GOETHE-INSTITUT
/ MAX MUELLER BHAVAN Chennai
and MARUPAKKAM
present
SOCIAL JUSTICE
FILM FESTIVAL
curated by Amudhan RP
14-16,
September| 10.00 a.m. – 8.00 p.m. | Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Day 3 Saturday,
16 September 2017
The Schedule
10.00 a.m. Accsex
Dir: Shweta Ghosh | 52 min. | Hindi and English
Within stifling dichotomies of normal and abnormal,
lie millions of women, negotiating with their identities, Accsex explores
notions of beauty, the 'ideal body' and sexuality through four storytellers.
Four women who happen to be people with disability, through
the lives of Natasha, Sonali, Kanti and Abha, this film brings to fore
questions of acceptance, confidence and resistance to the normative. As it
turns out, these questions are not too removed from everyday realities of several
others, deemed 'imperfect' and 'monstrous' for not fitting in.
Accsex traces the journey of the storytellers as
they reclaim agency and the right to unapologetic confidence, sexual expression
and happiness.
11.00 a.m. Interaction with Aiswarya
Rao-Activist
11.20 a.m. Our Family
Dir: Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar | 56 min. |
Tamil with English subtitles
What does it mean to cross that line which sharply
divides us on the basis of gender? To free oneself of the socially constructed
onus of being male? Is there life beyond a hetero-normative family?
Set in Tamil Nadu, India, ‘Our Family’ brings together
excerpts from Nirvanam, a one person performance, by Pritham K. Chakravarthy
and a family of three generations of trans-gendered female subjects.
12.20 p.m. Interaction with Ranjani
Murthy, Researcher / Activist
12.45 p.m. Short films by Jeyachandra
Hashmi
To Let (2:40 min): To-Let is a short film on house
hunting which shows plight of people from different sorts of life, through
which a long standing discrimination is explained.
Kalavu (1:47
min): A boy
is accused by his friends for an act of theft. He denies it and asks the other
two boys to come with him to the ground to prove his innocence. Parallely, a
father brings his daughter to a photo studio. The two parallel stories connect
at one point revealing the shocking social scenario. The connection between them
forms the crux and climax of the film.
12.50 p.m. Interaction with Hashmi
2.00 p.m. Death of a River
Dir: RR Srinivasan | 60 min. | Tamil with English
subtitles
Death of a
River is a
documentary about the Manjolai massacre, which took place when Tamil Nadu
police attacked a procession of striking tea estate workers, their families and
supporters on July 23. The demonstrating workers were demanding that they be
paid the half-day wages illegally deducted from their pay packets since February
and the release of 652 fellow workers previously arrested by police.
Seventeen people, including two women and a
two-year-old boy, were killed and 500 injured during the police attack. The
documentary exposes the provocative nature of the police attack, which involved
the Rapid Action Force, a special police unit, and shows police throwing bricks
and stones at the demonstrators. It also includes footage of police firing tear
gas, rubber bullets and rifles at the terror-stricken and unarmed men, women
and children. The demonstrators were subjected to a baton-charge and forced
into the river; a waiting column of police beat those able to make their way to
the other side
of the river.
3.00 p.m. Interaction with RR
Srinivasan-Filmmaker and Yazhan Aathi-Poet 3.20 p.m. Kakkoos
Dir: Divya Bharathi | 108 min. | Tamil with English
subtitles
The documentary, shot in 25 districts for over a
year, conveys the message that even though manual scavenging was banned in
India in 2013 it continues to exist and conservancy workers are involved in
removing human waste. The film is dedicated to those who maintain a “false
silence on manual scavenging”.
5.10 p.m. Interaction with Divya
Bharathi-Filmmaker, Suseela Anand-Activist
5.30 p.m. The Unbearable Being of
Lightness
Dir: Ramachandra PN | 45 min.| English
A documentary film on a suicide note, a few gazes and
a shopping complex.
6.15 p.m. Interaction with Amshan
Kumar-Filmmaker
6.30 p.m. Closing Ceremony Special
lecture by Venkatesh Chakravarthy, Filmmaker/Teacher,
Dean - Media Studies, SRM University.
Felicitation by
Bava Chelladurai-Writer and Aloor Shanavas-Filmmaker/Activist
Celebrating Poramboke – Music, Films and Talk with
Nityanand Jayaraman, Activist/Researcher
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