Category: Jan 30 Screenings

The list of documentaries that will be screened on Day One – January 30, 2014.

Indian, Jan 30 Screenings, List of Documentaries

Wasted – by Anirban Datta – 52 mins

Wasted Directed by: Anirban Datta Produced by: PSBT and Films Division Documentary/52min/2012/India/Bengali with English subtitles The uniqueness of documentary filmmaking is the possibility of recording events unfolding along the perimeter of the subject. That’s where this film was born. With tears and with the loss of a very dear friend, Wasted was conceived. Ancient agrarian India believed nothing is waste. No Indian vernaculars have a … Continue reading Wasted – by Anirban Datta – 52 mins

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Foreign, Jan 30 Screenings, List of Documentaries

A Disappearance Foretold – by Olivier Meys and Zhang Yaxuan – 85 mins

Olivier Meys and Zhang Yaxuan Documentary/85mins/2008/China/Mandarin with English subtitles A film about a popular neighbourhood in Beijing, and what happened there in relation to the 2008 Olympic Games. Qianmen is a popular neighbourhood in the very heart of Beijing, just south of the Tiananmen Square. In the perspective of the 2008 Olympic Games, the city decided that the six hundred years old neighbourhood has to … Continue reading A Disappearance Foretold – by Olivier Meys and Zhang Yaxuan – 85 mins

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Indian, Jan 30 Screenings, List of Documentaries

THE BURNING SUN – by SNS Sastry – 21 mins

  THE BURNING SUN English and Hindi, 21 min, B/W, 1973  Directed by SNS Sastry Produced by Films Division  The Burning Sun is a scathing critique of the slum clearance and rehabilitation projects in Mumbai in the early 1970s. The film pits the top-down approach of state housing and sanitation programmes in the city against the voice of the angry resident. The candid interviews of … Continue reading THE BURNING SUN – by SNS Sastry – 21 mins

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BQFF, Jan 30 Screenings, List of Documentaries

MORE THAN A FRIEND – by Debalina Majumder – 35 mins

2010 | India | 35 mins | Bengali DebalinaMajumder | mdebalina@yahoo.co.uk Screening on 30th January 2014 ( Download Schedule PDF) The film explores the lives and outlooks of four characters in the context of a growing awareness about same-sex relationships in India. The film is interspersed with sometimes-humorous interviews of people belonging to various sections of society, who express their views on many related concerns and share their experience of humiliation, anxiety and joy. (Part … Continue reading MORE THAN A FRIEND – by Debalina Majumder – 35 mins

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Foreign, Jan 30 Screenings, List of Documentaries

Cemetery State – by Filip de Boeck – 72 mins

Cemetery State Filip de Boeck Documentary/72min/2010/Belgium and Congo/English and Lingala with English subtitles In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, children and youngsters have taken over the management of death. The dead have become their ‘toy’, and the coffin has become like a football that one tosses up and plays around with. ‘Cemetery State’ observes how these young gravediggers, singers and drummers … Continue reading Cemetery State – by Filip de Boeck – 72 mins

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