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Screening of anti-Hindu / anti-India movies in US.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>List of Films for TFSA 2004</b>
<b>Godhra Tak: The Terror Trail (60 min)
Gujarat/India, 2003, dir-Shubradeep Chakravorty</b>
The film investigates the Godhra train burning and subsequent
rioting that killed 3,500 Muslims in Gujarat, India in February,
2002. It retraces the route of the first batch of karsevaks from
Gujarat to Ayodhya (where Hindu fundamentalists want to build a Ram
temple) and back, and documents the terror they unleashed en route,
and the incident at Godhra railway station.
<b>The 18th Elephantâ3 Monologues (62 min)
Kerala/India, 2003, dir-P. Balan</b>
Winner of Ram Bahadur Trophy for the Best Film at FSA '03
This film is a critique of modern man's mercenary attitude towards
nature and his anthropocentric conception of development. The sad
plight of the elephant in both its wild and domesticated states
exposes how such behaviour brings death and wreaks havoc on the
lives and habitats of other species.
<b>Bhedako Oon Jasto -In Search of a Song ... (55 min)
Nepal, 2003, dir - Kiran Krishna Shrestha</b>
Winner of the Special Mention at FSA '03
For eight years, a well-known Nepali journalist, would sing an
unknown folk song he'd heard in the highlands north of Kathmandu to
his friends and to strangers. Since no one had heard the song, he
travelled up the mountains north of Kathmandu with members of a
popular Nepali band and a friend, the filmmaker, in search of the
source of this song.
<b>Buru Sengal (The Fire Within) (57 min)
Jharkhand/India, 2002, dir-Shriprakash</b>
Winner of the Grand Jury Award at FSA '03
The land of the Tana Bhagats in Jharkhand, India, a peaceful sect
of the Oraon tribe who follow a Gandhian lifestyle and philosophy,
is today beseiged by Naxalite violence. The film touches upon
corruption, the mafia, energy politics and displacement of
villages, and tribal identity in an area where coal has been mined
for the last 150 years.
<b>The 18th Elephantâ3 Monologues (62 min)
Kerala/India, 2003, dir-P. Balan</b>
Winner of Ram Bahadur Trophy for the Best Film at FSA '03
This film is a critique of modern man's mercenary attitude towards
nature and his anthropocentric conception of development. The sad
plight of the elephant in both its wild and domesticated states
exposes how such behaviour brings death and wreaks havoc on the
lives and habitats of other species.
<b>Hunting Down Water (32 min)
India, 2003, dir - Sanjaya Barnela and Vasant Saberwal</b>
India's present water crisis is of its own making. The patterns of
water use are changing, with increased cultivation of
water-intensive cash crops. But there are other changes that defy
logic, such as the growing number of private swimming pools in
cities, rain dances and water amusement parks. As a consequence
more and more of the rural poor are now forced to migrate.
<b>Itihaas Jitneharuka Laagi (History for Winners) (55 min)
Nepal, 2003, dir - Pranay Limbu</b>
An award-winning singer makes a desperate but unsuccessful attempt
to make a comeback after being in musical hibernation for seven
years. Itihaas Jitneharuka Laagi portrays the changes in the Nepali
music scene, as represented by Kuber Rai and Dhiraj Rai. The two
singers are a study in contrasts, with their diametrically opposing
personalities and attitude towards music.
<b>Made in India (39 min)
India, 2002, dir - Madhusree Dutta</b>
A rural artist paints her autobiography, images of Bollywood movie
icons are erased after a week-long run of their films, the national
flag flutters on 150 kites, installation artists paint pop icons on
the rolling shutters of shops. Symbols of nationalism become a
fashionable commodity. Made in India is about contemporary visual
cultures in India.
<b>Naata (The Bond) (45 min)
Bombay/India, 2003, dir - K P Jayasankar and A Monteiro</b>
Naata is about Bhau Korde and Waqar Khan, two friends who work on
conflict resolution and communal amity initiatives between the
different communities in Dharavi, reputedly, the largest "slum" in
Asia. Naata is the second in a series of films on the people and
city of Mumbai, and is a sequel to Saacha (The Loom), 2001.
<b>A Night of Prophecy (77 min)
India, 2002, dir-Amar Kanwar</b>
The film travels in the states of Maharashta, Andhra Pradesh,
Nagaland, and Kashmir. Through poetry you see where all the
territories are heading towards, where you belong, and where to
intervene, if you want to. The narratives merge, allowing us to see
a more universal language of symbols and meanings. This moment of
merger is the simple moment of prophecy.
<b>Resilient Rhythms (64 min)
India, 2002, dir - Gopal Menon</b>
India's caste system places nearly 160 million people, the dalits,
at the outskirts of society. It exploits their services but at the
same time denies them acceptance as human beings. Resilient Rhythms
deals with a range of dalit responses to their marginalisation,
from armed struggle to electoral politics.
