Theme: MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITY AND US
(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.)
ATASHI
Dir. Putul Mahmood
Atasi was declared mad by her family and admitted to a mental hospital. Once out of the mental hospital, she fell in love and ‘plotted’ her own recovery.
AVALDE AMMEDE ARIMAAVU (That Darn Facepack)
(20 mins/ Malayalam with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Fiction/ India)
Dir. Rose Paul
This film is a story on Cause and Effect. It shows the internal world of Anu, a 21 year old who suffers from Body Dysmorphia.
AYENA (MIRROR)
(70 mins./ Hindi, Urdu - with Eng. subtitles / 2022/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Siddhant Sarin and Debankon S. Solanky
A momentary act of #revenge transformed the lives of two young Indian women forever. After surviving an #acidattack, both Ritu and Faraha now have to navigate through a sea of odd currents daily.
ABOUT MUMMA
(39 mins/ English/ 2021/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Maanvi Chowdhary
Shalini Chowdhary, an established architect in the small city of Lucknow runs her practice with passion and understanding. Her relationship with space being the central idea through which we see her navigate the memories of the tragic accident that left her paraplegic.
DEAR APHRODITE
(18.15 mins/ English with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Docu/ India)
Dir. Abhishek Anicca
Dear Aphrodite is a letter, a poem, an ode to melancholy. Dear Aphrodite is a person in crisis. Dear Aphrodite is an attempt at healing.
FARZANDI
(30 mins/ Punjabi with Bengali, English and Hindi and Eng. subtitles/ 2019/ Fiction/ India)
Dir. Akshay Gouri
In Kolkata, 25 year-old Aakanksha, a Punjabi working woman shifts back to her father’s house from the house of her husband Saikat – a Bengali, with whom her relationship is not smooth. Aakanksha’s 64 year-old, displaced, Dementia-ridden father needs constant care, with whom her relationship is complex. Memories of her mother’s horrid fate at the hands of her father keep haunting her.
UNFINISHED (please use password BeyondBorders to watch this film)
(38 mins./ English and Hindi with English sub./ 2021/ Hybrid Docu/ India)
Dir. Shabnam Sukhdev
This film questions the notion of Normality at its very core. It encapsulates the struggles of a young woman’s mental illness, as seen through the lens of her mother. The filmmaker-mother critically examines home videos filmed by her during her daughter’s first episode that unravels the family’s genetic archive.
Dir. Shabnam Sukhdev
This film questions the notion of Normality at its very core. It encapsulates the struggles of a young woman’s mental illness, as seen through the lens of her mother. The filmmaker-mother critically examines home videos filmed by her during her daughter’s first episode that unravels the family’s genetic archive.
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