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IMAGING ASIA
NETPAC FILM FESTIVAL |
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Time |
Film |
| 18th Wed |
8:00pm |
Inaugural Film Tulpan (Kazakhstan/2008/100mins)
Dir. Sergei Dvortsevoy
Asa, recently discharged from the Russian Navy, heads to a barren wasteland of a village, somewhere in the middle of Kazakhstan to join his sister Samal and her family. He daydreams of becoming a herdsman with his own ranch. The landowner at the village decides that only established herdsman, with wives and grounded dreams may be given land. To do this Asa needs to marry his enigmatic neighbour, Tulpan, the only woman eligible for marriage within a hundred miles. The film follows the trials of Asa, his surrogate family, and his western culture-loving friend, Boni, in their efforts to realise Asa's dreams.
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| 19th Thu |
7:00pm |
Biandan Gunjang (So Close To Paradise) (Chinese/1998/93mins)
Dir. Wang Xiaoshuai
Follows the story of two country boys, Gao Ping and Dong Zi who move to the big city to carve out new lives for themselves. While Dong Zi is content with his menial job hauling boxes around the docks, Gao Ping quickly enters a maze of gangsters, crime, and underworld alliances. When Gao Ping kidnaps and then falls in love with the beautiful, seductive nightclub singer, Ruan Hong, his fate is sealed.
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| 19th Thu |
9:15pm |
Darbareye Elly (About Elly) (Iran/2009/119mins)
Dir. Asghar Farhadi
After living in Germany for many years, Ahmad is on a flying visit to Iran. His old university friends decide to organise three days together on the shore of the Caspian Sea. Unbeknown to others, the joyful Sepideh invites Elly, her daughter's nursery school teacher. Ahmad would like to settle down with an Iranian woman. But the joyful atmosphere evaporates with Elly’s sudden disappearance.
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| 20th Fri |
7:30pm |
Bulan Tertusuk Ilalang (And the Moon Dances) (Indonesia/1995/135mins) Dir. Garin Nugroho
This beautifully rendered, realist drama chronicles the relationship between an aged teacher of traditional singing, his student and a lovely young dancer. Young Ilalang wants to learn to sing and compose, but haunted by the constant memories of his father's abuse, he cannot really concentrate. Old Waluyo refuses to coddle him and demands his best all the time. Ilalang has been in love with dancer Bulan for ages, but it takes him a long time to tell her. She too keeps her distance, but finally gives in. Later, she decides she must ‘purify’ herself leading the two to make crucial decisions about their futures.
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| 21st Sat |
7:00pm |
Tirador (Slingshot) (Philippines/2007/86mins)
Dir. Brillante Mendoza
Tirador is about the intertwined lives of Caloy, Leo, Rex and Odie. All of them live in the depressed slum area of Quiapo, Manila. The film takes place during Holy Week amidst the 2007 elections. It represents Manila as swarming with criminals -- snatchers, pickpockets, drug pushers, shoplifters and the like. However, these petty criminals are portrayed as nothing compared to the corrupt, hypocritical politicians who make false promises, exploit poverty and call on God for help.
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| 21st Sat |
9:15pm |
Bariwali (The Lady of the House) (India/1999/150mins)
Dir. Rituparno Ghosh
Banalata has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate. Suddenly her house is filled with movie stars and glamorous people, including the beautiful actress Sudeshna and charming director Deepankar. Though she knows that not only is Deepankar married but that his former lover Sudeshna still holds a torch for him, the lonely widow finds herself drawn to the director.
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| 22nd Sun |
7:00pm |
Mogari no (The Mourning Forest) (Japan-France/2007/97mins)
Dir. Naomi Kawase
Higeki lives in a small retirement home. He feels comfortable and happy with the other residents and the gentle and caring hospital staff. Machiko, one of the home’s staff, pays special attention to him. However, she is secretly haunted by the loss of her child. After celebrating Shigeki’s birthday, Machiko decides to take him for a drive in the countryside. Making their way along the scenic back-roads the car is forced into a ditch by a landslide and it is here that they embark on their journey of discovery together.
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| 22nd Sun |
9:15pm |
Oasis (Korea/2002/132mins) Dir. Lee Chang-dong
Jong-du, a young man just out of prison for manslaughter, is a social. When released, he calls on the family of the victim, who sent him away, but not before he has seen Gong-ju, a young woman disabled severely by cerebral palsy. Both of them are used and abused by their families. Although their relationship begins via Jong-du's criminal past, a friendship develops. They talk of their favourite things; he washes her hair; they go out; in their late night phone calls, he helps her past her fears of the dark. Is there a place in the world for these two inarticulate people?
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| OTHER FILMS |
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Film |
| 2nd Mon |
7:00pm |
Premier of Eshwar Mime Company (Hindi/2004/105mins)
Dir. Shyamanand Jalan
Script: Vijay Tendulkar; Choreography: Chetna Jalan.
Art: Rameshwar Broota
Perhaps the first & only film dealing with the subject of the art form of Mime. Chitrath, a struggling writer, is invited by the enigmatic Eashwar, to join his mime company. His educated & refined sensibilities get repelled & fascinated by the primal world that opens in front of him. Collab: NFDC, Xanthus Productions & Kri Foundation
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| 7th Sat |
7:00pm |
DOC FILM|Black River Business
(Hindi & English with subtitles/2010/75mins) Dir. Sudheer Gupta.
Explores the state of neglect of river Yamuna as evident in Delhi in sharp contrast to the active renewal of rivers Tyne, Tees and Wear, dead 30 years ago and alive today, in industrial North East England. A film about the links between pollution and regeneration of rivers in a modern changing world. |
| 14th Sat |
7:30pm |
DOC FILM | India By Song
(English and Hindi with subtitles/2010/65mins)
Dir. Writer-Filmmaker Vijay Singh.
Woven around a road journey across the country, the film brings together history, colourful Bollywood song clips, live testimonies and beautiful contemporary images to deliver a multi-layered portrait of India since its Independence. |
| 24th Tue |
7:00pm |
FILM CLUB SCREENING | Turneja (The Tour) (Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian with Eng subtitles/2008/107mins)
Dir. Goran Markovic.
Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
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| 28th Fri |
10:00am |
DOC FILM|Jeevika 2010: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival
Collab: Centre for Civil Society |
| 29th Sat |
10:00am |
DOC FILM|Jeevika 2010: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival continues
Collab: Centre for Civil Society |
| 29th Sat |
6:00pm |
DOC FILM|Jeevika 2010: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival concludes. Collab: Centre for Civil Society |
| 30th Mon |
6:30pm |
FILM CLUB DISCUSSION | Picnic At Hanging Rock
(Eng/1979/115mins) Dir. Peter Weir
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, not the answering of them. Film scholar Shivani Mutneja will introduce the film and facilitate the discussion.
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