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TEN Film Square An independent community of film lovers to explore Cinematic parallels without boundaries.
TEN Film Square is non- profit film society affiliated to FFSI
We are starting screenings from May 1st, 2008
Movies -
1-May-2008 - Chi- hwa- seon (Painted Fire)
Language: Korean
Director: Kwon-taek Im, Year:2002
Duration: 117 min
2-May-2008 - Ten
Language: Persian
Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Year:2002
Duration: 94 min
Date - 1-May-2008 and 1-May-2008 ..( Thursday / Friday)
Time - 5pm - 6pm- for registration,
6.30pm - screening starts
Venue- cfd, Centre for Film and Drama
5th floor Sona Towers
71 millers road
Bengaluru
membership fees –
for professional Rs 400/- per year
for student Rs 200/- per year ( student id required)
contact:
tenfilmsqaure@gmail.com
www.10fs.org
April 25th, 2008
In the context of the coming elections and heated debates about the electoral democracy…
pedestrian pictures invites you to the screening of
Secret Ballot
Director: Babak Payami
(2001/105minutes/English sub)
Date: 26-Apr-2008 , Saturday
Time: 5 – 7.30 pm
Venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists (IAT), Queen’s Road (near Indian Express circle, Cunningham Road), Bangalore
For directions to the venue, contact 94483 71389 (Uvaraj) or 98860 52763 (Anil). Email pedepics@gmail.com .More details about the film, directions to venue, etc. can be found at www.pedestrianpictures.org
Film synopsis
An unsuspecting soldier awakens to discover that he can forget about another uneventful day at his lonely seaside post. It’s Election Day!
A ballot box is parachuted down as a young woman pulls up to the shore of the remote island. To the soldier’s surprise, she’s actually the government bureaucrat in charge of local voting. The couple gets off to a rocky start since the soldier expects election agents to be men.
Whether he wants to or not, the soldier is thrown into an elections adventure that just may put him out of a job. Orders from above force him to accompany the female agent in an army jeep across the island’s dusty desert. The agent literally leaves no stone unturned in her search for ballots. Many a surprise lies along their route, as they find themselves in one absurd situation after another.
So much can happen in a single day, especially when opposites attract. Views can change, hearts can melt. By sunset, a woman’s idealistic notions can come back down to earth. And a lonely man can discover there’s more to voting by secret ballot than he ever imagined
Awards - Silver Lion for Best Director - Babak Payami - 2001 ,Venice International Film Festival Pasinetti Award for Best Film – 2001, Venice International Film Festival
OCIC Award – 2001, Venice International Film Festival Netpac Award – 2001, ,Cinema for Unicef Award - 2001 , the FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention at the London Film Festival , the Special Jury Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival , the Best New Director at the Valladolid International Film Festival
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www.pedestrianpictures.org
pedestrian pictures is a media activist organization working in Bangalore since 2001.
April 23rd, 2008
Just Femme & Suchitra Film Society Presents Women’s Film Festival
On 8-Mar-2008 , International Women’s Day 3 PM onwards
Venue: Suchitra Film Society, #36, 9th Main (BV Karanth Road), Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore
Phone: 26711785
Entry is free
The festival features five short films, chronicling women’s lives in contemporary India. For more details about the films, visit www.justfemme.in or contact Just Femme at 9741437431.
About Us: Just Femme is an online women’s magazine, meant to be a space to discuss issues that affect women. This is an effort to give voice to those opinions that otherwise go unheard. Just Femme’s writers are largely first timers –- women who are touched by these issues, should ideally have a say in it but don’t.
The Just Femme film festival that is being held on the International Women’s Day brings together a collection of documentaries and docu-dramas about women; snapshots of courage and perseverance, of the fight against age-old stereotypes, of victims and winners.
Just Femme is a voluntary and non-profit venture. It accepts relevant articles from women writers above 16 years of age. (If you are interested to be part of this group please send a mail to justfemme.in@gmail.com with the subject “contribute” along with a short introduction of yourself.)
March 5th, 2008
The Bangalore Birth Network and Vikalp Bengaluru (Films for Freedom) cordially invite you to
BEING BORN: FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Saturday, 02-Feb-2008, 6:30 pm
Birth in the Squatting Position (10 mins, Brazil)
Born at Home (60 mins, India)
Sunday, 03-Feb-2008, 3:00 pm
Birth Day (10 mins, Mexico)
The Business of Being Born (83 mins, USA)
Note: All films are in English or have English subtitles.All films show actual births and are graphic.
