LIST OF FILM BEING SCREENED AT FILM SOUTH ASIA '05

1. Bhal Khabar (Good News) (17')
Assam/India, 2005, dir - Altaf Mazid
Looking for good news in 1980s Assam

2. The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (96')
Afghanistan, 2003, dir - Phil Grabsky
Everyday travails of an Afghan kid

3. A Certain Liberation (38')
Bangladesh, 2003, dir - Yasmine Kabir
Ghost of the Bangladesh war

4. City of Photos (60')
India, 2005, dir - Nishtha Jain
Neighbourhood photo studios that we knew

5. Continuous Journey (87')
Canada/India, 2004, dir - Ali Kazimi
Entering Canada in 1914

6. Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City (14')
Bombay/India, 2004, dir - Paromita Vohra
Non-vegetarian in Bombay

7. The Curse of Talakad (48')
Karnataka/India, 2005, dir - Sashi Sivramkrishna
No sons for a royal Mysore dynasty

8. Days and Nights in an Indian Jail (63')
Delhi/India, 2003, dir - Sunandan Walia & Yugesh Walia
Life inside Tihar jail

9. The Day My God Died (53')
Nepal/India, 2003, dir - Andrew Levine
Nepali sex workers in Bombay

10. The Die is Caste (83')
Bihar/India, 2004, dir - Ranjan Kamath
Lower vs upper caste in Bihar

11. Dirty Laundry (42')
South Africa, 2005, dir - Sanjeev Chatterjee
Identity: South Africans of Southasian origin

12. Final Solution (149')
Gujarat/India, 2004, dir - Rakesh Sharma
The extremism that was in Gujarat

13. Ganges: Rivers to Heaven (77')
Uttar Pradesh/India, 2003, dir - Gayle Ferraro
They come to die here

14. Girl Song (29')
Bengal/India, 2003, dir - Vasudha Joshi
Jazz nights in Calcutta

15. The Great India School Show (53')
Maharastra/India, 2005, dir - Avinash Deshpande
The young ones under cctv gaze

16. The Happiest People in the World (94')
Bangladesh, 2004, dir - Shaheen Dill-Riaz
High spirits amid hardships in the delta

17. Home of the Brave - Land of the Free (52')
Afghanistan, 2003, dir - John Sullivan
Following the grunts in Afghanistan

18. I For India (70')
India/UK, 2005, dir - Sandhya Suri
Four decades as an immigrant in UK

19. In the Shadow of the Pagodas - the Other Burma (74')
Switzerland/Myanmar, 2004, dir - Irene Marty
Overview of the Burma crisis

20. Jaal (The Catch) (67')
Gujrat/India, 2005, dir - Hridayanath Gharekhan
Fishing in Indo-Pak waters

21. Journeys (37')
Bombay/India, 2003, dir - Vinayan Kodoth
Riding Bombay's commuter trains

22. Kaalam (27')
Kerela/India, 2004, dir - Ramachandran K.
A lifelong dedication to percussion

23. Kitte Mil Ve Mahi: Where the Twain Shall Meet (72')
India, 2005, dir - Ajay Bhardwaj
Sufi traditions of Punjabi Dalits

24. Kora Rajee Land of the Diggers (51')
Jharkhand/India, 2005, dir - Biju Toppo
Jharkhandis work in Assam tea gardens

25. Lanka: The Other Side of War and Peace (75')
Sri Lanka, 2005, dir - Iffat Fatima
From LTTE to JVP

26. The Legend of Fat Mama (23')
Bengal/India, 2005, dir - Rafeeq Ellias
Among the Chinese in Calcutta

27. The Life and Times of a Lady from Awadh: Hima (135')
Awadh, 2003/2005, dir - Shireen Pasha
Remembering the Awadh that was home

28. Looking for Amitabh (5')
India, 2003, dir - Meenakshi Shedde
The superstar and the visually challenged

29. Manufactured Poverty - Director's Cut (12')
Manipur/India, 2005, dir - Wenceslaus Mendes & Simran Issar
Big business pushes out women entrepreneurs

30. A Million Steps (22')
India, 2003, dir - Pankaj Butalia
Secret agent pundits during the Great Game

31. My Brother My Enemy (42')
India/Pakistan, 2005, dir - Masood Khan & Kamajeet Negi
Watching Indo-Pak cricket series

32. My Village is Theatre, My Name is Habib (73')
India, 2005, dir - Sanjay Maharishi & Sudhanva Deshpande
A life dedicated to the stage

33. In the Name of Honour (19')
Pakistan, 2003, dir - Hammad Ghaznavi
How proud, the honour killing

34. The New Boys (100')
Uttarachal/India , 2003, dir - David MacDougall
12-year-olds join Doon School

35. The Other Woman (82')
Sri Lanka, 2004, dir - Anoma Rajakaruna
A Sinhalese discovers the Tamil

36. Search for Freedom (54')
Pakistan, 2003, dir - Munizae Jahangir
Woman of Afghanistan speak out

37. She Write (54')
India, 2005, dir - Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar
Women look for space

38. Snapshots from a Family Album (63')
Bombay/India, 2004, dir - Avijit Mukul Kishore
Candid portrait of a couple

39. Still, the Children are Here (88')
Meghalaya/India, 2004, dir - Dinaz Stafford
Existentialist angst of the Garo

40. Sundar Nagri: The City Beautiful (78')
Delhi/India, 2003 dir - Rahul Roy
Being laid off in global India

41. Sunset Bollywood (54')
Bombay/India, 2005, dir - Komal Tolani
Life off the stardom lane

42. Team Nepal (37')
Nepal/India, 2004/2005, dir - Girish Giri
To India on a football journey

43. Teardrops of Karnaphuli (60')
Bangladesh, 2005, dir - Tanvir Mokammel
Bangladesh's hill people