<b>Sand and Water (105 min)
Bangladesh, 2002, dir - Shaheen Dill-Riaz</b>
Winner of the Third best film award at FSA `03
The middle section of the Jamuna, one of the three main rivers in
Bangladesh, is called "the deadly paradise". Sand and Water shows
how the people of the islands here live in the most extreme natural
conditions and cope with the "moods" of Jamuna, which also provides
them with their livelihood and fertile islands.
<b>Shei Rater Kotha Bolte Eshechi (Tale of the Darkest Night) (43 min)
Bangladesh, 2001, dir - Kawsar Chowdhury</b>
Winner of the Second Best Film Award at FSA `03
The film tells the story of the killings by the Pakistani army in
Dhaka University. Surviving members and witnesses speak, and bring
alive the havoc of that night. The documentary also includes the
wireless messages the Pakistani army exchanged that night.
<b>Swara - A Bridge over Troubled Water (40 min)
Pakistan, 2003, dir- Samar Minallah</b>
Swara examines and comments on the Pakhtun practice, in northwest
Pakistan, of giving minor girls in marriage as reparation for
serious crimes such as murder committed by their fathers, brother,
or uncles.
<b>The Unconscious (19 min)
Maharastra/India 2003, dir - Manisha Dwivedi</b>
This film is a journey with men who call themselves kothi. They are
men for their families and society, but for themselves they are
women, and wives of other "macho" men. They walk two tightropes,
both of fear and disgrace of and for their families and `husbands'.
And yet, they celebrate womanhood in their world of disguises.
<b>Vikas Bandook Ki Naal Se (Development Flows from the Barrel of the
Gun) (54 min)
India, 2003, dir-Biju Toppo and Meghnath
</b>
The film gives voice to people affected by development projectsâand
repressed by the state for speaking out. The film asks why most of
these incidents have taken place in areas where indigenous Adivasi
people are majorities, and leaves us to ask why, in the age of
globalisation, the state has turned from protector to predator.
<b>Victoria A. McGillin, Ph.D.
Associate Provost
Texas Woman's University
P.O. Box 425707
Denton, Texas 76204-5707
PH: 940.898.3350
FAX: 940.898.3386
E-mail: vmcgillin@twu.edu
</b>
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Screening of anti-Hindu / anti-India movies in US.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>List of Films for TFSA 2004</b>
<b>Godhra Tak: The Terror Trail (60 min)
Gujarat/India, 2003, dir-Shubradeep Chakravorty</b>
The film investigates the Godhra train burning and subsequent
rioting that killed 3,500 Muslims in Gujarat, India in February,
2002. It retraces the route of the first batch of karsevaks from
Gujarat to Ayodhya (where Hindu fundamentalists want to build a Ram
temple) and back, and documents the terror they unleashed en route,
and the incident at Godhra railway station.
<b>The 18th Elephantâ3 Monologues (62 min)
Kerala/India, 2003, dir-P. Balan</b>
Winner of Ram Bahadur Trophy for the Best Film at FSA '03
This film is a critique of modern man's mercenary attitude towards
nature and his anthropocentric conception of development. The sad
plight of the elephant in both its wild and domesticated states
exposes how such behaviour brings death and wreaks havoc on the
lives and habitats of other species.
<b>Bhedako Oon Jasto -In Search of a Song ... (55 min)
Nepal, 2003, dir - Kiran Krishna Shrestha</b>
Winner of the Special Mention at FSA '03
For eight years, a well-known Nepali journalist, would sing an
unknown folk song he'd heard in the highlands north of Kathmandu to
his friends and to strangers. Since no one had heard the song, he
travelled up the mountains north of Kathmandu with members of a
popular Nepali band and a friend, the filmmaker, in search of the
source of this song.
<b>Buru Sengal (The Fire Within) (57 min)
Jharkhand/India, 2002, dir-Shriprakash</b>
Winner of the Grand Jury Award at FSA '03
The land of the Tana Bhagats in Jharkhand, India, a peaceful sect
of the Oraon tribe who follow a Gandhian lifestyle and philosophy,
is today beseiged by Naxalite violence. The film touches upon
corruption, the mafia, energy politics and displacement of
villages, and tribal identity in an area where coal has been mined
for the last 150 years.
<b>The 18th Elephantâ3 Monologues (62 min)
Kerala/India, 2003, dir-P. Balan</b>
Winner of Ram Bahadur Trophy for the Best Film at FSA '03
This film is a critique of modern man's mercenary attitude towards
nature and his anthropocentric conception of development. The sad
plight of the elephant in both its wild and domesticated states
exposes how such behaviour brings death and wreaks havoc on the
lives and habitats of other species.
