4th edition of

CINEMELA
(a festival of short films & documentaries by YOUNG filmmakers)

April 2009
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India.

The previous editions of Cinemela festival received overwhelming
response from all quarters and the Limca Book of World Records
has recognized the festival for its uniqueness. The festival
intends to take the films created by young artists to the young
audience and is an effort to make a space for the new creative
voices from all over the world which is denied by the crude logic
of media industry. We believe that these woks deserve attention
for their ability to go beyond local issues and provincial tastes
while simultaneously opening up a window onto a diverse
culture. Cinemela is designed to serve as a glass through which
audience may have an opportunity to glimpse important aspects
of rapidly emerging creative sensibilities which are all set to
conquer the future. Keeping this in view, we plan to take the
selected films from the festival to other campuses and places.

The young films, despite the diverse styles and subjects, tell
something about the cultures from which they spring, and have
the capability to make an impression with their individuality. The
festival aspires to provide an ideal opportunity to enjoy the
pleasure of regional distinctiveness through films and rejoice in
their universal appeal. With the images and sounds of these
films, we learn about other portions of the world and witness the
ascendancy of new artists to creative acclaim.

All are invited to be submerged in an experience of dissimilarity,
to be lost in strange spheres, to perceive unfamiliar languages,
to observe unusual styles, to discover new voices and visions.
The festival also provides a platform where interactions among
veteran film persons, young filmmakers, audience and others can
be possible in informal manner. This aims to satisfy our curiosity,
assuage our suspicion, arouse our sympathies, and heighten our
appreciation. We are hopeful that an inevitable degree of
knowing calculation will enter into the experience on both sides.

We invite the cine-lovers to visit an arena where
the future of cinema is taking shape.

Prakash Kumar Ray
Festival Convenor

(0) 9873313315/ cinemela@gmail.com

www.cinemela.blogspot.com
(Details of previous festivals are also there)

4th edition of

CINEMELA
a festival of short films & documentaries
by
YOUNG filmmakers

April 2008
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi

Entries should reach on or before 20 March, 2009.
Format –only DVD (two copies of each entry)
Films must be sub-titled in English
Enclose a brief synopsis of the film/s, CV of the filmmaker with photograph, details of crew and a declaration of participation (all documents should be in A4 paper size).

Filmmakers are requested to send a short note on “Why I make films” and some stills, posters and publicity material (not mandatory).

No bar on numbers of entries and length or theme of the films.
Films can be experimental, animation, musical, in fact, anything.

There is NO ENTRY FEE

All are requested to contribute generously since the festival does not accept any corporate or commercial sponsorship. A little contribution will be a great boost for our effort. Send your contribution as cheque/demand draft payable to Prakash Kumar Ray and payable at Delhi/New Delhi.

The films will remain with the Cinemela Collectives and a collection of films from the festival will be screened at other campuses and places. The certificate of participation will be issued to all participants. The films screened in the festival will not be returned. Those who want their films be returned should send Rs 250 as the cost of packing and postage (as cheque/demand draft payable to Prakash Kumar Ray and payable at Delhi/New Delhi).

Send your entries and contribution to:

Prakash Kumar Ray
Cinemela Film Festival
225, Sutlej,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi – 110067.

for more details,
cinemela@gmail.com
(0) 987 331 331 5

The 4th edition of

Cinemela Film Festival

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The spoof edition of the NY Times distributed on 12 November, 2008 by the liberal activists in USA. Some videos featuring reactions are available on the youtube site.

Release Dr Sen and Ajai TG
without any delay

Cinemela Collectives
presents
Free Binayak Sen Film Festival
May 14, 2008/10am onwards
SAA auditorium, JNU, New Delhi

Prof Arun Kumar
Prof Kamal M Chenoy
Prof Ajay Patnaik
Prof Mohan Rao
Dr Rohan D’Souza
and many other teachers, activists and friends of Dr Sen will speak on the man, his contributions and the situation which led to his arrest.
SCREENING of 10 films (list given below)

14 May 2008 will mark one year of imprisonment for Dr Binayak Sen, the well-known public health and civil rights activist, arrested on false charges of ‘assisting’ the Maoist insurgency in Chattisgarh.

In a nation where increasingly the medical profession is becoming synonymous with unbridled commercial greed Dr Sen dedicated his entire professional life to the free service of people in the remotest villages.

In a country, which has health indicators worse than that of sub-Saharan Africa, Dr Sen passionately worked for setting up low cost models of healthcare accessible to the poor.

