Tuesday, December 5, 2017

19th Madurai Film Festival : Screening Schedule


19th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2017


6-10 December; Screening Schedule

Day 1: 6 December at Arul Aanandhar College, Karumathur

10 am: Inauguration

Chief Guest: Amrit Gangar, film critic / curator / historian (Mumbai)

10:30 18 Feet (Dir: Renjit Kuzhur; 77 min; Malayalam with English subtitles; Documentary; Indian Films)

11:50 Interaction

12:00 Printed Rainbow (Dir: Gitanjali Rao; 15 min; Animation; India; Filmmaker in Focus)

12:15 Interaction

12:30 Flesym (Dir: Behrouz Roustaei; 19 min; Parsi with Eng subtitles; Short fiction; Iran)

12:50 Interaction

1:00 Lunch break

2:00 Alpavirama – Students films from Asia: Curated by Arun Gupta, NID (Ahmedabad)

2:40 Interaction

2:50 Green (Dir: Patrick Rouxel; 48 min; Documentary; Retrospective)

3:40 Interaction

Day 01:6 December at LENS Media Centre

4:00 Mod (Dir: Pushpa Rawat; 69 min; India; Documentary; Documentary; India)

5:10 Interaction

5:25 Bird Trapper or Beggar

Dir: Vinod Raja; 79 min; Kannada, Waghri Bohli with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India

6:45 Interaction with Vinod Raja, filmmaker

7:00 I am Bonnie

Dir: Farha Katun, Satarupa Santra, Saurabh Kanti Dutta; 45 min; Bengali with English subtitles; Documentary; India

7:45 Interaction

Day 01, 6 Dec at Kaleidoscope

5 pm Inauguration

5:30 Filmmaker in Focus – Gitanjali Rao

PRINTED RAINBOW (Animation/English/35mm/15min/color/2006/India; Directed, Animated, Produced by Gitanjali Rao)

ORANGE (Animation/English/4min/color/2002; Directed, Animated, Produced by Gitanjali Rao)

BLUE (Animation/01 min/color; Director : Gitanjali Rao)
6:00 Interaction

6:15 Belonging to Untouchable God (Dir: Anuj Kumar; 26 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India)

6:45 Interaction

3 Years 3 Months & 2 Days (Dir : Saeid Valizadeh and Davood Rahmani; 25 min; Parsi with Eng subtitles; Short fiction; Iran)

7:30 Interaction

Day 02; 7 December at Department of Tamil, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram

Session 01

CINEMA OF PRAYOGA: THE RIGOUR OF AUSTERITY – Special package by Amrit Gangar, curator / critic / film historian

9:30 am Introduction by Amrit Gangar

10 am: CINEMA OF PRAYOGA (Dir: Amrit Gangar; 40 mins)

KRAMASHA (TO BE CONTINUED…) Dir.: Amit Dutta; 2007, 22 mins


11 am Tea beak

11:15 RATI CHAKRAVYUH (Dir: Ashish Avikunthak; 2013, 105 mins)

1:15 Lunch break

Session 02

2:00 pm Missing Reels of Tamil Cinema (Dir: Sugeeth Krishnamoorthy; 100 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India)

3:40 Interaction with Sugeeth Krishnamoorthy, filmmaker

Day 2; 7th December 2017 at Advocates Association, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court

5:30 pm Women of Freedom (Dir: Abeer Zeibad Haddad; 57 min; Arabic with Eng subtitles; Documentary; Palestine, Israel)

6:30 Interaction

6:45 PRINTED RAINBOW (Animation/English/35mm/15min/color/2006/India; Directed, Animated, Produced by Gitanjali Rao)

7:00 Interaction

7:15 Survey Number Zero (Dir: Priya Thuvassery; 31 min; Gujarati with Eng subtitles;

Day 02; 7 Dec 2017 at LENS Media Centre

4:00 Silence in the Courts (Dir: Prasanna Vithanage; 57 min; Documentary; Sri Lanka)

5:00 Interaction

5:15 Delicate Weave (Dir: Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar; 62 min; Kutchi and Hindi with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India)

6:15 Interaction

6:30 Echoes of the Past

7:25 Interaction

7 Dec; Kaleidoscope

5:00 pm Special Service (Dir: Ujjwal Utkarsh; 18:30 min; English, Hindi, Telugu; Documentary; India)

5:20 Interaction

5:30 A Walnut Tree (Dir: Ammar Azis; 92 min; Documentary; Pakistan)

7:00 pm Interaction

Day 03; 8 Dec 2017 at Department of Communication, Madurai Kamaraj University, Palkalai Nagar

Session 01: 10 am to 1 pm

Retrospective 01 – Sameera Jain, filmmaker / editor / teacher

10 am Introduction

10:15 Portraits of Belonging (2 films)

Portraits of Belonging : Bhai Mian

Dir : Sameera Jain ; 30 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 1998

Portraits of Belonging: Sagira Begum

Dir: Sameera Jain; 30 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 1998

11:15: Interaction with Sameera Jain, filmmaker

11:45 Mera Apna Sheher/ My Own City
Dir: Sameera Jain; 56min; 2011
12:45 Interaction
1:00 Lunch break

Session 02: 2:00 to 4:30 pm

Alpavirama – Students films from Asia, curated by Arun Gupta, NID (Ahmedabad)

Bilori Dir: Abhivyakthi Patil; 21 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; Short fiction

