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Venues
MainScreen : Russian Centre of Science and Culture
Kasturi Ranga Road, Alwarpet, Chennai - 600018
ParallelScreen : Kalakshetra
Muthulakshmi Road, Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai 600041
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Contents
Retro-View 04
Indian Films 08
Korean Films 14

World Films 20

Women Cinema 39

Parellel Screen 48

Screening Schedule 52

Index Indicates serial number, page number
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RETRO -VIEW
01 Mirch Masala During British rule in India, a Subhedar, along with a
regiment of soldiers, is sent to collect taxes due from
KETAn MEhTA
1985 | 125min | Colour a small town. When the lusty Subhedar sees a young
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married woman named Sonbai, he tries to seduce her
but she humiliates him and runs to take shelter in the
enclosed compound of a pepper factory, chased by
soldiers. The elderly, but brave, Chowkidar Abu, closes
the reinforced door to the factory and refuses to let the
soldiers in. This angers the Subhedar, and he asks the
town Mukhiya to get Sonbai to him, failing which he will
destroy the town. The terrified Mukhiya and the rest
of the townspeople decide to turn over Sonbai to the
Subhedar on the condition that he does not molest any
more women. The Subhedhar, angered at this show of
defiance, refuses to agree to any conditions. The villagers
and Mukhiya must now decide whether to hand over
Sonbai to him, or destroy their village and continue to
molest their wives, daughters, and sisters.
02 Bhumika This film is broadly based on the memoirs of the well-
ShyAM BEnEgAl known Marathi stage and screen actress of the 1940’s,
1977 | 142min | Colour hansa Wadkar, who led a flamboyant and unconventional,
India
life. The film focuses on an individual’s search for identity
and self-fulfillment. The film depicts the transformation of
a vivacious teenage girl into a wiser but deeply wounded
middle-aged woman.
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Tribute to Smita Patil (India)
03 Tarang Sethji is a widower, a businessman who lives a comfortable
KUMAR ShAhAnI life with his only daughter, hansa, his son-in-law, Rahul,
1984 | 171min | Colour and a grandson, Munna. Rahul is his right-hand man and
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a nephew named Dinesh assists in running the business.
Petty rivalries and jealousies develop in the family and
soon Sethji and Rahul feel that Dinesh is now trying to
undermine the business. Shortly after, Sethji and hansa
die and Rahul has to manage the business on his own.
But many questions remain unanswered. Why was no
one attending to the ailing Sethji? Why was hansa’s death
covered up? What of the affair that Rahul had with Janki,
their maidservant, who is full of venom against the family
and what is Anita’s involvement?
04 Debashishu This powerful and realistic film is a study of poverty,
UTPAlEnDU illiteracy, natural calamities and the toll they take on the
ChAKRABARTy human soul. It is the story of a rural couple who are trying
1985 | 100min | Colour
to survive after their village was destroyed by a flood. The
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wife gives birth to a deformed baby, which is pronounced
as a ‘child of the devil’ by the local hindu priest, who
forces the couple to abandon the child and exiles them
from the community. The story moves to a bizarre and
heart-breaking conclusion.
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RETRO -VIEW
01 Paju Eun-mo is back in her hometown of Paju after spending
PARK ChAn-OK three years of soul-searching in India. however, the
2009 | 110min | Colour reality she returns to is far from comforting as she is
Korea
faced with many difficulties. A demolition squad threatens
to tear down the apartment block that she lives in. The
tenants of the apartment fight tooth and nail to prevent
this. She also dreads the reunion with her widower
brother-in-law, Joong-shik, the anti-demolition task force
leader who has information about insurance policies and
about her sister’s tragic death.
02 Jealousy is my lee Won-sang is a graduate student working on his
Middle Mame thesis. he works part-time to save enough money to
study abroad. One day when he is told by his girlfriend
PARK ChAn-OK
2003 | 125min | Colour that she had fallen in love with a married man, he turns
Korea
away coldly. he comes to meet the man in question,
han yun-shik while helping his friend who works at a
magazine publishing company. On an impulse, he decides
to get a job there. he meet Park Seong-yeon who is a
veterinarian and an amateur photographer and gets to like
her. Knowing that Seong-yeon does not like her job as a
veterinarian, yun-shik offers her a job as photographer
at the company. he wants to seduce but, finds himself
genuinely drawn to Seong-yeon. Won-sang discovers
what is going on between the two and pursues Seong-
yeon even more sincerely even while he despairs at the
thought that he cannot make Seong-yeon truly happy.
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Films by Park, Chan-Ok (Korea)
03 Warm Swamp A daughter is torn apart when her family becomes
troubled by her brother’s divorce. Even her boyfriend
PARK ChAn-OK
2004 | 22min | Colour cannot comfort her as he still cannot put his old ex-
Korea girlfriend out of his mind.
04 Heavy Mother secretly smokes a cigarette in the restroom
and feels sorry for herself because after spending
PARK ChAn-OK
all her life taking care of her children, she now
1998 | 20min | Colour
Korea has to take care of her grandson who does not