And in a land where the problems of public health are deeply intertwined with the gross violations of the Indian Constitution by state agencies themselves Dr Sen fought for ensuring democratic rights of ordinary people.

Dr Sen’s detention as a ‘threat to national security’ stands therefore as a challenge to every Indian who aspires for a humane, democratic and civilized India.

To mark the first anniversary of the arrest of Dr Sen, on 14 May 2008 and to call for his immediate release the Free Binayak Sen Film Festival is being organised by concerned citizens and groups around the country. The package of 10 documentaries, presented in this Festival, highlight the issues of human rights and public health and deal with themes ranging from nutrition, greed of drug companies, environmental pollution and state atrocities.

They are meant to make all those who watch them wake up and more importantly resist the Silent Emergency that is creeping upon us in front of our very eyes.


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Films

1. In the Name of Medicine

K.P.Sasi

On the hazardous and banned pharmaceutical drugs in India.

2. Antibiotic Resistance for Idiots

Satya Sivaraman

A look at antibiotics from the microbe’s point of view and calling for an ecological approach to medicine.

3. It’s a Boy, its going to be a boy

Vani Subramaniam

On sex determination tests and female foeticide

4. Sicko

Michael Moore

Investigates the American health care system, focusing on its for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the private-sector U.S. system with the socialized systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.

5. Secrets and Lies

Stavros Stagos

This Greek documentary explores how the Bhopal chemical disaster of 1984, which claimed as many as 20,000 lives, continues to affect people today. Points an accusing finger mostly at Union Carbide, the multinational pesticide manufacturer that owned the Bhopal plant. The company is currently part of Dow Chemical (makers of Agent Orange) which now denies all legal responsibility for the disaster.

6. The Bitter Drink

P. Baburaj & C. Saratchandran

Chronicles the struggle of the most marginalised section of the Indian society, the tribal community, against the mighty global giant Coca Cola. It also discusses the issue of the ownership of natural resources, mainly water.

7. Development Flows fromthe Barrel of the Gun

Biju Toppo & Meghnath

Documenting the state violence on people affected by development projects in the country, the film explores the relationship between this violence and the new economic policy and globalisation. It puts forward the people’s viewpoint on development, which is diametrically opposed to that of the state.

8. Tales from the Margins

Kavita Joshi

‘Tales from the Margins’ travels to this remote, strife-torn corner of India to document the extraordinary protests of Manipuri women for justice. And through their lives, to focus on a vast human tragedy.

9. Death of a River

R.R.Srinivasan

A documentary about the Manjolai massacre, which took place when Tamil Nadu police attacked a procession of striking tea estate workers, their families and supporters on July 23, 1999. Seventeen people, including two women and a two-year-old boy, were killed and 500 injured in the police attack.

10. Resilient Rhythms

Gopal Menon

India’s caste system places nearly 160 million people, the dalits, at the outskirts of society. It exploits their services, especially to perform ”polluting” tasks, such as cutting the umbilical cord, disposing of night-soil, tending cremation grounds, but at the same time denies them acceptance as human beings. Resilient Rhythms deals with a range of dalit responses to their marginalization, from armed struggle to electoral politics.

All groups interested in receiving the package of films for organizing the Free Binayak Sen Film Festival in their areas of work are requested to send the name of their organization, postal address and tentative date of screening to - Wilfred D’Souza, INSAF, New Delhi, insaf@vsnl.com, Ph: 09825171919. The package is meant to be screened mostly in the month of May, particularly around 14 May, the first anniversary of Dr Sen’s arrest.

Prakash K Ray, Convenor, Cinemela Collectives. 09873313315

The Cinemela Collectives thank the audience, the well-wishers and the filmmakers who contributed to the success of the 3rd edition of Cinemela Film Festival. We are grateful to School of Arts & Aesthetics (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), JNU Students' Union and Amnesty International India for their valueable support. We also thank PETA India, Dearcinema.com, Sa-Dhan (New Delhi) and the second floor (Karachi, Pakistan) for their solidarity with the festival.

We ressolve to take forward the festival with more and more films of young filmmakers alongwith the films of senior filmmakers and good cinema by the masters.

We request for support and participation of all cine-lovers, organisations and institutions.

