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Aruna Vasudev – Mother of Asian Cinema

Aruna Vasudev, Founder of Netpac, Cinemaya & Cinefan Film festival has touched the lives of many in the world of Cinema. This documentary traces her roots from her humble origins in an undivided British India, to corridors of cinematic universe. It brings together her journey as a film critic, cinema activist and an impresario, weaving a tapestry that connects the dots that make the large canvas that we know as Asian Cinema Renaissance. This film explores her dynamism painted through a narrative unfolding lives of critics, filmmakers, curators and programmers – who are hidden maestros that largely make the cinephilia culture and by large remain unsung in histories of Cinema.

Aruna Vasudev – Mother of Asian Cinema

NR 2021
Happy Teacher's Day

Today when most students are equipped with technological devices, our teachers still continue to struggle and teach themselves, to unlearn the older ways of teaching, to learn to use technology they are completely unfamiliar with, and relearn their passion for teaching, even in the face of these difficulties, so that learning never stops. This short film is a tribute to celebrate their spirit to Learn Unlearn Relearn Here's to all the teachers who keep the world moving and growing everyday, who teach us to Keep Learning everyday.

Happy Teacher's Day

NR 2021
Against the Wind

Noor Alam invents himself as an Intersex person after the age of 25. He had experienced a myriad struggle until defining his identity. Noor was born as a girl with ambiguous genitalia and named Shubra. At the age of five Doctor found two hernia in both sides of her female organ, but after surgery doctor has ensured those are testicles. They declared Noor as a boy! Against the Wind is a biopic of Noor Alam, who is country first professed intersex person working for community development.

Against the Wind

NR 2021
Avwanchhit

Two world's collide, of a father and a son as they move towards the bigger priorities of their lives. Madhusudhan, the head of Nirupama old age home, strives every day to spread happiness and cheer in a place that houses a deep sense of loss and rejection. A home inhabited by frail and old abandoned people, who have nowhere else to go and call Nirupama their home. Tapan, Madhusudhan's only son grew up training himself to survive the world alone. He blames Madhusudhan for being a father in absentia and also for his mother's death. The story takes us through an emotional roller-coaster of a father and son relationship in the backdrop of Kolkata- a city jostling between fading tradition and modernity taking over.

Avwanchhit

NR 2021
Ladies Only

The local train is a sight to behold in the morning, overloaded with crowds fighting to get inside. A special compartment reserved for women appears as a temporary oasis – a haven for solitude and contemplation. Director Rebana Liz John questions the women, who reveal what it means to keep ambitions alive within an oppressive patriarchal system. Black and white imagery evocatively captures the details of the women’s experience in this world. They reflect on their lives, across generations, with humour, disappointment and defiance, forming a complex tapestry whose common ground is endurance and survival.

Ladies Only

NR 2021
Ghost Cut: Some Clear Pixels Amongst Many Black Boxes

This is a project where I attempt to understand the complexity of remote gig platform work from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and focuses on an intentionally hidden and opaque space of labour and platform politics. The research – which spanned over two years – asks questions about postcolonial techno-realities, to the invisibility of precarious labour, to infusing individual experiences into conversations around globalised interconnected algorithmic governance, and finding concrete situations where we can witness what this looks like.

Ghost Cut: Some Clear Pixels Amongst Many Black Boxes

NR 2021
Ekattor

A revolt which began in 1967 has its dominance in the land of West Bengal for a prolonged period. The revolt crossed the boundaries of Bengal and reached many states of India. Kolkata then Calcutta was one of the hotspot of this revolution or the Naxal Movement. The movement began in Naxalbari in North Bengal. The beginning of the movement has seen the revolt of farmers but around 1971 the Naxalites gained a strong presence among the radical sections of the student movement in Calcutta. Students left school to join the Naxalites. It was a fight against Class Enemies… EKATTOR is a film which tries features the situation of Kolkata in 1971.

Ekattor

NR 2021