6th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2018 - Screening Schedule
Day 01; 15 April 2018
10 am Inauguration
Guest speakers :
Amrit Gangar, writer / film theorist / curator / historian
Anushka Meenakshi & Iswar Srikumar, filmmakers
10:30 Up Down & Sideways
Dir: Anushka Meenakshi & Iswar Srikumar; 83 min; Chokri with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India
Up Down and Sideways’ is a musical portrait of a community of rice cultivators and their memories of love and loss, created from working together on the fields. It is the first feature film from the u-ra-mi-li project, a larger body of work that looks at the connections between music and labour.
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12 pm Life is One
Dir: Patrick Rouxel; 56 min; 2016; France
“Life is One” is the story of three orphan sun bear cubs from Indonesia and their return to the wild. The story is told by the foster parent of these cubs who accompanied them to their independence. The viewer is placed in total immersion with the bears in the rainforest and discovers how beautiful, joyful and energetic they are. The film is a tribute to life on earth, a reminder that we are all connected and that we owe respect and compassion to those we share the planet with.
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2 pm to 5 pm Homage to S Sukhdev
Films by Sukhdev ; Produced by Films Division of India
Guest speakers :
Sadanand Menon, critic/curator
Jai Sakthivel, academic
1) India 67 - An Indian Day
Dir: Sukhdev; 55 min; 1967; Color; No dialogue
Produced and directed by S. Sukhdev, this film is a cinematic perusal of the contrasts, contradictions and diversity of India. The film has no commentary, but the shots speak for themselves. Just like Indian feature films, this film also has drama and songs, but these are ‘real-life’ rather than conceived specially for this film. The film produces the same effect on the viewers as a month-long visit to India, a sense of having seen everything and a sense of having seen nothing, both at the same time. Shot almost half a century ago, the film is still relevant to the present day 21st century India.
2) Nine Months to Freedom
Dir: Sukhdev; 66 min; 1975; Color; English
When the Bangladesh pogrom began, Sukhdev was one of the very few Indian filmmakers who was in the thick of the action at considerable physical risk. The result was Nine Months to Freedom, a work of compelling power. The Bangladesh story is placed in historical perspective from the emergence of Pakistan upto the return of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to his people. The basic conflict that arose between the two wings of Pakistan - the language problem, the riots, the demands for freedom from exploitation and for self rule, the crackdown by the Pakistan Army, the exodus of refugees, the nine-month-long struggle, the genocide and the rapes and mass destruction - Sukhdev's camera shows it all.
3) And Miles to Go
Dir: Sukhdev; 14 min; 1967; B&W; English
Assisted by the voice of Zul Vellani, the film is an emphatic call to the citizens of India to be active participants in the future of the country. Made twenty years after India's independence, the film attempts to provoke through a montage of contradicting lifestyles.
4)The Vanishing Tribe
Dir: Paul Zils; 16 min
A documentary on the Todas, the origingal inhabitants of the Nilgiris, 'the Blue Mountains' of South India. The origin of the Todas is shrouded in mystery but what is interesting about them is that their traditions and elaborate ceremonies have remained unchanged ever since the days of their forefathers
Sukhdev assisted Paul Zils in this film.
5) Voice of the People
Dir: Sukhdev; 17 min; 1961; Color; English
Maker of this film, S. Sukhdev says in the beginning : "On the 16th ofApril, I read a news items that there is going to be an all Indiarailway strike. I got a little worried; we decided to take the cameraout to the people and asked them a few questions."Views from the cross-section of society are elicited on the questionwhether such a strike should take place or not.
5:30 pm to 9 pm
Guest speakers :
Jayakrishnan Subramanian, filmmaker
Dipu, filmmaker
Bindhumalini and Vedanth, singers/artists
5:30 Palai / Landscapes of Longing
Dir: Jayakrishnan Subramanian; 28 Min; Tamil with English Subtitles; 2018; India & Germany
A modern metaphoric interpretation of classical Tamil poetry and artistic depiction of the desert landscape (Palai) in the Sangam literature in a cinematic form in the context of the current socio-political issue of South-Indian Tamil migrant workers in the Middle East.
6:10 Sangam Poems - Palai Landscapes (musical performance)
Singers/artists: Bindhumalini and Vedanth)
6:40 Our Gauri
Dir: Deepu; 67 min; English 9subtitles); 2017
Gauri Lankesh was one of the Karnataka’s most prominent and fearless journalists. She was shot dead outside her house in Bengaluru on the night of 5th September, 2017. Gauri spoke out against communal forces in the country and represented dissent and freedom of speech.
The film is more than a personal tribute and follows her political journey, envisaging what she stood for and her struggle for communal harmony until her last breath. And her life story has become the history of Karnataka’s fight against right-wing communal forces.