have a mother. As director Park Chan-Ok states,
“ My adolescence was also traumatic. I became pessimistic
and rebellious while facing the numerous problems and
questions we learn to accept as adults.... The memories
of my adolescence are heartbreaking, but also beautiful
because of the emotional and spiritual growth that I
experienced ”. The film reflects the poignancy and terrible
beauty of existence.
05 To be hee-Jeong finds a rim of underwear exposed, in a subway
full of people. She is aware of a greasy looking man and
PARK ChAn-OK
glares at his hands. however, the one groping her body
1996 | 4min | Colour
Korea was not this man, but a young boy standing right beside
her. hee-Jeong feels offended. hee-Jeong touches the
hip of a woman, standing in front of her. The woman is
unaware but hee-Jeong persists. As the woman prepares
to get off the train, hee-Jeong longs to see her face. She
alights with the woman and, follows her but loses her in
the crowded subway station.
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Indian Films
01 Kutty Sraank This is a film about a mariner who operates a cargo vessel
between the sea port of Kodungalloor near Kochi, once a roaring
ShAJI n KARUn
port town in Kerala. One day, the local police station discovers
2009 | 127min | Colour
an unidentified body that has washed ashore. A Budhist nun
and another woman identify the rotten body as that of Kutti
Sraank. yet another woman rejects the claim made by the other
women and argues that the body is not that of Kutti Sraank.
Eventually each woman shares the details of their relationship
with Kutti Srank. Kutty Sraank ultimately turns out to be a man
who convinced three very different women collectively that
he was a committed and faithful husband to each one of them
individually. When one life was being lived out, he succeeded in
keeping his other two lives a secret.
02 Man Beyond A widowed forest ranger in the Western ghats strikes up an
unlikely relationship with a madwoman whom he finds lost and
the Bridge
alone in the woods. Ignoring the gossip of the nearby village,
lAxMIKAnT Vinayak takes the woman into his home. But when she becomes
ShETgAOnKAR pregnant, the family is brutally cast out. Told in the native tongue
2009 | 96min | Colour of Konkani, a language otherwise hardly used in Indian cinema,
this is a beautiful film of loneliness, compassion and the eternal
struggle against bigotry.
03 Where They have remedies for virtually every disease. They use herbs
and plants for medicinal preparations. Their knowledge system
healing is a
is based on centuries of experience that is passed down through
tradition
the generations, orally. The expertise and skills of these women
gARgI SEn are valued by their community, who do not have access to any
other forms of medical services. yet there is a need to vitalise
1997 | 30min | Colour
and appropriately credit this knowledge which is rapidly being
appropriated by the forces of the market.The film is a eulogy to
halamma, Chandramma, Shivamma, Jayamma, Sunandamma
and countless such women who are the unsung saviours of
many a life.
04 Annapoorna/ Set in the lanes and by-lanes of central Bombay’s mill area, the
film is a portrait of a women’s co-operative named Annapurna.
Goddess of
Started in 1975 by 14 khanawalis – women who prepared meals
Food
for migrant workers, thus earning the name ‘food-lady’. The
PAROMITA VOhRA organisation has today swelled to a membership of 150,000
and has it’s own credit co-operative bank, short-stay home and
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1995 | 25min | Colour catering centre. The film observes the everyday life of these
women and intertwines it with the story of how the organisation
grew. An exploration of the politics and economics of women’s
work, the film is a tribute to the fearless women who started
Annapoorna and the feisty women who continue to run it.
05 Beyond The Across cultures, tradition bars women from engaging in
activities of a certain kind- using the plough, casting a fishing
Wheel
net or throwing the potter’s wheel. This film takes a look at
RAJUlA ShAh three Indian women potters, across the rural-urban, modern-
2005 | 59min | Colour traditional divides, in the context of the taboo of women and
the wheel. For the ‘modern’ artist, Shampa, the taboo of course
does not exist. ’Traditional’ artists Sara and neelmani do not
touch the wheel. The film looks at how the taboo is turned on
its head as they find a creative route to its circumvention, in the
process, inventing their ‘own wheel’.
06 Dancing With Eighty percent of rural women are engaged in livelihoods
dependant on natural resources in India. This intense
Hands Held
relationship, throws up a whole range of issues and questions.
Tight
Do we all at large value the knowledge systems, which may
KRIShnEnDU BOSE have developed among these women? how have women
KAVITA DAS gUPTA coped with coercion from the state in their accessing of natural
2005 | 62min | Colour resources? This film tries to explore these questions through
four focused engagements- with the fisherwomen off the coast
of Karnataka ; with the Apatani Women of Ziro, the north
Eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh ; with the adivasi and dalit
women of Kashipur in the Eastern Indian state of Orissa and
with the women of Sonebhadra, in the Central Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh. Four compelling life stories that are examples of
extraordinary courage and fortitude.
07 Almoriana This is a cinematic document of the Dussehra festival in the
himalayan town of Almora in Uttaranchal.
VASUDhA JOShI
2000 | 30min | Colour

