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A FLOWERING TREE (POOMARAM) (60 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : VIPIN VIJAY ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Gender & Sexuality ]
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[ 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.
- IDPA Award 2007 for Excellence in Sound Design
- Certificate of Merit, Best Documentary Category, IDPA Awards 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).

[ 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).

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.

[ 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.

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

[ Filmmaker/s : VASUDHA JOSHI ]
[ Theme : 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.

[ 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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[ 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 woman�s 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.

[ Filmmaker/s : SURABHI SARAL, MANAK MATIYANI & ANANDANA KAPUR ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Gender & Sexuality ]
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The film looks at how a woman�s 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.

DHRUPAD IN THE TIME OF LIBERALISATION (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : ARVIND SINHA ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Arts & Crafts ]
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An exploration of the contemporary relevance and the future of Dhrupad, the oldest form of classical music in North India.

[ Filmmaker/s : ARVIND SINHA ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Arts & Crafts ]
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An exploration of the contemporary relevance and the future of Dhrupad, the oldest form of classical music in North India.

FIVE CHIRUS FLAT (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MOHI-UD-DIN MIRZA ]
[ Theme : Conflict , Culture & Tradition ]
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[ Filmmaker/s : MOHI-UD-DIN MIRZA ]
[ Theme : Conflict , Culture & Tradition ]
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Caught in this conflict between countries, governments, poachers, local and international traders, just how long before the few remaining Chirus and artisans disappear, taking along a whole way of life with them.

FOR LOVE OR IZZAT (60 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SONALI DUTTA CHARLTON ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Gender & Sexuality ]
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An investigation into the practice of forced marriages in the South Asian community in U.K and related honour crimes.

[ Filmmaker/s : SONALI DUTTA CHARLTON ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Gender & Sexuality ]
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An investigation into the practice of forced marriages in the South Asian community in U.K and related honour crimes.

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