"Earth laughs in flowers" a curated short film festival served with a delicious 4 course meal at Lodi - The Garden Restaurant, Lodhi Road > 8pm onwards on 31st May 2013

Time : 8:00 pm onwards

Entry : Price: Rs. 1700/- per person (inclusive of a four course meal + 1 drink)
For reservations, please call: 9818743232 or email: marketing1@gmail.com or manager.lodi@gmail.com

Place : Lodi - The Garden Restaurant, Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110003
Landmark :  Opposite Mausam Bhavan
Venue Info : About | Next to Lodhi Gardens (Map) | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)' &  'Khan Market(Vilolet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : Lodi – The Garden restaurant will be hosting Earth laughs in flowers, a curated short film festival, showcasing movies from around the Globe, served with a delicious 4 course meal in the alfresco setting of the restaurant. 
Earth laughs in flowers is a visual festival celebrating cinema through a curated experience of a strong culinary subtext. This short film festival juxtaposes chance encounters and shared experiences which finally develop into visual narratives mapping one’s mind into reels of fiction and non-fiction. Each movie displays intimate stories and the effort to express more through less.

FILM TO BE SCREENED & SYNOPSIS 

Significant Non Happenings on Sugar Hill
Director: Agneya Singh
Duration: 14 mins
Country: India
The film explores the daily reality of a young African-American girl as she struggles to reconcile her own ambitions with the grim realities of her existence. It explores the idea of individual potential versus societal circumstance as the protagonist battles to create her own destiny or fall into the abyss of conformity that surrounds her.

Overview
Director: Guy Reid
Duration: 19 mins
Country:  British
Astronauts who have seen the Earth from space have often described the ‘overview effect’ as an experience that has transformed their perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it, and enabled them to perceive it as our shared home, without boundaries between nations or species.
OVERVIEW is a short film that will explore this perspective through  interviews with astronauts who have experienced the overview effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for humanity as a whole, and especially its relevance to how we meet the tremendous challenges facing our planet at this time.

Continuum
Director: Guy Reid and Christoph Ferstad.
Duration: 3 mins
Country: British and Swedish
The CONTINUUM feature-length documentary will explore this worldview, weaving together perspectives and ideas from some of the key theorists and thinkers in the fields of cosmology, 
environmentalism, sustainability, social theory, anthropology, and systems dynamics, telling the story of where we have come from, where we are now, and the possibilities for our future. This is a trailer. 

Amanat
Director: Abhishek Kumar Mehan
Duration: 22 Mins.
Country: India
Tender Bartender
Director: Yuya Morimoto.
Duration: 19 mins. 
Country: Japan
The story of a relationship gone sour, and a woman’s immediate response to it. A story about chance encounters, and conversations with a stranger in a moment of vulnerability. A story about putting on a false façade to hide your own truth. 

Forgetting
Director: Yuya James Morimoto. 
Duration: 4:31 mins.
Country: Japan
A hungover attempt to make it to an important meeting having forgotten the events of the night before and the repercussions it may have within a professional setting.

The Flipside Café
Director: Varun Mathur
Duration: 7:40 mins.
Country: India
A guy sits in a coffee shop, orders a cup of black coffee, and in walks a beautiful girl. The server at the café bored, serves the two and goes about his daily job. Within a pensive environment, everyone leaves and goes about their day. However something out of the ordinary strikes.

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