FILM FEST : Travelling Film South Asia 2016 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 17th to 20th August 2016

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17th & 18th August : 6:30 pm onwards Add to Calendar 17/08/2016 18:30 18/08/2016 20:33 Asia/Kolkata FILM FEST : Travelling Film South Asia 2016 Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/08/film-fest-travelling-film-south-asia.html C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY
19th August : 6:00 pm onwards Add to Calendar 19/08/2016 18:00 19/08/2016 20:32 Asia/Kolkata FILM FEST : Travelling Film South Asia 2016 Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/08/film-fest-travelling-film-south-asia.html C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY
20th August : 2:30 pm onwards Add to Calendar 20/08/2016 14:30 20/08/2016 20:21 Asia/Kolkata FILM FEST : Travelling Film South Asia 2016 Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/08/film-fest-travelling-film-south-asia.html C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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

Venue : C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : FILM FEST : Travelling Film South Asia 2016 - A Festival Of South Asian Documentaries 17 To 20 August 2016.

 A festival of 10 exceptional nonfiction films from South Asia produced in the last two years. The festival encapsulates a flavor of the Subcontinent with films from Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The festival includes the award winners of Film South Asia Festival 2015, Kathmandu as well as other films selected to showcase the variety, treatment and intensity that marks the world of Southasian documentary and non-fiction. In the words of Film South Asia 2015 Jury “the jury recognizes that it is the human agency that opens up the space for dialogue, dissent and democratic engagement. And documentary is the best manifestation of this agency”. Organised in collaboration with The Southasian Trust, Kathmandu

Schedule : 

17 AUGUST 2016

 AT 6:30 PM
Introduction
By Ms Mitu Varma, Director Film South Asia, Kathmandu

Followed by
NEWS FROM JAFFNA (Sri Lanka)
(28 min; 2014; dvd; English and with subtitles)
Director: Kannan Arunasalam

A young reporter dares to cover press freedom in one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists – Sri Lanka.

At 7:00 pm
THE JOURNEY WITHIN (Pakistan)

(86 min; 2014; dvd; English and with subtitles)
Director: Mian Adnan Ahmad

Post 9/11 and in the midst of various challenges faced by Pakistan, a quest for self-identity leads the inspirational journey of a music show to help reclaim the rich and vast musical heritage of this region. In doing so The Coke Studio has now become one of the biggest music initiatives from this side of the world, making an impact globally and bringing together unique talents of various cultural backgrounds and genres including but not limited to folk, Sufi, rock, pop and rap music

18 AUGUST 2016 

AT 6:30 PM
TYRES (Burma)
(30 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Kyaw Myo Lwin

Recipient of the Kathmandu Post Award for Student Film, Film South Asia Festival, Kathmandu 2015; Best Student Film & Best Student Cinematography Award at Palm Springs International Short Film Festival

“The marginal existence in urban Myanmar/Burma in various hues of grey and black makes this film a statement about cycle of life, dignity and spirit of life” – Jury Statement, Film South Asia 2015

A tyre recycling workshop in South Okkalapa in Myanmar’s former capital Yangon is a site of multiple uses and multiple deaths. This is the place where defunct tyres are transformed from their original shape and use and are reborn into new and completely different  lives. Filmed almost entirely in black-and-white, this observational documentary gently explores a community of tyre cutters and recyclers, young and old, male and female, as they create with their super-sharp blades, careful eyes and skillful strokes, buckets, brushes and slippers from discarded rubber tyres. And, from time to time, in fleeting yet visceral moments in between their movements, snatched conversation and song, something lyrical, even philosophical emerges, and we are gently reminded of how every death gives way to a birth

At 7:00 pm
KHOON DIY BAARAV (Blood Leaves It’s Trail; India)
(93 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Iffat Fatima

Khoon Diy Baarav explores memory as a mode of resistance, constantly confronting reality and morphing from the personal to the political, the individual to the collective

19 AUGUST 2016 

AT 6:00 PM

DRAWING THE TIGER (Nepal)

(92 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Directors: Ramyata Limbu, Amy Benson, Scott Squire

The UNICEF Award for Best Film on Children’s Issues, Film South Asia Festival, Kathmandu 2015

“The film captures the lacunae in our systems to provide quality education to rural and marginalised section in a layered manner. It also brings out the limitations of philanthropy when the larger socio-economic model is not geared to provide the emotional space for aspiring children” – Jury Statement, Film South Asia 2015