Venue:
Nani Cinema, Centre for Film and Drama
5th Floor, Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road
Bangalore 560052
THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN
Birth is a miracle, a rite of passage, a natural part of life. But birth is also big business.
Compelled to explore the subject after the delivery of her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to question the way American women have babies.
Epstein gains access to several pregnant New York City women as they weigh their options. Some of these women are or will become clients of Cara Muhlhahn, a charismatic midwife who, between birth events, shares both memories and footage of her own birth experience.
Footage of women having babies punctuates THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN. Each experience is unique; all are equally beautiful and equally surprising. Giving birth is clearly the most physically challenging event these women have ever gone through, but it is also the most emotionally rewarding.
Along the way, Epstein conducts interviews with a number of obstetricians, experts and advocates about the history, culture and economics of childbirth. The film’s fundamental question: should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potential medical emergency?
As Epstein uncovers some surprising answers, her own pregnancy adds a very personal dimension to THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN, a must-see movie for anyone even thinking about having a baby.
BORN AT HOME
Born at Home observes indigenous birth practices and practitioners in parts of India (rural Rajasthan, Bihar, and the urban working class area of Jahangirpuri in Delhi). Poised between social reality and the eternal mystery of childbearing, the film poses a critical question. When dais or midwives are known to handle about 50% of births in India, why does the state not recognise the inherited and low-cost skills of the almost one million traditional practitioners in the country? Natural birth clinics and home births are increasing in numbers in the west, but our brand of progress continues to undermine our vast and centuries-old knowledge base. There are innumerable instances where modernity has only served to reinforce prejudices. The film presents an intricate delineation of the figure of the dai who is almost always a low-caste, poor woman. Unlike medical science to whose life-saving power the best of dais pay homage, indigenous birth methods are holistic, conceiving of childbirth not as pathology but continuation of organic life. Gender and class issues are juxtaposed with images of the post-partum massage, the ritual bath, and finally the miracle of an actual birth. Mind-body, earth-cosmos become one unified whole when, negotiating the nether world of pain and labour, a new life thrusts it way up into the sun. The dai’s hands are experienced and empathetic as she guides the process.
The Bangalore Birth Network is a group of professionals and concerned citizens in Bangalore whose purpose is to raise awareness of and promote safe and supported birth and evidence-based care, from pregnancy through postpartum. We aim to provide information and education to women and their families that enhance the understanding of birth as a normal life process and enable them to make informed decisions. Through education and advocacy, we seek to provide training to practitioners that will encourage this quality of care. For more information or to join the network, contact Paige Trabulsi at nycdoula@gmail.com.
January 21st, 2008
Film
18.01 - 02.02.2008
Max Mueller Bhavan
German with English subtitel
Entry free
The works of Harun Farocki, German filmmaker, media theorist and artist include visual essays that critically analyse war, science, technology and mass culture. Farocki’s work escapes classification and can be inscribed into several categories at once: feature films, documentary, essay film and the avant-garde. They are compelling not only to film makers, but also to video and multi-media installation artists who simultaneously seek to engage with theory and politics.
Farocki simultaneously uses the camera to excavate enlightenment from the very foundation of science, technology and industrialisation. The politics of enlightenment penetrates into science, technology, war and other related aspects such as colonisation, imperialism etc; an insistent critique of it as the foundation of existing systems is reiterated throughout his work. Most certainly his work is very relevant for literary and film theorists and cultural critics.
His extraordinary insistence on demonstrating modernity is remarkable and especially so when one thinks postmodernism is the overriding factor for discussing current situations. The films are predominantly didactic, modernist and as such not overtly political. The modernist form and style enables a cognitive stimulation that haunts the audience leaving them involuntarily probing his works further by default.
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18-Jan-2008 6.30 p.m.
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Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series
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Max Mueller Bhavan
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19-Jan-2008 6.00 p.m.
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Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series
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Max Mueller Bhavan
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31-Jan-2008 6.30 p.m.
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Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series
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Max Mueller Bhavan
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Film
01-Feb-2008 6.30 p.m.
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Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series
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Max Mueller Bhavan
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02-Feb-2008 3.00 p.m.
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Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series
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Max Mueller Bh
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Harun Farocki will be present on February 1 and 2 to present and discuss his films.
January 14th, 2008
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