Theme: IDENTITY, POLITICS & RESISTANCE
(The Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival ended on 25th December 2022. Please email space.kriti@gmail.com if you are keen to watch these and similar films.)
I AM YET TO SEE DELHI
(19 mins/ Hindi, English with English subtitles/ 2014/ Short Film/ India)
Dir. Humaira Bilkis
The film is a subjective journey, exploring a new city. The filmmaker discovers the soul of the city, not in its museums, mausoleums and architecture, but in her relationship with its people. The process of looking at the urban space offers the filmmaker a chance to relook at her own space, identity and cultural moorings.
The film is a subjective journey, exploring a new city. The filmmaker discovers the soul of the city, not in its museums, mausoleums and architecture, but in her relationship with its people. The process of looking at the urban space offers the filmmaker a chance to relook at her own space, identity and cultural moorings.
A BID FOR BENGAL
(70 mins./ Bangla, English, Hindi with English subtitles/ 2021/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Dwaipayan Banerjee and Kasturi Basu
Using fresh and archival footage with personal family history, this film lays bare historical fault lines and visits the workings of frontal organisations responsible for the recent political shift in West Bengal, in between witnessing two consecutive elections trails, from 2019 to 2021.
(70 mins./ Bangla, English, Hindi with English subtitles/ 2021/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Dwaipayan Banerjee and Kasturi Basu
Using fresh and archival footage with personal family history, this film lays bare historical fault lines and visits the workings of frontal organisations responsible for the recent political shift in West Bengal, in between witnessing two consecutive elections trails, from 2019 to 2021.
RAMANI MUTTETTUWEGAMA on Advocacy for the Disappeared (Animate Her series)
(5.10 mins./ English with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Animated Interview/ Sri Lanka)
Dir. Irushi Tennekoon
In this animated shortfilm, Human Rights lawyer, Ramani talks about her work as an advocate for post war disappeared persons in Sri Lanka.
LAHURENI (GURKHA GIRL)
(35 mins./ Nepali with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Docu/ Nepal)
Dir. Bishal Roka Magar
As news surfaces that Britain is recruiting Nepali girls in its British Gurkha regiments, Dilmaya, a young girl from a rural mountain village, sees it as a life changing opportunity and devotes all her time in preparation.
IQRAAR-NAAMA (The Agreement)
(55mins/ Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Priyanka Chhabra
In the grand narrative of the Partition of Punjab in 1947, Iqraar-Naama is a film about the 'refugee', 'migrant', 'displaced person' as the protagonist of his own story.
RINZIN'S DAY
(7 mins./ Dzongkha with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Docu/ Bhutan)
Dir. Sonam Choden
This film is a brief but poetic observation into the life of Rinzin Galley, a man who believes that men can wear make up and have the right to look glamorous.
RUUPOSH
(32 mins./ Hindi, Urdu, Hindustani with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Mohd. Fehmeed, Zeeshan Amir Khan
An idiosyncratic documentary that features Ruksana Begum, her late father - Mehboob Khan and her son - Mohd Fehmeed, who belong to a Muslim minority family in India.
Dir. Arvind Gajanan Joshi
This film follows Arundhati and Ranjit, a couple navigating the aftermath of the brutal rape and murder of 14-year-old Prajakta Salunke, in a village not far from the cosmopolitan city of Pune. While they are both committed to lending their voices in protest, Arundhati begins to question if an individual protected by their caste- and gender-derived privilege can truly be an ally.
YE LO BAYAN HUMAARE- AND WE WERE THERE 1967-1977
(142 mins./ Hindi, Bengali, English with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Political, Historical Docu/ India)
Dir. Uma Chakravarti
This film is about the idealism, passion and jail time of young women coming of age in the late 1960s, seeking to change the world, and throwing themselves into movements sweeping parts of India. Hounded for their activities, tortured by the police and incarcerated in jails, these women found a camaraderie that went beyond revolutionary ideology that had inspired them.
As news surfaces that Britain is recruiting Nepali girls in its British Gurkha regiments, Dilmaya, a young girl from a rural mountain village, sees it as a life changing opportunity and devotes all her time in preparation.
IQRAAR-NAAMA (The Agreement)
(55mins/ Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Priyanka Chhabra
In the grand narrative of the Partition of Punjab in 1947, Iqraar-Naama is a film about the 'refugee', 'migrant', 'displaced person' as the protagonist of his own story.
RINZIN'S DAY
(7 mins./ Dzongkha with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Docu/ Bhutan)
Dir. Sonam Choden
This film is a brief but poetic observation into the life of Rinzin Galley, a man who believes that men can wear make up and have the right to look glamorous.
RUUPOSH
(32 mins./ Hindi, Urdu, Hindustani with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Mohd. Fehmeed, Zeeshan Amir Khan
An idiosyncratic documentary that features Ruksana Begum, her late father - Mehboob Khan and her son - Mohd Fehmeed, who belong to a Muslim minority family in India.
SEIGE IN THE AIR
(30 mins/ English, Urdu, Kashmiri with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Docu)
Dir. Muntaha Amin
Women in Indian Administered Kashmir weave memory threads to piece together a narratorial picture of what it feels to live under perpetual uncertainty and unending cycles of lockdowns in Kashmir - laying focus on the recent communication blockade of 2019, post the Article 370 abrogation.
TAANGH (Longing)
(89 mins./ India/ English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Bani Singh
Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the 1948 London Olympics. Six decades later, when Nandy Singh, a member of this iconic team suffers a stroke, his tenacious struggle to recover, inspires his #daughter to retrace his journey.
TRANS KASHMIR
(62 mins./ Kashmiri, Urdu, English with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Docu Feature/ India)
Dir. S. A. Hanan & Surbhi Dewan
Once entertainers and employees of the royal courts, they were believed to have mystical powers. This film is about the extreme hardships, resilience and beauty of Kashmir’s Hijra (transgender) community and their growing movement for basic human rights.
(89 mins./ India/ English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Bani Singh
Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the 1948 London Olympics. Six decades later, when Nandy Singh, a member of this iconic team suffers a stroke, his tenacious struggle to recover, inspires his #daughter to retrace his journey.
TRANS KASHMIR
(62 mins./ Kashmiri, Urdu, English with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Docu Feature/ India)
Dir. S. A. Hanan & Surbhi Dewan
Once entertainers and employees of the royal courts, they were believed to have mystical powers. This film is about the extreme hardships, resilience and beauty of Kashmir’s Hijra (transgender) community and their growing movement for basic human rights.
WEEKEND
(30 mins/ Marathi with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Drama/ India)Dir. Arvind Gajanan Joshi
This film follows Arundhati and Ranjit, a couple navigating the aftermath of the brutal rape and murder of 14-year-old Prajakta Salunke, in a village not far from the cosmopolitan city of Pune. While they are both committed to lending their voices in protest, Arundhati begins to question if an individual protected by their caste- and gender-derived privilege can truly be an ally.
YE LO BAYAN HUMAARE- AND WE WERE THERE 1967-1977
(142 mins./ Hindi, Bengali, English with Eng. subtitles/ 2021/ Political, Historical Docu/ India)
Dir. Uma Chakravarti
This film is about the idealism, passion and jail time of young women coming of age in the late 1960s, seeking to change the world, and throwing themselves into movements sweeping parts of India. Hounded for their activities, tortured by the police and incarcerated in jails, these women found a camaraderie that went beyond revolutionary ideology that had inspired them.
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