STAY AT HOME AND WATCH DOCUMENTARIES - Curated by KRITI FILM CLUB
Starting 21st March 2020, the Kriti Film Club began to recommend documentary films to give “our minds and hearts a change in these times...to entertain, to calm, to think and feel, to act, connect and share…”
Day 1 (21 March.2020): This one to give you calm...
The wind was blowing differently for a few days, the streets were getting emptier, the police was making its rounds and telling people to go back home. There was a lot of noise around…a virus was spreading and coming close home…many countries had started to go into lockdown…my city and yours too was facing restrictions to stay at home! A silence was becoming real but the noise within was still very loud…fear, anxiety, stress was taking over. The morning of 21st March 2020, I thought “why not share some films that calm, entertain, connect and distract people while they begin to stay home.” The first post with a Kriti Film Club lockdown recommendation got written thus...documentaries that we have screened over the past 20 years and some others of filmmakers who have screened with us!
Kriti Film Club is an independent documentary screening initiative by the non-profit organisation, Kriti: a development praxis and communication team, New Delhi and Mumbai.
As the days went by and the working classes began their walk home, displaced from their means of livelihood and homes, as a communal virus started to become headlines, the economic crisis looming large, and #stayhome #staysafe #wfh became life, the Kriti Film Club lockdown journey came alive online!
Tanushree Angrish (a Kriti team volunteer of 10 years) offered to help this independent effort amidst #wfh and domestic chores each day, and here we are…sharing the film resources from 20 years of screenings and more…The posts are shared through whats app, the kriti team facebook page and kriti film club instagram and twitter handles every day. We hope you are watching and if not, get hooked today!Starting 21st March 2020, the Kriti Film Club began to recommend documentary films to give “our minds and hearts a change in these times...to entertain, to calm, to think and feel, to act, connect and share…”
Day 1 (21 March.2020): This one to give you calm...
Day 3 (23 March.2020): This one to connect us across divides! HAD ANHAD by Shabnam Virmani
Day 6 (26th March 2020): This one to think secular! AJAB SHAHER: KABIR IN AMERICA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv0cvMZ4fO0
Day 8 (28 March 2020): This one to celebrate women’s labour! Dance with Hands Held Tight by Krishnendu Bose and Kavita Dasgupta
Day 9 (29 March 2020): This one to mark the World Water Day week! THE MIRACLE WATER VILLAGE by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
The whole idea of the KRITI Film Club is to place #thoughtprovoking cinema in a discussion group that will help to deepen understanding on social and development issues amongst viewers and film-makers. We do this through physical screenings but would love to take this initiative into the virtual world too with the film makers on board, and all through 2020. We hope more volunteers would join this effort and share the films widely and also if any samaratarians could make donations to keep this going…every little effort that contributes to making this a better, safer, healthy and sensitive world.
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