7:50 The Ice Cream Killer
Dir: Anna Wasserwoman; 5 min; Int
Observational documentary. We may observe the usual hectic street, people crossing. The "murder" of the Ice Cream happens in front of people's eyes. We see a woman, young woman in the middle of the day who has a break and takes her time to eat the Ice Cream. This is her fight. She is a warrior. She has plaster on her feet wearing her high heels shoes. The weather is hot. The Ice Cream is melting. She is determined to win the fight and when she is done it becomes her satisfaction.
8 pm Women of Freedom
Abeer Zeibad Haddad; 57 min; Arabic with Eng subtitles; Documentary; Palestine, Israel
Women of Freedom follows the stories of women who were murdered in the name of ‘Honor Killing', in the Arab and Palestinian society. This documentary aims to unravel the social and political circumstances that lead to this troubling
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2 pm to 5 pm Homage to S Sukhdev
Films by Sukhdev ; Produced by Films Division of India
Guest speakers :
Sadanand Menon, critic/curator
Jai Sakthivel, academic
1) India 67 - An Indian Day
Dir: Sukhdev; 55 min; 1967; Color; No dialogue
Produced and directed by S. Sukhdev, this film is a cinematic perusal of the contrasts, contradictions and diversity of India. The film has no commentary, but the shots speak for themselves. Just like Indian feature films, this film also has drama and songs, but these are ‘real-life’ rather than conceived specially for this film. The film produces the same effect on the viewers as a month-long visit to India, a sense of having seen everything and a sense of having seen nothing, both at the same time. Shot almost half a century ago, the film is still relevant to the present day 21st century India.
2) Nine Months to Freedom
Dir: Sukhdev; 66 min; 1975; Color; English
When the Bangladesh pogrom began, Sukhdev was one of the very few Indian filmmakers who was in the thick of the action at considerable physical risk. The result was Nine Months to Freedom, a work of compelling power. The Bangladesh story is placed in historical perspective from the emergence of Pakistan upto the return of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to his people. The basic conflict that arose between the two wings of Pakistan - the language problem, the riots, the demands for freedom from exploitation and for self rule, the crackdown by the Pakistan Army, the exodus of refugees, the nine-month-long struggle, the genocide and the rapes and mass destruction - Sukhdev's camera shows it all.
3) And Miles to Go
Dir: Sukhdev; 14 min; 1967; B&W; English
Assisted by the voice of Zul Vellani, the film is an emphatic call to the citizens of India to be active participants in the future of the country. Made twenty years after India's independence, the film attempts to provoke through a montage of contradicting lifestyles.
4)The Vanishing Tribe
Dir: Paul Zils; 16 min
A documentary on the Todas, the origingal inhabitants of the Nilgiris, 'the Blue Mountains' of South India. The origin of the Todas is shrouded in mystery but what is interesting about them is that their traditions and elaborate ceremonies have remained unchanged ever since the days of their forefathers
Sukhdev assisted Paul Zils in this film.
5) Voice of the People
Dir: Sukhdev; 17 min; 1961; Color; English
Maker of this film, S. Sukhdev says in the beginning : "On the 16th ofApril, I read a news items that there is going to be an all Indiarailway strike. I got a little worried; we decided to take the cameraout to the people and asked them a few questions."Views from the cross-section of society are elicited on the questionwhether such a strike should take place or not.
5:30 pm to 9 pm
Guest speakers :
Jayakrishnan Subramanian, filmmaker
Dipu, filmmaker
Nirmala Kotravai, writer/translator
Ajayan Bala, filmmaker/writer5:30 Palai / Landscapes of Longing
Dir: Jayakrishnan Subramanian; 28 Min; Tamil with English Subtitles; 2018; India & Germany
A modern metaphoric interpretation of classical Tamil poetry and artistic depiction of the desert landscape (Palai) in the Sangam literature in a cinematic form in the context of the current socio-political issue of South-Indian Tamil migrant workers in the Middle East.
6:10 Sangam Poems - Palai Landscapes (musical performance)
Singers/artists: Bindhumalini and Vedanth)
6:40 Our Gauri
Dir: Deepu; 67 min; English 9subtitles); 2017
Gauri Lankesh was one of the Karnataka’s most prominent and fearless journalists. She was shot dead outside her house in Bengaluru on the night of 5th September, 2017. Gauri spoke out against communal forces in the country and represented dissent and freedom of speech.
The film is more than a personal tribute and follows her political journey, envisaging what she stood for and her struggle for communal harmony until her last breath. And her life story has become the history of Karnataka’s fight against right-wing communal forces.
7:50 The Ice Cream Killer
Dir: Anna Wasserwoman; 5 min; Int
Observational documentary. We may observe the usual hectic street, people crossing. The "murder" of the Ice Cream happens in front of people's eyes. We see a woman, young woman in the middle of the day who has a break and takes her time to eat the Ice Cream. This is her fight. She is a warrior. She has plaster on her feet wearing her high heels shoes. The weather is hot. The Ice Cream is melting. She is determined to win the fight and when she is done it becomes her satisfaction.
8 pm Women of Freedom
Abeer Zeibad Haddad; 57 min; Arabic with Eng subtitles; Documentary; Palestine, Israel
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