Monday, January 21, 2013


Announcement: List of Selected Films

9th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival
5-8 March 2013, New Delhi

5-7 March
India International Centre

8 March
Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication

8 March
Korean Cultural Centre

Festival Highlights

  • Focus on South Korea
  • Focus on Iran
  • Outstanding Indian student films
  • Films by young and talented directors from China, Hong Kong, India, Japan and Pakistan

List  of  Selected  Films 

American Alley   (90 min, 2008, South Korea, Documentary) 
Dir: Kim Dong-ryung

The Girl Princes   (81 min, 2011, South Korea, Documentary)
Dir: Kim Hye-jung 

My Sweet Baby   (68 min, 2010, South Korea, Documentary)  
Dir: Ryu Mi-rye 

The Two Lines   (82 min, 2011, South Korea, Documentary)
Dir: Ji-min

21 Days & Me   (58 min, 2011, Iran, Documentary)
Dir: Shirin Barghnavard

Green Grey   (20 min, 2010, Iran, Documentary)
Dir: Laleh Barzegar
           
Where do I Belong?   (68 min, 2008, Iran, Documentary)
Dir: Mahvash Sheikholeslami

A Woman Sings Under the Ice   (10 min, 2011, Iran, Animation)
Dir: Maryam Khalilzadeh

Baran   (2 min, 2011, Iran, Animation)
Dir: Mehrnosh Khoram

The Rock   (10 min, 2010, Iran, Animation)
Dir: Sarah Namjoo

Station   (12 min, 2011, Iran, Animation)
Dir: Nahid Samadi Amin

Colours   (4 min, 2012, Iran, Short Fiction)
Dir: Naghmeh Dehghani

Moones   (15 min, 2011, Iran, Short Fiction)
Dir: Afsaneh Mohtashami

Saba   (15 min, 2012, Iran, Short Fiction)
Dir: Roqiye Tavakoli

Wakefulness   (13 min, 2010, Iran, Short Fiction)
Dir: Noushin Meraji

Facing Mirrors   (102 min, 2011, Iran, Fiction Feature)
Dir: Negar Azarbayjani

20 Fingers   (72 min, 2004. Iran, Fiction Feature)
Dir: Mania Akbari
                                
Because   (17 min, 2012, Documentary, SACAC)
Dir: Neetole Mitra

Bharatmata ki Jai   (27 min, 2012, Documentary, CMCS)
Dirs: Amol Ranjan, Anurag Mazumdar, Arpita Chakraborty, Avadhoot Khanolkar & Shweta Radhakrishnan

Breakin’ Mumbai   (34 min, 2012, Documentary, CMCS)
Dir: Aakriti Kholi, Gin Khan Siam, Sandeep Kumar Singh, Shweta Ghosh & Sumit Singh

Boxing Ladies   (26 min, 2010, Documentary, SRFTI)
Dir: Anusha Nandakumar

The Creeper, the Alien & other Stories   (21 min, 2011, Documentary, NID)
Dir: Sandhya Ramachandran

Dhadi: The Ballads of Punjab   (16 min, 2011, Documentary, SACAC)
Dir: Nupur Nijhawan

Flying Inside My Body   (36 min, 2008, Documentary, Jamia)
Dir: Sumit Sharma, Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh & Ajeeta Chowhan)

A Pinch of Skin   (27 min, 2012, Documentary, NID)
Dir: Priya Goswami

Rup Rupantar   (19 min, 2009, Documentary, SACAC)
Dir: Viveka Chauhan   

Vayro   (20 min, 2012, Documentary, NID)
Dir: Aashini Shah

Clinic   (9 min, 2012, Short Fiction, NID)
Dir: Ishanee Sarkar

My Grandfather’s Yakshi   (14 min, 2011, Short Fiction, NID)
Dir: Anoodha Kunnath

Sawali   (26 min, 2012, Short Fiction, Shristi)
Dir: Arya Rothe

Taana Baana   (14 min, 2009, Short Fiction, NID)
Dir: Priyanka Chhabra

Uss Paar   (17 min, 2010, Short Fiction, Whistling Woods)
Dir: Arati Kadav

Vanity Box   (22 min, 2011, Short Fiction, NID)
Dir: Diksha Grover

Back to Huamulin   (72 min, 2011, China, Documentary)
Dir: Xinmin Li

Cassandra’s Gift   (22 min, 2012, India, Documentary)           
Dir: Payal Kapadia

Cotton for my Shroud   (75 min, 2011, Documentary, India)
Dir: Kavita Bahl & Nandan Saxena

Journey of Two Women   (15 min, 2012, Pakistan, Documentary)
Dir: Risham Waseem, Rabia Arif & Ghazala Rehmat

Presence   (18 min, 2012, India, Documentary)
Dir: Yashaswini B.R. & Ekta Mittal 

Self Portrait with 3 women   (75 min, 2010, China, Documentary)
Dir: Mengqi Zhang

Thus A Noise Speaks   (38 min, 2010, Japan, Documentary)
Dir:  Kaori Oda

Scene 32   (5 min, 2009, USA/India, Experimental) 
Dir: Shambhavi Kaul

Assimilation   (22 min, 2012, Hong Kong, Short Fiction)
Dir: Wai Yin Cheung

Sick   (10 min, 2012, Hong Kong, Short Fiction)
Dir: Chu Hoi Ying

Hoi Choi   (96 min, 2012, India, Fiction Feature)
Dir: Debarati Gupta

Festival Team

Festival Director & Curator, Films from Iran
Anupama Srinivasan

Festival Co-Director & Curator, Films from S Korea
Uma Tanuku

Curator, Student Films from India
Samina Mishra

Selection Team
Anupama Chandra, Anupama Srinivasan & Uma Tanuku

Seminar Coordinators

Ratnabali Mitra & Nupur Basu

Fund Raising

Reena Mohan

Curtain Raisers
Aaradhana Kapur

Festival Partners