DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS 13 SEPTEMBER, WEDNESDAY my Own and On my Own Again, with PSBT, French nouvelle vague, had proclaimed that have been screened at various film festivals he found the medium of cinema really elite, 10:00 AM – 05:00 PM: WORKSHOP including 100 Years of Cinema, Yamagata, that the cost prevented ordinary people from FIPA Biarritz, Mumbai, Madrid and Karachi. DIVING INTO DOCUMENTARIES making films. He even said that he would not Nirnay, also for PSBT, which she co-directed make films, till the technology, the process, ANUPAMA SRINIVASAN and edited, won the Most Innovative Film became almost as cheap as writing or (FOR REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ONLY) Award at the Mumbai International Film painting.Today, with the advent of amazing Festival. phone cameras, this is happening all around Can we move beyond rigid categorisations, us. The Masterclass will demonstrate the and delve into the amazing world of audio- Anupama was Director of the IAWRT Asian above, with concrete examples of visual expression with openness, fearlessness Women’s Festival for three years and of the documentaries and short experimental films, and a sense of freedom? This interactive Peace Builders International Festival for one. session seeks to take participants through a She has been visiting faculty at NID shot on phone. journey of exploration of the cinematic form, Ahmedabad, Ashoka University and SACAC, It will talk about the way people are through excerpts from documentaries, Delhi and has mentored several short films eschewing the conventional grammar – shot under the aegis of IIT Delhi, National Bal especially from the Indian context, that bring breakdown, long shot, midshot, close shot, forth the plurality of forms that filmmakers Bhavan, DPS Ghaziabad, Katha, Pravah and over shoulder, etc. and shooting long takes, evolve to say what they want to say. PVR Nest. changing angles, allowing the actors to In the second session, the Workshop will travel perform, in a natural, organic way, rather than from an idea to possible treatments through 14 SEPTEMBER, THURSDAY shooting in brief spurts and takes, and so on. concrete examples and exercises. How do People are getting used to a slightly rougher we move from an idea to the context(s) to 10:00 AM – 05:00 PM: MASTERCLASS shooting style-the image breathing, losing the story to storytelling? What role does CINEMA IN THE TIME OF imagination play in making a documentary? focus sometimes,aperture changing. All these MOBILE PHONE CAMERAS were considered to be mistakes, earlier, but Anupama Srinivasan is a freelance A lecture demonstration on how filmmaking are not only acceptable, they are becoming filmmaker, film teacher and curator based in is undergoing a sea change as more and fashionable, stylish! The Workshop will Delhi. She has been making documentaries more people are being able to afford to demonstrate the use of mobile phones for for the past 16 years, on themes like gender, make films on their mobile phones, allowing filmmaking, and how that is bringing about a music and education, often shooting and them to create cinema. Thirty years ago, change in the language and grammar of editing her own work.Her films I Wonder..., On Jean-Luc Godard, one of the pioneers of the cinema.

2 Ranjan Palit has been working professionally in cinema, for the last 35 years, as a cinematographer, director and producer. He has shot over a hundred documentaries, 14 feature films and around 250 commercials for screen and television. He has made a dozen documentaries, including Forever Young and In Camera. He is currently editing his first feature film, as director, cinematographer, and producer. Ranjan has won four National Awards and several international awards. He has been conducting masterclasses on cinema- tography and documentary filmmaking, at places like Berkeley, Austin, Helsinki, Busan and Taipei, among others, and been on several international festival juries, including the upcoming Yamagata International Film Festival, Japan.

3 4 PSBT & DOORDARSHAN present MINI INPUT A Selection from the Best TV Films and Programmes 2016-17 Curated by the Annual International Public Service Broadcasters Conference

5 15 SEPTEMBER 2017, FRIDAY ONE MILLION BIRDHOUSES| 8 min. INFANTILIO | 21 min. | Black Comedy 09:30 AM Cross Platform Campaign | Finland The Netherlands Yle Nature’s ‘One Million Birdhouses’ This is a black comedy about the absurdity PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTERS MAKE campaign has two targets: publicise the of adult life, re-enacted by kids. The adult A DIFFERENCE decrease in the amount of birds and get world is mercilessly exposed when a ten-year Public Service Broadcasters can do more people to take action for birds by building old says the things an adult says and acts than produce great programmes. They can nesting boxes. One million nesting boxes is the way an adult acts. Infantilio is a metaphor make a difference, start campaigns and an amazing accomplishment in a country for adult-like behaviour in a so-called even trigger a whole country to build a of 5.5 million inhabitants. The amount of work adult world. The situations are painfully million nesting boxes! needed is equal to one person working night recognisable. Rude jokes, strong language and day for 22 years. The need and and references to taboos are all embraced. NEXT STOP: UTOPIA| 55 min. willingness to do something concrete to help The show is quite controversial, even for the Documentary | Greece nature has surprised all, and warmed the Netherlands. hearts of all. Twenty men who occupied the VIOME factory Director: Jamille van Wijngaarden had been jobless and desperate for a year Director: Markku Sipi Producer: Lucio Messercola and a half. The workers issued a manifesto Producer: Tiina Klemettilä declaring their goal to run the factory as a co-op under the principle of absolute equality. They found themselves appearing at the cutting edge of global resistance movements. From the first day of the factory occupation, we observe these men, their efforts in their day-to-day lives in and out of the factory. Not everyone shares the same enthusiasm and confidence in the plan, not everyone works the same and trust between them deteriorates… Director: Apostolos Karakasis Producers: Marco Gastine, Eleni Chandrinou

