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

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DATES & VENUES

5-7 March  India International Centre
   8 March  Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication
   8 March  Korean Cultural Centre


FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

• 44 Films - Documentaries, Animation, Short fiction, Experimental & Fiction Features
• 3 World premieres
• 11 Delhi premieres
• 24 filmmakers attending
• Films on gender, sexuality, parenthood, nationality, migration, urbanisation and art
• Strong and innovative works that are honest journeys of personal and political interrogation

FOCUS 

• South Korea
• Iran
• Indian Student Films

CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE SCHEDULE




FESTIVAL TEAM

Festival Director                     ANUPAMA SRINIVASAN
Festival Co-Director                UMA TANUKU
Selection Committee               ANUPAMA CHANDRA
                                              (click here for the curator's note)
                                              ANUPAMA SRINIVASAN
                                              UMA TANUKU
Curator, Student Films            SAMINA MISHRA
                                              (click here for the curator's note)
Curator, Films from Iran          ANUPAMA SRINIVASAN 
                                              (click here for the curator's note)
Curator, Films from S Korea     UMA TANUKU

Seminar Concept                     RATNABALI MITRA
Seminar Coordination              RATNABALI MITRA & NUPUR BASU

Fundraising                             REENA MOHAN
                                              ANUPAMA SRINIVASAN
                                              UMA TANUKU

Curtain Raisers                        AARADHANA KAPUR
                                              ANUPAMA SRINIVASAN
                                              UMA TANUKU

Poster                                     USHA SRINIVASAN

Volunteers                               AARADHANA KAPUR KOHLI
                                              ANUPAMA CHANDRA
                                              IRAM GHUFRAN
                                              KAUSHIK RAY
                                              MAHUYA BANDYOPADHYAY
                                              PRIYA GOSWAMI
                                              RADHIKA KHANNA
                                              SAMINA MISHRA
                                              SANIA FAROOQUI
                                              SUBASRI KRISHNAN


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Lalsawmliani Tochhawng (Teteii) India International Centre 

Kim Kum-pyong, Joohee Ahn & Debjani Dutta Korean Cultural Centre India

Farah Batool & Rita Sachse-Toussaint Goethe-Institut Delhi & Tehran

Daljeet Wadhwa, Ananya Sengupta & Meenakshi Negi Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication

Hyosook Hong Busan International Film Festival 

Eunsun Lee & Hyemi Kim CinemaDal  

Rathi Jaffer & Nandini Menon INKO Centre

Leila Hosseini Documentary & Experimental Film Center Iran

Navid SMI Films

Sattar Chamani Gol Setak Film Sanandaj

Maryam Hekmat, Mengqi Zhang, Leslie Tai, Wu Wenguang, Kinji Shitagawa

Kamla Bhasin & Dhiviya SANGAT South Asia

Sehjo Singh, Manu Bhuvan Sharma & Mukesh Verma ActionAid

Iskra Panevska UNESCO

Rajiv Mehrotra, Tulika Srivastava & Ridhima Mehra 
Public Service Broadcasting Trust

Lara Jaydha, Shahid Equbal 

Aruna Vasudev, Pankaj Butalia, Visalakshi Menon, Indu Ramchandani, Maya Rao, Chandita Mukherjee, Uma Chakravarti, Perin Chandra, Sohaila Kapur, Premalya Nirmaljit Singh & Sameera Jain




FESTIVAL PARTNERS

Installation
6-7 March
Gandhi-King Plaza, IIC

SHAME WAS A PLACE INSIDE MY HEART
Installation by Priyanka Chhabra & Manmeet Kaur
So you thought you were free, liberated, free of fear of the other and the self?

Just how far deep and where does the emotion of shame reside?  Does it live between by breasts and the fine line that peeps out when I wear a tight shirt?  Or in the landscape that unglamorously sprouts between my lips and my nose?  Or maybe in the dark shadows below my stomach and between my legs?  Is there a place or point in life before which I never felt shame?

The installation will try and explore the psychology of the emotion of shame, where it stems from the how it comes to make home in women's bodies and minds.  Candid and spontaneous conversations with a select number of women and men will try and join the dots between sex, sexual harassment and the emotion of shame and the order in which they appear in our lives and how long they tend to stay.

Priyanka Chhabra has been working as a director, editor and illustrator.  An eager traveller, she is interested in areas of video art, urbanism, new media and anthropological research.
Manmeet Kaur is a campaigner working on sustainability issues, based in Delhi.

IAWRT Exhibitions
3-8 March
IIC Annexe Art Gallery

FRAGMENTS
An exhibition of Photographs
by Monica Bhasin and Uma Tanuku

Two filmmakers observe the residual, the transient and the intricate in everyday life through their photographic works.

Monica Bhasin is a filmmaker with a background in documentary film.  Photography however laid the foundation for her image-making practice.
Walking through the streets of Panjim and reflecting upon the adjacent waterfronts, the photographer gathers residues of everyday life.  The sea leaves objects and patterns, light leaves shadows, spaces and structures weather the passing of time and decay; a way of life and the design of things are marked by history.  Engaging with space, the photographic works are fragments of the narratives of the everyday.

Uma Tanuku is a filmmaker who loves still photography.
Ordinary spaces, activities and objects become imbued with a life of their own as light touches them creating a strange ephemeral magic. They become almost unrecognizable, drawing us in and transporting us to another world.  Perhaps the detail is more absorbing than the big picture.

IAWRT Seminar on

COMMUNITY RADIO & DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH ASIA

5 March 2013
IIC Conference Room II
10:00 am - 05:30 pm

The Seminar will look at the journey of the people of South Asia for self-expression through Community Radio.  Community Radio practitioners, activists and legal experts from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan will speak about their respective country's experiences and the obstacles they are facing even today both from the governments and commercial interests.

The Seminar will be an occasion for grassroots level programmers and those involved in campaigning for policy level changes to come together and understand whether communities really have a say in running their radio stations.

Click here for seminar schedule


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