18th Social Justice Film Festival, Bengaluru

18th Social Justice Film Festival
Curated and presented by Amudhan R.P.

28 June, 10 am to 3 pm
Post Graduate Department of English Studies, Bishop Cotton Women’s Christian College, Bengaluru

Schedule

10 am : Inauguration

10:30

Pee (Shit)
26 min; Tamil with English subtitles; 2003; Documentary

Mariyammal, a sanitary worker with Madurai Municipal Corporation shares her frustration and anger with the filmmaker while cleaning a street near by a temple in Madurai which is full of shit.

11 am : Interaction

11.15 Tea break

11.30 am

White Slam - a documentary and Carrom
Dir Satish Ganapathy; 31.35 min; India; Documentary

While the game of carrom is global, the world champions of this game extraordinarily come from one single slum community in North Madras! This small area North of Chennai holds the record for the most number of World Champions in carrom. White Slam explores this unique distinction of this community.

12.10 Interaction 12.25

In Search of Gold - a portrait of Kolar Gold Fields Dir : Basav Biradar; 34.43 min; India; Documentary

Set in the once thriving colonial gold mining township of Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), IN SEARCH OF GOLD attempts to understand the different lived and remembered histories of people who built this highly profitable enterprise. Aided by the grim imagery of now defunct mining operations, the film brings together narratives of collective socio-political struggles of the past, nostalgia for lost privilege, and the anxiety of an uncertain future, of a fragmented society.

1 pm : Interaction 1.15 pm

India’s Forbidden Love
Dir: Sadhana Subramaniam; 25 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2018; Documentary

In March 2016, Kausalya and her husband Shankar were brutally attacked on a crowded street in southern India. Shankar, who came from a Dalit caste, died of his injuries.

Kausalya survived and accused her parents of orchestrating an honour killing. In the film, she fights for justice through the courts, testifying against her parents in a trial where they face the death penalty.

Kausalya’s now estranged grandparents and brother, Gautham, also await the verdict, desperately hoping Kausalya’s mother and father will be released.

The unique access to both sides shows a family torn apart by a caste hierarchy that remains deeply- rooted in India's social fabric.

1.40 pm Interaction 1.50 pm

The Unbearable Being of Lightness
Dir: Ramachandra PN; 45 min; English

A documentary film on a suicide note, a few gazes and a shopping complex

2.35 pm : Interaction 2.45 Closing remarks