11-14 April/SAA Audi/JNU
11th April/Opening Session/5.30pm
Inauguration
Prof Parul D Mukherjee
Dean, SAA, JNU
Special Guest
Mr Mukul Sharma
Director, Amnesty International India
Ashvin Kumar
Filmmaker

Opening Film
The Little Terrorist
Dir- Ashvin Kumar
(widely acclaimed and Oscars nominee)

12th April/10.30am onwards
La Edad de la Peseta (Silly Age)/Pavel Giroud/Cuba/2007/90min
Kyon (Why?)/Pushpa, Lokendra, Ankur, Lokesh/India/2007/17min
Break/2.30onwards
Migration/Mira Nair/India/2007/18min
When I Meet Me/Smile Film Club, Pravah/India/2007/9min
Ahwaan/ Smile Film Club, Pravah/India/2007/11min
Rendition/Gavin Hood/USA-South Africa
9.00pm
Water/ Smile Film Club, Pravah/India/1min
Khuda Ke Liye/Shoaib Mansoor/Pakistan/2008

13th April/10.30onwards
Search For Freedom/Munizae Jahangir/Pakistan/2007
Positive/Farhan Akhtar/India/2007/18min
Break/2.30onwards
Kali Bein (The Black River)/Surendra Manan/India/2007/62min
Knock/Satya Vivek/India/2006/14min
Power For All/Satya Vivek/India/2007/4.37min
Tea Break
Waters of Despair/Srijan/India/2007/31.5min
Everyday/Anu Srinivasan/India/2006/6.20min
Tere Ishq Mere Pyar (Your Love My Love)/Austria/2007/13min
9.00pm
Curiosity/Ajay Agarwal/India/2008/1min
Dharm Putra (The Son of Duty)/Yash Chopra/India/1961

14th April/10.30onwards

One dayfrom a Hangman’s Life/Joshy Josheph/India/2006
Paginas del Diario de Mauricio (Pages from Mauricio’s Diary)/Manuel Perez
Paredes/Cuba/2006
Break/2.30onwards
Blood Brothers/Vishal Bhardwaj/India/2007/18min
Ayodhya Gatha/Vani Subramanian/India/2007/62min
Tea Break
Basanti/Bhartendu, Disha, Neelam, Sumit/India/2006/8.40min
Ek Safar/Karan/India/2006/16.47min
Special Screening
Raja Harishchandra/Dadasaheb Phalke/India/1912

9.00pm
Twilight/Khanjan Kishore Nath/India/2008/1min
Ben-Hur/William Wyler/USA/1959

Almost all the films are with subtitles. All are invited. Please see the board at the venue for changes and additions.
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11-14 APRIL SAA AUDITORIUM
JNU, New Delhi

11th April 5.30pm Opening Session

Inauguration by Prof Parul D Mukherjee
Dean, SAA, JNU

Keynote Speech: Mr Mukul Sharma
Director, Amnesty International India

Ashvin Kumar
Filmmaker

Screening: The Little Terrorist
Dir- Ashvin Kumar
(widely acclaimed and Oscars nominee)

12, 13 & 14 April 10.30am onwards

Short films, documentaries & features from various countries

Special screening: Raja Harishchandra, the first Indian film by Dadasaheb Phalke

Exhibition of photographs by SREEDEEP
photo-montages by John Xaviers

0987331331 cinemela@gmail.com cinemela.blogspot.com
All are invited

The Cinemela Collectives
thanks
all filmmakers
who have sent their films to
the 3rd Cinemela Festival

11-14 April
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi

Schedule soon

3
CINEMELA 2008
a festival of short films & documentaries
by
YOUNG filmmakers
(and by those who consider themselves YOUNG!!)

11-13 April 2008
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi

Entries should reach on or before 25 March, 2008.
Format –DVD or VCD (two copies of each entry)
Films must be sub-titled in English
Enclose a brief synopsis, CV with photograph, details of crew and a declaration of participation.

Filmmakers are requested to send a short note on “Why I make films”
and some stills, posters and publicity material.
(not mandatory)

No bar on numbers of entries and length or theme of the films.
Films can be experimental, animation, musical, in fact, anything.

NO ENTRY FEE

All are requested to contribute generously
since the festival does not accept any corporate or commercial sponsorship.
A little contribution will be a great boost for our effort.
Send your contribution as cheque/demand draft payable to
Prakash Kumar Ray and payable at Delhi/New Delhi.

The films will remain with the Cinemela Collectives and a collection of films
from the festival shall be screened at other campuses and places.
The certificate of participation shall be issued to all participants.
The films screened in the festival shall not be returned. Those who want their films be returned should send Rs 250 as the cost of packing and postage (as cheque/demand draft payable to Prakash Kumar Ray and payable at Delhi/New Delhi).