Filmed over seven years, Drawing the Tiger is an intimate portrait of a family in Nepal who get a chance to break their cycle of poverty. Their brightest child is awarded a scholarship to attend school in the city. When she doesn’t return home, the family is forced to survive without her and the opportunity they believed would change their fate

At 7:40 pm

ACCESEX (India)

(52 min; 2013; dvd; English and with subtitles)

Directed by Shweta Ghosh who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Beautiful. Ugly. Complete. Incomplete. Able. Disabled. Within stifling dichotomies of normal and abnormal, lie millions of women negotiating with their identities. This film explores notions of beauty, the ‘ideal body’ and sexuality through four storytellers; four women who happen to be persons with disability.Through the lives of Natasha, Sonali, Kanti and Abha, this film foregrounds questions of acceptance, confidence and resistance to the normative. As it turns out, these questions are not too removed from everyday realities of several others, deemed ‘imperfect’ and ‘monstrous’ for not fitting in. Accsex traces the journey of the storytellers as they reclaim agency and the right to unapologetic confidence, sexual expression and happiness

20 AUGUST 2016

At 2:30 pm
CITIES OF SLEEP (India)
(74 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Shaunak Sen

Cities of Sleep is set in a world where just being able to secure a good night’s sleep often becomes a matter of life and death. Trailing the lives of two individuals, the film enters a heady world of night-shelters, improvised sleeping spots and the infamous ‘sleep mafia’ of Delhi to look at the enormous influence the otherwise banal activity of sleeping is able to exert on a large number of people.

The film follows two individuals, Shakeel and Ranjeet. Shakeel, a beggar by profession is something of a renegade sleeper who for the last seven years has slept in a diverse range of improvised sleeping places in Delhi: under flyovers, subways, deserted pipelines, vacant car garages, empty animal cages in zoos and so on. For over the last year he has been sleeping with the ‘sleep mafia’ in Meena Bazaar (a famous market area in Old Delhi): these are people who control who sleeps where, for how long and what quality of sleep can be achieved on the streets. The film starts with his struggles with Jamaal Bhai, the head of an area in which thousands of homeless sleep on rented cot-beds and blankets everyday. We track Shakeel’s struggles as nearly all places in the city where safe sleep used to be offered start scrunching up just around the time the infamous winter rains of Delhi are due

At 4:00 pm
MY NAME IS SALT (India)
(92 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Farida Pacha

Multiple award winner including Golden Award for Medium Film, Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2015; First Appearance Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2015; Golden Conch for Best International Documentary Film/Video Above 60 minutes & International Jury Award for Best Cinematography, Mumbai International Documentary, Short and Animation Film Festival 2016; Best Documentary Feature Film & EDA Award-Special Commendation, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014; among many others

The desert extends endlessly – flat, grey, relentless. There is not a tree or blade of grass or rock. But there is one thing in abundance: salt. Salt is everywhere, lying just beneath the cracked, baked surface of the earth. This is the Little Rann of Kutch, 5000 sq kms of saline desert in India. And for eight months of the year, Chhanabhai and his family live here without water, electricity or provisions – tirelessly extracting salt from this desolate landscape. Under the blinding glare of the sun, they work on the salt fields until large crystals have formed. Their labour is rhythmic, a dance that mirrors the dance of the mirages on the burning horizon. After months of hard work, the salt is ready to be harvested – just before the heavy monsoon rains will come to once again wash their salt fields away

At 6:00 pm
PHUM SHANG (Floating Life; India)
(52 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Haobam Paban Kumar

Loktak, the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, characterised by its unique floating biomass phumdi, is the primary source of livelihood for the fishermen who live on huts built on the phumdis. The lake, rich and abundant in biodiversity also serves as a source of hydropower, irrigation and drinking water. For years, Loktak has faced serious problems due to human-induced developmental activities. Today it is considered a dying lake. Government agencies and local conservationists are struggling to save Loktak lake, while residents try to save their homes and livelihoods

At 7:00 pm
A WALNUT TREE (Pakistan)
(81 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Ammar Aziz

Recipient of the Ram Bahadur Trophy, Film South Asia, Kathmandu 2015

“A poetic portray of a sense of loss and displacement under the shadow of gun and radicalisation. The camera never becomes a voyeur but retains its gaze of compassion, understanding and shared values” – Jury Statement, Film South Asia 2015 An old man reminisces about a distant homeland. He wants to return. The son and daughter in law argue with him. His grand children watch the tension rise. Internally displaced from Swat as a result of the ongoing conflict between the Pakistan army and theTaliban and forced to live in a camp, the family is caught between memories of what life was, an insecure present and a bleak future.The sadness and tension is unbearable, something is about to happen

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