| Persistence Resistance 2009 |
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A Festival of Contemporary Political Films      |
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| Organised by Magic Lantern Foundation & India International Centre |
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| Festival Schedule | |||||||||||
| Auditorium 1: IIC Auditorium | |||||||||||
| Friday, 17 April, 2009 | Saturday, 18 April, 2009 | Sunday, 19 April 2009 | |||||||||
| 09:30 AM | Registration | 09:30 AM | Registration | 09:30 AM | Registration | ||||||
| 10:00 AM | Inauguration | by Vijaya Mulay. Felicitation by Sri. Kuldeep Sinha, Director, FD | 10:00 AM | Hidden History of the Indian Documentary | Films from Films Division; Presentation and discussant: Paromita Vohra | 10:00 AM | Hidden History of the Indian Documentary | Films from Films Division; Presentation and discussant: Paromita Vohra | |||
| 11:00 AM | Hidden History of the Indian Documentary | Films from Films Division; Presentation and discussant: Paromita Vohra | |||||||||
| Locating Resistance | Locating Resistance | Locating Resistance | |||||||||
| 02:00 PM | Mahua Memoirs | Vinod Raja, India, 82 min | 02:00 PM | Bishar Blues | Amitabh Chakraborty, India, 79 min | 02:00 PM | A Million Steps | Pankaj Butalia, India, 22 min | |||
| Manipur Song | Pankaj Butalia, India, 60 min | Scribbles on Akka | Madhusree Dutta, India, 57 min | Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City | Paromita Vohra, India, 13 min | ||||||
| Salata Baladi: An Egyptian Salad | Nadia Kamel, Egypt, 105 min | ||||||||||
| Listener's Tale | Arghya Basu, India, 76 min | Word Within the Word | Rajula Shah, India, 74 min | Rewind | Atul Taishete, India, 9 min | ||||||
| Death on a Full Moon Day | Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka, 74 min | ||||||||||
| Locating Resistance | Locating Resistance | Locating Resistance | |||||||||
| 06:30 PM | Ujle Safed Kabootar | Poetry on Palestine, by the Jana Natya Manch | 06:00 PM | Imagine Peace | Workshop organised by KHOJ International Artists Association in collaboration with Design2context (Zurich); Presentations by participating artists. Followed by a discussion | 06:30 PM | Cinema City: Bombay / Mumbai | A curtain raiser of an interdisciplinary project to archive timelines of cities in cinema and cinemas in the city, by Majlis Productions | |||
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| Night Screening: Fountain Lawns | |||||||||||
| Friday, 17 April, 2009 | Saturday, 18 April, 2009 | Sunday, 19 April 2009 | |||||||||
| 08:00 PM | Inauguration of South Asian Cinema | by Aruna Vasudev. Rashmi Doraiswamy introduces Ms. Vasudev and her contribuition to Asian Cinema. | 08:30 PM | Nusrat has left the Building, But When? | Farjad Nabi, Pakistan, 20 min | 08:30 PM | Akasa Kusum | Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka, 90 min | |||
| 08:30 PM | View From a Grain of Sand | Meena Nanji, USA, 82 min | Machhendranath: On the Road with the Red God | Kesang Tseten, Nepal, 52 min | |||||||
| My Migrant Soul | Yasmine Kabir, Bangladesh, 34 min | ||||||||||
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| Auditorium 2: IIC Conference Room No. 1 | |||||||||||
| Friday, 17 April, 2009 | Saturday, 18 April, 2009 | Sunday, 19 April 2009 | |||||||||
| Circumscribed | Circumscribed | Circumscribed | |||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Invisible | Roz Mortimer, UK, 63 min | 10:00 AM | A Human Question | T. Jayashree, India, 53 min | 10:00 AM | Breathing Without Air | Kapilas Bhuyan, India, 23 min | |||
| Shit | Amudhan R. P., India, 25 min | Waiting ... | Atul Gupta & Shabnam Ara, India, 39 min | Born at Home | Sameera Jain, India, 61 min | ||||||
| Moksha | Pankaj Butalia, India, 84 min | Beyond the Wheel | Rajula Shah, India, 59 min | Notes on Man Capture | Nandini Bedi, India, 43 min | ||||||
| Q2P | Paromita Vohra, India, 55 min | Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears | Simon Chambers, UK, 62 min | ||||||||
| Circumscribed | Inscribed | ||||||||||
| 02:20 PM | Who is Afraid of Little Girls? | Sehjo Singh, India, 32 min | 02:00 PM | Imagine Peace | Workshop organised by KHOJ in collaboration with Design2Context (Zurich). Attendance by invitation only | 02:00 PM | I'm the Very Beautiful | Shyamal Karmakar, India, 65 min | |||
