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DRAUPADI'S DESCENDANTS  (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : OINDRILLA HAZRA ]
[ Theme : Gender & Sexuality , Contemporary Politics ]
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The story of paros, an emerging community of wives sold and transported from impoverished lands to the poor and landless farmers in Haryana and Punjab. The outcome is a modern day story of slavery and exploitation of those beyond the help of human rights. A film about women, social practices, women’s psyches, government roles and about the need for change.

Awards:Official Selection, Long Documentary Competition, 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala, 2011

EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF ORDINARY PEOPLE  (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MAHADEB SHI ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Diversity ]
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Different people, many traditions, one country. The Film celebrates the beauty of plural India through the genre of the road movie. Our heroes are ordinary people who undertake an extraordinary journey to satisfy their desire to know the unknown. The month-long bus journey with a set of vibrant and unique characters explores through their reactions the startling relationships between ancient India and present day India. As the bus journeys through the night, the morning mist and sometimes through rains, the Film captures the moving feast that is India. It reflects on ways in which India – this vast geographical entity – with so many languages, ethnic groups and cultural practices, holds together. What makes it work?  


FATWAS AND FEMINISM  (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : USHA ALBUQUERQUE ]
[ Theme : Women In Leadership Roles , Gender & Sexuality ]
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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.


MARINE DRIVE  (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : KRISHNA BAGADIYA ]
[ Theme : Religion/ Spirituality , Conflict ]
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Atul Bubna, 45, is an heir of a wealthy Marwadi family, hailing from the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. His grandfather, Ratan, died at his age, after having settled his seven sons in an art deco building on the seaface of picturesque Marine Drive. Atul, the prodigal son, went through every possible vice in his youth to his current renunciation of family responsibilities after the death of his father. Atul, like India, is learning to walk again on the path to modernity with his luggage of traditions. On Marine Drive...


MINDSCAPE OF BODY – TAMIL WOMEN'S POETRY  (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : LEENA MANIMEKALAI ]
[ Theme : Gender & Sexuality , Literature ]
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The film will expose the passionate language of women writers in Tamil literature from the Sangam to contemporary times who know where to situate their bodies, themselves and their poetry.


MY RIO, MY TOKYO (AAMAAR TOKIO, AAMAAR RIO)  (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : RUCHIR JOSHI ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes , Culture & Tradition ]
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The Film will attempt to record the peculiar beat of the city of Calcutta across seasons, old and new rhythms.


NAMMA KUDAI/ OUR POND  (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : PANKAJ RISHI KUMAR ]
[ Theme : Development , Livelihood ]
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The Film will document the changing geography of Nanguneri taluk in Tamil Nadu whose boundaries are being shadowed and redefined by an upcoming Special Economic Zone.


OLD MAN RIVER  (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : GOUTAM BORA ]
[ Theme : Culture & Tradition , Environment/ Wild Life ]
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98 year old Kurak Pegu, has worked hard throughout his life to survive and sustain along with his family in flood prone Majuli in Assam. He knows that the Brahmaputra river has been both very kind and harsh at the same time towards him and life on the island as a whole. He knows this river inside out and believes that the wisdom of this traditional knowledge has all the strength to cope with all the odds of the nature. He is worried about the unpredictable weather changes – the monsoon becoming more erratic and floods more destructive.


PLIGHT TO UNKNOWN  (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : ASEEM SINHA ]
[ Theme : Children , Conflict ]
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The world of six year old girl 'Anjali' - the vibrant, effervescent symbol of life, exists within the limited four walls of the jail where she is staying with her life-imprisonment convict mother.
As per the jail manual, no child above six years can stay with her mother in jail and Anjali too has to get rehabilitated outside.

The Film encompasses the bonding and the separation of the mother and child, The ironical conditioning of upbringing in the shadow of unexpressed sufferings and their impact on their life after 'rehabilitation'.


RETAIL PARANOIA  (UP) (60 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : VIPIN VIJAY ]
[ Theme : Conflict , Contemporary Politics ]
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A film that looks into the phenomenology of catastrophe in human civilisation.

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