Curated by Amudhan R.P.
Jointly organised by MARUPAKKAM and Goethe - Institut, Chennai
27-29 Oct; 10 am to 8 pm; Goethe - Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai
Screening Schedule
27 Oct; Saturday
10 am Inauguration
Chief Guest : Trotsky Maruthu (painter / artist)
"Social Justice and Media" - Special lecture on Social Justice : Senthalir (journalist)
27 Oct; Saturday
10 am Inauguration
Chief Guest : Trotsky Maruthu (painter / artist)
"Social Justice and Media" - Special lecture on Social Justice : Senthalir (journalist)
The film explores the politics of witch hunting - how superstition, greed, ignorance, fear, insecurity and power work together to cause immense violence and suffering.
11:45 Interaction with Karuna Miryam (activist/researcher)
12:00 Green (Dir: Patrick Rouxel; 47 min; France / Indonesia)
Set in Indonesia. Meet Green, an orangutan and victim of human impact. Follow the devastating journey as her home is destroyed by logging, clearing for palm oil plantations, and the choking haze of rainforest fires. Hauntingly poetic and without narration, the film creatively depicts the effects of consumerism on tropical rainforests as we are faced with our personal accountability in the loss of the world's treasures.
12:50 Interaction with Sajith Attepuram (activist)
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 The Battle of Bhima Koregaon (Dir: Somnath Waghmare; 49 min; India)
This documentary is about the 500 Mahar soldiers (the untouchables) who offered to fight alongside their countrymen, against the colonisers. Rejected by the ruling class they joined forces with the colonisers and fought in the 'Bhima Koregaon Battle', defeating the Brahminical rule of the Peshwas. Just as history did, so do the media and ruling class today conveniently forget to acknowledge them. On the 1st of January, every year, 20 lakh (2 million) people gather at Bhima-Koregaon, Pune, Maharashtra to commemorate that battle.
2:50 Interaction with Prof Arunkannan (Loyola College)
3:10 A Delicate Weave (Dir: Anjali Monteiro & KP Jayasankar; 62 min; India)
A Delicate Weave, set in Kachchh, Gujarat, India, traces four different musical journeys, all converging in the ways they affirm religious diversity, syncretism and love of the other.
4:15 Interaction
4:35 Radiation Stories (Dir: Amudhan R.P.; 80 min; India)
The people’s movement against Koodankulam nuclear plant is a 20 plus years old story. Post Fukushima saw the movement gaining momentum in and around Koodankulam and Idinthakarai villages thanks to the test run conducted by nuclear authorities of Koodankulam which brought in the inland farmers, workers, small traders and lower middle salaried class to the struggle along with the fishing community.
5:55 Interaction
6:15 The Question of Social Justice and Intersectionality - Special lecture on Social Justice : Dr. Binitha Thampi (IIT- Madras)
Day 2; 28 October
10 am The Long Distance (Dir: Daniel Andreas Sager; 91 min; Germany / Kenya)
A farmer woman from Kenya and a shepherd boy want to run their way out of poverty. Their hope is to be able to join highly paid marathons in Europe with the help of a German athletics manager.
11:30 Interaction
11:45 Ladies and Gentlewomen (Dir: Malini Jeevarathnam; 46 min; India)
A film about love, life, and suicides among lesbians.
12:30 Interaction with Malini Jeevaratnam (filmmaker), Srijith Sundaram (theatre director / actor / activist)
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 The Children Send Their Regards (Dir: Patricia Marchart; 104 min; Germany)
They were acolytes, pupils, wards and foster home children, who were sexually, emotionally and physically abused by members of the clergy. Accompanied by the camera, the victims visit the locations of the crimes from back then. Many are making their stories public for the first time.
3:45 Interaction with Tamilzh Prabakaran (filmmaker / journalist)
4:00 Valentina (Dir: Maximilian Feldmann; 51 min; Germany)
A slum in a Romani neighbourhood. Ten year old Valentina invites us to meet her family. What follows are bizarre anecdotes, day dreams and documentary observations - a film as lively as it roaming heroine.
