THREE SISTERS/ Kriti Film Club Screening @IHC / 16 October 2022

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Kriti Film Club 
invites you for a film marking World Mental Health Day month

16th October, 7 PM onwards
Gulmohar Hall
India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road
New Delhi

THREE SISTERS
(58 mins. | Bengali with English subtitles | 2018 | Documentary)
Dir. Putul Mahmood Produced by Ratnaboli Ray

About the film: This film revolves around Shikha, Rupashi and Seema who was forcibly admitted by their family to a public mental hospital in Calcutta, twenty years ago. They have been living there ever since they have been separated from and neglected by their families who never visit them. This is a story about the three sisters' madness, their longing for familial love, and their tremendous grace and dignity in the face of denial of that love.

About the filmmaker: Putul Mahmood, an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), is a filmmaker, producer and teacher. She is the Producer of the Indie Bengali feature film Cosmic Sex directed by Amitabh Chakraborty. The film premiered at the Osians Cine Fan Festival of Arab and Asian Cinema where it won the Best Actress Award and was widely distributed across international online platforms as well as having a theatrical release in Bengal. She has directed several short fiction and documentary films. Her film,  Atasi won the Best Film Silver Conch (under 60 mins category) at MIFF 2020. Three Sisters won a National Award for Best Film on Social Issues. Putul Mahmood also works as a Script Consultant on short fiction and feature films - Serious Men on Netflix starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, is one of her recent works in that capacity. Putul has designed and been the Course Director of Docurama a three week long residential Documentary Workshop and Appreciation course, the first of its kind, in collaboration with Siddhartha Kak and the IDC department of IIT Powai. Putul Mahmood is one of the co-authors of Shift Focus - Women Shaping The Narrative In Media and Entertainment; commissioned by Women In Cinema Collective (WCC) and  the US Consulate in Chennai. 

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film director and Aparna Sanyal.

ABOUT THE KRITI FILM CLUB: This is an educational initiative of a not-for-profit organisation 'Kriti team'. We screen and share documentary films on development, environment, and socially relevant issues, in an effort to positively influence mindsets and behaviour towards creating an equitous, just, and peaceful world. We also curate issue-based film festivals and organise documentary film shows in neighbourhoods, communities, schools, colleges, or institutions on request and otherwise. The Kriti Film Club has been screening documentaries regularly and independently (without any funding) in Delhi NCR since 2000 and in Mumbai since 2019, to promote 'thought-provoking cinema'.

Venue Collaboration: India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi
Nearest Metros: Jor Bagh, JLN Stadium, Khan Market, Race Course

OPEN FOR ALL
The space is wheelchair friendly.
Seating on first cum first serve basis

Please register and confirm your attendance on space.kriti@gmail.com
Contact us: 098106 66692

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