Film Series on Migration @ Goethe-Institut, Chennai

FILM SERIES ON MIGRATION

in cooperation with Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation

Thu, 21.09.2017 - Fri, 22.09.2017

7:00 PM

GOETHE-INSTITUT/MAX MUELLER BHAVAN

CHENNAI

No. 4, 5th Street, Rutland Gate

600 006 Chennai

Migration is a hard hitting physical and mental displacement, where one is forced to leave one’s own country, childhood memories, family, friends, language and culture in a state of extreme pain. To be able to understand more closely this feeling of nostalgia and longing for home, we have put together few films that helps us empathize these traumatic experiences.  In Wolfskinder, set in an East Prussian village under Russian occupation in the year 1947, two brothers lose their mother and they have to make their way alone through to Lithuania, an odyssey where they have to fight against hunger, adverse weather and illness.

Film Fest @ Goethe-Institut, Chennai

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.

Come, be a part of this Literary Mela of Sorts...

It’s time for The Hindu Lit For Life..!

Get ready for three days of conversations,

debates and intellectual stimulation.

 Come, listen to all your favourite speakers,

share stories and ideas.

Mark your calendar and join us!

 Dates: January 15, 16 & 17, 2016

Click from Last year's Lit for Life

Venue

Sir Mutha Venkatasubbarao Concert Hall,

Lady Andal School, Harrington Road,

Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Find the full schedule of events HERE

for snippety nuggets from last year's Lit for Life 

in our blog, click HERE

the famous five

COLOURS OF MUSIC ACROSS DECADES

On Saturday, 09 January 2016 at 06:30 pm

@ Lady Andal Auditorium, Chennai, India

Chillunu Oru Concert, a musical night by the famous five - Rahul Nambiar, Shakthishree Gopalan, Anitha Karthikeyan, Ranjith, Aalaap Raju and Band will help the audience musically time travel to the '40s and back. Landmark songs that mark different eras will be rendered to perfection. An aesthetic stage with colors to depict the mood change will add visual appeal to the musical treat.

Part of the proceeds from this evening will go to Sugun Thomas Foundation, located in Chennai.