List of Films

The following is the list of films that were shown at Film South Asia ’03 held in Kathmandu from 25 to 28 September, 2003

Aabar Ashibo Phire
(Way Back Home) (120 min)
Calcutta, India, 2002, dir- Supriyo Sen
Reliving the Partition in the east

Aap Hamare Hai Kaun (7 min)
India, 2002, dir-Madhusree Dutta
Whatever happened to Gandhi’s legacy?

Aftershocks: A Rough Guide to
Democracy (64 min)
Gujarat, India, 2002, dir-Rakesh Sharma
An instance of corporate governance

Bheda Ko Oon Jasto – In Search
of a Song ... (55 min)
Nepal, 2003, dir - Kiran Krishna Shrestha
Following a tune to the mountains
Winner of the Special Mention award at FSA ‘03

Buru Sengal (The Fire Within) (57 min)
Jharkhand/India, 2002, dir-Shriprakash
Extracting coal, but at what cost?
Winner of the Grand Jury Award at FSA ‘03

Diverted to Delhi (55 min)
Delhi, India, 2002, dir-Greg Stitt
International call centres thrive in India

The 18th Elephant – 3 Monologues (62 min)
Kerala/India, 2003, dir-P. Balan
Elephants speak up against human atrocities
Winner of Ram Bahadur Trophy for the Best Film at FSA ‘03

Ethrayum Yatha Bhagam (The Journey So Far) (45 min)
Kerala, India, 2003, dir-C V Sathyan
Life and times of a Malayalam poet

Godhra Tak: The Terror Trail (60 min)
Gujarat, India, 2003, dir-Shubradeep Chakravorty
Reconstruction of the train incident

Hunting Down Water (32 min)
India, 2003, dir-Sanjaya Barnela and Vashant Saberwal
The shortage and surplus of water

In Search Of Zhang Zhung (60 min)
Nepal and Tibet, 2003, dir-Alex Gabbay
A journey to the cradle Bon

Itihass Jitneharru Ko Laagi (History
for Winners) (55 min)
Nepal, 2003, dir-Pranay Limbu
A singer refuses to fight

Jab’r Ki Shadi-Vilayat Mein (Forced Marriage-Abroad) (12 min)
Pakistan, 2003, dir – Beena Sarwar
Pakistani girls forced into marriage

Kathmandu Odyssey (35 min )
Nepal, 2003, dir-Shekhar Kharel
A poet recalls Kathmandu of the hippies

A Kind of Childhood (50 min)
Bangladesh, 2002, dir-Tareque and
Catherine Masud
Young Idris on the streets of Dhaka

Looking for Kannan (23 min)
Sri Lanka, 2002, dir-Yasir Khan
An uneasy peace prevails

Made in India (39 min)
India, 2002, dir-Madhusree Dutta
Visual culture in contemporary India

Majma (Performance) (54 min)
Delhi, India, 2001, dir-Rahul Roy
Wrestling and sex on Delhi streets

Manjuben Truckdriver
(Miss Manju Truckdriver) (52 min)
Gujarat, India, 2002, dir-Sherna Dastur
Dreams and aspirations of a lady at work

Mat (The Vote) (60 min)
Uttar Pradesh, India, 2003,
dir-Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Democracy in action in UP

The Men in the Tree (98 min)
India, 2002, dir-Lalit Vachani
Fundamentalism revisited
Naata (The Bond) (45 min)
Bombay India, 2003, dir-K P Jayasankar
and A Monteiro
Crisis of identity in modern India

A Night of Prophecy (77 min)
India, 2002, dir-Amar Kanwar
Poets in times and places of conflict

No. 556. 13th Lane,
Kamathipura, Mumbai (17 min)
Bombay, India, 2002, dir-Sushmita Basnet
Raid on a Bombay brothel

Papa 2 (24 min)
Kashmir, India, 2002, dir-Gopal Menon
Trail of sorrow the Valley

Qabool Kuran Dhathi
Hageegaiy (Unbelievable Realities) (25 min)
Maldives, 2002, dir- Ahmed Nazmi
Island rises against domestic violence

The Race (16 min)
Maharastra, India, 2003, dir-Raghav Dar
Urbanisation of culture in rural India

Resilient Rhythms (64 min)
India, 2002, dir- Gopal Menon
Dalits and the odds

Restless Shores (20 min)
Tamil Nadu, India, 2003, dir- Noel Rajesh
Tamil fisherfolk compete with big trawlers

Sand and Water (105 min)
Bangladesh, 2002, dir - Shaheen Dill-Riaz
Life along the Jamuna
Winner of the Third best film award at FSA ‘03

Searching For Saraswati (62 min)
Uttar Pradesh, India, 2003, dir-Sudheer Gupta
Folklore of the Kumbha mela

Shei Rater Kotha Bolte Eshechi
(Tale of the Darkest Night) (43 min)
Bangladesh, 2001, dir - Kawsar Chowdhury
Pakistani army begins attack on East Pakistan
Winner of the Second best film award at FSA ‘03

Sita’s Family (60 min)
Delhi, India, 2003, dir-Saba Dewan
A Delhi journalist looks back on her life

The Story Tellers (46 min)
Delhi, India, 2003, dir-Gargi Sen
Translating literature from the vernacular

Swara – A Bridge over
Troubled Water (40 min)
Pakistan, 2003, dir- Samar Minallah
‘Girl sacrifice’ in tribal Pakistan

Tell Them the Tree They Have Planted
Has Now Grown (58 min)
Kashmir, India, 2002, dir- Ajay Raina
A Kashmiri Brahmin returns ‘home’

Terror’s Children (45 min)
Pakistan/Afghanistan, 2003,
dir-Sharmeen Obaid
Afghani children eke out a living in Karachi

Ujan Beye (Across The Tide) (58 min)
Calcutta, India, 2002, dir-Nirmalya Bondopadhyay
Revisiting Naxalite sites

The Unconscious (19 min)
Maharastra, India, 2003,
dir-Manisha Dwivedi
The different kind of sexual identity

Vikas Bandook Ki Naal Se
(Development Flows from the Barrel of the Gun)
(54 min)
India, 2003, dir-Biju Toppo and Meghnath
For the sake of a larger good

War and Peace/Jang Aur Aman (138 min)
India/Paksitan, 2002, dir-Anand Patwardhan
The repercussions going nuclear

Where Do I Go from Here (45 min)
India, 2002, dir-Yasmine Kidwai
The elderly look at their cheerless lives

Words on Water (85 min)
India, 2002 dir- Sanjaya Kak
An update on the Narmada movement