Thursday, March 29, 2007

Cinemela Collectives
&
JNU Students Union
School of Arts & Aesthetics

in collaboration with

Max Mueller Bhavan

invite you to

2nd CINEMELA
a festival of short films & documentaries
by young filmmakers

Dates:
Thursday, 12 April, 2007 at 5.00 pm
Friday, 13 April 2007 at 2.30 pm onwards
&
Saturday 14 - Sunday 15 April 2007 at 10.30 am onwards

Venue:
School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi


The first Cinemela festival in 2006 received an overwhelming response from viewers and filmmakers and was recognized by the Limca Book of Records. The festival aims at presenting films created by young filmmakers to young audiences and is an effort to create a space for new creative voices from across countries. Cinemela believes that the works deserve attention for their ability to go beyond local issues and provincial tastes while simultaneously opening up a window into diverse cultures. The festival aspires to provide an ideal opportunity to enjoy regional distinctiveness through films in their universal appeal. It also provides a platform for interactions and exchange among veteran film persons, young filmmakers and audiences. With this aim in view Cinemela is working on taking these films to many more schools, colleges and institutions. All young filmmakers and those who consider themselves young in the field are encouraged to send in their films to the festival.

Max Mueller Bhavan, Goethe-Institut, as part of the 2nd Cinemela, presents a series of prize winning short films by young film makers, titled ‘Gestures of Reconciliation’. This series is the result of a short film competition jointly organized by the "Remembrance and Future" Fund and the Goethe-Institut in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine and the United States. The films portray gestures of reconciliation between nations and people affected by WWII, made at political levels, social and religious initiatives, in the realms of academia and the arts, and between individuals.



Schedule

Thursday 12 April –
Inauguration 5.30 pm


GADI LOHARDAGA MAIL
Dir: Meghnath & Bijju Toppo/ 27 Min / Jharkhand
A musical with popular Jharkhandi songs…the only visual documentation of the historical train….


BERLIN DIARY
Dir: Ester Amrami / 2005 / DV colour/ 15 min / Germany & Israel

This short semi-documentary film portrays the life of a young Israeli woman in Berlin. It takes the form of
a video letter to her grandparents in Israel who had to emigrate from Germany during the 1930s.
Ester Amrami, born in Israel in 1979, has lived in Berlin since 2003.


Friday 13 April 2.30-6.00pm

BILORI
Dir: Sandeip Modi /12.30 min/ Marathi
An innocent child grows up one night…

SARA LOHA UNKA/ BABU NANDAN KI KEWAL DHAR
Dir : Sunil Umarao & Ajita Singh/ 40 Min/ Hindi/Bhojpuri
A Dhobia folk artist expressing his world through singing and dancing…

2800 KM FROM HOME
Dir: Daniel Erb/ 2005/HDV/ 19min/ GERMANY/RUSSIA
Somewhere in the Russian tundra Hans from Thuringia is driving along in his jeep. Then, after several hours he stops and begins to dig ...
Daniel Erb was born in Karlsruhe,Germany, in 1976. Specializations: time-Iapse photography, long-term
exposure, in-camera effects.

DEUS EX MACHINA
Dir: Moonika Siimets/ 2005/ 6mm/ 11:48 Min/ Estonia

Former KGB spy Wilhelm tries to find his place in a newborn Estonian Republic, but it seems that his past
has not forgotten him. One day strange things start to happen. A story about fate and conscience.
Moonika Siimets was born in Estonia in 1980 and is a final year student at the Film and Video Department
of the University of Tallinn.

FREQUENCIES
Dir: Priit Pääsuke/ 2005/DV/16:22 min/ Estonia

Oliver, a yuppie, lives with his disabled grandfather. The old man's reality is constantly encroached upon by his past and Word War II. He also smells and talks to his radio and Oliver is embarrassed by him. When he starts an argument with his girlfriend Liina, tragic events ensue
Priit Pääsuke was born in 1975 in Tallinn, Estonia. He is a film student at Tallinn University.