<b>Hunting Down Water (32 min)
India, 2003, dir - Sanjaya Barnela and Vasant Saberwal</b>
India's present water crisis is of its own making. The patterns of
water use are changing, with increased cultivation of
water-intensive cash crops. But there are other changes that defy
logic, such as the growing number of private swimming pools in
cities, rain dances and water amusement parks. As a consequence
more and more of the rural poor are now forced to migrate.
<b>Itihaas Jitneharuka Laagi (History for Winners) (55 min)
Nepal, 2003, dir - Pranay Limbu</b>
An award-winning singer makes a desperate but unsuccessful attempt
to make a comeback after being in musical hibernation for seven
years. Itihaas Jitneharuka Laagi portrays the changes in the Nepali
music scene, as represented by Kuber Rai and Dhiraj Rai. The two
singers are a study in contrasts, with their diametrically opposing
personalities and attitude towards music.
<b>Made in India (39 min)
India, 2002, dir - Madhusree Dutta</b>
A rural artist paints her autobiography, images of Bollywood movie
icons are erased after a week-long run of their films, the national
flag flutters on 150 kites, installation artists paint pop icons on
the rolling shutters of shops. Symbols of nationalism become a
fashionable commodity. Made in India is about contemporary visual
cultures in India.
<b>Naata (The Bond) (45 min)
Bombay/India, 2003, dir - K P Jayasankar and A Monteiro</b>
Naata is about Bhau Korde and Waqar Khan, two friends who work on
conflict resolution and communal amity initiatives between the
different communities in Dharavi, reputedly, the largest "slum" in
Asia. Naata is the second in a series of films on the people and
city of Mumbai, and is a sequel to Saacha (The Loom), 2001.
<b>A Night of Prophecy (77 min)
India, 2002, dir-Amar Kanwar</b>
The film travels in the states of Maharashta, Andhra Pradesh,
Nagaland, and Kashmir. Through poetry you see where all the
territories are heading towards, where you belong, and where to
intervene, if you want to. The narratives merge, allowing us to see
a more universal language of symbols and meanings. This moment of
merger is the simple moment of prophecy.
<b>Resilient Rhythms (64 min)
India, 2002, dir - Gopal Menon</b>
India's caste system places nearly 160 million people, the dalits,
at the outskirts of society. It exploits their services but at the
same time denies them acceptance as human beings. Resilient Rhythms
deals with a range of dalit responses to their marginalisation,
from armed struggle to electoral politics.
<b>Sand and Water (105 min)
Bangladesh, 2002, dir - Shaheen Dill-Riaz</b>
Winner of the Third best film award at FSA `03
The middle section of the Jamuna, one of the three main rivers in
Bangladesh, is called "the deadly paradise". Sand and Water shows
how the people of the islands here live in the most extreme natural
conditions and cope with the "moods" of Jamuna, which also provides
them with their livelihood and fertile islands.
<b>Shei Rater Kotha Bolte Eshechi (Tale of the Darkest Night) (43 min)
Bangladesh, 2001, dir - Kawsar Chowdhury</b>
Winner of the Second Best Film Award at FSA `03
The film tells the story of the killings by the Pakistani army in
Dhaka University. Surviving members and witnesses speak, and bring
alive the havoc of that night. The documentary also includes the
wireless messages the Pakistani army exchanged that night.
<b>Swara - A Bridge over Troubled Water (40 min)
Pakistan, 2003, dir- Samar Minallah</b>
Swara examines and comments on the Pakhtun practice, in northwest
Pakistan, of giving minor girls in marriage as reparation for
serious crimes such as murder committed by their fathers, brother,
or uncles.
<b>The Unconscious (19 min)
Maharastra/India 2003, dir - Manisha Dwivedi</b>
This film is a journey with men who call themselves kothi. They are
men for their families and society, but for themselves they are
women, and wives of other "macho" men. They walk two tightropes,
both of fear and disgrace of and for their families and `husbands'.
And yet, they celebrate womanhood in their world of disguises.
<b>Vikas Bandook Ki Naal Se (Development Flows from the Barrel of the
Gun) (54 min)
India, 2003, dir-Biju Toppo and Meghnath
</b>
The film gives voice to people affected by development projectsâand
repressed by the state for speaking out. The film asks why most of
these incidents have taken place in areas where indigenous Adivasi
people are majorities, and leaves us to ask why, in the age of
globalisation, the state has turned from protector to predator.
<b>Victoria A. McGillin, Ph.D.
Associate Provost
Texas Woman's University
P.O. Box 425707
Denton, Texas 76204-5707
PH: 940.898.3350
FAX: 940.898.3386
E-mail: vmcgillin@twu.edu
</b>
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