5:00 Interaction
5:15 Perunkadal Vettathu (Dir Arul Ezhilan; 60 min; India)
Fishermen who inhabit the southern most peripheries of India, were caught in cyclone Ockhi and were given up to die in sea without being rescued by the government. This documentary discusses those painful events, the tragic condition that followed of their families and the political reasons behind these deaths. This documentary also looks deeper into the havoc caused by cyclone Ockhi, the unspeakable tragedy that befallen on the fishermen community of Kanyakumari and the political reasons that prevented them from getting help.
6:15 Interaction with Arul Ezhilan (filmmaker/journalist), Dhayalan (media person)
6:45 Three Stories from the Law : of life, liberty and dignity - Special lecture on Social Justice : Adv Usha Ramanathan
Day 3, 29 October
10 am Where the Grass Grows Highest (Dir: Philip Hallay & Christian Spieß; 51 min; Germany / Mangolia)
Begzuren lives in the ger district of Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Due to a lack of space, survival is very difficult. Still tourists from all over the world come into his modest ger to exchange life experiences. Dalai’s lives in Bayangol Sum, a two hours drive from Ulan Bator. Instead of living in a chaotic metropolis, he enjoys the vastness of the veldt. His son, destined to inherit his father’s nomadic tradition, is secretly dreaming of Ulan Bator.
10:50 Interaction with Dr. Anandhi (MIDS), Dhamayanthi (writer / filmmaker)
11:00 am Dispossessed (Dir: Mathieu Roy; 83 min; Canada)
The Dispossessed is an impressionist journey that sheds light on the daily strife of the world’s hungry farming class. In this era of industrialized agriculture, across the globe, people who produce food are paid less than almost any other profession. Part cinema-vérité, part essay, our film examines the mechanisms by which farmers are falling into a somber cycle of despair, debt and dispossession.
12:25 Interaction with Muthukrishnan (writer / activist), Dr.Anandhi (MIDS), Dhamayanthi (writer/filmmaker)
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 pm Words on Water (Dir: Sanjay Kak; 85 min; India)
For more than 15 years, people of the Narmada Valley in central India have resisted a series of massive dams on their river, and in their struggle have exposed the deceptive heart of India s development politics. When the use of violence has become the arbiter of all political debate, 'Words on Water' is about a sustained non-violent resistance, an almost joyous defiance, which empowers people as they struggle for their rights, yet saves them from the ultimate humiliation of violence.
3:25 Interaction with Muthukrishnan (writer / activist), R R Srinivasan (filmmaker / activist)
3:40 Lock and Key (Dir: Shilpi Gulati; 82 min; India)
Taala Te Kunjee, is a heart wrenching story of Five recovering addicts at The Hermitage Rehab, Amritsar, Punjab. This story beautifully captures the essence of recovery from addiction and how these recovered addicts along with their families are helping other sufferers recover from the rampant drug problem in the state. While they struggle to establish new relationships with their pasts, their wives strive to redefine the meaning of love. An intimate portrayal of recovery, 'Taala Te Kunjee' is about relationships and the labor of everyday.
5:00 Interaction
5:15 Hora (Dir: Nachi; 24 min; India)
HORA literally meaning a fortune teller in marati language. It’s a folk theater form used to tell fortunes. Vilas ghogre a reveloutionary poet metamorphosed the form to predict the political future of the world. Adapting that form in film’s narrative technique too we follow the life of Rupali jadhav who is an activist singer in Kabir Kala Manch a cultural-political troupe using songs as a means of protest and revolt.
5:40 Interaction with Nachi, filmmaker
6:00 Closing Ceremony
Special Lecture on Social Justice : Imayam, writer
Felicitation by Prince Ennares Periyar, filmmaker/activist
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