Director :   -
Producer :   Public Service Broadcasting Trust

Censor Rating :   NA

Genre :   Documentary Films

Category :   Combo Pack

 

Synopsis :   

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.

 

Awards :   

* A FLOWERING TREE by VIPIN VIJAY Special Jury Award

* SHIFTING PROPHECY by MERAJUR RAHMAN BARUAH Award for Best Film On Social Issues

* MAKING THE FACE by SUVENDU CHATTERJEE & JOSHY JOSEPH Award for Best Film on Family Welfare

* AYODHYA GATHA by VANI SUBRAMANIAN Award for Best Narrative/ Voice Over