CALL OF THE HEART
Dir: ]aanis Valk/2005/ Betacam SP/ 9:35 min/ Estonia

It has been decades since the occupation of the Estonian Republic by the Soviet Union. The country is free again but nevertheless, many Estonians are still not capable of forgiving those whose only guilt was to believe in the wrong ideology.
]aanis Valk was born in 1979 in southern Estonia. He has directed two start fiction films and a feature length documentary film as his diploma film. He has appeared in several Estonian fiction films as an actor and has worked as assistant director on the production of a feature film.

RANDOM VOICES FROM KASHMIR
Dir. Dr Parvez Imam / 11 min / Hindi
…the people still speak of love, peace, brotherhood, fond memories.. will they remain unheard for ever?

ANANT KALAKAR
Dir: Sudheer Gupta/ 34 min / Hindi/ Rajasthani
A saga of the folk artists from Rajasthan…


Saturday 14 April 10.15am-6.00pm

POORVAGRAH
Dir: Surender Kumar/ 20 min/ Hindi
A film portraying discrimination on the basis of caste…

LANDMARKS - A JOURNEY IN JERUSALEM
Dir: Carmit Shlomi/ 2005/ DV/ 8:23min
A very personal tour of Jerusalem portraying the city as an abandoned zone.
Carmit Shlomi was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1975 and graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and
Design in Jerusalem in 2005.

WITHOUT A WORD
Dir: Alex Kreindlln /2005/ DV/ 10:30 min/ Israel
A black and white silent comedy that makes everything just confusing enough to make the situation perfectly clear.
Alex Kreindin was born in Russia in 1981.

DIM
Dir: Anil Sadarangani /3.30min/ English
Two women from a minority community discuss the housing problem in Mumbai…


IN INDIA
Dir: V V Maheshwar Rao – 6 Min – English
A young foreigner studying in India talks about his experiences…

AGAURAV
Dir: Nakul Sawhney/ 13 Min/ Hindi
A young villager faces the city….

JALLAH EUROPE
Dir: Edit Sieradzky/ 2005/ DV/ 21:00 min/ Israel
Jean travels to Israel for a series of meetings concerning Israel's EU affiliation. As he arrives with his
wife Marie, he finds out that the meetings were cancelled due to a terrorist attack in Israel. Instead they let Hezi, an Israeli taxi driver, take them on a journey full of discoveries about themselves.
Edit Sieradzky was born in Israel in 1976. She lives in Tel Aviv.

2
Dir: Tal Kfir/ 2005/ DV/ 14:00 min/ Israel
The story of Tal and Shirin These two young women take part in a self help group called "Bereaved Families
Supporting Peace, Reconciliation and Tolerance". Shirin has lost a brother and Tal a sister in the long Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The film shows the power of words and deeds that arise from silence and almost paralyzing pain. Tal Kfir war born in Ashkelon, Israel, in 1977.

BREAKING THE WALL OF IGNORANCE
Dir: Ashish Bhatiya/ 6.34 min/ Hindi/
About children and young people suffering from Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Hearing Impairment, Mental Illnesses…

HUMAN STORY
Dir: Mukesh Kabir Kapoor/ 5 Min/ English
How one human can torture the other without any hesitation or remorse…

CELL DIVISION
Dir: Liene Milgrave/ 2005/ mini DV/ 15:00 min/ Latria
A Russian prison in the 1980s. An old German prisoner meets a young Russian criminal. The film
deals with the problematic situation when an ideology is confronted with reality and the past has to be
re-evaluated.
Liene Milgrave was born in 1984 in Riga, Latvia.

WAR GAMEZ
Dir: Rafal Samusik/ 2005/ mini DV/ 15:00 min/ Poland
The small personal war of a little boy spending his summer vacation at his grandfather's house in the
country. A perverse symbiosis takes shape between the child, who is fascinated by the German army and the old Polish war veteran. Is it even possible in peacetime to comprehend the reality of war? Is it not true that the war is still going on?
Rafal Samusik was born in 1978. He holds a degree in Architecture and is currently studying Film Directing
(second year) at the Silesian University, Faculty of Radio and Television.

