OUR LIVES…TO LIVE (seeking a JUST world!) A 3-day festival of film screenings and discussions CURATOR’S NOTE: A festival of films around seeking a just world... Slippery fellow, Justice. As murky as prejudice, as amorphous as inequality, as two-faced as patriarchy, as evasive as discrimination, as cunning as privilege, as unforthcoming as sweatshop wages, as ephemeral as a politician’s pre-election promises. To cut to the chase, the world is still filled on every side with the big “I” of Injustice, with the small satisfying joys of justice few and far between. The notion of injustice is linked to the idea of justice denied, which is based on a sense of what our rights are, or of how they are being trampled on – which in turn brings us to our struggles to obtain or regain those rights, as equal citizens of the state and equal members of our various communities. The festival includes several films that portray people’s movements for the protection of their land, resources, livelihoods, cultures, health, lives, freedoms – against the ravages of bauxite mining, nuclear reactors, army brutality, social exclusions, and compromised systems of justice. There are also individual stories, personal musings, satirical takes, heartwarming triumphs, and examples of resistance through art. We have exciting student films, testimonials and community videos, reports shot with urgency in a day, films made lovingly over years. There is animation, there are music videos, delectable fiction shorts and three fiction features! Together and singly, these films -- sourced from India, South Asia and the planet at large – tell us intense, moving, prescient, disturbing, hopeful human stories. Many of the filmmakers will be present, along with other discussants who are deeply engaged with some of the concerns these films foreground. Do join us to make the three days truly vibrant with discussion and debate, about cinema as well as about our lives...to live. - Smriti Nevatia, Curator, Our Lives...To Live FF PROGRAMME 31 OCTOBER, 2014 GÜLÇIN Nazli Eda Noyan I Turkey I 2013 I animation I 6 min I Turkish SILENCE IN A NOISY WORLD Katrine Philp I Denmark I 2008 I 29 min I Afghan, Farsi, Arabic THEY CALL ME CHAMAR Loksen Lalwani I India I 1979 I 17 min I Hindi MARIA IN NOBODY’S LAND Marcela Zamora Chammoro I Mexico-El Salvador I 2010 I 86 min I Spanish MADE IN TURKEY Uçman Balaban I Turkey I 2014 I animation I 1 min I non-verbal CYCLIST Marc Thümmler I Germany I 2008 I 28 min I German FABRICATED KP Sasi I India I 2013 I 88 min I Malayalam NATIVE BAPA Muhsin Parari I India I 2013 I music video I 5 min I Malayalam SAFDAR Sashi Kumar for SAHMAT I India I 1989 I 35 min I English, Hindi 5 EXCHANGE LANE Anirban Dutta I India I 2014 I 21 min I Hindi EK AAKHRI PANAH (One Last Refuge) Tanvi Barge, Krishna Panchal, Piyush Garud, Juanita Mukhia I India I 2013 I 15 min I Hindi KAYA TARAN Sashi Kumar I India I 2004 I 107 min I Hindi 1 NOVEMBER, 2014 BURMA VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country Anders Østergaard I Denmark-Burma I 2008 I 85 min I Burmese, English INTERROGATION Adam Palenta I Poland I 2010 I 9 min I Polish DWAND Abhilash Vijayan I India I 2012 I fiction I 13 min I Hindi, Chattisgarhi ODISHA (3 shorts) Surya Shankar Dash for Video Republic and Moti Roti I India I 2013I 9 min Dhinki I 3:35 min I no speech, English text Displacement Colony I 2013 I 4 min I Hindi Shot Dead For Development I animation I 1 min DON’T CUT MY HEAD OFF Somnath Batabyal, Matti Pohjonen, Kazimuddin Ahmed, Pradip Saha I India I 2012 I49min I English, Nagamese, Spanish GAON CHHODAB NAHIN KP Sasi I India I 2009 I music video I 6 min I Hindi RADIATION STORIES PART 3: KOODANKULAM Amudhan RP I India I 2012 I 80 min I Tamil MADE IN LA Almudena Carracedo I USA I 2007 I 70 min I Spanish, English TURUMBA Kidlat Tahimik I The Philippines I 1983 I fiction feature I 90 min I Tagalog 2 NOVEMBER , 2014 GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD Satchith Paulose I India I 2012 I 15 min I English HAMARE GHAR Kislay I India I 2013 I fiction I 31 min I Hindi AT MY DOORSTEP Nishtha Jain I India I 2009 I 70 min I Hindi AFTER THE AFTERMATH Kumud Ranjan I India I 2013 I 17 min I Hindi CHASNI Abhishek Verma I India I 2013 I animation I 5 min I Hindi ARTICLE 61 Mahvash Sheikholeslami I Iran I 2005 I 67 min I Farsi EVENING IN GAY MAHARASHTRA Natasha Mendonca I India I 2013 I music video I 5 min I English TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF Necati Sönmez I Turkey I 2007 I 48 min I Turkish THE KINGDOM OF WOMEN Dahna Abourahme I Lebanon I 2010 I live action & animation I 54 min I Arabic THE TENTH PLANET Melis Birder I Iraq I 2004 I 38 min I Arabic 20 FINGERS Mania Akbari I Iran-UK I 2004 I 73 min I Farsi
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