16-18 Sep, multiple venues, Chennai
Jointly organised by
TN Government MGR Film & Television Institute
Panuval Book Store
Periyar Self Respect Media
&
MARUPAKKAM
List of films (official selection)
1) Songs of Defiance
Dir : Anuj Deshpande; 24 min; Documentary; India
This short documentary tries to trace the personal and collective journeys of artists of Kabir Kala Manch, a People's cultural troupe consisting of youth from marginalized backgrounds, who sing songs of resistance in the Vidrohi Shahiri tradition. This film profiles these artists and their lived experiences in the context of an unjust and hostile system they are struggling against.
2) Cheepatakadumpa
Dir : Devashish Makhija; 23.53; Short fiction; India
CHEEPATAKADUMPA’ follows three women over less than a day as they awaken their naughty teenage alter egos when they meet again after years, unleashing mischief on each other, and in turn on the biased patriarchal belief systems of the India they were born into. In a masculine culture that is unduly serious about making the rules that women are expected to live by, can Teja, Santo and Tamanna find true and happy rebellion in the gasping throes of this mischief?
3) Cycle
Dir : Devashishs Makhija; 19.46; Short fiction; India
'Cycle' is the story of a wronged young tribal woman who, in the absence of systemic justice, turns rebel, but struggles to be able to fulfil all the expectations that the path to retribution demands.
4) Siege in the Air
Dir : Muntaha Amin; 30 min; Documentary; India
Women in Indian Administered Kashmir weave memory threads to piece together a narratorial picture of what it feels to live under perpetual uncertainty and unending cycles of lockdowns in Kashmir laying focus on the recent communication blockade of 2019, post the Article 370 abrogation.
5) Tijuana - Stories from the border
Dir : Matteo Abbondanza; 70.24 min; Documentary; USA
Behind the Wall of Shame that separates the city of Tijuana (MEX) from San Diego (USA), some migrants tell their stories about what living in the city with the most journeyed border in the world is like, under Trump's coercitive immigrant policies. Federico Quaranta's voice walks us through the narration.
6) Ruuposh
Dir : Mohd Fehmeed, Zeeshan Amir Khan; 32.25; Documentary; India
Ruuposh is an idiosyncratic documentary that features Ruksana Begum- her late father Mehboob Khan and her son- Mohd Fehmeed, who belong to a Muslim minority family of India 2021. The documentary follows a personal narrative of how Mehboob Khan stayed back in India at the time of partition while his entire extended family moved to Pakistan. Ever since, there had been an on and off contact with the relatives in Pakistan which completely ceased off a few decades ago. And while, the younger generation wants to establish contact with the parted relatives- does the political circumstances of the two countries allow the possibility and sustenance of any friendly relationship?
7) Aravali, The Lost Mountains
Dir : Jigar Madanlal Nagda; 21.42 min; Documentary; India
Aravali: The Lost Mountains is a documentary on marble quarrying in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district, India.
The Aravalli Range is the world's oldest fold mountain range, and it helps to sustain the ecosystem. Ground water levels have been drained and average rainfall has also been depleted as a result of continual mining for the past 35 years, resulting in a serious water crisis and air pollution in Rajasmand. On the other hand, mining is the primary source of income for the majority of the population. As a result, this film examines both sides of the same coin, namely, the economy and the environment.
8) The Sako Tapes
Dir : Machiel van dan Heuvel; 73.20 min; Documentary; Netherlands
A film about Sako, an eccentric Indonesian man with Chinese roots.
Sako is struggling with his past. He is traumatized because of the murder of his innocent father, who was one of the approximately half to a million alleged communists that were killed in the transition period to the Suharto regime in Indonesia in 1965.
Sadly, this brutal period is still taboo in Indonesia and what makes it more painful for Sako is that during this time, he supported the responsible regime. To break the taboo and process his trauma, Sako went out with his camcorder and filmed people close to him and talked with them about their experiences related to this past.
9) Genocide and Movements
Dir : Luis Carlos de Alencer, Hamilton Borges, Andreia Beatriz; 60.37 min; Documentary; Brazil
The setting up of a solo performance, the outbreak of revolt, the collective clamor of the marches. Art, organization and rage against the genocide of black people. An audiovisual manifesto recorded between 2008 and 2016, in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro.
10) Pari & Poori
Dir : Hamed Vahid; 14 min; Short fiction; Iran
Its about a little girl who is trying to save their donkey.
11) Good Girl
Dir: Raheleh Karami; 13.12 min; Short fiction; Iran
My daughter is a good girl don't punish her.
12) Doll Story
Dir : Shakila Samavati; 19.54 min; Short fiction; Iran
It's the story of a girl that shows her life with the dolls.
13) One of us
Dir : Hossein Iraji; 14.20 min; Short fiction; Iran
It's the story of a teenager who has been engaged to an oldman and she gets pregnant.
14) Hana
Dir : Hossein Zolfaghari; 19.06 min; Short fiction; Iran
The problems of a binary gender girl in a traditional society…
15) The Case
Dir : Arun Varghese’ 11.40 min; Short fiction; India
When Renu, a lawyer, questions another woman's decision to withdraw a court case, she comes to terms with her own dilemma that threatens to take her world apart.
16) Let’s Talk About it
Dir : Vittorio Caratozzolo; 4 min; Documentary; Italy
We all live under the same sky, the Earth is only one and we must discuss together the real problems of the world, without weapons, in peace.
17) Khori
Dir : Kallol Mukherjee; 14 min; Documentary; India
The short documentary intends to explore the plight and expressions of migrant workers residing at Khori Village, Faridabad which is declared illegal by the Supreme Court of India and their houses are already in a demolishing state without proper rehabilitating of the villagers.
18) Section 298
Dir : James Joel Dann; 19.15 min; Documentary; United Kingdom
Told through the eyes of three persecuted female Ahmadiyya, Section 298 unveils the realities of life under Pakistan's deadliest law.
Section 298 of the Pakistan Penal code (also known as the Blasphemy law) openly allows prosecution, imprisonment and death for those who identify as Ahmadi Muslims, a minority Islamic movement in Pakistan. Since 2010 over 200 Ahmadi Muslims have been killed inside their mosques by suicide bombs and vigilante mobs.
Persecuted from birth, Ahmadiyya's are prohibited from working, voting, owning a passport or declaring themselves as Muslim. Section 298 takes us into the heart of the Pakistani Ahmadi community as they fight to keep their families, community and traditions alive.
Official Selection Committee :
Mitali Biswas, filmmaker (Kolkata)
Indraneel Lahiri, filmmaker (Mumbai)
Dr Roshini, film enthusiast (Chennai)
Senthil Kumaran, filmmaker (Chennai)
Amudhan R.P.
Festival Director
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