6 TRUE LIES: THOMAS HOBBES, LEVIATAN 12:00 NOON Director: Lars Kraume 29 min. | Educational Reality Producer: Oliver Berben YOUR DECISIONS ARE YOU Argentina How do we keep drama fresh? How can we Darío Sztajnszrajber leads a squadron armed 02:30 PM use digital technology to extend our stories with megaphones and other means of beyond the TV audience so they spark CAT AND MOUSE: DO YOU LET YOUR drawing attention. They land spontaneously conversations, find younger audiences, PROTAGONIST GET AWAY WITH in different places where they find crowds, even affect change? Where is the line MURDER? quickly prepare a set and start a public class, between innovation and gimmick? How do in which Darío invites the listeners to think, to Doctors have a standard to first do no harm. you measure success? How much should leave the routine for a moment and, also, to Scientists must remain objective. Those in you spend and where should you focus your have fun. The format proposes an experience the justice system must maintain innocence limited resources? Do audiences really want that will allow the spectators to be crossed until guilt can be proven in a court of law. to shape storytelling so actively? And are by philosophy in a different way, surprising To what standards are filmmakers held? you prepared to surrender control of your them with the staging and inviting them to When public media play the role of judge story? be surprised even more after having and jury, the stakes to ‘get it right’ are high. attended Darío’s class. What are the consequences of whistle- THE VERDICT | 90 min. | Interactive blowing on television? For a filmmaker to Director: Pablo Destito Fiction | Germany gain insider access, where are concessions Producers: Pablo Giles, Maite Echave Terrorists hijack a commercial aircraft and made? What is the responsibility to turn over force the pilot to set a course for a sold-out evidence versus waiting to publish your football stadium. At the last moment and story, when lives are at stake? against orders, a German air force pilot shoots the airplane down before it crashes into the stadium. He saves the lives of tens of thousands on the ground but kills all passengers. He is charged with homicide. The TV audience hears the evidence and is asked to render judgment by voting live online. The votes result in either conviction or acquittal. Is he guilty or innocent?

7 THE EXPERIMENTS | 60 min. BLOOD IN THE MOBILE | 52 min. 04:45 PM Documentary | Documentary | Denmark ENTERTAINMENT AND EDUCATION This documentary investigates the Italian We love our cell phones and the selection CONFRONTING CHALLENGING ISSUES surgeon Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have between different models has never been invented a groundbreaking method to create bigger. But the production of phones has a How do we create entertaining fiction that new organs. His method using plastic dark, bloody side. The Film shows the makes us think and feel? In this session you tracheas sown with stem cells has been connection between our cell phones and the are introduced to radical and at the same operated on patients in USA, Russia, Sweden civil war in the Congo. We get access to time successful TV programmes dealing and in Great Britain. So far, unfortunately, the Congo’s largest tin-mine, controlled by with tough subjects in an effective and track record of his plastic organs is not very different armed groups, and where children intriguing way. good. Almost all patients are dead. The Film work for days in narrow tunnels to dig out the provides a unique in-depth story of what minerals that end up in our phones. Blood in ARAB LABOR | 28 min. | Israel actually took place. Is Macchiarini a genius, the mobile is a consumer-activist film about Amjad is a 35-year-old Arab journalist, married or a fraud? The impact of this series was our responsibility for the conflict in the Congo to Bushara and father to Maya. In order to enormous, with repercussions in Sweden as and about corporate accountability. become the darling of the in-crowd, Amjad well as internationally. Macchiarini was is willing to lie, flatter and conceal all of his eventually fired. Director/s: Frank Piasecki Poulsen Arab traits. Meanwhile, he vehemently Producer/s: Ole Tornbjerg represents the suffering of Arabs at any given Director: Bosse Lindquist forum. This excessive Israelisation is a source Producer: Bosse Lindquist of conflict between Amjad and his conservative parents. His wife mocks his ways and deeds, but shows restraint in order to preserve domestic peace. Amjad’s only ally is his friend Meir- an Israeli Jew.

Director: Shay Kapon Producer: Yoni Paran

8 VITAMIN | 50 min. | Entertainment AMERIKA | 14 min. | Fiction Short | USA 07:15 PM Korea Two white parents living in Los Angeles struggle SPORT How can public service television enter the to raise their eight year-old son while trying to This session dissects inspiring and daring reality format world without losing its soul? Can overcome the father’s criminal past. The story documentaries through the eyes of the you educate AND entertain? Can art, health is set in an alternate version of America where filmmakers themselves: how they conceived and ethical issues become popular formats? black and white race relations are reversed their original idea, what obstacles stood in Here are some wild, innovative, cheap and and where four hundred years ago, Africans their way, how they overcame them and funny new ideas that will spark your captured Europeans and brought them to what kind of know-how and imagination imagination. North America to be sold as slaves. lifted these programmes to their level of Director: Ho-Sang KIM Director: Ryan Ward quality. The Session will focus on surprising Producer: Mackenzie Gruer camera and editing techniques which rivet 06:30 PM the audience’s attention. Those audacious documentaries from Asia enabled what had TOO PERFECT TO BE REAL THE WORDS TO TELL YOU | 22 min. seemed visually impossible possible, Some documentaries that hook an Documentary | Canada opening the door to an evolution of TV audience use Hollywood techniques with imagery. strong introductions, plot points, compelling What do we say to someone who is terminally conflict development and even a happy ill, with just a few weeks left to live? How does ending. How do filmmakers capture the key a doctor tell the patient that there will not be emotional moments and ‘perfomances’ any more treatment for his cancer? This is the that draw us in? Is this too perfect to be story of Mr Hasan’s last two months before real? Are we watching reality with our pancreatic cancer took his life. After the documentary characters and observing relationship with his doctor is established, we their lives or are we watching a can see how difficult it becomes to tell him performance for the camera? Are they that it is the end. The Film allows an delivering their emotions on demand? Is this experience of reality, beyond an endless a merging of different genres? Can fiction debate on the pros and cons of the right to programmes also make use of typical die. documentary elements? Director and Producer: Eric Le Reste Email:[email protected]

