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A Combo of 4 PSBT 53rd Indian National Award Winning Films:
"THE SEEDKEEPERS" by FARIDA PACHA
The film looks at the transformation of Dalit women's lives through their involvement in an ecological movement for sustainable farming in Andhra Pradesh.
"THE WAY TO DUSTY DEATH" by SYED FAYAZ
A moving account of the victims of Silicosis in Gujarat.
THE WHISTLE BLOWERS" by UMESH AGGARWAL
The film, is an investigation into the issue of pesticides in bottled water and soft drinks manufactured by reputed MNCs like Coca Cola and Pepsi in India which was recently revealed in a report by the Centre for Science and Environment.
"WAPSI" (THE RETURNING...) by AJAY RAINA
For most Indians and Pakistanis, a visit to each others' countries is a journey of return of various kinds – to nostalgia, hate, metaphor and reality. This film is one such travelogue, a song of hope, love, longing and betrayal.
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A Combo of 4 PSBT 55th Indian National Award Winning Films:
A FLOWERING TREE by VIPIN VIJAY
This film is a relational origin story that womens' menstrual rituals are the roots of human culture, and that in human evolution women and men have markedly different relationships to blood.
SHIFTING PROPHECY by MERAJUR RAHMAN BARUAH
A film on the struggle of rural Muslim women in particular 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.
MAKING THE FACE by SUVENDU CHATTERJEE & JOSHY JOSEPH
Based in Manipur, the film deals with identity in general and the personal story of Tom Sharma, a transgendered make-up artist. Tom feels he possesses a woman’s soul in a man’s body. The story is centered around Tom Sharma’s life in the backdrop of the turmoil in the Manipuri society owing to the long drawn problems of insurgency leading to state sponsored violence on the citizens in the name of counter insurgency.
AYODHYA GATHA by VANI SUBRAMANIAN
The film weaves together a tapestry of perspectives on how deeply the politics of hate affect personal everyday lives, and what it takes to negotiate your way out of these labyrinths.
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Combo of three Award Winning Films: -
BURU GAARA by SHRIPRAKASH
Poignant stories of a tribal journalist and a poet in Jharkhand, and how they express themselves through the new form and medium of self-resurrection of tribal identity and culture.
THE FEMALE NUDE by DEVI PRASAD MISHRA AND HEM JYOTIKA
The Female Nude is the story of the model who poses nude for painters for contemptibly small amounts, never to be invited to any of the exhibitions.
CHILIKA BANK$ by AKANKSHA JOSHI
In a canvas spread over four decades, a banyan tree, on the banks of the lake Chilika, silently whispers tales of the lake and her fisher folk. From the times when there was no export bazaar to the time when there maybe no lake.
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SHANKAR by SUMIT OSMOND SHAW- A glimpse into the life of Shankar who is HIV positive – an ordinary man in the bustling humanity of a big city, armed only with the humble motives of eking out an existence for him & his adolescent son, Pavan.
+VE LIVING BY C VANAJA The story of HIV+ women, who defied destiny and persisted on their journey in life, against social ostracism and an uncertain future, with dignity and hope. - Golden Pearl Award, Hyderabad Film Festival, India
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ART IN EXILE by NIDHI TULI & ASHRAF ABBAS
An exploration of the quiet struggle by the Tibetans in exile in India to keep their culture and identity alive. It focuses on the Norbulingka art institute at Dharamsala, which teaches pure Tibetan art forms and hopes to accomplish its goal of ‘importing Tibetan culture back to Tibet.’
DEMOCRACY IN EXILE by TASHI WANGCHUK & TSULTRIM DORJEE The film explores the debate among the general mass of Tibetan people in India about the two major possible goals of future Tibet - ‘Genuine Autonomy’, a middle path proposed by the Tibetan Exile Government and an ‘Independent Tibet’ as proposed by the Tibetan Youth Congress.
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