Kriti Film Club Screenings Archive 2023 onwards
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The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs/ Laila Aur Saat Geet by Pushpendra Singh is about a lyrical, feminist character study set in the Himalayas and based on an Indian folk tale, about a fiercely beautiful nomadic shepherdess named Laila who catches the eye of a lustful young herdsman. (15 Jan. 2023 @IHC, New Delhi - filmmaker present in-person)
Gamak Ghar by Achal Mishra is a portrait of a large extended Indian family over several decades as they gather at the matriarch's rural home, following the inevitable rhythms of change, children moving away to the city, and the decay of traditional village life. (4 Feb. 2023 @IHC, New Delhi - filmmaker present via zoom)
Fatima by Sourabh Kanti Dutta is about the nine-year old Fatima who was married off to a pimp in the red-light area of Forbesganj, a town at the Indo-Nepali border. (5 March 2023 @IHC, New Delhi - filmmaker present in-person)
Sri Lankan films, Anya Ratnayaka on the Colombo Wetlands and the Urban Fishing Cat; Lakmini Wijesundera on Building Global Tech Brands Ramani Muttettuwegama on Advocacy for the Disappeared by Irushi Tennekoon and The Girl in the Rainwater Tree by Yoshitha Perera and Irushi Tennekoon, curated by Kriti Film Club for Habitat International Film Festival (19 Mar. 2023 @IHC, New Delhi)
Tortoise Under the Earth by Shishir Jha is a sensitively made film that explores the deeply intertwined connections between tribal communities and the forest that is their traditional home. (8 April 2023 @IHC, New Delhi - filmmaker on zoom)
Delhi premiere of Oscar-nominated film All that Breathes by Shaunak Sen, curated and organised by Kriti Film Club @Habitat Film Festival 2023 (5 May 2023 @IHC, New Delhi - filmmaker, cast and crew present in-person)
World Environment Day screenings of Glow Worm in a Jungle by Ramana Dumpala and All that Breathes by Shaunak Sen (5 June 2023 @Alliance Francaise de Delhi, New Delhi - filmmakers, cast and crew present in-person)
Walking Lightly, A two-day film festival on Environment and Climate Change brought together 36 films by different filmmakers and were followed by conversations. (10-11 June 2023 @Alliance Francaise de Delhi, New Delhi - some filmmakers present in-person)
Environment Day and Pride month screenings (17-18 June 2023 @IHC, New Delhi)
Charaiveti by Bauddhayan Mukherji & Chandan Biswas is the story of a bicycle journey of 153 days, traversing 6249 kms, criss-crossing four different countries for Chandan to become the first man to complete the Trans-Himalayan expedition on a bicycle. (29 July 2023 @IHC, New Delhi)
Untying Breastfeeding by Effath Yasmin (3 Aug. 2023 @Mumbai - filmmaker present)
Holy Rights by Farha Khatun and Ek Jagah Apni by Ektara Collective @Mumbai (15 Aug. 2023)
Other Kohinoors, The Rocks of Hyderabad by Uma Magal is a love letter to the rocks of Hyderabad. (27 Aug. 2023 @IHC, New Delhi)
NOI by Reema Borah is a story of an old fisherman, Bisnu, who sets off on an uncertain journey to find the home of an unknown man whose dead body was entangled in his fishing net and was washed ashore. (17 Sept. 2023 @IHC, New Delhi)
Holy Rights by Farha Khatun is about Sofia and her determination to become a judge of Islamic Law. Tensions and negotiations that mark her journey are interwoven with Muslim women's fight for gender justice against an arbitrary oppressive practice. (29 October 2023 @IHC, New Delhi)
Bacchon ka Bioscope: A Young People’s Film Festival (17 November 2023 @Jawahar Bhavan, New Delhi)
4th Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival (30 Nov. - 8th Dec. 2023 @IHC and AFD, New Delhi)
Online edition, 4th Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival (16 - 30 Dec. 2023 @Doculive by Kriti Film Club)
2024
Ek Jagah Apni by Ektara Collective is about Laila and Roshni, two transwomen, who are looking for a house after they are evicted from the place they rented. (21 January 2024 @IHC, New Delhi)
The Miniaturist of Junagadh by Kaushal Oza is a story from 1947. The ravages of Partition have compelled an old artist, Husyn Naqqash, to sell his ancestral home in Western India and move with his family to Karachi, Pakistan. Champaran Mutton by Ranjan Kumar is a small story of a sweet family based in Bihar and their day to day struggles spun around a motive leading to cook and relish Champaran Mutton (a local Bihari delicacy). (5-6 Feb. 2024 @Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival)
No City for Women by Rangan Chakravarty brings together women's personal narratives of living and working in Gurgaon and illuminates the gendered nature of urban Indian life. (6 February 2024 @IHC, New Delhi - Film cast present in-present)
Listen With Your Heart by Meghna Damani is the story of Sushama, a mountaineer psychologist and her musically gifted daughter Aarti. About Mumma by Maanvi Chowdhary is a film on the directors’ mother, Shalini Chowdhary, who is an established architect in the small city of Lucknow and runs her practice with passion and understanding. (28 February 2024 @Mumbai - Filmmaker present in-person)
Meelon Dur | Miles Away by Megha Acharya is a story of the everyday-lives of three female labourers working in a brick kiln which take an upsetting turn after an unexpected rainfall halts their work. What unfolds is a threatening tale of unorganised labour and economic debts in a rapidly urbanising India. (5 March 2024 @IHC, New Delhi - Filmmaker present in-person)
Cinema for Children, including two films and conversations (17 March, 2024 @MCubed Library, Mumbai)
Nirantar Film Festival, with 15 films and conversations curated by Kriti Film Club (28 March 2024 @Akshara Theatre, New Delhi)
Ek Dum Kadak by Samridhi Kohli, Aryan Mahajan, Arunima Gupta, Siddharth Raj and Bread and Belonging by Sonia Filinto (13 April 2024 @MCubed Library, Mumbai - filmmaker present in-person)
All that Breathes by Shaunak Sen (19 April 2024 @Moti Lal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Born to Sing by Shikha Jhinghan (21 April 2024 @IHC, New Delhi - filmmaker present in-person)
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