Line up of Kolkata People's Film Festival (KPFF) 2020

The Kolkata People’s Film Festival (KPFF), organised by the People’s Film Collective (PFC), is a people-supported, independently organised, volunteer-led cinema festival, showcasing politically committed contemporary documentary and fiction cinema from India and Southasia. It brings together filmmakers, cinephiles, students, workers, artists, writers and journalists - a wide cross-section of people to interact on various issues pertaining to contemporary society. 

The seventh edition of KPFF will screen 34 films from India and Southasia.

According to a release this edition of the festival is being held against the backdrop of  issues pertaining to migrants, political dissent, violence against oppressed castes and gender, and assault on public education inn whole of Southasia. It is also a time of unprecedented climate crisis which has  marginalised sections of the population.

website http://www.ourcinema.in
facebook page https://www.facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/ 

KPFF 2020

23-26 January / 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily

Uttam Mancha, Hazra, Kolkata

Entry Free* (*everyone decides how much they want to contribute to run the festival)

Stories from India (Long Documentary)

1. CORAL WOMAN / Dir: Priya Thuvassery / 52’/ 2019
2. JANANI’S JULIET/ Dir: Pankaj Rishi Kumar/ 52’/ 2019
3. MOD BHAANG/ Dir: Renu Savant/ 60’/ 2018
4. MOTI BAGH/ Dir: Nirmal Chander/ 60’/ 2019
5. RECASTING SELVES / Dir: Lalit Vachani/ 80’/ 2019
6. SANGHARSH, TIMES OF STRIFE / Dir: Nicolas Jaoul / 105’/ 2018
7. SONGS OF OUR SOIL / Dir: Aditi Maddali / 52’/ 2019
8. STRANGERS / Dir: Laura Kansy, Oskar Zoche / 75’/ 2019
9. SWIMMING THROUGH THE DARKNESS / Dir: Supriyo Sen / 76’/ 2018
10. #UNFAIR / Dir: Anoshka Matthews , Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Mohit Bhalla, Wenceslaus Mendes / 55’ / 2019

Stories from India (Short Documentary)

1. CHACHAN, A DAY / Dir: J J Abraham / 32’ / 2019
2. CHAI DARBARI / Dir: Prateek Shekhar / 29’ / 2019
3. HEIRS OF HALF THE EARTH AND SKY / Dir: Georgy Abraham / 39’ / 2019
4. JHARIA / Dir: Biju Toppo / 28’ / 2019
5. MAGICAL FOREST / Dir: Archana Chandrashekar / 34’ / 2019
6. OUR GODS ARE LIKE THAT / Dir: Sraiyanti Haricharan / 32’ / 2019
7. PRISON DIARIES / Dir: Uma Chakravarti / 26’ / 2019
8. THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN / Dir: Moupia Mukherjee / 35’ / 2019
9. WANING MOONS / Dir: Nooryaab Nakhat / 28’ / 2019

Stories from South Asia (Documentary)

1. RISING SILENCE / Dir: Leesa Gazi / 75’/ 2018 (Bangladesh)
2. SECOND HOME / Dir: Shekh Al Mamun / 26’/ 2019 (Bangladesh, South Korea)
3. TAKING ON THE STORM / Dir: Matjaz Pinter, Eva Pivac / 82’/ 2019 (Nepal)

New Indian Fiction (Long Fiction)

1. EEB ALLAY OOO! / Dir: Prateek Vats / 105’/ 2019
2. SUDANI FROM NIGERIA / Dir: Zakariya / 120’/ 2018

New Indian Fiction (Short Fiction)

1. A LETTER TO HOME / Dir: Mukul Haloi / 25’ / 2018
2. BIDUGADE (THE REDEMPTION) / Dir: Naveen Tejaswi / 21’ / 2019
3. DARROJ / Dir: Varun Sharma / 29’/ 2019
4. DYING WIND IN HER HAIR / Dir: Shazia Iqbal / 21’ / 2019
5. MAHAANTAM / Dir: Shridhar Sudhir / 29’ / 2018
6. NEON / Dir: Sakshi Gulati / 27’/ 2018
7. NOOREH / Dir: Ashish Pandey / 22’ / 2018
8. POSHARINI / Dir: Sreecheta Das / 26’ / 2018
9. WIG / Dir: Atanu Mukherjee / 25’ / 2019

Special Screening and conversation

1. REASON / Dir: Anand Patwardhan / 218’ / 2018 (Documentary)

Lecture, Presentation, Concert, Exhibition

1. OPENING KEYNOTE / Speaker: Arundhati Roy
2. KASHMIR: THE IMAGE AS WITNESS, AND MEMORY / Speaker: Sanjay Kak
3. 'SINGING YOUR DESPAIR, AND MINE' / Poetry, music and conversation between Aamir Aziz and Moushumi Bhowmik
4. ART OF OUR TIMES / Collective exhibition of works by several contemporary political artists

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Screening of Janani's Juliet on 19th Dec (Mumbai)

Janani's Juliet (53 minutes) Will be screened as per program below

19th Dec @ 6pm

Venue- Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Byculla

(Education Centre)

Followed by Q &A with the director
Entry Free

Director, Camera, Sound Design and Editing - Pankaj Rishi Kumar

Associate Director & Location Sound -- C. Vinayak Ram

Sound Mixing -- Pritam Das

Producer: PSBT

Language: Tamil with English Subtitles

Synopsis:  Kausalya lost her husband (Shankar), when they were attacked by her own family. They had married against their families wishes. Deeply disturbed by a spate of honor killings in India, a Pondicherry based theatre group sets out to introspect the implications of caste, class and gender. They adapt Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. What emerges in the process is a critical reflection and commentary of the contemporary Indian society where love struggles to survive.

