Behind India, a look through their social movements
Fernando Vera Moreno
Spain.  2018.  77 min

This film shows the struggles, often invisible, of activists and anonymous women like our protagonist Santoshi, who are not satisfied with being silent witnesses of the violation of their rights and the deterioration of the environment.

FERNANDO  VERA  MORENO

Fernando Vera Moreno (Zaragoza, España, 12/09/1975). Formed in the Bigas Luna Film Workshop, the New York Film Academy and different courses in script, direction and production. Diploma in Teaching by the University of Zaragoza.  Audiovisual producer with more than 15 years of experience in management and production teams.  Experience for more than four years in the preparation and implementation of educational programs that take the cinema as a pedagogical tool in different schools, both in primary and secondary. Responsible for award-winning short films inside and outside of Spain, launch campaigns for brands nationwide and several institutional documentaries.

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Miss Man
Tathagata Ghosh
India.  2019.  25 min

After being shunned by his homophobic father for his sexuality and his lover for not being a woman,  Manob finds himself travelling to the city for a sex change operation. However, as he struggles with his identity, he faces challenges and questions he may not be ready to confront yet.

TATHAGATA  GHOSH

Hailing from a small Indian town, Tathagata has always believed in telling stories of people from different social backgrounds.  People who do not have a voice of their own.  Tathagata writes for various leading web film magazines as well about cinema and film making. His articles have been published in some of the leading web film magazines of India too like Jamuura.  His detective novel “Senilar Sonket” got published in the Kolkata International Book Fair 2016 in February. He has also directed numerous commercials, music videos and written screenplays for several projects. His last short “The Demon”(Doitto) has travelled to more than 25 major international film festivals, competing for Best Short and has won 4 awards so far.

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Araf
Didem Pekún
Turkey. 2018. 45 min

A’raf – a Turkish word for limbo or purgatory – symbolises the borderland between heaven and hell for those who are, from incapacity, neither morally bad nor good, according to Qur’an. In this very special essayistic road movie,  we follow a diary of Nayia, a ghostly character who travels between Srebrenica, Sarajevo and Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  She has been in exile since the war and returns for the memorial of the Srebrenica genocide. Her diary notes merge with the myth of Daedalus and Icarus – Icarus being the name given to the winner of a bridge-diving competition in her home country. This years-old tradition in Mostar appears as a central motif of the film. The carefully chosen visual style with black and white photography remarkably emphasises the emotional state and grief of people at the Srebrenica Memorial.

DIRECTOR,S STATEMENT

I was in a trance when I was making this film, or perhaps in a nightmare I was unable to snap out of.  Everything fell into place in that manner, in the sense of how the team came together, how the production materialized out of a series of what almost looked like impossibilitie The film is also an elegy in slow motion; an elegy of an event that the world fast-forwarded. I wanted to rewind and replay and really look to see through the commemoration, because commemoration is an act of protest against this repulsive phenomenon of genocide and the desire to erase a people from history.

DIDEM  PEKÚN

Didem Pekün was born in 1978 in Istanbul, Turkey.  Her work explores both artistic research and practice. In her essay films, she addresses how violence and displacement define and destroy life. Her documentaries and video installations have been shown internationally and have received various awards.  She is a founding member of the Center for Spatial Justice (MAD).  She holds a BA in Music from SOAS, an MA in Documentary from Goldsmiths, and a practice-based PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London. After being a faculty member at Koç University, a Research Fellow at Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, a Joint Fellow at Institute for Advanced Studies & Visual Studies Platform at CEU, Budapest, she is currently a fellow at Graduate School / Berlin Center for the Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences.

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