Join us at 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝗚𝗼𝗮 for screening of four short films that focuses on the sustained engagements with communities and beings that exist within layered social and cultural systems.
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𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝟮𝟳 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 | 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝟲.𝟯𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗢𝗻𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀
𝗥𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝟲𝟭 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘀
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𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙞 explores the paradoxical reverence of the animal elephant in the central districts of Kerala. Looking at the festival, spaces of devotion transform into a realm of panic and disdain.
𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖 𝙉𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 follows the lives of woman coolies in the small town of Bhavnagar, Gujarat. Most of these women have been working here for over 15 years. Bhavnagar was and continues to be the only station in India with female porters.
𝗤𝗶𝗮𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻 explores Mumbai’s Chinese community from its eighteenth century origins to its present decline, it reflects on economically driven migration and how later generations negotiate a hybrid cultural identity.
𝙂𝙝𝙖𝙧, 𝘽𝙝𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙡, 𝙂𝙖𝙤𝙣 set in Rajsamand, Rajasthan, examines themes of raatri jagran, bhaav, home, and belonging through cultural events and oral histories passed down within the filmmaker's family. Additionally, Looking at how power becomes embedded in land through zoning, mining, ownership, and commodification while land itself continues to hold cultural, spiritual, and ecological narratives that resist such reduction.
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