HERStories

Theme: HERSTORIES
(The films under this theme of Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival streamed from 3rd to 19th December 2021)
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Instructions for the Viewer:
Option 1: You can watch one film at a time by clicking on its title, as per the list below!

Option 2: You can also watch the entire theme of films together!  

DREAMS ON WHEELS

(15:00/ Hindi, Haryanvi with English subtitles/ 2017/ India/ Short Fiction)
by Vedika Kruti
The film follows the story of an auto rickshaw driver in North-western India, a region governed by the diktats of khaps, hyper masculinity and patriarchy.

FATHIMA, THE ORACLE

(28:00/ Tibetan, Ladakh, Balti, Hindi, English with English subtitles / 2019/ Documentary)
by Geleck Palsang
In a small village in northern India, a Buddhist spirit possesses a young Muslim girl. As she goes into trance, she speaks a language different from her own. This inexplicable phenomenon breeds hostility within her community.

KALSUBAI

(20:00/ Marathi with English subtitles/ 2020/ Documentary)
by Yudhajit Basu
An ethnographic film exploring the legend of a Mahadeo Koli Goddess Kaldu whose story and identity remains impregnated in the consciousness of the women of the tribe even today.

MAKING TEXTBOOKS FEMINIST
(20:00/ English/ 2021/ India/ Documentary)

by The Third Eye and Jamun Collective
What goes into the making of textbooks that are feminist? The same textbooks that have been shaping the worldview of young learners in schools.

OH THAT’s BHANU 
(112:00/ English, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil with English subtitles/ 2019/ India/ documentary)
by RV Ramani

Bhanumati Rao, in her younger days, was a dancer and a theater actor. Today, in her mid-nineties, she lives with her two daughters - Maya Krishna Rao and Tara Rao. Filming Bhanumati with her daughters nudging her, the filmmaker takes the audience on a journey of life and performance, through the spasms of memory, complexities of relationships, love and a reflection of what could constitute a beautiful mind.

THE SPELL OF PURPLE

(24:00/ Gujarati with English subtitles/ 2020/ India/ Short Fiction)
by Prachee Bajania
The sole owner of a small field in tribal Gujarat, is the target of envious neighbours who brand her a ‘witch’, and lurk in the shadows of both her land and her nightmares. Enveloped in fear, she looks for strength in other women, even as a new mother deals with loneliness and a young married woman is forced to reckon with turmoil of her own.

WE MAKE FILM

(80:00/ English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, ISL with English subtitles/ 2021/ India/ documentary)
by Shweta Ghosh
This film explores the creative journeys of three deaf and disabled film/video-makers–Debopriya Ghosh, Mijo Jose and Anuja Sankhe. It highlights the (in)accessibility of film and video technology, the barriers to film consumption and education for them, and the ways in which the protagonists articulate their creative vision.

ZIKR US PARIVASH KA

(64:00/ Hindustani with English subtitles/ 2016/ Documentary)
by Nirmal Chander
One of the last legendary courtesans of India, Begum Akhtar was a well-known singer of ghazal, dadra and thumri genres of Hindustani classical music. Rendering them in her inimitable style, she ensured that ghazal singing received due respect and came to be called Malika-e-Ghazal (Queen of the Ghazal), reaching unparalleled heights in a world that threatened to marginalize courtesans.

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May you be inspired to (re)write some 

her/his/their stories too, with these films!