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08 The Duels of Winner of the golden Statuette for the Best Film on Religion
at the International Festival of Short Films on Culture, Jaipur
Hola Mohalla
in 2007, this film is a cinematic document of the hola Mohalla
VAnI SUBRAMAnIAn festival at Anandpur Sahib in Punjab. The festival marks the
2001 | 30min | Colour establishment of the Khalsa Panth by guru gobind Singh and is
a weeklong celebration of Sikh valour and freedom.
09 Indoor The film, based on true stories, depicts a night in the life of a
middle class family woman and her daughter who go through
K.J.SIJU
their everyday life of domestic violence which such passivity
2010 | 10min | Colour
that the violence itself becomes a routine, accepted aspect
of their lives. The man in their lives, husband and the father,
respectively, takes away the laughter from their lives and
terrorizes their existence. They wait for the dawn to come. Is
this what happens indoors, in other places, with other mothers
and daughters too? Will the dawn ever come?.
10 Conditions During the world economic recession, a young woman in
Bangalore, the IT capital of India, who loses her job, is forced
Apply
to take an extreme step in order to comply with her mounting
lIJIn JOSE financial liabilities. The film examines two days in her life during
2010 | 12min | Colour those hard times and is possibly one of the world’s shortest
love stories.
11 And She Flies Ammu, a Tamil girl born in a refugee camp in the north east
of Sri lanka, desires to fly. This desire leads her to a path of
MUgIl ChAnDRAn
mystery and magic.
2009 | 10min | Colour
1122 Rowing Her This is a story of a brave girl who is not ready to give up her
self respect at any cost. Despite adverse circumstances, she
Way Through
wants to lead her life, her way. Pooja Malhotra is facing a crisis.
The River of
her husband, an advertising film executive, has thrown away his
Life secure job. They have to vacate the company’s flat. Pooja seems
to have come to the end of her tether. Much to Pooja’s surprise
KRIShnEnDU BOSE
her husband provides her with a spacious flat. She feels very
KAVITA DAS gUPTA
fulfilled but soon her secure world is once again threatened
2009 | 2min45sec | Colour by something much bigger - her husband, is involved with a
film actress, who wants marriage, children and a permanent
relationship.
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