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A FLOWERING TREE  (60 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : VIPIN VIJAY ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition ]
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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 ]
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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 : 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.

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE   (60 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : NIRMAL CHANDER & REENA MOHAN ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition ]
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They left in dhows and returned on a plane. But the journey back, took over 700 years. Along the way; they lost their language and knowledge of their native land. But retained their music and their dance – the most telling clue to their history. A film on the Sufi Sidis of Gujarat.

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE   (60 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : REENA MOHAN ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition ]
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They left in dhows and returned on a plane. But the journey back, took over 700 years. Along the way; they lost their language and knowledge of their native land. But retained their music and their dance – the most telling clue to their history. A film on the Sufi Sidis of Gujarat.

ALL TIME BLUES  (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : NARESH SHARMA ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition ]
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The film looks at the brass band, an integral part of ritualised urban Indian life performing on numerous occasions like births, marriages, retirement and even at funerals.

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.

ANUNAD   (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SANJAY MAHARISHI ]
[ Theme : 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.

BLOOD ON MY HANDS  (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SURABHI SARAL, MANAK MATIYANI & ANANDANA KAPUR ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition ]
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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 ]
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An exploration of the contemporary relevance and the future of Dhrupad, the oldest form of classical music in North India.

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