THE QUEST
Dir: Khanjan Kishore Nath/ 12.54 Min/ Assamese
A rotten gourd, hardly sprouted, spotted in the backyard of the house of a poor childless couple….

LIVING UNDER BONDAGE
Dir: Venkat/Veeramani/ 21 Min/ Hindi/English
The workers in a prestigious institute like JNU…


Sunday 15 April 10.15am-6.00pm


LOHA GARAM HAI
Dir: Meghnath & Bijju Toppo/ 47 Min/ Hindi
They live along with an Iron Sponge factory.. Do they live at all?

GESTURES. RECONCILlATION ...
Dir: Tschingiz F. Rasulzade / 2005/ Betacam SP/ 9:40 min/ Russia
Alexander Nikolayevich is very old The war rolled through his life like a steamroller. He does not remember the war or the suffering He remembers something else the gestures, the movements of hands his hands He has long since forgiven everyone. He is willing to take the hand of the former enemy But he cannot…
Tschingiz F. Rasulzade was born in 1972 in Baku, Azerbaijan, into a family of engineers.

THE BIRTHDAY
Dir: Georgij Bagdasarov/ 2005/mini DV/14:59 min/ Russia
On his last birthday, Adolf Hitler decides he doesn't want to die after all and orders his adjutant to kidnap
Charlie Chaplin, kill him and place his corpse in the Führer's bunker. That war, he was able to take Chaplin's place and finally fulfil his dream of becoming an artist.
Born in 1978 in Kzil-Orda, Kazachstan.

SANGATI
Dir: Vikram V Labhe/ 3.30 Min
She runs through the narrow lanes of the slum… she has to reach school on time…


BETWEEN THE LINES
Dir: Dr Parvez Imam/11 Min/ Hindi
These lives are disowned by the both sides of the borders… we call them ‘Bangladeshis’…

CLAY PIGEON
Dir: Milos Tomic/ 2005/ mini DV/ 6:45 min/ Czech Republic
A couple's romance and love games come to an abrupt end when the man is drafted into the army. A long farewell, a sad farewell, which, still remains a game
Milos Tomic has shot numerous short documentaries as well as experimental,futuristic and avant-garde works and is active as a passionate and patient collector/observer.

PREJUDICE EXCHANGE
Dir: Ivo Bystrican, Katerina Kacerovska, Radovan Sibrt / 2005/ DV/ 15:00 min/ Czech Republic
Czech and German historians come to a museum to design an exhibition on Czech-German relations However, an embarrassing quarrel ends the endeavor. A pseudo-documentary film about Czechs and Germans, about antagonistic versions of their history, about prejudices stereotypes and the microcosms of coexistence.

OLD AGE
Dir: Chetan Kumar/1 Min
They are not a burden…

STOP CHILD LABOUR
Dir: Chetan Kumar/ 1 Min
Nurture these little petals…


UNDECIDED
Dir: Nakul Sawhney /17 Min/ Hindi
A young journalist finds himself confronting a plethora of choices and questions…


YESTERDAY
Dir: Sunali Aggarwal/ 9.50 Min/ English
We see what we want to see and hence get disappointed when reality reveals something we never imagined…..

THE GERMAN LESSON
Dir: Igor Strembltskyy/ 2005/ mini DV/ 11:00 min/ Ukraine
In autumn 1942 Kalyna Bourkun was taken to Germany for forced labour. In 1945 she gave birth to her daughter Hanna in Berlin. For more than 38 years, Hanna Bourkun has been teaching German in a Ukrainian vIllage school.
Igor Strembitsky was born in 1973 in the village of Paryshche, Nadvirna district, Ivano.Frankivsk region, Ukraine.

UTA
Dir: Kim Spurlock/ 2005/ mini DV/ 13:00 min/ USA
An elderly German woman faces her troubled past in order to prevent a young boy from repeating her mistakes.
Kim Spurlock was born in 1969 in Oregon, USA. She traces her roots to Vietnam and Appalachia.

