11-12 March 2016 at the India Habitat Centre, New
Delhi
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The other song by Saba
Dewan
- Ore Udal
(One Body) by Asha Achu Joseph
- An
IAWRT production - Reflecting Her: Women and Reproductive Health by Anna
Pawlowska (Poland); Atieno Otirno Careen (Kenya); Priya Goswami (India); Sarah
Chitambo (South Africa)
The
films will be followed by discussion with the filmmakers/producers. Saba Dewan
on the 11th March, Asha Jospeh and Bina Paul from IAWRT, on the 12th
March. This is a not to be missed event.
Friday, 11 March 2016
7 pm onwards
Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre,
Lodi Road, New Delhi
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/200317766995292/
(Hindi/Urdu/English/2009/120mins)
by Saba Dewan
In 1935, Rasoolan Bai the
well-known singer from Varanasi, recorded for the gramophone a love song that she
would never sing again, ‘My breasts are wounded, don’t throw flowers at me.’ A
variation of her song, ‘My heart is wounded, don’t throw flowers at me,’ the
1935 recording faded from public memory and eventually got lost. More than 70
years later the film travels through Varanasi to search for the forgotten song.
This journey opens a Pandora’s box of life stories, memories, half remembered
songs and histories that for long have been banished into oblivion. It brings
the film face to face with the enigmatic tawaifs or the courtesans who till a
century back were amongst the most educated and privileged of Indian women.
Today they stand recast as deviant, their arts, obscene; their story and that
of the lost song linked to the making of modern India and the transitions
around the control and censorship of female sexualities and cultural
expression.
Saturday, 12 March 2016
7 pm onwards
Venue: Casuarina Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodi
Road, New Delhi
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/198675237163516/
(Malayalam/2015/14mins)
by Asha Achy Joseph
Our social, cultural and political psyche
embraces rape and its violence to the extent of making it a ritualistic
practice of consumption to the spectator. This film marks the beginning of a
journey in search of a narrative where one’s own identity as woman and creator
is at stake. Through One Body, the director on its preliminary level intends to
look at the void in the mind-space of a woman who is raped. Though subjective
to a large extent, this attempt wishes to explore varied layers of experiences
that engulf the act of violence as victim and perpetrator.
Reflecting Her: Women & Reproductive Health
(English/2016/39mins)
by Anna Pawlowska (Poland); Atieno Otieno Careen
(Kenya); Priya Goswami (India); Sarah Chitambo (South Africa) / Produced
by IAWRT
The film has been shot in four continents by four
women directors. It discusses the dilemmas, personal choices, lack of control
and violence that women all over the world face over Reproductive Rights. The
stories vary but all reflect the theme of a necessity for women to gain greater
control over their own bodies.
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development praxis and communication team. Running consistently since 2000, we
offer an independent and informal platform for screening documentary films on a
whole range of development, human rights &environment issues. We also serve
as an access and distribution space for documentary films.
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