9 MIRACLE BODY: USAIN BOLT | 58 min. DREAM OF ICARUS | 60 min. 16 SEPTEMBER, SATURDAY Japan South Korea Miracle Body uses cutting edge video Capturing breathtaking moments high above 09:30 AM technology and scientific techniques to the world’s greatest mountain range, Dream VISIONS OF A YOUNG AUDIENCE probe the mysteries of top athletes’ of Icarus documents the world’s first astonishing physical abilities. It features the paragliding expedition across the Himalayas. YOUNG CREATORS, YOUNG FORMATS, fastest man in history: Jamaican sprinter Usain The expedition’s captain is legendary Korean YOUNG HOSTS. PUBLIC BROADCASTERS Bolt. Bolt submitted to an unprecedented full- mountaineer Park Jeong-heon. Now, Park has body scientific analysis that investigated the returned to pioneer a new 2,400 km sky route WORLDWIDE ARE LOOKING FOR THE secret of his almost-superhuman speed. The from Pakistan to Nepal. Fearless adventurers HOTTEST TALENTS OR TOPICS WHICH results revealed an unorthodox running form have joined him on a 168-day journey CAPTURE THE ATTENTION OF GEN Y/Z. that overturned conventional sports-science powered only by the forces of nature. Witness BUT DOES IT REALLY WORK? wisdom. Bolt’s running form is the result of a as they reach fantastic heights, drawing only genetic curvature, which makes his incredible upon the wind, their wits and a vital natural TRUE TALK | 5 min. | Factual Web quickness possible. The result is the astonishing phenomenon known as the thermal column, Switzerland story of how Bolt had to battle his own body a powerful source of vertical lift. True Talk portrays people who have to deal to become the world’s fastest man. with prejudice due to their characteristics, Director: Hyeong Woon Kim features, preferences or their jobs. War Director: Yoriko Koizumi Producer: Seoho Kim Producer: Shunsuke Takeuchi reporter Kurt, porn star Aviva, paraplegic Hitzi, hijab-wearing Fathima, HIV-positive Jenni or exjunkie Réda – they all have to justify themselves constantly for what they are. The protagonists address their laconic reactions and answers directly to the camera.

Director: Swantje Zorn Producer: Rosanna Grueter

10 YOUTH NEWS@PTS RECREATING HISTORY HISTORY WITH A ‘WOW!’: MINAMOTO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE — YES OR NO? NO YOSHITSUNE | 10 min. | Japan How do you effectively recreate a 20 min.|Youth News | Taiwan narrative from history so that it feels This Programme aims to make the study of A youth and children’s programme that like the unfolding present? Find out! Japanese history enjoyable for sixth-graders. caters to its target audience with news Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shido transforms content, worthy of their attention, every week THE BATTLE OF THE NATIONS HITS himself into a different historical figure, using through an atypical TV news broadcasting SAXONY | 25 min. | Germany song and dance to engage kids in a new format. Does the conflict of opinion signal that way. What was the historical context? What The Battle of Nations was fought near Leipzig widespread discrimination of homosexuals still did they achieve? What is their lasting in 1813. It is now presented ‘live’, using a news exists in society? Or is the country’s gender influence? This episode features the Genji broadcast style commonly used for education still lacking? clan warrior, Minamoto no Yoshitsune. He contemporary trouble spots. VTR recording, emerged 850 years ago in an epic struggle Producer: Shu Yi-Chi YouTube clips, mobile videos and helmet between two warrior clans, a conflict that Directors: Fu Wei-Zhi, Jiang Zhi-Cheng, Zou camera recordings bring us the latest from finally produced the military class known as Kun-Zhao,Li Li-Chang the Saxon battlefield. Reporters opt in to the samurai. That very success, however, describe the situation directly from the sowed the seeds of his downfall, as Yoritomo frontlines and emergency military hospitals; LIMBO | 30 min. | Fiction Short Greece turned against him and destroyed him. correspondents in Berlin, Paris and Moscow Twelve boys lead a carefree life on a seaside evaluate the tense pan-European situation Directors: S. Omoto, K. Shinoaki, M. village that looks like a paradise lost. Rumours in October 1813. Nishizawa,T. Fujiyama, M. Watanabe, R.Kita of a dead whale washed ashore feed their Producers: Tetsuya Yuge, Naoki Inagaki imagination. They come to believe that the Directors: André Meier, Holger Heinrich, whale is still alive but are too afraid to go and Pepe Pippig check. It is then that a new boy, looking very Producer: Martina Sprengel different from the others, arrives at the village and disturbs their lives and beliefs.

Director: Konstantina Kotzamani Producers: Maria Drandaki, Ron Dyens

11 11:15 AM THE CLASS | 10 min. | Cross Platform CBC NEWS: MARKETPLACE – FAKING IT Fiction Series | Denmark 22 min. | Investigative documentary NEW FORMATS The Class from Denmark is a fictional series Canada The boundaries of genres and of issues are aimed at students aged 10-12 that explores being broken down like never before. The This piece of investigative journalism exposes new generation of formats does not seem the challenges of preteen life through the the booming business of fake online reviews to care about genre traditions. Everything stories of eight main characters. Before the by attempting to fake out the fakers. We pose is possible; everything is hybrid. Is it a history scripts are written, children can co-create as a new business, build an online presence documentary or an adventure computer and contribute to storylines by suggesting plot for our pretend company and use it to take game? Is it a dating show or a documentary details via numerous digital platforms. This viewers deep inside the murky world of online on cultural change? Is it a programme on collaboration with the audience results in a deception. How easy is it for a company to economy or just another reality show? fresh, current drama that mirrors real life. fake a good reputation and boost their bottom line? We use unconventional PETRA DATES THE WORLD | 29 min. Director: Morten Boesdal Halvorsen journalistic techniques to get answers and Producer: Morten Dannisboe Documentary Reality | Denmark uncover an industry devoted to helping businesses mislead consumers. Using hidden This is an unconventional television show cameras, we capture companies offering to where the host, Petra Nagel, puts her personal write and post other fake reviews for us. life and emotions on display as she dates men from all over the world. The traditional Director and Producer: Greg Sadler interaction between a television host and Contact: Chad Paulin people appearing on the television show, are cast aside as Petra sets off on a real mission to find a boyfriend. Through dating, the show portrays how different the world and its cultures still are. The journey Petra begins is not just a physical journey. It is also a journey into Petra’s emotional state as a single woman in her mid-thirties, wanting to find the one and only true love.