| A Season Outside | Amar Kanwar, India, 30 min | Gender Trouble | Roz Mortimer, UK, 24 min | ||||||||
| Day in the Life of Ponga Pandit | Sanjay Maharishi & Sudhanva Deshpande, India, 23 min | Our Family | Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar, India, 56 min | ||||||||
| Autumn's Final Country | Sonia Jabbar, India, 66 min | Manjuben Truckdriver | Sherna Dastur, India, 51 min | ||||||||
| 05:30 PM | I Live in Behrampada | Madhusree Dutta, India, 49 min | 05:20 PM | Sundari: An Actor Prepares | Madhusree Dutta, India, 30 min | ||||||
| Tales from the Margins | Kavita Joshi, India, 23 min | Milind Soman Made Me Gay | Harjant Gill, USA, 27 min | ||||||||
| Temporary Loss of Consciousness | Monica Bhasin, India, 35 min | The Pink Mirror | Sridhar Rangayan, India, 41 min | ||||||||
| Many People, Many Desires | T. Jayashree, India, 45 min | ||||||||||
| Discussion on article 377 | Sridhar Rangayan will lead the discussion & also screen clips from 'Breaking Free', a work in progress. | ||||||||||
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| Auditorium 3: Pergola | |||||||||||
| Friday, 17 April, 2009 | Saturday, 18 April, 2009 | Sunday, 19 April 2009 | |||||||||
| Circumscribed | Locating Resistance | ||||||||||
| 11:00 AM | The Bee, the Bear and the Kuruba | Vinod Raja, India, 63 min | 10:00 AM | Call of the Bhagirathi | Anwar Jamal, India, 43 min | ||||||
| The Nest | Supriyo Sen, India, 38 min | Words on Water | Sanjay Kak, India, 86 min | ||||||||
| Jardhar Diary | Krishnendu Bose, India, 29 min | ||||||||||
| New Improved Delhi | Vani Subramanian, India, 6 min | Life | Altaf Mazid, India, 54 min | ||||||||
| Volume Zero | Arun Khopkar, India, 58 min | A Certain Liberation | Yasmine Kabir, Bangladesh, 38 min | ||||||||
| Tracing the Arc | Pankaj Butalia, India, 38 min | ||||||||||
| 03:35 PM | Class of 2001 | Surajit Sarkar & Vani Subramanian, India, 28 min | 02:45 PM | The Bond | Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar, India, 45 min | ||||||
| Where's Sandra? | Paromita Vohra, India, 18 min | Sona Maati: A Very Ordinary Gold | Sehjo Singh, India, 38 min | ||||||||
| P(l)ain Truth | Ilppo Pohjola, Finland, 16 min | Hot Off the Press | Bishakha Datta, India, 31 min | ||||||||
| Annapurna: Goddess of Food | Paromita Vohra, India, 25 min | ||||||||||
| SheWrite | Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar, India, 55 min | Last Family | R. V. Ramani, India, 26 min | ||||||||
| 05:40 PM | In the Flesh | Bishakha Datta, India, 53 min | |||||||||
| Remembrance of Things Present | Chandra Siddan, Canada, 80 min | 06:00 PM | My Village is Theatre, My Name is Habib | Sanjay Maharishi & Sudhanva Deshpande, India, 73 min | |||||||
| Kamlabai | Reena Mohan, India, 47 min | ||||||||||
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| Theme Parlours: Gandhi King Plaza | |||||||||||
| Parlour 1 | Parlour 2 | Parlour 3 | |||||||||
| Circumscribed / Locating Resistance | Circumscribed / Locating Resistance | Circumscribed / Locating Resistance | |||||||||
| 10:00 AM | Bushman's Secret | Rehad Desai, South Africa, 65 min | 10:00 AM | Little Republics | Gautam Sonti, India, 65 min | 10:00 AM | Outsiders | Ajay Norohna, India, 40 min | |||
| Suits and Savages | Zoe Young & Dylan Howitt, UK, 43 min | From Dust | Dhruv Dhawan, Sri Lanka & UAE, 56 min | Colours Black | Mamta Murthy, India, 31 min | ||||||
| Meals Ready | Surajit Sarkar & Vani Subramanian, India, 46 min | Taxi to Timbuktu | Christopher Walker, USA, 52 min | Snapshots From a Family Album | Avijit Mukul Kishore, India, 63 min | ||||||
| Harvesting Hunger | Krishnendu Bose, India, 53 min | Pretty Dyana | Boris Mitic, Serbia & Montenegro, 45 min | Search for Freedom: A Story about Four Afghan Women | Munizae Jahangir, Pakistan, 56 min | ||||||
| Planeta Alemania | Dogfilm, Germany, 38 min | Skin Deep | Reena Mohan, India, 83 min | ||||||||
| My Migrant Soul | Yasmine Kabir, Bangladesh, 34 min | ||||||||||
| Parlour 4 | Parlour 5 | Parlour 6 | |||||||||
| Circumscribed / Locating Resistance | |||||||||||
| 10:00 AM | Narrow is the Gate | Katarina Uibo, Estonia, 65 min | |||||||||
| Memories of a Future | Margaret Dickinson & Pepe Petos, UK & Spain, 84 min | ||||||||||