India's Official entry to the Oscar's

Best Long Documentary Prize at IDSFFK, Trivandrum, India 

Best Film, Signs Film Festival, Thrissur, India

Official Selection Competition, Kolkata International Film Festival & FSA Kathmandu

Official Selection -- Bubhaneswar, Open Frame, Madurai, & Auroville Film Festival

Reviews

1---   https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/romeos-caste-conundrum-jananis-juliet-5832919/

2---- https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/a-documentary-traces-the-making-of-chandala-the-impure-a-play-that-weaves-caste-politics-into-romeo-and-juliet/article28577785.ece

3-- 'Janani's Juliet' at Oscars: Documentary exploring caste and love has Gowsalya at centre

https://www.facebook.com/events/2471139173166085

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Saacha at the Sudhir Patwardhan Retrospective, NGMA, Mumbai

The film Saacha - The Loom is a part of the 'Walking Through the Soul City — Sudhir Patwardhan: A Retrospective, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, and will run on a loop, everyday, between Nov. 30, 2019 and Feb. 12, 2020

Read more here: http://www.monteiro-jayasankar.com/films/2001/saacha.html

according to a release by Anjali and Jayasankar

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Synopsis of the film
Saacha, 49 mins, 2001
The fabric of the city emerged from the warp and weft of diverse threads, from the labour of migrant communities that made Bombay/Mumbai their own. The cotton mills and the proletariat that worked in them were central to the creation of the city. Through the poetry of Narayan Surve, the paintings of Sudhir Patwardhan, the music of the Shahir Amar Shaikh Cultural Troupe and the filmmakers' images of a precarious yet resilient space, Saacha chronicles the changing life and times of a city that was once the hub of the working class movement in India. Weaving together poetry and paintings with memories of the city, the film explores the politics of representation, the relevance of art in the contemporary social milieu, the dilemmas of the left and the trade union movement and the changing face of a huge metropolis. Saacha, filmed in 2000, when the cotton textile industry was in the final stages of its decline, brings to bear an intimate and perceptive gaze on the lifeworld of the mills and their workers, which has since been totally erased from the history and geography of the city.
An adaptation of Saacha was an installation at the art exhibition 'Project Space: Word. Sound. Power.' at the Tate Modern, London, in 2013; and at Khoj, New Delhi in 2014.
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About the Protagonists of the film
Narayan Surve, one of the most significant Marathi poets, was born in 1926. Found abandoned as a baby on the streets of Mumbai, he was raised by a mill worker. He worked as a child labourer in the textile mills, and did several other jobs in the informal sector, finally becoming a school teacher. He was a Marxist and was active in the trade union movement in Mumbai. His oeuvre includes Aisa Ga Mi Brahma (1962) Majhe Vidyapeeth (1966),Jahirnama (1978), among others. He received several awards and recognitions for his work, including the Padma Shri in 1988. He passed away in 2010.
"Sudhir Patwardhan is a painter of urban life. His images unfold the city he knows so well— Mumbai. His Mumbai is urbs, with its surrounding factories, industrial chimneys, tenements; its back breaking toil, grime, sweat, pain, grit, accidents, crowds and stench. It is life at its rawest. Yet in his paintings its inhabitants retain their character, vitality and dignity. He is passionately concerned with this life and is not just its chronicler. He is its poet as well, who lets the spontaneous experience sink in, to recall it in the tranquility of his studio." Mehra, Gita, in Ranjit Hoskote, Sudhir Patwardhan The Complicit Observer, Sakshi Art Gallery, 2003
#Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018 Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Anjali Monteiro, Ph.D., Professor,
K.P. Jayasankar, Ph.D., Professor
School of Media and Cultural Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences,  Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, India
Phone:+91 22 2552 5661 

3rd South Asian Short Film Festival organised by the Federation of Film Societies of India Eastern Region will be held in March 2020 in Kolkata

3rd South Asian Short Film Festival organised by the Federation of Film Societies of India Eastern Region will be held in March 2020 in Kolkata. Short Fiction (Maximum 40 Minutes) and Documentaries (Maximum 60 Minutes) made after 1st January 2017 are eligible. Rules and regulations are available at http://www.sasff.online/rules-regulations/

Deadline for Submission: 31 December 2019.

Intending participants may submit their entries online at https://filmfreeway.com/sasff2020

Premendra Mazumder

Festival Coordinator

South Asian Short Film Festival

http://www.sasff.online/ 

1st Tamil Nadu Independent Film Festival (TNIFF 2020)

The 1st Tamil Nadu Independent Film Festival (TNIFF 2020) will be held from 10th to 19th August, 2020 at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. 

Submissions are now open for TNIFF 2020 (www.tniff.com) with the early bird deadline closing on 15th January 2020.

To directly submit, click on the following link;
https://filmfreeway.com/TamilNaduIndependentFilmFestival

While submitting use this special discount code PersonalDec2019 for 20% Discount. This code is valid only till 15th January 2020.

We welcome you film lovers and patrons to raise your voice today by filling this "FILM LOVERS AND PATRONS SURVEY" Click on this link to register your voice https://goo.gl/forms/vdyKQTucEBQQYVV13


Josephine David
Festival Director
Tamil Nadu Independent Film Festival
+91 98409 73445
info@tniff.com
tamilnaduiff@gmail.com
https://tniff.com/