Director: Nelle Renberg Andersen Producer: Harley Hersom 12 01:15 PM SORRY ABOUT THAT | 63 min. 03:00 PM Entertainment | Belgium PLAYING WITH PEOPLE INNOVATIVE ARTS PROGRAMMES You are in control of your own life. At least EXPERIMENTS ON TV Captivating approaches to illustrating the that is what you think, right? But what if that is craft and spirit of our beloved artists. With reality television, we are drawn by the not the case? What if an entire team of TV opportunity to see inside the secret lives of professionals is controlling your life, without others. The promise to observe real life is you even realising it? In Sorry about That, one TUNG PUI-SUN AND ME | 52 min. alluring, but do contrived situations provide unsuspecting member of the public Documentary | Hong Kong insight or are they pseudo-science? Are unwittingly stars in a game about his own life Tung Pui-sun created illustrations for dramatic social experiments on television simply for thirty days. We collectively apologise and martial arts serialised fiction in newspapers, entertainment? What happens if a four year give away prizes in a thrilling four-round quiz which he did in his early years, and later old is used as a bait to observe behaviour and a grand finale, about the past thirty days magnificent large scale illustrations. ‘Tung Pui- in a kindergarten? Are these social of our candidate’s life. Sun and Me’ is the portrait of a master artist experiments for subjects or the audience? created through a close encounter between Director: Steven Segers the painter and the director, who uses DON’T KID AROUND: THE NEW GIRL Producer: Joke Storms techniques to make the audience feel the 23 min. | Reality | Singapore drama of the martial arts characters in the What do we really know about the mind of a paintings. An interesting interviewing four-year old? What shapes them? How do technique is also utilised. they respond to their friends and teachers? Director: Shu Kei And do they know more than what we give Producer: Lo Chi-wa them credit for? Using an observational documentary approach, we spend six months with a class of fouryear-olds from Little Skool-House. We capture their conversations, their tussles, their allegiances, and their tears, providing a unique insight into this critical stage of childhood.

Directors and Producer: Hoe Yeen Nie, Low Minmin

13 THE WONDERFUL KINGDOM OF PAPA 05:30 PM SNOWDEN’S GREAT ESCAPE | 58 min. ALAEV | 74 min. | Documentary Documentary | Germany/ Denmark CREATING POSITIVE CHANGES Israel YES WE CAN On 5 June 2013, first revelations arising from the documents provided by the ex-NSA Nearly 80, Allo ‘Papa’ Alaev rules his Focussing on individuals who did celebrated folk music clan with an employee Edward Snowden are published in unexpected, challenging, and in some a Guardian article. This documentary takes iron tambourine. The gifted musician places, daring activities with a direct micromanages nearly every aspect of his you on a visit through Snowden’s time in Hong impact in their communities, this Session Kong and his effort to try to get to safety in family and their lives, both on stage and off. provides inspiration for programme-makers His only daughter, Ada, chose her own way Latin America. The 29-year old computer who want to create change and document specialist had just become USA’s public in life, a sin her father will not forgive. As innovative and surprising solutions. generations clash over new musical enemy number one’ – making him a directions, competing personal interests and significant pawn on the chessboard of THE PHONE OF THE WIND international politics. After applying for asylum Papa‘s advancing age, the family show must WHISPERS TO LOST FAMILIES | 49 min. go on - but who will lead the band? Set to a in 20 countries – including Iceland, Norway blazing tribal soundtrack, drama and Documentary | Japan and Finland – it is Russia’s Putin who comes drumbeats sing out from every entertaining In a Japanese town devastated by the to his rescue. With exclusive access to a exchange in this grand family affair. A music tsunami of March 2011, stands a booth number of key players like , documentary with drama that is ‘juicy without containing a telephone that is not Sarah Harrison, and Edward Snowden this being disrespectful’, says Variety. connected. This is the Phone of the Wind international coproduction reconstructs the where people come to call loved ones who events, showing what really went on, in the Directors: Tal Barda, Noam Pinchas died in the disaster. The townspeople see their days Snowden tried to escape one of the Producers: Christine Camdessus, Serge communities being rebuilt, but are still largest manhunts the world has seen. Gordey, struggling with their loss and cannot move forward with their lives. For them, the Phone Directors: John Goetz, Poul-Erik Heilbuth of the Wind is a way to open their hearts and Producer: Sidsel Marie Jacobsen thereby begin to come to terms with their loss.