FINAL LAP
Dir: J. J. Adler/ 2005/ mini DV/ 12:15 min/ USA
Tom, 15, spends his days committing petty crimes with friend Lindsay. At night he smokes alone on the roof, watching a mysterious car roar around the block. On one night, when Lindsay joins Tom on the roof, the mysterious car stops in front of the hause and reveals a painful reality in Tom's life.
J. J. Adler was born in New York,USA, in 1981.

NEMESIS OF MOTHERHOOD
Dir: Snehasis Das/ 28 Min/ Orriya
Women of Karijhola unknowingly essay the nation’s highest maternal mortality rate… also the world’s highest…..

AAP JAISA KOI NAHIN
Dir: Samina Aslam (Pakistan)/ 20 Min/ English
A tribute to Nazia Hasan, a very popular singer in the Indian sub-continent who died young….


NEW DELHI PRIVATE LIMITED
Dir: Ravinder S Randhawa/ 20 Min/ Hindi/English
Delhi is being transformed… but at what cost….


ALSO in the festival –

john xaviers (painting series titled 'organism in the city-state')

tridib bera ( sculptures ' in three dimensions)

rajiv kshetri 'henzoo' ( paintings)

IPTA songs

swara bhaskar ( Indian Classical Dance Perfomance ' Nataraj')






For more information contact :


Prakash K Ray, Convenor. 9811450214
cinemela@gmail.com
cinemela.blogspot.com

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Films to be screend (from entries)


HUMAN STORY – MUKESH KABIR KAPOOR – 5 MIN – ENGLISH
How one human can torture the other without any hesitation or remorse...

SARA LOHA UNKA/ BABU NANDAN KI KEWAL DHAR- SUNIL UMARAO & AJITA SINGH- 40 MIN – HINDI/BHOJPURI
An old Dhobia folk artist from Poorvanchal sings and dance…

DIM- ANIL SADARANGANI – 3.30 MIN- ENGLISH
Two women from a minority community discuss the difficulties of finding rented accommodation in Mumbai...

THE QUEST- KHANJAN KISHORE NATH – 12.54 MIN- ASSAMESE
A rotten gourd, hardly sprouted, is spotted in the backyard of a childless couple house…

SANGATI – VIKRAM V LABHE – 3.30 MIN
She runs through the narrow lanes of slums… she has to reach the school on time…

BETWEEN THE LINES – DR PARVEZ IMAM- 11 MIN- HINDI
They are disowned by the both sides of the border. We know them as ‘Bangladeshis’.


RANDOM VOICES FROM KASHMIR – DR PARVEZ IMAM - 11 MIN – HINDI
They still speak of love, peace, brotherhood and fond memories. Will these voices remain unheard for ever?


BILORI – SANDEIP MODI -12.30 MIN – MARATHI
An innocent child grows up in just a night…

IN INDIA – V V MAHESHWAR RAO – 6 MIN – ENGLISH
A young foreigner studying in India talks about his experiences…

LIVING UNDER BONDAGE – VENKAT/VEERAMANI- 21 MIN- HINDI/ENGLISH
The workers in a premier educational institute like JNU…

OLD AGE – CHETAN KUMAR – 1 MIN
Love them.. they did so much for us….
STOP CHILD LABOUR – CHETAN KUMAR – 1 MIN
Nurture these little petals…


GADI LOHARDAGA MAIL – MEGHNATH & BIJJU TOPPO – 27 MIN – JHARKHAND
A musical of popular songs of Jharkhand.. Only visual documentation of the old train..

LOHA GARAM HAI - MEGHNATH & BIJJU TOPPO – 47 MIN – HINDI
They live near an iron sponge factory… Do they live at all?

UNDECIDED – NAKUL SAWHNEY – 17 MIN – HINDI
A young journalist is confronted by a plethora of choices and questions..

