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MEELON DUR | Miles Away
(50:10 mins/ Bundeli with English subtitles/ 2023/ India/ Documentary)
Dir. Megha Acharya
Prod. Chambal Media, Paula Chakravartty, Michelle Buckley
5th March 2024
(7 pm onwards)
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre
New Delhi
Followed by a discussion with the film team
About the Film: The everyday-lives of three female labourers working in a brick kiln in India takes an upsetting turn after an unexpected rainfall halts their work. What unfolds is a threatening tale of unorganized labour and economic debts in a rapidly urbanizing India.
About the Filmmaker: Megha Acharya is a documentary practitioner, based in New Delhi. She used to work as a Senior producer in Chambal Media, home to Khabar Lahariya. Under their banner, she made her first long documentary Miles Away. Her work has dealt with the subjects of climate change, gender, agriculture and public healthcare policies. Her film Sudhamayee (2019), part of her diploma film project in Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication, has won best film, best director and special mention in prestigious festivals across India. It was previously streaming on Mubi and is currently streaming on DA films.
About the Kriti Film Club: We are 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; in Mumbai since 2019, and online since 2020 (doculive.blogspot.com), to promote #thoughtprovokingcinema and #cinemaforsocialchange
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About the Kriti Film Club: We are 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; in Mumbai since 2019, and online since 2020 (doculive.blogspot.com), to promote #thoughtprovokingcinema and #cinemaforsocialchange
OPEN FOR ALL
Confirmations appreciated on space.kriti@gmail.com
Make a viewer contribution: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/crowd-fund-kriti-film-club
Updates on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter
Blog Doculive Youtube
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