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A FLOWERING TREE (POOMARAM) (56 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : VIPIN VIJAY ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Gender & Sexuality ]
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A relational origin story that women's menstrual rituals are the roots of human culture, and that in human evolution women and men have markedly different relationships to blood.

- Special Jury Award, 55th National Film Awards, 2007
- Excellence in Sound Design, IDPA Awards, 2007
- Certificate of Merit, Best Documentary Category, IDPA Awards for Excellence, 2007
- Silver Award for Excellence in Sound Design, IDPA Awards for Excellence, 2007

A GROUP PORTRAIT (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : REENA MOHAN ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Arts & Crafts ]
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The film traces the efforts of rural women in North Bihar for reviving the Sujni Kantha tradition of embroidered quilts aided by the Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti (MVSS).

A TEMPLE TO THE COMMONS… (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : S. GAUTHAM ]
[ Theme : Arts & Crafts , Culture & Tradition ]
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Ninasam is a cultural organisation that reverses the flow of cultural energy by delivering literature, theatre and cinema from all over the world to a rustic, rural audience. A critical engagement with Ninasam allows for a stimulating engagement with larger issues of cultural transaction and artistic production. It drives us to seek answers to crucial questions about the universality of art, the nature and process of its consumption and the relationship it has with the audience. A film on the making of a unique cultural trade.

ABHIMANYU'S FACE (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : RANJAN PALIT ]
[ Theme : Arts & Crafts , Culture & Tradition ]
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A film that takes a look at Guru Gambhir Singh's Chhau dance troupe, a masked dance form of eastern India and captures the performance of one of their favourite themes -the slaying of Abhimanyu, a story from the Mahabharata.

ADDA: CALCUTTA, KOLKATA (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : RANJAN PALIT ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes , Culture & Tradition ]
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A film about a day in the life of Calcutta or Kolkata. A portrait of the city and its people through the myriad conversations or "adda"s that happen all over the city, day and night.

ADDA: CALCUTTA, KOLKATA (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SURJO DEB & RANJAN PALIT ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes , Culture & Tradition ]
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A film about a day in the life of Calcutta or Kolkata. A portrait of the city and its people through the myriad conversations or "adda"s that happen all over the city, day and night.

ALMORIANA (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : VASUDHA JOSHI ]
[ Theme : Ethnography/ Anthropology , Culture & Tradition ]
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A cinematic document of the Dussehra festival in the Himalayan town of Almora in Uttaranachal.

ANUNAD (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SANJAY MAHARISHI ]
[ Theme : Arts & Crafts , Culture & Tradition ]
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A look at how SPIC MACAY, a 25 year old voluntary effort to revive Indian art and culture, engages with young people.

BANDISH (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : KAMAL SWAROOP ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Arts & Crafts ]
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The film explores the idea of determinism and freedom in the Khayal tradition of Hindustani music.

BLOOD ON MY HANDS (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SURABHI SARAL, MANAK MATIYANI & ANANDANA KAPUR ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Gender & Sexuality ]
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The film looks at how a womanï¿½s menstrual cycle is altered from being a marker of her fertility to something that renders her untouchable and hence subject to multiple taboos and regulations. As an individual, a woman or young girl is isolated in her struggle to come to terms with the transformations in her body.

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