BREAKING THE WALL OF IGNORANCE – ASHISH BHATIYA – 6.34 MIN – HINDI
A special school and its special students…

YESTERDAY – SUNALI AGGARWAL – 9.50 MIN – ENGLISH
We see what we wan see and hence get disappointed when reality reveals something we never imagined…

NEMESIS OF MOTHERHOOD – SNEHASIS DAS – 28 MIN – ORRIYA
Women of Karijhola unknowingly essay the highest maternal mortality rate in the world…

POORVAGRAH – SURENDER KUMAR – 20 MIN- HINDI
Your caste matters… not your abilities!!

AAP JAISA KOI NAHIN – SAMINA ASLAM (PAKISTAN) – 30 MIN – ENGLISH
A tribute to Nazia Hasan, a very popular singer of Indian Sub-continent…

ANANT KALAKAR- SUDHEER GUPTA - 34 MIN – HINDI/ RAJASTHANI
A wonderful documentation of folk artists of Rajasthan…

KATHPUTLI IN FOUR ACTS – SUDHEER GUPTA- 29 MIN- HINDI
About the traditional puppeteers living in Delhi..

NEW DELHI PRIVATE LIMITED – RAVINDER S RANDHAWA- 20 MIN- HINDI/ENGLISH
Delhi is being transformed…but at what cost?


schedule and list of other films soon



Tuesday, March 20, 2007

SELECTED FILMS FROM CINEMELA ENTRIES

HUMAN STORY – MUKESH KABIR KAPOOR – 5 MIN - ENGLISH


SARA LOHA UNKA/ BABU NANDAN KI KEWAL DHAR- SUNIL UMARAO & AJITA SINGH- 40 MIN – HINDI/BHOJPURI

DIM- ANIL SADARANGANI – 3.30 MIN- ENGLISH

THE QUEST- KHANJAN KISHORE NATH – 12.54 MIN- ASSAMESE

SANGATI – VIKRAM V LABHE – 3.30 MIN

BETWEEN THE LINES – 11 MIN

RANDOM VOICES FROM KASHMIR – 11 MIN
-DR PARVEZ – HINDI/ ENGLISH

BILORI – SANDEIP MODI -12.30 MIN – MARATHI

IN INDIA – V V MAHESHWAR RAO – 6 MIN – ENGLISH

LIVING UNDER BONDAGE – VENKAT/VEERAMANI- 21 MIN- HINDI/ENGLISH

TWO SHORT FILMS – CHETAN KUMAR – 2 MIN

GADI LOHARDAGA MAIL – MEGHNATH & BIJJU TOPPO – 27 MIN – JHARKHAND

LOHA GARAM HAI - MEGHNATH & BIJJU TOPPO – 47 MIN – HINDI

UNDECIDED – NAKUL BHARDWAJ – 12 MIN – HINDI

BREAKING THE WALL OF IGNORANCE – ASHISH BHATIYA – 6.34 MIN – HINDI

YESTERDAY – SUNALI AGGARWAL – 9.50 MIN – ENGLISH

NEMESIS OF MOTHERHOOD – SNEHASIS DAS – 28 MIN – ORRIYA

POORVAGRAH – SURENDER KUMAR – 20 MIN- HINDI

AAP JAISA KOI NAHIN – SAMINA ASLAM (PAKISTAN) – 20 MIN – ENGLISH

ANANT KALAKAR- 34 MIN – HINDI/ RAJASTHANI

KATHPUTLI IN FOUR ACTS – 29 MIN- HINDI
- SUDHEER GUPTA

NEW DELHI PRIVATE LIMITED – RAVINDER S RANDHAWA- 20 MIN- HINDI/ENGLISH

KHAYL DARPAN (A Mirror of Imagination) - YOUSUF SAEED - 100 MIN - Urdu/Hindi

OTHER SECTIONS- SHORT FILMS AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE

THE FIRST SHORT FILMS OF INDIA'S MASTERS


details and schedule soon

CINEMELA COLLECTIVES

in association with
MAX MUELLER BHAVAN, New Delhi
and
STUDENTS’ UNION, School of Arts & Aesthetics,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

presents

2nd
CINEMELA
international festival of short films & documentaries


12-15 April, 2007
School of Arts & Aesthetics Auditorium, JNU, New Delhi


details soon