Directors: Tomohiko Yokoyama, Ryo Urabe Producer: Akira Niinobe

14 07:30 PM THE WRINKLED MINUTE | 4 min. THE PANGTI STORY | 26 min. US AND THEM France Documentary | India | PSBT Part of the human experience is to divide Four nice old ladies tell not-so-nice jokes……a Amur Falcons, the longest traveling raptors in society by us and them, insiders and big-mouthed frog who is walking through the the world, fly from Siberia every fall to roost in outsiders, natives and newcomers. If a country in the summer and is in for a surprise. Pangti, a small village in Nagaland, and then society values democracy - freedom of The encounter of a shopkeeper with a scruffy fly on to Kenya. In 2012, Nagaland made expression, religion, speech - how far do young want-to-be salesman will inspire some global news when thousands of these raptors these rights extend? How do as public mirth. And – last but not least – a dead man were mercilessly hunted. Following this broadcasters portray the others without in hell meets the devil, of all creatures! revelation, a massive campaign to save falling into the traps of cliché or opinion? these birds began in a span of two years, Director: Fabrice Maruca How far do you take political correctness and Pangti managed to create a safe haven for Producer: Laurent Ceccaldi when do you have to start taking a stance? the birds by achieving a zero mortality rate. The Film explores the transition of the entire KIM’S CONVENIENCE: GAY DISCOUNT village from one that slaughtered hundreds 22 min. | Comedy Series | Canada and thousands of the wing visitors to their most fervent preservationists. The story of The Kims, a Korean Canadian family, running a convenience store in Director: Sesino Yhoshu downtown Toronto. Mr and Mrs Kim (‘Appa’ Producer: Rajiv Mehrotra and ‘Umma’) immigrated to Toronto in the 80s to set up shop near Regent Park. The world of Kim’s Convenience is real, colourful and urban - a diverse landscape of people and places and at the heart is the Kim family and their store. The family continues to work and live, finding humour in the everyday tasks of running the store.

Director: Peter Wellington Producer: Ivan Fecan

15 PSBT FILMS SCREENINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

17 17 SEPTEMBER, SUNDAY areas. She has written and directed for and is a recipient of two National Awards and organisations such as UNICEF, SAARC, SEWA, numerous State Awards. Bina has been the 10:30 AM: VEIL DONE | Juhi Bhatt Bharat Bala Productions, NDTV Good times Artistic Director of the International Film Festival 31 min. | 2017 and Travelxp Channel. of Kerala for the last ten years and has served Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker on the juries of various international film 11:15 AM: THE SOUND OF SILENCE festivals including those at Locarno, Durban, Bina Paul | 52 min. | 2017 Morocco and Berlin.

BEING BAD WOMEN: DISCUSSION Bina Paul, Mejaz Ul Haque (Pads Against Sexism) Shabani Hassanwalia Shambhawi (Pinjra Tod)

Mejaz Ul Haque is one of the four students from Jamia Milia Islamia University, who initiated Pads Against Sexism – a campaign Shah Jahan is fed up of people calling her The Samaagathi Report on extreme gender against rampant and rising sexism on and fat. Mehru Nisha longs to step out of the discrimination on campuses across Kerala off campus. Inspired by a similar campaign house. Afroz Jamala is terrified of growing created a furore, as most Vice Chancellors by Elonë Kastratia in Germany, the students numbness in her hands. Three women from went into denial, calling it false and posted sanitary pads across the campus, Nizamuddin basti, Delhi, take a decision that prejudiced. The Film travels through inscribed with messages and slogans against sets them on a journey to find themselves – campuses, speaking to women, providing everyday sexual harassment, abuse, and they join a gym. glimpses into their lives, experiences of routine misogyny faced by women. discrimination and the culture of silence Juhi Bhatt is a freelance filmmaker based in around the injustice, while discovering that Shabani Hassanwalia, along with Samreen Mumbai, who has worked on documentaries, their spirit cannot be contained! Farooqui, founded Hit and Run Films – an television commercials, TV shows and independent video production unit, which corporate films, on themes including Bina Paul graduated from the Film and engages with changing socio-political- environment, women’s rights, urban Television Institute of India with a specialisation personal realities through documentaries, infrastructure and financial literacy in rural in editing. She has edited over 35 feature films video art and intervention films. Together,

18 they have co-directed three feature 02:15 PM: SCRATCHES ON STONE politics. A recipient of the Charles Wallace documentaries – Out of Thin Air, Online & Amit Mahanti | 66 min. | 2017 India Trust Fellowship, he has been a part of Available and Being Bhaijaan, and the soon art and film residency programmes at Khoj to be released, Gali. They were Associate Studios, New Delhi; PAV Experimental Centre Directors and Editors of Star, by Dibakar of Contemporary Art, Turin; Kran Film, Brussels; Banerjee, as part of the Bombay Talkies and the Centre for Contemporary Art omnibus, celebrating the 100 years of Indian Ujazdowski, Warsaw. Every Time You Tell a Cinema. Shabani was an INLAKS scholar and Story, on the Tsungkoteptsu shawl-making researched documentary funding and tradition in Nagaland, was his last film. support structures across the UK and US, as part of which she worked with Documentary 03:30 PM: IN A SHADOWLESS TOWN Filmmaker’s Group, London, and The (BIN SAVLYANCHYA GAVAT) Sundance Institute, Los Angeles. In Nagaland, stones remind you of what they Gouri Patwardhan | 52 min. | 2017 Shambhawi is one of the students behind have seen. The past lingers on, framed Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker Pinjra Tod - an autonomous collective by through photographs, casting shadows over women students and alumni across colleges the present. Zubeni grew up in the 1980s and and hostels in Delhi, which seeks to discuss, ’90s in the middle of the violence that inflicted debate and mobilise students against sexual Nagaland through the 50-year war harassment and moral policing and works of independence. ‘Today, it’s there – towards ensuring secure, affordable and non- somewhere – in all her photographs’, she gender-discriminatory accommodation for says. In Mon, 98-year old Cheno Khuzuthrupa women students. remembers another time – through the image of a sculpture outside his house – while Shoupa and Zubeni talk about an Austrian ethnologist who lived in Wakching in the 1930s.