| Hope Dies Last in War | Supriyo Sen, India, 80 min | ||||||||||
| Black Pamphlets | Nitin K., India, 84 min | ||||||||||
| Footwear | Amudhan R. P., India, 74 min | ||||||||||
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| Filmmakers' Parlours: Gandhi King Plaza | |||||||||||
| Parlour 1 | Parlour 2 | Parlour 3 | |||||||||
| Sanjay Kak, India | Madhusree Dutta, India | Paromita Vohra, India | |||||||||
| 02:00 PM | A House and a Home | 55 min | 03:00 PM | I Live in Behrampada | 49 min | 02:45 PM | Annapurna: Goddess of Food | 25 min | |||
| This Land, My Land, England | 55 min | Listen O’ Friends | 13 min | A Woman’s Place | 60 min | ||||||
| In the Forest Hangs a Bridge | 39 min | Sundari: An Actor Prepares | 30 min | Unlimited Girls | 94 min | ||||||
| 04:25 PM | Words on Water | 86 min | 04:30 PM | Scribbles on Akka | 57 min | 05:45 PM | Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City | 13 min | |||
| 05:50 PM | Jashn-e-Azadi | 139 min | Made in India | 37 min | Work in Progress | 59 min | |||||
| 06:00 PM | 7 Islands and a Metro | 100 min | Where’s Sandra? | 18 min | |||||||
| 07:10 PM | Q2P | 55 min | |||||||||
| Parlour 4 | Parlour 5 | Parlour 6 | |||||||||
| R. V. Ramani, India | Tanvir Mokammel, Bangladesh | Kesang Tseten, Nepal | |||||||||
| 10:00 AM | Saa | 25 min | 10:00 AM | The River Named Madhumati | 120 min | 04:30 PM | We Homes Chaps | 59 min | |||
| Face Like a Man | 30 min | ||||||||||
| Through the Window | 30 min | Quiet flows the River Chitra | 114 min | Machhendranath: On the Road with the Red God | 52 min | ||||||
| Blue Black Yellow | 6 min | ||||||||||
| Last Family | 26 min | 01:55 PM | A Tree Without Roots | 110 min | 06:20 PM | We Corner People | 50 min | ||||
| One Two Three Four | 28 min | ||||||||||
| If I die | 58 min | 03:45 PM | Lalon | 140 min | Listen to the Winds | 30 min | |||||
| Language of War | 51 min | ||||||||||
| 02:00 PM | Our Symbol | 70 min | 06:05 PM | Tajuddin Ahmad: An Unsung Hero | 104 min | 07:40 PM | Frames of war | 30 min | |||
| Brahma Vishnu Shiva | 20 min | ||||||||||
| Lines of Mahatma | 20 min | ||||||||||
| The Voyeur | 29 min | ||||||||||
| Heaven on Earth | 60 min | ||||||||||
| 05:30 PM | Where Are You? | 154 min | |||||||||
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| Seminars: IIC Conference Room No. 2 | |||||||||||
| Friday, 17 April, 2009 | Saturday, 18 April, 2009 | Sunday, 19 April 2009 | |||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Seminar1 - Is South Asia a Cinematic reality? | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Seminar2 - Watching the ‘real’: Voyeurism, polemic and documentary. |
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | When are films independent?: Rethinking ownership / authorship / viewership |
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2:00 PM |
Imagine Peace | Workshop organised by KHOJ in collaboration with Design2Context (Zurich; )By invitation only | 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Imagine Peace | Workshop organised by KHOJ in collaboration with Design2Context (Zurich); By invitation only |
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| Installations: IIC Central Lawn & Fountain | |||||||||||
| Friday, 17 April, 2009 | Saturday, 18 April, 2009 | Sunday, 19 April 2009 | |||||||||
| 7:00 – 10:00 PM | Saa | R. V. Ramani, India, 25 min | 7:00 – 10:00 PM | Saa | R. V. Ramani, India, 25 min | 7:00 – 10:00 PM | Saa | R. V. Ramani, India, 25 min | |||
| Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva | R. V. Ramani, India, 20min | Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva | R. V. Ramani, India, 20min | Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva | R. V. Ramani, India, 20min | ||||||
| Setu | Shyamal & Sanghamitra Karmakar, India, 9 min | Setu | Shyamal & Sanghamitra Karmakar, India, 9 min | Setu | Shyamal & Sanghamitra Karmakar, India, 9 min | ||||||
| Video Library: Gandhi King Plaza | |||||||||||
| Friday, 17 April, 2009 | Saturday, 18 April, 2009 | Sunday, 19 April 2009 | |||||||||
| 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM | |||||||||
| Note: Schedule subject to last minute changes | |||||||||||
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