Wagah directed by Supriyo Sen will be the opening film of Persistence Resistance, the festival of contemporary political films which will be held in New Delhi from February 25-27.
The festival will be inaugurated by film maker Jai Chandiram on February 25. The New Delhi launch of the book ‘From Rajas and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond‘ by Vijaya Mulay would close the inaugural session.
The closing film of the festival will be Sound of Tibet: Awakening Kindness by Kim Joon-Nyeon, with a repeat screening of wagah.
89 films will be screened in 14 venues across the venue of the festival. Films will be screened in 2 auditoria, in 6 simulated video parlours, outdoors at night, as installations and at a muti-hub video library.
The festival will present retrospective of six directors: Manjira Datta, Deepa Dhanraj, Saba Dewan, Krishnendu Bose, Sanjay Barnela (with Vasant Sabarwal) and Supriyo Sen. The festival this year will also showcase works by student from the Film and Television Institute of India and National Institute of Design.
There will be 6 in-depth conversations on documentary practice with 5 eminent filmmakers and a cinematographer: Kesang Tseten, Majira Datta, Saba Dewan, Bishakha Datta, Supriyo Sen and Avijit Mukul Kishore. Discussants will be Samina Mishra, Brinda Bose, Veena Hariharan, Sabina Gadihoke, Ira Bhaskar and Shankhajeet De.
Festival organiser Gargi Sen told Dearcinema- “For too long documentary practice has lain at the edges of our vision, something that happens, but in general we don’t really SEE it. Using a multi-faced approach, multiple screening and viewing practices and a massively magnified scale, Persistence Resistance 2010 aims to bring the documentary to the centre of our collective vision.