Public Service Broadcasting Trust & Doordarshan present A 2-day festival of award winning documentaries at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 10am onwards on 10th & 11th August 2013

Time : 10:00 am onwards

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
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Event Description : Public Service Broadcasting Trust & Doordarshan present A 2-day festival of award winning documentaries.
Schedule : 
10th August : 
I Wonder... Dir.Anupama Srinivasan (English/2009/71mins)
The film explores how the school system impacts the lives, thoughts and dreams of children lying at the extremities of the country.
Fiddlers On The Thatch Dir.Trisha Das (English/2002/30mins)
An inspirational story of the children of Gandhi Ashram School, Kalimpong, and how learning western classical music has acted as a catalyst for change, opening up new horizons in their otherwise impoverished and humdrum lives.
A Drop Of Sunshine Dir.Aparna Sanyal (English /2011/39mins)
The film takes us through the story of 30-year old ReshmaValliappan, and charts out her journey of eventual triumph and recovery from schizophrenia.
There Is Something In The Air Dir.Iram Ghufran (Hindi, Urdu, English/2011/29mins)
A call from the periphery of sanity...  a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women ‘petitioners’ at the shrine of a Sufi saint in North India.
Vertical City Dir.Avijit Mukul Kishore (English, Hindi/2010/34mins)
A visual essay on the architecture of a dystopia. This is the way the state imagines housing the poor.
Journey To Nagaland Dir.Aditi Chitre (English/2010/26mins)
The story of a young girl who is led to a distant land by the force of her visions and her mother’s spirit to discover the latter’s roots, and possibly her own.
Fragments Of A Past Dir.Uma Chakravarti (English/2012/52mins)
The film locates the life and work of a woman political activist in her everyday existence, the relationships she lives out at home and in her work and the political affiliations she tries to hold together, even as they are subjected to multiple stresses.
Buru Gaara Dir.Shriprakash (Hindi/2007/30mins)
Poignant stories of a tribal journalist and a poet in Jharkhand and how they express themselves through these forms, resurrecting tribal identity and culture.
Much Ado About Knotting Dirs.Geetika Narang Abbasi & Anandana Kapur (English, Hindi/2012/52mins)
Born into a society obsessed with marriages, a young girl, a not-so-young man and an NRI couple are compelled by tradition to look for matches via classifieds, matchmaking bureaus and websites. A light-hearted chronicle of the predicament almost every Indian faces.
Roots Of Love Dir.Harjant Gill (English, Punjabi/2010/26mins)
Told through the stories of six different men ranging in age from fourteen to eighty - six, the film documents the changing significance of hair and the turban among Sikhs in India.
Ayodhya Gatha Dir.Vani Subramanian (English, Hindi/2007/60mins)
The film weaves together a tapestry of perspectives on how deeply the politics of hate affect personal everyday lives and what it takes to negotiate a way out of these labyrinths.
11th August : 
Pather Chujaeri Dir.Pankaj Rishi Kumar (Kashmiri, Urdu, Hindi/2001/30mins)
A film on the satiric, non-sectarian folk theatre form Bhand Pather of Kashmir. Through the lives of the Bhands and their performances, the film explores the subversive message of their art.
So Heddan So Hoddan Dirs.Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar (Kachchi, Hindustani/2011/52mins)
A journey into the music and everyday life of the Jatts, pastoral Muslim communities that live on the edge of the Great Rann of Kutch, in Gujarat, separating India and Pakistan.
In Camera Dir.Ranjan Palit (English/2010/79mins)
A film about the filmmaker’s experiences as a cameraperson for documentary films and his reflections on the profession after 25 years of image-making.
Video Game Dir.Vipin Vijay (English/2005/30mins)
A complex video journey on a Motorcar, the quintessential cultural interchange of modern times, where a picture of the road emerges.
Nirnay (Decision) Dirs.Pushpa Rawat & Anupama Srinivasan (Hindi, Garhwali/2012/56mins)
The film is Pushpa’s journey as she tries to make sense of her own life and that of her women friends in a lower middle class colony in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Cancer Katha Dir.Vasudha Joshi (English, Bengali/2012/26mins)
Made on the filmmaker’s brush with cancer in December 2008, the film explores the fears and dilemmas on what course of treatment to follow and through music presents musings on love, death and memory.
Mindscapes… Of Love & Longing Dir.Arun Chadha (Hindi, English/2011/52mins)
The film delves into the lives of a few people with disabilities as they explore their sexual identities, within themselves and through relationships.
Apna Aloo Bazaar Becha Dir.Pankaj H. Gupta (Hindi/2007/30mins)
What happens when remote, isolated mountain communities come face to face with globalisation?
Mere Desh Ki Dharti Dir.Sumit Khanna (English/2006/60mins)
In our effort to achieve food security, have we compromised on food safety? The film investigates the impact of pesticides as they enter the food chain.
Timbaktu Dirs.Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh (English/2012/30mins)
When a small farming community in South India decided to switch from their decades-old practice of chemical agriculture to organic farming, little did they know that they were planting the seeds of a silent revolution.
Earth Witness: Reflections On The Times &  The Timeless Dir.Akanksha Joshi (English/2011/60mins)
Four common people – a teacher, a farmer, a shepherd, a father – find themselves on the front line of the earth’s biggest, most complex crisis: climate change.

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