates the critical questions of women’s political rights and the devolution of power into the municipal Government to enable greater grassroots democracy in India. The film recognizes the significance of democratic decentralization process in India.
With the volume and varieties of political agency opened up for women, the film investigates the effectiveness of women’s reservation and its role in empowering women. Grassroots political women bring in diverse standpoints and represent voices from margins and minorities. Their entry into politics is remarkable and indicates both their personal and political evolution
33) Once Upon A Sky
IDPA
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This film is a tribute to life, while we are still living. The film follows the story of an Indian paraglider, Gurpreet Dhindsa and gazes upon this man’s total commitment to flying and engages with the idea that adventure sports is closest to being most alive and we know that best when we come to injuries. Injuries are variable here, some are fears, most are obstacles and finally of-course the ones which are external, which reveal as the film unfolds. The challenge is to get better than our circumstances and that brings out the real one in us. Gurpreet has given up things on earth to be in the skies.
34) Boots
Direction: R.Siva
A drop in the anarchic history of the police.
35) Sirikkum Durga
Direction: Saravanan Palanichamy.
The film is a testament to the child marriage that still exists in society today.
36) Kalki
Direction: Vinmathi Ganesan.
The film tells the plight of women in a new perspective.
37) Ezhil
Direction: Vimalraj
The story emphasizes the need to praise and protect the heroes who fought for liberation
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1) Indian films
2) International films
3) Retro I - Suma Josson
4) Retro II - Sanjay Shah
5) Filmmaker in Focus - Sandhya Kumar
6) Films from Tamilnadu
7) Director's Cut
8) Student films
9) Films from IDPA
Films will be available from 12 am to 12 am for 24 hours!
Vilakshan Pratibha (Amazing Talent)
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