Making Space | Nikita Parikh | 15 min 

Alsana'’s drawings show signs of the society seeping in, as she grapples with her identity and conflicts closer to home.

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​​​​​​​Log Kya Kahenge? | Rafina Khatun | 40 min

The story of a young Muslim woman dreaming differently in a patriarchal society determined to silence her.

 

​​​Umbro | Prachee Bajania | 35 min

The threshold of a home, the liminal space that speaks to the lives of women, including the filmmaker's mother and her friends who live in the small town of Dhrangadhra.​​​​​​​

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Filmmakers will be in conversation with Arundhati Ghosh.​

Arundhati is a writer, cultural practitioner, social activist and traveller, living across many worlds. Based in Bangalore, with three decades of experience in the arts and culture, she served as the Executive Director of the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) between 2013 and 2023. Her awards include the Global Fundraiser Award from Resource Alliance, Chevening Clore Leadership Award (2015-2016), Chevening Gurukul Scholarship at the London School of Economics (2005-2006) and Salzburg Global Seminar Fellowship. She has contributed on the advisory boards of the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Blind with Camera and Toto Funds the Arts and continues to do so for the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Shomokaleen Protibidhan (a feminist magazine in Bangla), the Solidarity Foundation, Sangama and Maraa. She co-curated the International Theatre Festival of Kerala 2020, organised by Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi. Arundhati actively volunteers with many citizens' initiatives that work towards a just and equitable society. She writes for publications such as Scroll, The Wire, The Hindu, The Deccan Herald, News 9, Business Standard, etc. A poet in Bangla, publishing in little magazines since 2010, her first collection of poetry Oshomoye phire esho nodi hoye was published in January 2023 by Lastrada Prakashan. Raised in the small and dusty industrial township of Asansol, Arundhati travels the world to listen to lands and its people.    

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