Venue 1: FILM GUILD (FILM HOUSE) Entry by PASS 07-11 September 2016

The Indian New Wave Cinema @ 50 Auteurs, Aspirations & Achievements

Screenings can be accessed with a Single EFIFD 2016 - Film Guild Pass (£10 / £7 concession) This single pass will give access to any / all screenings & events listed in the Film Guild programme.

ENTRY TO VENUE WILL BE ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS

There is a limited number of passes available and they will only be issued on request.

Please book your pass by e-mail: [email protected] WEDNESDAY 7th September: 7-9 PM 7.00pm: GOD’S OWN PEOPLE / Director Nilamadhab Panda (English, 2016: 80m) Gods’ Own People is an intimate document of human faith narrated as an epic cinematic story, exploring the bonds between the devotees and the divine through millennium old rituals at the largest pilgrim gathering of 21st century that happened in the Eastern coastal Indian town of Puri in July 2015. THURSDAY 8th September: 6-9.30 PM 6.15pm: MANJHI: THE MOUNTAIN MAN / Director: Ketan Mehta (Hindi w. English Subs, 2015: 120m) If you have the will, you can move mountains. Bihar’s Dashrath Manjhi, the protagonist of Mountain Man, proves this adage by achieving the unthinkable of carving a path through a mountain with just a hammer and a chisel, toiling away for 22 years. Ketan Mehta’s biopic tells this powerful true story of the common man with an interesting cameo by Prime Minister . 8.30pm: JAI HO (English, 2011: 60m) A biopic documentary on Music Director, A.R. Rehman, who has single-handedly catapulted Indian film music on to the world stage. Considered one of the world’s most influential people by Time Magazine, the film explores the evolution of Rahman’s music style as a fusion of Eastern sensibilities and Western technology. FRIDAY 9th September: 5-10 PM 5.00pm: CHINAGATE / Director: Santoshi (Hindi w. English Subs, 1998: 175m) A contemporary, art house curry Western, featuring 10 of Indian cinema’s veteran character actors, Chinagate is both an inspiration and a tribute to the heroic spirit and inspiring legacy of Akira Kurosawa’s black & white classic, Seven Samurai (1954). 9th Sept. - 8.45pm: Lecture Demonstration by Punit Shah Jaiwansh on the Classical Indian Music Roots of Bollywood’s Hit Melodies (60m)

SATURDAY 10th September: 1-5 PM/ 7-9.30 PM THE LITERARY FEMININE. Post-Screening discussion by Prof. Bashabi Fraser, Edinburgh Napier University & Director (Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies) 1.00pm: IN HER OWN WORDS / Director: Annie Zaidi (2015: 35m) This film traces the historical and social journeys of Indian women as revealed through the literature they created in every era. Through the verse of nuns, Bhakti devotee rebels, folk songs, poetry by courtesans, the work of amateur anthropologists, the memoirs of activists and modern literature, we witness the oppression of Indian womanhood over two millennia and their accompanying aspirations. ISMAT & ANNIE / Director: Juhi Sinha (2008: 30m) Ismat Chugtai and Qurrat-ul-Ain-Haider took to writing at a time when women writers were expected to be conformist and subdued. Bold and ahead of their times, the universality of their stories gave immediacy to their characters, cutting across caste, religion and socially constructed stereotypes. Ismat and Annie chronicles the lives and works of Chugtai and Haider, who, in spite of the turmoil and turbulence in their personal lives and the period they lived in (20th Century), contributed immeasurably to ’s literary landscape.

PREMIERE PREVIEW: 2.30pm: NACHOM-IA-KUMPASAR (Let’s Dance to the Rhythm) / Director: Bardroy Barretto (Konkani w. Eng. Subs, 2016: 155min) Q&A w. Producer Angelo Braganza. A love story set in 1960s India, it celebrates Goa’s distinct musical legacy shaped by Portuguese influences. Through foot-tapping dance numbers the film captures the roller coaster lives of its unsung practitioners and their influence on early Bollywood music.

7.00pm: HAWA HAWAII / Director: Amol Gupte (Hindi w. Eng. Subs, 2014: 120m): Deeply inspirational, yet easy going, jaunty, light and supple, Hawa Hawaii is an extraordinary saga featuring ordinary lives, the kind we often pass by at India’s busy traffic signals. Director Amol Gupte penetrates the heart, mind, soul and dreams of some of these unsung lives of little men in one of Indian cinema’s most moving film on street kids since Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay. A not-to-be-missed life-changing experience!

SUNDAY 11th September: 1-7 PM 1.00pm: DOCUMENTARY DOUBLE BILL ON INDIAN NEW WAVE CINEMA AUTEURS BENEGAL’S NEW CINEMA / Director: Iram Ghufran (English, 2014: 58m) The film explores the time, ethos and concerns of the 1970s’ Indian New Cinema movement in India through the films of one of its pioneers, . It also discusses the motivations and impulses guiding his acclaimed works. MRINAL – AN ERA IN CINEMA / Director: Rajdeep Paul (English, 2016: 35m) A biographical documentary that tries to decode the layers of political ideology, which have been the cornerstone of auteur ’s cinematic expression. Post-Screening discussion by Dr. Dennis Hanlon & Sanghita Sen, Dept. of Film Studies, University of St. Andrews.

3.15pm: Dhrupad (one of the oldest styles of ) Documentaries, Lecture Demonstration & Discussion by Marianne Svašek, Rotterdam Conservatory, Netherlands (60m)

4.30-7.00 pm: FEATURE FILM: MANJADIKURU (Lucky Red Seeds) / Director: (Malayalam w. Eng. Subs, 2008: 140 min). Manjadikuru is a story of homecoming from the late 1980s. 10-year-old Vicky arrives at his grandparents’ home in rural Kerala from ‘The Gulf’ to attend his grandfather’s funeral. As his large disjointed family gathers together for a sixteen-day-long period of funeral ceremonies, Vicky discovers more about himself, his family and his roots (TBC)