Amit Mahanti is a filmmaker, cameraperson How is a city made? What is remembered and editor, who has worked on films and when it is being made? What is forgotten? video installations that explore questions of Raising some crucial questions, the Film looks ecological transformation, culture and at how heritage walks in Pune seek to define

19 the history of the city in a narrow mould, Sundar Sarrukai, both published by Oxford the aural and visual landscapes that shape exclusive to the upper castes, while claiming University Press. this world. to represent the city.What has the erasure of historic figures and buildings meant for the 05:30 PM: BULBULE | Iram Ghufran Iram Ghufran is an award winning filmmaker Dalit Bahujan community in the city, even as 52 min. | 2017 whose work has been shown in several they struggle to reclaim some of them? international art and cinematic contexts including the Berlin Film Festival, Experimenta After graduating from Goa College of Art and India, SAARC Film Festival and ISEA, among then the Film and Television Institute of India, others. Iram is currently pursuing a practice Gouri Patwardhan moved on to make based PhD at the University of Westminster, educational films for NCERT and UGC on London. themes of art, environment and inventive pedagogical practices. She has been part CITIZEN CRIMINALS: DISCUSSION of collaborative video documenting projects Iram Ghufran, Shabani Hassanwalia with sociologists and anthropologists; with PUKAR, a Mumbai based urban knowledge Usha Ramanathan production centre and with Dr Alexander Usha Ramanathan works on the Henn. Her independently produced jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. She Bulbule is an account of love, loss and longing documentary, Modikhanyachya Don Goshti writes and speaks on issues that include the (Two Tales of Modikhana), which explores an and is located within the context of a state- nature of law, Bhopal Gas Disaster, mass urban Dalit neighborhood through the artistic run community clinic for smack/ heroin de- displacement, civil liberties including the lens of two Dalit artists, won a National Film addiction in Trilokpuri, a resettlement colony death penalty, beggary, criminal law, Award. in East Delhi. The Film explores the fragility and custodial institutions, the environment and the tenacity of this urban formation and the judicial process. She has been tracking, and ERASING HISTORIES: TALK struggle of its denizens for solidarity and engaging with, the UID project and has PROF. GOPAL GURU dignity in the face of extreme social precarity. written, and debated extensively, on the subject. Gopal Guru is Professor of Social and Political It consciously avoids a reformist perspective Theory at the Centre for Political Studies at and is an attempt to bring the world of drug She is a regular lecturer at various universities, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His areas of work abuse and crime in conversation with the which have included MIT, Yale, York, Osborne, include Political Thought, Theory and Moral concept of moral luck. The Film offers a series Ottawa, Queens, SOAS, Essex, Humboldt and Philosophy. His published works include of fragmentary narratives that explore the many universities in India. Humiliation and The Cracked Mirror with relationship between the spoken word and 20 She has been a member of multiple Expert Remember This House. The Book was to be a Stephan Jarl International Documentary Groups, including those set up by the revolutionary, personal account of the lives Award, Tempo Documentary Festival Planning Commission and those that have and successive assassinations of three of his Amnesty International Award, reviewed the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill, close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Thessaloniki Documentary Festival the socio-economic status of tribal Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s Gilda Vieira de Mello Prize, International communities and the revision of the vagrancy death in 1987, he left behind only thirty Film Festival and Forum on Human law. completed pages of his manuscript. The Film Rights envisions the book he never finished. The result Toronto International Film Festival INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words is a Haitian filmmaker and political 07:30 PM and flood of rich archival material – a journey activist. His complex body of work includes into black history that connects the past of The Man by the Shore (Cannes), Lumumba PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH the Civil Rights Movement to the present of (Cannes), Sometimes in April (HBO, RUNAWAY LUMINOSITY DISTRIBUTION #BlackLivesMatter, challenging the very Berlinale), Moloch Tropical (Toronto, Berlin), definition of what America stands for. and (Toronto, Berlin) and | RAOUL PECK Fatal Assistance (Berlinale, Hot Docs) which 93 MIN.| 2016 Academy Award Nominee, Best was supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Feature and Britdoc Foundation and broadcast on Creative Recognition Award, major TV channels (Canal+, , etc.) He International Documentary Association has been on the juries of Cannes and Best Documentary Feature, Berlinale, and is presently Chairperson of the Philadelphia Film Festival Board of the National French film school La Best Documentary, LA Film Critics Award Fémis. He has been the subject of numerous Best Documentary, The San Francisco retrospectives worldwide and was awarded Film Critics Circle the Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Best Documentary, South-Eastern Film Award by the Human Rights Watch Critics Association Organisation. Panorama Audience Award, Best Documentary, Berlinale Best Documentary, Luxembourg City In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his Film Festival literary agent describing his next project,

21 18 SEPTEMBER, MONDAY children, indigenous peoples, and on themes death in the land of Krishna. Societal norms around the protection of our shared planet, and the politics of inheritance and economic 10:30 AM: DHUN MEIN DHYAN since 1983, filming extensively in India and entitlement ensure that women get MEDITATIONS IN MUSIC IN GURU across the world. Her films have won over 21 shortchanged. While some find solace in GRANTH SAHIB | Meera Dewan international and national awards including spirituality and others in the sisterhood of 52 min. | 2017 at IFFI, Festival de films du femmes, France; ashram-life, the vast majority of the migrant Oberhausen; Leipzig; Mumbai and the women in Vrindavan beg on the streets. Why Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker National Film Award. She has been on the did they come? What made them stay? What juries of major international film festivals, such does Vrindavan mean to them? as Oberhausen, Leipzig, Okomedia, Freiberg and the Indian Panorama. Queen City Film Festival, Cumberland ViBGYOR Film Festival, Thrissur 11:45 AM: KRISHNA’S WAITING ROOM International Film Festival, Shimla Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena All Lights India International Film Festival, 54 min. | 2017 Hyderabad Followed by Q&A with the Filmmakers Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena are independent filmmakers and media trainers with over 40 films to their credit. After several years of working as journalists, they quit their Moving back and forth in time, the Film jobs to follow their dreams and set up Top unfolds the over 500-year-long journey of the Quark Films. Their oeuvre spans the domains Sikh Holy Book, the Guru Granth Sahib. The of culture, ecology, livelihoods, development storytellers are music practitioners who recite and human rights.They have been honoured its verse for the community and keep alive three times with the National Film Award. both its philosophy and musicality. When the believers bow to the Granth, it is to knowledge they bow. When they sing to it, it sings right back to them.

