KRITI FILM CLUB SCREENINGS@Alaknanda
Celebrating the Women’s Day Month:
March 2012
Kriti Film Club invites you for its March screenings, marking the
Women’s Day Month with explorations of women’s world’s, their diverse issues
& perspectives, their stories &
journies, their reflections & relationships, their hidden talents, humour
& friendship, and much more.... through moving images, voice and the
silence that speaks more than words...documentaries that span various timelines
and locations, directed by women and men film makers. Come and share this month
of viewership and discussion with us and meet some amazing and interesting
women (and men) in reel and real spaces!
Screenings will run on two Saturdays this month, 3rd and 17th March
2012. Mark them on your calender in advance so you don’t miss them!
The Kriti team eco-cafe will be open for healthy, organic and
tasty small eats during these screenings. Advance
bookings welcome for an ecocafe lunch on these dates!
Also pick up a range of personal goods and gifts made by community
women from across India, and natural Holi colours, all available at the
Gestures stall. Make a selection from a diverse collection of documentaries;
development, human rights & environment related books; and resistance
music, available at the Docushop!
Venue:
S-35, Tara Apartments, Alaknanda, New Delhi 110019
Saturday,
3rd March 2012
2.00 pm: THE BEAUTY ACADEMY OF KABUL
(Liz Mermin/ Persian,English/
74 mins / 2004)
An arresting and optimistic portrait of
post-Taliban Afghanistan, this theatrical hit captures the wonderfully odd
circumstances that bring Afghan and American women together in pursuit of
physical beauty and much more. In this utterly unique film, a quirky gaggle of
western hairstylists, including Afghan-American women, armed with blow driers
and designer scissors, improbably opens a school to teach eager Afghan women
the high art of fixing hair. Both humorous and slyly submersive, the film
offers poignant moments of culture clash between the Americans and Afghans and
touching moments of feminine solidarity.
3.45 pm: SHIFTING PROPHECY
(Merajur Rahman
Baruah/ PSBT/ Tamil, Hindi, English / 30 mins./ 2007)
A
Film on the struggle of rural Muslim women, in particular that of Daud Sherifa
Khanam,to fight the sexist rulings of the conventional jamaat (a group of
Islamic male elders who decide on family issues of marriage, dowry, divorce,
etc.) and patriarchal social order in Tamil Nadu.
4.30 pm: KANYASHALA
(Ganga Mukhi/ PSBT/ Marathi,
Hindi and English /
30 mins./ 2007)
Students
from Kanya Vidyalaya, an all-girls’ school at Vajreshwari, share poignant
stories of how they joined the School and their dreams for the future. Along
the way, the Film looks at how a segregated, all-girls’ space is an extension
of existing social norms, enabling certain modes of becoming, while seeking to
restrict others.
5.15 pm: KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
(Sanjay Barnela and
Samreen Farooqui/ PSBT/, Hindi, English, Gujarati Kutchi / 52 mins./ 2011)
Spanning
across multiple musical genres, Tipriti, Shehnaz, Afflatus and Jivi Ben bare
their hearts, sing and speak their truths about their aspirations and struggles
in a documentary that seamlessly weaves personal stories with the soul of
blues, pop, rock and devotional folk music. Kutch and the North East are both
far-flung places to the far-east and west of India. The challenges of emerging
as a musical star can shake the very roots of family and culture, and yet, each
of these women has overcome the odds. Each is living beyond her time. Their
personal stories reveal each woman as a power to be reckoned with—the same power
that will stir your emotional strings and keep your foot tapping.
Saturday,
17th March, 2012
2.00 pm: HOLY MATRIMONY
(Nirmala Nair/ PSBT/ English,
Hindi/ 26 mins./ 2011)
There
is ‘want’ and ‘should’; ‘actual’ and ‘ideal’. Set in this space between the
actual and the ideal, the Film is about emotions and pressures women go through
to fit ideals predetermined by a patriarchal society and the ‘matrimony market’
in urban India. Placing together the aspirations of two young unmarried women
and the notions they are expected to fit into, it portrays the contradiction
between ‘who I am’ and the ‘ideal’ they are expected to become in order to get
married.
2.45 pm: FOUR WOMEN AND A ROOM
(Ambarien Alqadar/
PSBT/ English, Hindi/ 42 mins./ 2008)
The
Film explores the complex ways in which women understand and experience
‘motherhood’. It raises the key question of whether motherhood is always a
‘natural’ precondition towards the fulfillment of a woman’s subjectivity.
3.45 pm: MORALITY TV AND THE LOVING JEHAD
(Paromita Vohra/ PSBT/Hindi,
English/ 30 mins./ 2007)
The
Film looks outside the frames that weave the frenetic tapestry of Breaking News
on India’s news channels, to uncover a town’s complex dynamics – the fear of
love, the constant scrutiny and control of women’s mobility and sexuality, a
history of communal violence, caste brutalisation and feudal mindsets.
About us:
The Kriti Film Club is
an informal and independent educational initiative of a non-profit organization
and has been screening thought-provoking documentaries for debate, action,
entertainment and outreach among diverse audiences for twelve years.
Confirmations would be appreciated!
Contact Information:
Phone:011-26033088 / 26027845
E-mail:
space.kriti@gmail.com
Facebook group: Kriti team
Facebook pages: Kriti team/ Gestures by Kriti team
