A festival of contemporary political films
Magic Lantern Foundation and the Indian International Centre (IIC), is organising the Persistence Resistance: a festival of contemporary political films on the 28th, 29th and 30th April 2008 at the IIC in New Delhi.
The festival aims to create a cinema space that celebrates the diverse nature of films today.
The films that are to be screened at the festival are largely from the collection of films that are being distributed through Under Construction, a non-broadcast, non-commercial, educational distribution initiative.
For details visit our website
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
New Arrivals (Jan 2008)
Gulabi Aaina
Director: Sridhar Rangaihn
Underneath a humorous exterior, an exploration of the Indian gay landscape, underlining the deep, humanly tender bondings that exist between drag queens.
English (subtitled), 40 min, 2002, India
Subject: Gender, Sexual Minorities, Sexuality
Hope Dies Last in War
Directors: Supriyo Sen
Struggle of the families of the prisoners of the 1971 Indo-Pak war to get their loved ones back.
English (subtitled), 80 minutes, 2007, India
Subject: Borders, Conflict, War, Prisoners, Human Rights
Invisible
Director: Roz Mortimer
When scientists tested breast milk from Inuit mothers, they were shocked to find the milk loaded with chemicals migrating from the south.
English (subtitled), 63 minutes, 2006, UK
Subject: Environment, Pollution, Health, Ethnography
Milind Soman Made Me Gay
Director: Harjant Gill
About desire and notions of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’, juxtaposing memories of the filmmaker’s past against stories of 3 gay South Asian men living in the diaspora.
English, 27 min, 2007, USA
Subject: Gender, Sexual Minorities, Identity, Diaspora
Nusrat has left the Building ... But When?
Director: Farjad Nabi
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s metamorphosis from a genuine popular artiste to a mass produced exotica of the east.
No dialogue, 25 minutes, 1997, Pakistan
Subject: Caste, Society, People
Skin Deep
Director: Reena Mohan
The eternal search for the ideal feminity and how it permeates the self image of women.
English (subtitled), 83 min, 1998, India
Subject: Gender, Identity, Feminity, Stereotypes
Temporary Loss of Consciousness
Director: Monica Bhasin
An exploration of the boundaries of internal and external spaces of people in exile.
English (subtitled), 35 minutes, 2005, India
Subject: Borders, Exile, Displacement, Human Rights
Way Back Home
Director: Supriyo Sen
A family’s journey back to their homeland in Bangladesh after more than fifty years.
English (subtitled), 120 minutes, 2003, India
Subject: Borders, Nationality, Identity, History, Diaspora
Director: Sridhar Rangaihn
Underneath a humorous exterior, an exploration of the Indian gay landscape, underlining the deep, humanly tender bondings that exist between drag queens.
English (subtitled), 40 min, 2002, India
Subject: Gender, Sexual Minorities, Sexuality
Hope Dies Last in War
Directors: Supriyo Sen
Struggle of the families of the prisoners of the 1971 Indo-Pak war to get their loved ones back.
English (subtitled), 80 minutes, 2007, India
Subject: Borders, Conflict, War, Prisoners, Human Rights
Invisible
Director: Roz Mortimer
When scientists tested breast milk from Inuit mothers, they were shocked to find the milk loaded with chemicals migrating from the south.
English (subtitled), 63 minutes, 2006, UK
Subject: Environment, Pollution, Health, Ethnography
Milind Soman Made Me Gay
Director: Harjant Gill
About desire and notions of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’, juxtaposing memories of the filmmaker’s past against stories of 3 gay South Asian men living in the diaspora.
English, 27 min, 2007, USA
Subject: Gender, Sexual Minorities, Identity, Diaspora
Nusrat has left the Building ... But When?
Director: Farjad Nabi
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s metamorphosis from a genuine popular artiste to a mass produced exotica of the east.
No dialogue, 25 minutes, 1997, Pakistan
Subject: Caste, Society, People
Skin Deep
Director: Reena Mohan
The eternal search for the ideal feminity and how it permeates the self image of women.
English (subtitled), 83 min, 1998, India
Subject: Gender, Identity, Feminity, Stereotypes
Temporary Loss of Consciousness
Director: Monica Bhasin
An exploration of the boundaries of internal and external spaces of people in exile.
English (subtitled), 35 minutes, 2005, India
Subject: Borders, Exile, Displacement, Human Rights
Way Back Home
Director: Supriyo Sen
A family’s journey back to their homeland in Bangladesh after more than fifty years.
English (subtitled), 120 minutes, 2003, India
Subject: Borders, Nationality, Identity, History, Diaspora
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