IFA@Bangalore | Film Screenings at Urban Lens Film Festival, IIHS Bangalore | February 16-19, 2023
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with IIHS, Bangalore invites you to the screening of the IFA-supported films Lorni—The Flaneur by Wanphrang K Diengdoh and Iqraar-naama by Priyanka Chhabra at the Urban Lens Film Festival, Bangalore organised by Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) from February 16-19, 2023.
Lorni—The Flaneur
by Wanphrang K Diengdoh
Duration: 107 minutes | Language: Khasi, Hindi, English
Friday, February 17, 2023 | 11:15 AM onwards | IIHS Bangalore City Campus
Wanphrang will be in conversation with Arundhati Ghosh from IFA.
Shem, an out of work, self-styled detective with a sharp sense of the streets escapes the lethargy of his town when asked to investigate the disappearance of an object of great cultural value. Navigating narrow streets and dark alleys, he embarks on an emotional journey reflective of his reality and of Shillong. Like the quintessential flaneur, he manoeuvres the real and the imaginable to further complicate the personal, the political and the emotional.
Wanphrang K Diengdoh is an independent filmmaker and the founder of Reddur, a production space for films and music. His films and media installations have won recognition both in India and abroad. Some of his previous works include 19/87, Where the Clouds End and Because We Did not Choose. Lorni—The Flaneur is his first feature-length fiction film.
Wanphrang received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the Arts Practice programme.
Iqraar-naama
by Priyanka Chhabra
Duration: 55 minutes | Language: Hindi
Saturday, February 18, 2023 | 03:45 PM onwards | IIHS Bangalore City Campus
Priyanka will be in conversation with filmmaker Samreen Farooqui.
In the grand narrative of the Partition of Punjab in 1947, Iqraar-naama is a film about the ‘refugee’, ‘migrant’, ‘displaced person’ as the protagonist of his own story. Told through a collection of documents from the personal archive of Charandas Bangia, a Partition refugee from Lyallpur, Pakistan who finally settled in Amritsar, India, the film decenters historical narratives from the state to the citizen, from state archives to personal archive, and looks at history from the perspective of those who experience it.
Priyanka Chhabra works as a film director and editor, exploring themes of memory, landscape and relationships of people to places. She has worked as co-director on Ye Lo Bayan Humare and A Migrant Walk. Her other works include Pichla Varka and A Summer Flu.
Priyanka received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the Arts Practice programme, made possible with support from Illana Cariappa and Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company.
Location: IIHS Bangalore City Campus, No. 197/36, 2nd Main Road, Sadashivanagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560080The festival is free and open to all. Click here to know more about the festival and register.