Send your entries and contribution to –
Prakash Kumar Ray
225, Sutlej Hostel, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi – 110067.

phone
(0) 9873313315

mail
cinemela@gmail.com
pkray11@gmail.com

web
www.cinemela.blogspot.com
(Details of previous festivals are also there)


The festival has no jury since there is no award. We try to screen all entries along with some films from seniors, however, a committee will select the films to be screened. We seek your cooperation and support in this endeavour.

In solidarity,
Prakash Kumar Ray
Convenor, Cinemela Collectives

“...successfully breaking through the barrier and giving us an insight into the missing dimension.”

N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu.

Leftview

presents
a documentary film

Nandigram
Asmaan Ke Talaash Mein

Dir- Prakash Kumar Ray

34 mins
This is a documentary film on the tragedy in Nandigram. The police firing in Nandigram on 14th March 2007 has disturbed peace-loving democratic minded people in West Bengal and elsewhere in the country. The Left Front Government in West Bengal has come under intense political attack on the issue from the entire spectrum of political opposition, from the ultra-Right to the ultra-Left. The truth of course was lost in the din of shrill anti-Left propaganda. By revisiting the police firing on 14th March 2007, the sequence of events which led to it as well as its aftermath, the film portrays the tragedy as it unfolded. The film has Hindi sub-titles and voice-over. The English version is also ready.
contact: leftview@gmail.com
phone: (0)99 99 300 914

Although commercial film festivals have always been attractive tocinemagoers, new initiatives to exhibit small, meaningful and non-commercial cinema do have a sizeable audience. Proving this fact yet again, the second edition of "Cinemela", a 4-day festival of short films & documentaries by young filmmakers, opened to a packed audience on 12 April at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Organised by the Cinemela Collectives and JNU Students Union School ofArts and Aesthetics, in collaboration with Max Muller Bhavan, Cinemela ran from 12 to 15 April. The Limca Book of World Records recognizedCinemela's very first edition last year for its uniqueness andparticipation.

Inaugurating the festival, Aruna Vasudev, founder, Osian's Cinefan,appreciated Cinemela for the opportunity it gives to young filmmakers to showcase their work. Senior journalist Paranjoy G. Thakurta also agreed. "The profit-mongering mainstream media culture has to be resisted with more and more events like Cinemela," he said. Prof.Parul Mukherjee, Dean of School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, described it as a successful effort in building bridges between the academics and practices in Art.

To underscore its range and plurality, two films from two distinctworlds and realities were screened on the opening day. Gadi LohardagaMail, a film by Meghnad and Biju Toppo is the only visual documentation on a historic train in Jharkhand, while Ester Amrami'sBerlin Diary captures the life of a young Israeli woman in Berlin."Cinemela intends to take films created by young artists to youngaudience, besides making efforts to create a space for the newcreative voices from all over the world which is denied by the crudelogic of media industry. We believe that these woks deserve attentionfor their ability to go beyond local issues and provincial tastes.


Speaking on the occasion, Katja Kessing, Programmes Director in Max Mueller Bhavan recounted the historic relationship of Max Muller Bhavan with Indian arts, cultures and cinemas, besides brining cinemas across borders together. This year, a series of prize winning short films by young filmmakers were the special attraction. These films from countries like Belarus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia,Ukraine and the United States are being portrayed as gestures of reconciliation between nations and people affected by World War II. Besides, there were a number of films from Indian filmmakers covering diverse issues, regions and languages. Like Bilori by Sandeip Modi in Marathi, Poorvragh by Surendra Kumar in Hindi, or Dim, by Anil Sadarangani in English, or The Quest, by Khanjan Nath in Assamese, or Nemesis of Motherhood by Snehasis Das in Oriya. Dim, interestingly as short as three and half minutes, is about two women form a minority community discuss the housing problem in Mumbai. There is also one on the experience of a foreign student in V.V. Maheshwar Rao\'s In India. While Ahish Bhatiya's six and a half minute long Breaking the Wall of Ignorance is about children and young people suffering from Down's Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Hearing Impairment, Mental Illnesses, Venkat and Veeramani\'s Living Under Bondage is a 21-minute visual documentation of the plight of casual labourers working in construction sites in a prestigious university like JNU. New Delhi Private Limited by Ravinder S Randhawa raises the issue of transformation of New Delhi as a 'world class' city at the enormous human and ecological costs. Aap Jaisa Koi Nahin bySamina Aslam of Pakistan is tribute to the genius of Late Nazia Hasan, one of the most famous singer of the sub-continent.



As a special entry, the festival also screened a rare collection of best first films from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). It includes passing out films by noted film personalities like SatishShah, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Madan Bavaria with actors like Jaya Bacchan,Smita Patil, Suresh Oberoi acting in them and Girish Kassaravali, all during their student days.