Meera Dewan has directed award winning documentaries on alternate visions for The Film is an introspective journey into the society, including equality for women, lives of the widows of Vrindavan - waiting for

22 02:00 PM: JASOOSNI - LOOK WHO’S Development and Innovation. A recipient of This is a journey with them as they push WATCHING YOU! | Anandana Kapur the Fulbright-Nehru and Shastri India forward towards positive change. Canadian Institute Fellowships for her work 53 min. | 2017 Mamta Singh has a Master’s degree in on interactive documentary practice, Followed by Q&A Documentary Film from Royal Holloway, Anandana teaches Documentary Practice London, and a background in media, and Researching Media and Culture and communications and filmmaking, with over writes on cinema and popular culture 15 years of experience. She has been involved in several projects for various UN and 03:15 PM: WOMEN OF VARANASI development agencies. Mamta believes that Mamta Singh| 54 min. | 2017 media should and can be used as a means Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker for bringing about social change.

04:30 PM: DIRECTOR’S PREVIEW KALIKSHETRA | Anirban Datta |56 min. 2017

Extra marital affairs. Missing persons. Corporate espionage. A newbie in her twenties, two mid-career entrepreneurs who don disguises and conduct stings, a freelancer who isn’t shy of using sex, a corporate honcho whose phone never stops ringing, along with a retiree who battled prejudice to become India’s first known woman detective – an intimate reflection on women in the business of intelligence. Hidden within the intricate cobwebs of the narrow alleys of Varanasi are stories of the The city of Kalikata/ Kolkata (Calcutta) was Anandana Kapur is a filmmaker and co- women in this Film. Through their struggles and born with goddess kali coded in its name. founder of CINEMAD. Her films have received life choices,they continue to evolve, even as Between its rise and decline, lays the critical acclaim globally and are a part of they work towards bettering the socio-cultural fundamental shift of the polity from the pre- courses on Gender Justice, Social and political spaces they find themselves in. colonial, through the colonial and up to the 23 post-colonial age. Sharing a personalised RV Ramani in conversation with 06:00 PM: ATUL | Kamal Swaroop and subjective historical consciousness, Anirban Datta 55 min. | 2017 exploring creative ways to connect the different times with the present, weaving in RV Ramani graduated from the Film and TV many told and untold facts, anecdotes and Institute of India, Pune, with a specialisation relics, the Film is a cartographic attempt to in Motion Picture Photography. He is one of map the labyrinth of forgotten threads of the the leading documentary filmmakers in India, local history of the area, where the second who has established a unique style of his own, capital of British India was once erected, but making independent impressionistic stands weathered today. documentaries, which has found recognition both in India and abroad. He has travelled Anirban Datta is a freelance writer, filmmaker widely with his films and his films and and visual artist. Tetris, his diploma film, retrospectives have been presented at many premiered at Cannes as the country’s only international film festivals, including official selection and travelled to numerous DocumentART, Germany and Asia Pacific Atul Dodiya’s oeuvre spans the vastness of international festivals. He has since made Trinalle, Australia. Ramani has been on several the history of art and an in depth films with NHK (Japan), YLE (Finland), VPRO award and festival juries and is Visiting understanding and exploration of themes in (The Netherlands) and Doordarshan, which Professor at Ambedkar University. India’s freedom movement. The Film follows have were screened over hundreds of his paintings and work to construct a story of international film festivals and got him three the artist’s life, to understand the impulses and National Film Awards, among others. .in for elements behind his art and his responses to motion premiered at IDFA, Amsterdam, while the world around him. Wasted, with PSBT, travelled extensively. He has also produced BOM/One day ahead of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala democracy, directed by his brother Amlan, International Film Festival, Kerala, a co-production with NHK, Sundance and Jan Trivandrum Vrijman. Anirban’s art work has been Kamal Swaroop is a National Award and showcased at the Birla Academy of Fine Arts, Filmfare Award winning film, television and Studio 21Kolkata, Open Show International radio director and screenwriter, who and Khoj Foundation. He regularly conducts graduated from the Film and Television audiovisual workshops/ training courses. Institute in 1974, where his student works met with unusual international acclaim. He

24 assisted Richard Attenborough in the filming authentically, with an air of purpose that is at 19 SEPTEMBER, TUESDAY of Gandhi. He has since made both once resolute and gentle. The Film brings to documentary and feature films. Famously the fore the deeply reflective, generous and 10:30 AM: UMZEY CHHEN-MO banned, a formal experimenter, Om-Dar-Ba- sensitive artist that lies behind the vivacious Arvind Sinha | 29 min. | 2017 Dar (1988) is his master work. public image. Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker RV Ramani in conversation with Aparna Sanyal is a filmmaker and producer Kamal Swaroop based in Delhi, who has worked extensively on documentaries and TV shows, for channels 07:30 PM: SHOVANA | Aparna Sanyal like Discovery, History, National Geographic, 56 min. | 2017 Times Now, Headlines Today, CNN and the BBC. Recognised by the British Council for Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker Creative Entrepreneurship, she is a National Award Winner and a Charles Wallace Grant recipient.

A film on Lama Tashi – master of the sacred, deep-voice multi-phonic Tibetan Buddhist chanting, nominated for the Grammy Awards. The Film provides an experience of the spiritual, even as it captures the essence of the saint, his compassion and wisdom.

Padmashri Shovana Narayan brought Arvind Sinha is a leading documentary classical dance into the lives of ordinary filmmaker who has won eight National Awards people, through over six decades of devotion and some of the most prestigious awards in to her art. As a bureaucrat, guru, researcher, the world for his films.He has served on the scholar, wife and mother, she has delighted juries of many international and national film in going against the grain, and living festivals.

