Espés
Isaac Rodríguez Ramos, Tánit Fernández Ciria
Spain. 2014. 12 min

Venue :  Centro Cultural Pilar Miró
26 may Tuesday.  19.30

Documentary about Espés, an small town in the Aragon,s Pyrenees, which like many others, is at risk of disappearing as it only has 4 inhabitants. Narrated by themselves, it reflects the weight of time on the town, and ponders what has been, what remains and what will be when there is no one left.

Benegal,s New Cinema
Iram Ghufran
India. 2014. 57min.  Biography.

A documentary on the films of Shyam Benegal, that explores the
time, ethos and concerns of the New Cinema Movement in India
through his oeuvre. A pioneer in the New Cinema Movement,
within the Hindi film industry, Benegal’s career spans four decades of consistent work. The film is a foray into the mind of this great filmmaker and an attempt to understand his motivations and impulses for making cinema.

Iram Ghufran

Iram is a Delhi based filmmaker and artist working on moving image, sound and text. Her work has been shown in several international art and cinematic contexts including the Berlin Film Festival, Experimenta India, World Social Forum and ISEA among others. As a member of the Media Lab at Sarai CSDS between 2004 and 2011, Iram was part of several experimental and multi-disciplinary processes and collaborations. Her first documentary essay film There is Something in the Air is the winner of several awards including the National Award for Best Direction and Best Editing.

Key Square
Shamik K Rakshit
India. 2014.  27 min.

Venue :  Intermediae el Matadero
22 may Friday.  17.00

Year :1975, City : Calcutta. Sudipto, a college fresher, searches for the meaning of life with his friend Monty. Monty is a leftwing student leader whereas Sudipto is apolitical, immersed in chess, literature and music. A state of Emergency is declared in India, and Sudipto’s life changes.

Shamik Kumar Rakshit

Born into a Bengali Middle class household on 29th February 1984. Being an ardent admirer of Cinema, it was just the same dream to be on the creative process of this 20th Century art form. A lover of the works of Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, John Ford, Satyajit Ray, Vijay Anand and Alfred Hitchcock, Rakshit is an alumnus of Film Direction Dept. at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India. “Key Square” is his diploma film.

Qissa -e-Parsi (The Story of Parsis)
Divya Cowasji / Shilpi Gulati
India. 2014. 30 min. History

Venue :  Spanish Film Institute
17 may Sunday.  20.00

The Film explores the history of the Parsi community, its  relationship to the Indian state and association with the city of Mumbai. It strives to understand the Zoroastrian faith, the philosophy to live, laugh and love that is the backbone of the Parsi way of life and what makes it so endearingly unique and beloved. As the community is plagued with anxieties over its dwindling numbers, the Film looks at current debates on issues of inter-faith marriage. It is an attempt to understand a community that has always been numerically small, yet, culturally and socially formidable.

Divya Cowasji / Shilpi Gulati

Divya and Shilpi have been working in the field of documentary film making, photography and research for the last four years.
Their body of work engages with issues of gender, public space and documenting oral histories of minority communities in India. In addition to independent work, they have collaborated with NGOs and institutions across the country, generating  archival, training and research material which have been showcased as films, audio visual exhibits and online archives.
Currently they live and work between Mumbai and Delhi.

Jalasayanam
Gireesh Kumar K.
India. 2014. 11 min.

Venue :  Función Lenguaje
23 may Saturday.  20.00

Krishnan, (75) lives with his invalid daughter and works day and night to look after her. He knows that his death is very near. Fishman, the only neighbour physically abuse her when the father is away to see a doctor. Father kills the fisherman, the daughter and kills himself.

JAI HO
Umesh Aggarwal
India. 2014. 60 min. Biography.

Venue :  Spanish Film Institute
31 may Sunday.  19.30

Allah-Rakha Rahman has the honour of single-handedly catapulting Indian Film Music on to the world stage.
Considered one of the world’s most influential people by Time Magazine, his prolific body of work, over 120 film scores worldwide – at last count – in a career spanning two decades, makes him one of the world’s all-time top selling recording artists. The Film explores the evolution of his style of music – a fusion of Eastern sensibilities
and Western technology. Through various turning points in his life and significant milestones, the Film celebrates an Indian icon who is no less than a global phenomenon.
Spanning across Los Angeles, London, Chennai and Bombay, the Film brings to its viewers, a hitherto unseen and unheard narrative of one of the greatest musicians the world has ever known.

Umesh Aggarwal

Umesh has been producing and directing television shows and documentary films for almost twenty years. His show Kiran – Joy of Giving, on Doordarshan, has won the Indian Telly Award a record five times and the Indian Television Academy Award twice. His films have been screened and awarded at various national and international film festivals. His film on pesticides in bottled water and soft drinks, The Whistle Blowers, for PSBT, won the National Award for Best Investigative Film. More recently, Brokering News, his film on paid news, also for PSBT, was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, in 2014.