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ATHWAAS - THE JOURNEY (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : ASHIMA KAUL BHATIA ]
[ Theme : Women In Leadership Roles , Conflict ]
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In 2001, a few Kashmiri women from diverse backgrounds and who had experienced the Kashmir conflict differently, came together to listen to each other. They named themselves Athwaas, a Kashmiri word meaning a handshake. The core group of Athwaas later traveled to different parts of the Kashmir Valley and camps of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community in Jammu, listening to the stories of pain, suffering and resilience of women divided across multiple faultlines. The film traces the emotional and physical journey of each woman in Athwaas beginning from the personal narrative of the director when she first visited the Valley to the time Athwaas was formed.

AUTUMN IN THE HIMALAYAS (56 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MALGORZATA SKIBA ]
[ Theme : Women In Leadership Roles , Religion/ Spirituality ]
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The film brings to light the story of a group of elderly Buddhist nuns from Ladakh, who represent the last generation of unordained and uneducated women in robes. They have led quiet lives in isolated high mountains working as domestic helps and road construction labourers. Neglected by religious and social systems for centuries, the new Nyerma nunnery is their last call for dignity, enhancement and purification of their religious status.

BURU GAARA (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SHRIPRAKASH ]
[ Theme : Women In Leadership Roles , Literature ]
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Poignant stories of a tribal journalist and a poet in Jharkhand, and how they express themselves through the new form and medium of self-resurrection of tribal identity and culture.

Awards:Best Film on Social Issues, 56th National Film Awards, 2008

CHANGING HER KARMA (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : ASHA NARANG SPAAK ]
[ Theme : Women In Leadership Roles ]
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The story of three women from diverse economic and social set ups, who have broken societal and traditional bonds to exercise their right to decide their own present and future.

COURAGE - THE ROAD SHE TRAVELS (26 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SANJAY BARNELA ]
[ Theme : Profiles Of Courage , Women In Leadership Roles ]
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The film travels into the lives of four rural women - a solar engineer, an animal healer, an ex-sarpanch and a fourteen year old who stopped her own marriage.

DAYABAI: TRIBAL MERCY (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : PREETI TRIPATHI KAPUR & SHASHIDHAR KAPUR ]
[ Theme : Development , Women In Leadership Roles ]
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A unique story of a woman who declassed herself from a class of landlords to become a tribal - against all odds. The film is about a form of service that transcends material help it involves becoming one with others - by empathizing and sharing. Portraying the concept of symbiotic leadership wherein a leader grows organically with those being led.

FATWAS AND FEMINISM (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : USHA ALBUQUERQUE ]
[ Theme : Women In Leadership Roles , ]
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An all women fatwa panel in Hyderabad, the first of its kind in the world, is issuing edicts on subjects ranging from make-up to menstruation. Disapproval from the Muslim orthodoxy notwithstanding, it’s a hit. What impact these pioneering changes might have for the reconstruction of contemporary India remains to be seen, but they are helping to subtly refashion structures of Indian Muslim religious authority, till now largely a male domain.

KAMLA AND HER MAGIC LANTERN (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : NAAZISH HUSAINI & ATUL KUMAR ]
[ Theme : Women In Leadership Roles , Development ]
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The story of Kamala, Indiaâ€™s first barefoot woman solar engineer. The film explores how barefoot solar engineers are proving to be catalysts for a revolutionary change in remote areas of Rajasthan bringing light to the life of several villagersâ€¦

NAYEE ROSHNEE (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : JYOTI PRAKASH ROY ]
[ Theme : Development , Women In Leadership Roles ]
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The story of an unsung hero, Girija Devi, leader of the women folk of Mushar community of Dalits in Bihar's Champaran district who has taken up a crusade against alcoholism by forming Mushar Vikash Manch.

ON AN EXPRESS HIGHWAY (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : REENA MOHAN ]
[ Theme : Women In Leadership Roles , Biography ]
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The film traces the journey of a 33 year old woman who gave up the material world for the austere life of a Jain sadhvi.

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