25 11:30 AM: D’CRUZ AND ME feature films and around 250 commercials Shail and Nadeem are two young men who Ranjan Palit | 56 min. | 2017 for screen and television. He has made a live in the basti of Nizamuddin, New Delhi. dozen documentaries, including Forever Both from poor families, they dream of Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker Young and In Camera. He is currently editing breaking out of the rut, through their music. his first feature film, as director, They formed a music group – Painfull cinematographer, and producer. Ranjan Rockstars – singing songs of love and has won four National Awards and heartbreak. The Film is about their dreams. several international awards. He has been conducting masterclasses on Pankaj Butalia was a national level table cinematography and documentary tennis player who taught Economics at Delhi filmmaking, at places like Berkeley, Austin, University before he took to making films Helsinki, Busan and Taipei, among others, and almost three decades ago. He has made been on several international festival juries, fifteen documentaries and one fiction film. including the upcoming Yamagata Most of his documentaries have been International Film Festival, Japan. screened extensively throughout the world, while Moksha won four major international 02:00 PM: MASH UP| Pankaj Butalia awards. His first feature - Karvaan, starring 27 min. | 2017 Naseeruddin Shah and Kitu Gidwani, won a special award at Amiens and has been Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker screened at Venice, Toronto, Rotterdam, A free-flowing and intimate documentary on Belgium, Hong Kong, Turkey, New Delhi and a maverick character from the Tollywood film Calcutta, among other places. industry, Kolkata, who has been in the doldrums because of serious addiction issues. Even as it explores the man and his relationship with the world, including with the filmmaker, the Film is the story of a family torn apart.

Ranjan Palit has been working professionally in cinema, for the last 35 years, as a cinematographer, director and producer. He has shot over a hundred documentaries, 14

26 03:00 PM: WORK OF FIRE| K R Manoj MM: Memories, Movement and a Machine, Prasanna Ramaswamy has six feature length 52 min. | 2017 A Pestering Journey and Kesari. Winner of documentaries – Desired Melody, Dancing many awards, including the National Film Life, Malavika Sarukkai and Lights on Adoor Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker Award, International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI), Gopalakrishnan, among others, to her credit. Vasudha Award, IDPA Award and the Delhi The Films have been screened in different Chief Minister’s Award, he is the Co-Founder international film festivals. She is also a theatre of the independent production house, director with several productions in different Tropical Cinema. languages, honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. 04:15 PM: SING ALONG DANCE ACROSS Prasanna Ramaswamy | 50 min. 05:30 PM: NAACH LAUNDA NAACH 2017 Shilpi Gulati and Jainendra Kumar Dost Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker 52 min. | 2017 Followed by Q&A with the Filmmakers

Work of Fire takes a look at the varying vicissitudes of the Indian fireworks industry, while trying to ask a question: why do we need fireworks? In its movement from the grimy firework production centres in Sivakshi, to moments of festivities, the Documentary addresses the human desire to create the spectacular against the ordinary.

K R Manoj is an independent filmmaker and Chitravelu, who hails from a tradition of screenwriter, whose passion for cinema shadow puppeteers is now a cross dressing evolved with his engagements with the Film dancer with another performing tradition, Society Movement in Kerala. He is the former Kaniyan Kuthu. Through the stories of those The Film captures the lives of four Launda editor of the film studies journal Drisyathalam engaged in both art forms, the Film brings to Naach performers, originally a part of Bhikhari and one of the founder curators of the digital life their struggles for survival and their deep Thakur’s legendary Naach troupe in Bihar. It video festival SiGNS. His films include Agni,16 conviction, as they hold on to their diminishing weaves the journey of a folk tradition that traditions. along with song, dance and drama, includes 27 the practice of female impersonation by 07:15 PM: READINGS A documentary set in Firanghi Mahal, an male actors. As the protagonists narrate their DR NEERAJ MALIK institution for rationalist Islamic scholarship life stories, they provide an insight into the founded in the late 17th century. Through two politics and aesthetics of the works of ‘the old Nawa-E-Aaggahi (Song of Awareness) women, Sughra Fatima and her niece man’ – the ‘Shakespeare of Bhojpuri’. by Sughra Fatema Khadija Ansari, it tells the unknown stories of Firanghi Mahal Mein Azaadi Ki Leher: women and their struggles to find their own Shilpi Gulati is a filmmaker from Delhi, whose An Extract from the Unfinished ways of being in a time of dramatic changes. body of work largely engages with gender, One wrote poetry to express herself and the identity and oral narratives of regional Memoirs of Khadija Ansari other became a student activist who went to communities in India. While her independent Nawa-e-Aagahi is a book of poems jail for being a revolutionary. projects Deretun Dilli and Inside Out have published in 1948, now out of print. Sughra been screened at various festivals across Fatema and Khadija Ansari are the Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who South Asia, her last film Qissa-e Parsi won her protagonists of Uma Chakravarti's film Ek has now also turned into a filmmaker. Her films the National Award. Shilpi is also an actor and Inquilab Aur Aaya: Lucknow 1920-1949. relate to history, memory and the archive. Her workshop facilitator with pandies’ theatre - a first film A Quiet Little Entry explored women’s group that works on creating theatre with Dr Neeraj Malik was at the Department of unlived lives during the national movement women and young adults. She is currently English, University of Delhi. and her second film Fragments of a Past dwelt pursuing her PhD in Cinema Studies from JNU on a political activist who does not now and working on her first feature documentary. EK INQUILAB AUR AAYA remember her own past. LUCKNOW 1920-1949 Jainendra Kumar Dost is a doctoral scholar Uma Chakravarti | 66 min. | 2017 at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU. His work examines the social and political realities Followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker of Launda Nach and Bhikhari Thakur’s folk theatre in Bihar. His theoretical inquiry closely ties into his experience as a theatre practitioner over the 18 years where he has directed 11 stage productions and acted in more than 15 national and international theatre presentations. Jainendra is also the Director of Bhikhari Thakur Repertory Training and Research Centre which is working towards the revival of folk theatre in Bihar. 28