The festival thanks Swara Bhaskar (Classical Dance), Tridib Bera (Sculptor), Rajiv Kshetri
and John Xaviers (Painters) for joining the festival with their talent.

We wish all filmmakers and artists creative success in future.

All together the festival screened 51 films including some last time entries.

Cinemela Collectives is grateful to School of Arts & Aesthetics for providing the space.

We thank audience who participated in the festival inspite of terrible heat.

We thank the press persons who sympathytically reported the event.

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

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

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

Dear friend,
The Cinemela Collectives announces the 2nd CINEMELA (a festival of short films & documentaries by YOUNG filmmakers and those who consider themselves YOUNG), to be organized at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from 14-18 march, 2007. The first Cinemela festival last year received overwhelming response from all quarters and it has been recognized by the Limca Book of World Records for its uniqueness. The festival intends to take the films created by young artists to the young audience and is an effort to make a space for the new creative voices from all over the world which is denied by the crude logic of media industry. We believe that these woks deserve attention for their ability to go beyond local issues and provincial tastes while simultaneously opening up a window onto a diverse culture. Cinemela is designed to serve as a glass through which audience may have an opportunity to glimpse important aspects of rapidly emerging creative sensibilities which are all set to conquer the future. Keeping this in view, we plan to take the selected films from the festival to other campuses and places.

The young films, despite the diverse styles and subjects, tell something about the cultures from which they spring, and have the capability to make an impression with their individuality. The festival aspires to provide an ideal opportunity to enjoy the pleasure of regional distinctiveness through films and rejoice in their universal appeal. With the images and sounds of these films, we learn about other portions of the world and witness the ascendancy of new artists to creative acclaim.

All are invited to be submerged in an experience of dissimilarity, to be lost in strange spheres, to perceive unfamiliar languages, to observe unusual styles, to discover new voices and visions.
The festival also provides a platform where interactions among veteran film persons, young filmmakers, audience and others can be possible in informal manner. This aims to satisfy our curiosity, assuage our suspicion, arouse our sympathies, and heighten our appreciation. We are hopeful that an inevitable degree of knowing calculation will enter into the experience on both sides.

We invite the young filmmakers and those who consider themselves young in the field and the spirit to send their film to the festival. We also invite the cine-lovers to visit an arena where the future of cinema is taking shape.

In solidarity,
Prakash Kumar Ray
Convenor, Cinemela Collectives.
(0)9811450214
cinemela@gmail.com, pkray11@gmail.com
http://www.cinemela.blogspot.com
http://www.cinemela.org(under construction)

2nd
CINEMELA
a festival of short films & documentaries
by
YOUNG filmmakers and those who consider themselves YOUNG
14-18 march 2007 JNU New Delhi

Last Date to send entries – 7 March, 2007
Format – DV, DVD or VCD (two copies of each entry)
Enclose a brief synopsis, CV, details of crew and a declaration of participation.

There is NO ENTRY FEE

All are requested to contribute generously since the festival does not accept any corporate or commercial sponsorship. A little contribution will be a great boost up for our effort. Send your contribution as cheque/demand draft payable to Prakash Kumar Ray and payable at Delhi/New Delhi.

The films will remain with the Cinemela Collectives and a collection of films from the festival will be screened at other campuses and places. The certificate of participation will be issued to all participants. The films screened in the festival will not be returned in any case. Those who want their films be returned should send Rs 200 (Rupees two hundred) as the cost of packing and postage (as cheque/demand draft payable to Prakash Kumar Ray and payable at Delhi/New Delhi).
Send your entries and contribution to –
Prakash Kumar Ray
254, Sutlej Hostel, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi – 110067.
phone- (0) 9811450214
email- cinemela@gmail.com, pkray11@gmail.com
blog- www.cinemela.blogspot.com
website- www.cinemela.org (under construction)

The festival has no jury since there is no award. Since all entries can not be screened due to time constraints, a committee will select the films to be screened. We seek your cooperation and support in this endeavour.
In solidarity,
Prakash Kumar Ray,

Convenor, Cinemela Collectives

A FILM FESTIVAL FOR THE YOUNG AND FOR THOSE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES YOUNG

CINEMELA 2...... 14-18 March, 2007
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

details soon......
finish your films.... pass on the word

contact: cinemela@gmail.com

CINEMELA ENTERS LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2007.......

WE THANK ALL THERE WHO MADE THIS EFFORT A SUCCESS....

LOOKING FORWARD TO A GREATER SOLIDARITY....