IFA@Bhubaneshwar | Indian Documentary Film Festival of Bhubaneshwar - 2019 | September 27 – 29, 2019
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
presents
3 films
at
Indian Documentary Film Festival of Bhubaneshwar - 2019
September 27 - 29, 2019 | Guru Kelu Charan Mohapatra Odissi Research Centre
Plot No. 1/A, Jayadev Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751013
organised by Film Society of Bhubaneshwar
Join us for the screening of 3 IFA supported films at the Indian Documentary Film Festival of Bhubaneshwar - 2019, organised by Film Society of Bhubaneshwar at Guru Kelu Charan Mohapatra Odissi Research Centre from September 27 to 29, 2019.
Films supported by IFA
In Search of Aseemun
Friday, September 27, 2019 | 12:00 PM | Main Auditorium
Director: Taran Khan | 45 minutes | 2011 | Hindi, Urdu with English subtitles
The filmmaker and her grandfather are on a journey across Awadh, looking for traces of the world that shaped the music of Aseemun, a gifted but obscure folk singer who was part of both their lives. Using old photographs, home video and extensive music, the film travels, literally and otherwise, into a way of life that assimilated the best of Hindu and Muslim cultures.
Every Time You Tell a Story
Friday, September 27, 2019 | 02:00 PM | Main Auditorium
Director: Ruchika Negi, Amit Mahanti | 52 minutes | 2015 | Ao, Nagamese with English subtitles
This film offers an interpretation of history, a way of understanding the shifts that Tsungkotepsu shawl painting tradition has experienced when confronted with the certitudes of history-colonialism, new religion and assimilation in the Indian state. Through histories that have written themselves onto its fabric, how does the story continue to resonate today?
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Amit Mahanti
Songs of our Soil
Sunday, September 29, 2019 | 07:00 PM | Main Auditorium
Director: Aditi Maddali | 52 minutes | 2019 | Telugu with English subtitles
Uyyala songs are an agricultural tradition rooted in the political expression of women in Telangana. Through these oral traditions, Songs of our Soil traces the histories of their resistance and memories of disillusionment. By looking at women's participation in major political movements, from the Telangana People's Movement to the demands of justice from the contemporary Mallana Sagar Irrigation project, this film attempts to complicate the relationship between memory, history and cultural production.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Aditi Maddali
In Search of Aseemun and Every Time You Tell A Story are made possible with grants from India Foundation for the Arts, under the Arts Research and Documentation programme. Songs of Our Soil is made possible with a grant from India Foundation for the Arts, under the Arts Research programme, with support from Titan Company Ltd.
Click here for the full festival schedule.
Indian Documentary Film Festival of Bhubaneshwar - 2019 is free and open to all; click here to register.