Pottu Dir: Aji Antony Anukal; 6 min; No dialogue; Fiction

Sagar Manav Dir: Tanumoy Bose; 21 min; Gujarati, Hindi with Eng subtitles; Documentary

Sarus Dir: Kodapa Govindaraju; 20 min; Marathi; Fiction

Unusual Summer Dir: Jason Zheng; 29 min; Chinese; Documentary

A Political Life Dir: Soe Akar Htun; 20 min; Burmese; Documentary

3:50 Interaction

Day 3: 8 Dec 2017 at LENS Media Centre

4:00 A Foreigner in My Own Land (Dir: Nishajyoti Sharma; 65 min; Nepali with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India)

5:05 Interaction

5:15 pm: Up, Down and Sideways (Dir: Anushka Meenakshi & Iswar Srikumar; 83 min; Chokri with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India)

6:40 Interaction with the filmmakers

7:00 Small People, Big Trees (Dir: VadimVitostev; 45 min; Baka with Eng subtitles; Documentary; Russia)

7:45 Interaction

Day 3, 8 Dec at Kaleidoscope

5:00 pm Patrick Rouxel Retrospective

Tears of Wood (Dir: Patrick Rouxel; 26 min; 2004)

5:30 Interaction

5:45 Sameera Jain Retrospective

A Season Outside (Dir: Amar Kanwar; 32 min; 1997; Edited by Sameera Jain)

6:15 Interaction with Sameera Jain

6:30 Camera Threat (Dir: Bernd Lützeler; 30 min; Hindi and English; Short film; Germany and India)

7:00 The Simple Day (Dir: Maria Khristoforova; 21 min; Hindi and English; Documentary; Russia and India)

7:25 Interaction

Day 4: 9 Dec 2017 at Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy

11 am to 4 pm

Master Class by Sameera Jain, filmmaker / editor / teacher

Day 4: 9 Dec 2017 at IDEAS Centre

11:15 Interaction

11:30 Our Gauri (Dir: Deepu; 67 min; English (subtitles); 2017)

12:40 Interaction

1:00 Lunch break

2:00 Kakkoos

Dir: Divya Bharathi; 108 min; Tamil with English subtitles; Documentary; India

3:50 pm Interaction with Divya Bharathi

Day 04 at LENS Media Centre

4:00 pm This is like Gold Only (Dir: Ujjwal Utkarsh; 78 min; Maithili/English/Hindi; Documentary; India)

5:20 Interaction

5:35 Nicobar, a long way (Dir: Richa Hushing; 65 min; Nicobarese, Hindi and English; Documentary; India)

6:40 Interaction

7:00 Patrick Rouxel Retrospective

The Cathedral Forest (Dir: Patrick Rouxel; 45 min; 2007)

Day 4, 9 Dec at Kaleidoscope

5 pm Bismaar Ghar (Dir: Shreyas Dasharathe; 26 min; Gujarati; Documentary; India)

5:30 Interaction

5:45 Highway Rest Stop (Dir: Isabelle Ingold; 80 min; Chinese, English, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish; Documentary; France)

7:05 Interaction

7:15 Angles are Dead (Dir: Sahar Khoshcheshman; 14 min; Persian with Eng subtitles; Short fiction; Iran)

7:30 Interaction

Day 5; 10 December at Tamilnadu Theological Seminary, Arasaradi

9:30 am Miryavar Kahi Mahine (Many Months in Mirya)

Dir: Renu Sawant; 3 hours 50 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India

1:30 Lunch break

2:00 pm A Quiet Little Entry (Sameera Jain Retro)

Dir: Uma Chakravarthi; 44 min; 2010; Edited by Sameera Jain

2:45 Interaction with Sameera Jain, editor

3:00 pm A Night of Prophecy (Sameera Jain Retro)

Dir: Amar Kanwar; 77 min; multiple Indian languages; 2002; Edited by Sameera Jain

4:20 Interaction with Sameera Jain, editor

Day 05, 10 Dec 2017 at LENS Media Centre

4:00 Saints of Sin

Dir: Aniruddha Sen; 80 min; English; Documentary; India

5:20 Interaction

5:30pm Patrick Rouxel Retrospective

Life is One (Dir: Patrick Rouxel; 56 min; 2016)

6:30 Closing Ceremony

Day 5, 10 Dec at Kaleidscope

5:00 pm Kid (Dir:Aarish Krishnan; 2 min; No dialogue; Short fiction; India)

5:05 Mahaantham (Dir: Sridhar Sudhir; 28 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; Short fiction; India

5:30 pm Like Dust We Rise (Dir: Abhimanyu Kumar, Arya A.T., Garima Kaul and Prerna Gupta ; 23 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India)

6:00 pm Interaction

6:15 Apoptosis (Dir : Tomas Gorkic; 18 min; Slovenian with Eng subtitles; Short fiction; Slovenia

6:20 Bystander 9Dir: Sheyda Kashi; 8:23 min; No dialogue; Animation; Iran)

6:30 Cartas Ciegas (Dir: Angel Jaquem; 14:45; Spanish with Eng subtitles; Short fiction; Spain

6:45 The Impasse (Dir: Alina Mikhailova; 17 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Short fiction; Russia

7:00 Intervalo (Dir: Eduardo Maia; Mariana Vilhena; Pedro Gomes; Tiago Sá; 2:30 min; No dialogue; Animation; Portugal)

7:05 Video Volunteers

7:30 Interaction

For detailed schedule:

www.maduraifilmfest.blogspot.in