Check out films from India and abroad at FTII'S Contemporary Political Film Festival that starts today
Check out films from India and abroad at FTII'S Contemporary Political Film Festival that starts today
If political dramas and swine flu updates on television are boring you to death, it's time you got a dose of some awe-inspiring "real-meets-reel" moments. The Film and Television Institute of India is organising its annual Documentary Film Festival starting today. A collection of 35 films by prominent film-makers from India and abroad, the festival aims to be full of surprises for film lovers.
Titled Persistence Resistance: A festival of contemporary political films, the event is presented in collaboration with Delhi-based Magic Lantern Foundation. You will be able to watch the works of Shyamal Karmakar, Paromita Vohra, Sherna Dastur, T. Jayasree, Madhusree Dutta, Farjid Nabi and Reena Mohan, amongst others. One can also sit through discussions with films-makers on issues related to films during the three-day festival. The Guide gives you the lowdown on the top five films being presented at the festival and their creators.
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Bilal
Director: Sourav Sarangi
7 Islands and a Metro
Director: Madhusree Dutta
Filmmaker, curator, researcher, producer
and activist, Madhushree is the founder
and executive director of Majlis, a centre for rights discourse and multicultural art initiatives in Mumbai. She has dabbled in theatre and the visual arts as well. This film is about the financial capital of the country, Mumbai u2014 with its cacophony of languages, sprawling slums, mills, real estate
onslaughts and numerous ghettos. The film is a narrative structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto.
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Anirban Dutta |
Director: Anirban Datta
Dutta started his career as a screenwriter before he joined Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute (SRFTI), to study direction and screenplay writing. .in for motion is a visual essay about the dramatic change that India has beenu00a0 going through for the past two decades. The film talks about how economic liberalisation and the IT revolution took place simultaneously here. It covers the vast topic of changing India, by picking up various representative stories, through different sets of characters.
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A still from the film .in the motion |
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Sanjay Kak |
Director: Sanjay Kak
An independent documentary film-maker, Kak's interest lies in ecology, economic alternatives and resistance politics. In The Forestu2026 is a story about a village located deep in the hills of the Siang valley of Arunachal Pradesh. It tells the story of the villagers, who gather to build a 1,000-foot long suspension bridge with cane and bamboo, that are the distinctive mark of the Adi tribe.
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A still from the movie In The Forest Hangs a Bridge |
A Certain Liberation (Shadhinota)
Director: Yasmine Kabir
An independent film-maker, Kabir has worked on various documentary films. She was a founding member of 'Narika,' a Berkeley-based organisation for battered women of South Asian descent. The film is about Gurudasi Mondol, who gave herself to the madness in 1971, during the Liberation War of Bangladesh. She watched her entire family being killed by the collaborators of the occupying forces. Thirty years later, Gurudasi continues to roam the streets of Kopilmoni, a small-town in rural Bangladesh.
At: Film and Television Institute of India, Law College Road.
Call: 25431817.
Time: 11 am onwards.
Entry on first-cum-first-serve basis
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