Persistence Resistance @ NID

A festival of contemporary political films

Organised and hosted by the Film and Video Communication Department, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

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Dates: 30 & 31 January 2010
Time : 10.30 am to 5.30 pm

Venue: Auditorium, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

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The Film and Video Communication Department of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad and Magic Lantern Foundation jointly organised the ‘South Asian Short and Documentary Film Festival’, a two-day mini-fest at the NID Campus, showing selected films from the Persistence Resistance festival package. The festival screened 11 films, all of which are distributed by Under Construction, Magic Lantern’s distribution initiative. Filmmakers Supriyo Sen and Kavita Joshi attended the festival and interacted with the audience, especially students of NID.

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Schedule

30 January 2010
Time Film & Programme Director Country Duration

(min)

 Synopsis
10:00 Tea
10:30 Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City Paromita Vohra India 13 Two short tales wonder about the idea of Bombay as a great cosmopolis, while examining its divisions of class, language and food.
10:45 Rewind Atul Taishete India 9 One likely heist – two untamed bullets – three good friends.
11:00 Hope Dies Last in War Supriyo Sen India 80 54 prisoners of the Indo-Pak war never came home. As their families still wait, they walk the tragic tightrope between hope and despair.
12:30 Discussion with filmmaker
13:00 Lunch
14:00 .in for motion Anirban Datta India 59 This film is the filmmaker’s journey through the alleys of development, cutting across multi ethno-cultural routes, tracing the disconnect, what lies behind the information hole.
15:00 Tea
15:30 Notes on Man Capture Nandini Bedi India 43 A film about Ratmi’s marriage, the Garo tradition of ‘man capture’ and the players behind the event.
16:15 Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears Simon Chambers UK 60 Two feisty and rebellious London Bangladeshi sisters go “back home” against their will for arranged marriages.

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31 January 2010
Time Film & Programme Director Country Duration (min) Synopsis
10:00 Tea
10:30 Bilal Sourav Sarangi India 88 Bilal… story of a little boy growing up with blind parents.
12:00 Out of Thin Air Samreen Farooqui and Shabani Hassanwalia India 49 The story of Ladakh, not through the postcards that tourists often see, but through a subterranean, local film movement that has become a voice of the people.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Face Like a Man R. V. Ramani India 30 Nine painters try and express their preoccupations, in their canvas. The filmmaker, with his own preoccupation, strikes a relation.
14:30 Tales from the Margins Kavita Joshi India 23 The grim human rights situation in Manipur and the extraordinary protests by its womenfolk for justice and peace.
Discussion with Filmmaker
15:30 Tea
16:00 View From a Grain of Sand Meena Nanji USA 82 Three Afghan women try to rebuild their lives in Afghanistan’s “new era” now that no one is paying attention to the woman question.

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