[Reader-list] The 4th Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala,Thiruvananthapuram (formely known as Trivandrum) from the 1st – 5th July 2011/ Kriti Film Club Screening: 16th April at Kriti Team Workplace

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About 4th IDSFFK

After the resounding success of the 3rd International Documentary and 
Short Film Festival of Kerala we are happy to announce the The 4th 
Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala which will be held in the 
capital city Kerala ,Thiruvananthapuram (formely known as Trivandrum) 
 from the 1st – 5th July 2011. The festival, a unique venture in India 
is being organized by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy for the Dept 
of Cultural Affairs, Govt of Kerala as part of its endeavor to catalyse 
a vibrant documentary and short film movement. Increasing accessibility 
and affordability of media technology has led to a boom in the 
production and scope of films. The media is now used by image-makers 
 from all walks of life to express, experiment, learn and as an 
effective tool to conscientise and bring about social change. The 
festival aims to map and reflect the exploding nature of the medium in 
its many facets of creativity and resistance.

  Entries are invited for the * National level competition* from 
Documentaries (long and short) , short fiction, animation, music videos 
and campus films ( restricted to Kerala).

CLICK HERE for entry form 
...http://iffk.in/idsffk2011/pdf/entry_form.pdf

CLICK HERE rules and regulations 
...http://iffk.in/idsffk2011/pdf/rules.pdf


Organised by :
Kerala State Chalachitra Academy
for the department of cultural affairs,
Government of Kerala
Sasthamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram,
Kerala, India 695 010.
Web: www.iffk.in, www.keralafilm.com

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Kriti Film Club Screening: 16th April at Kriti Team Workplace

Kriti Film Club
invites you for the screening of


LEARNING IN EXILE
26 mins/ Hindi, English, Tibetan (English subtitles)


Director: Aprajita Sarcar
Co-Directors: Akbar Quadri and Azam Quadri
Produced by PSBT


on 16th April, 5.45 to 7.00 pm
(watch and talk the film after)


at the Kriti team workplace
S-35 Tara Apartments, near Alaknanda market
New Delhi 110019
(nearest metro: Govindpuri)


ABOUT THE FILM: Tibet is a way of living. A civilization with an expiry 
date. Fifty years of exile has also produced a culture, coloured by its 
context, India. The exile life has seen a set of learning’s for the 
guest and the host. As there is no immediate solution in sight for the 
Tibetan case, we have a peculiar situation of being born as an 'alien' 
at home, since India does not recognize 'refugee' as a status. So, the 
central theme is how a Tibetan negotiates with this loss in the realm 
of the everyday, routine life. The Dalai Lama becomes a metaphor, to 
delve deeper into this existential crises. Mostly based on interviews 
with young Tibetans from Dharamsala and Majnu Ka Tila in Delhi, the 
film tries to capture the dilemmas of being Tibetan in India, today.



ABOUT THE FILM MAKERs: Aprajita Sarcar has been a campaigner for the 
Delhi chapter of the Friends of Tibet (India) since her undergraduate 
days in DU. She has looked at questions of freedom and exile, through 
the eyes of the young generation of Tibetans, both born in India, and 
recent escapees from Tibet. She has a M.A. in Political Science from 
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; has been a researcher SARAI, at 
the Centre for Studies on Developing Societies. This is her first 
attempt at making a documentary. Azam Quadri and Akbar Quadri are 
graduates from Jamia Milliya Islamia. Akbar Quadri has training from 
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in 2006 in cinematography.


ABOUT THE FILM CLUB: Kriti Film Club is an educational and research 
oriented initiative of Kriti: a development research, praxis and 
communication team. We offer an independent and informal space for 
screening documentary films on a whole range of development, human 
rights & environment issues. We also serve as a borrowing & access 
space for documentary films.