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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