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+ VE LIVING (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : C. VANAJA ]
[ Theme : Contemporary Politics , HIV/ AIDS ]
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The story of HIV+ women, who defied destiny and persisted on their journey in life, against social ostracism and an uncertain future, with dignity and hope.

Awards:- Golden Pearl Winner 2007, Hyderabad Film Festival, March 2007

A BODY THAT WILL SPEAK (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SUKANYA SEN & PAWAS BISHT ]
[ Theme : Contemporary Politics , Gender & Sexuality ]
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A filmmaker, a university student, an entrepreneur and a radio jockey. Women, who feel hungry, eat, grow fat and feel anxious about it. A film about not being perfect. A film about the never ending attempts to make the body "speak for the self in a meaningful and powerful way." A journey to move beyond disorders and discover the real women battling the fantasies around and within them.

A SHORT FILM ABOUT... (26 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : DIVYA SACHAR ]
[ Theme : Contemporary Politics , Gender & Sexuality ]
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A look at how some urban Indian women view their breasts. Affected by other’s perceptions, women mostly find themselves looking at their breasts through a male perspective. Whether in the form of media images of impossible perfection or an adolescent need to gain male approval and attention or just the opposite - to repel male advances - the male gaze is ever present in one form or the other.

A STATE OF KILLING (30 min.)
[ Filmmaker/s : K. N. T. SASTRY ]
[ Theme : Literature , Contemporary Politics ]
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An attempt to understand the killings taking place in the State of Andhra Pradesh in the name of Naxalite terrorism and the police extremism as a response. The film examines the reasons and roots for this violence and also explores the creative contribution to literature and arts that the Naxalite movement has made.

ACCOUNTS AND ACCOUNTABILITY (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : RADHIKA KAUL BATRA ]
[ Theme : Contemporary Politics , Development ]
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The film documents the power of ordinary people to effect revolutionary change. It shows how a group of villagers in Rajasthan led by Aruna Roy, use the Right to Information Act as a powerful weapon to root out corruption.

ALL RISE FOR YOUR HONOUR (78/ 52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SUMIT KHANNA ]
[ Theme : Development , Contemporary Politics ]
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The Constitution of India defines and declares the nation state’s common goal – To secure to all the citizens of India, justice – social, economic and political, Liberty; equality and fraternity. However, serious problems beset the judicial system as a result of which it is largely dysfunctional, unaccountable, inaccessible and insensitive, especially to the poor. The Film is an attempt to decipher the judicial process in India from the standpoints of the all the stake holders: people who are the seekers of justice, lawyers who are the intermediaries of justice and the Judiciary that dispenses justice; in the process, understanding how far removed we are from the constitutional vision of Justice.

AN ISLAND OF HOPE (26 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : PANKAJ BUTALIA ]
[ Theme : Contemporary Politics , Education ]
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The Chakmas are a tribal group that went to Pakistan when the Chittagong Hilly Tracts became part of what was then known as East Pakistan. In 1964, the setting up of the Kaptal Hydel Project uprooted 50,000 Chakmas from their traditional homelands. Most of them then crossed over to India where they were buffeted from one state to another because no one wanted them. They ended up living in and around Changlang, a small part of Eastern Arunachal Pradesh. A few years ago, a small school was started in Diyun, Changlang, by a few young Chakma men. This school suddenly transformed the local environment and led to the local communities grudgingly accepting this ‘outsider’ immigrant community.

APOUR TI YAPOUR. NA JANG NA AMAN. YETI CHU TALUKPETH. (Between Fence and the Border and on the Edge of a Map.) (77 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : AJAY RAINA ]
[ Theme : Contemporary Politics , Conflict ]
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The Film delves into the untranslatable in Kashir, maps the distance it has travelled emotionally and psychologically from the idea of India. After twenty years of turmoil and the consequent Indian State response, has Kashir come to a point from where, there is nowhere else to go?

ARE THEY POTTED PLANTS? (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : ASHOKE VISHWANATHAN ]
[ Theme : Contemporary Politics , Gender & Sexuality ]
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The film looks at the predicaments of Gulf wives left behind by their husbands in Kerala, and the social and psychological trauma that they are forced to undergo.

ART IN EXILE (37 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : NIDHI TULI & ASHRAF ABBAS ]
[ Theme : Contemporary Politics , Literature ]
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A film about Tibetans living in exile in India and the role their art is playing in keeping their identity and the larger Free Tibet Movement alive. From the prolific activist poet, Tenzin Tsundue, to the enigmatic, ex-Tibetan Youth Congress President/ Poet Lhasang Tsering, rock band JJI Exile Brothers, to traditional institutes like TIPA and Norbulingka, the Film offers glimpses into an alternative Tibetan Revolution.

- Official Selection, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, 2007
- Official Selection, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2008

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