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“Kajarya”” is a film about the force of circumstances and how they make people who they are and that it is only our personal choices that actually define the outcome of the circumstances. Set against two backdrops, New Delhi and a village in Haryana, the protagonist murders unwanted girl infants in the garb of religion. Kajarya and Meera are two absolutely different women from two different worlds. Kajarya is an uneducated woman who lives in an Indian village. Meera, an educated, modern woman who lives alone in a city.
Meera is a global citizen. She could be living anywhere in the world. Ordinarily, the lives of these two women should never have crossed. But circumstances bring the two together and lock them in to an orbit that neither can break out of. Like planets they are caught in each other’s energy field almost without their willing. At another level, Kajarya and Meera’s circumstances are defined by the time and place of their birth. And yet the society they live in judges them for their actions. And so the film also looks at the deep societal hypocrisy that collectively supports something heinous and ugly and pushes everything under the carpet. And then stands on judgement of those who have been forced in to positions they did not really want.”
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KAJARYA
FILM RESUMES-EN 20142013 | FictiON | 108′ | IN | vo HI st Fr Nl Eng
with: Nasir Ali, Manoy Bakshi, Shashi Bhushan
“Kajarya”” is a film about the force of circumstances and how they make people who they are and that it is only our personal choices that actually define the outcome of the circumstances. Set against two backdrops, New Delhi and a village in Haryana, the protagonist murders unwanted girl infants in the garb of religion. Kajarya and Meera are two absolutely different women from two different worlds. Kajarya is an uneducated woman who lives in an Indian village. Meera, an educated, modern woman who lives alone in a city.
Meera is a global citizen. She could be living anywhere in the world. Ordinarily, the lives of these two women should never have crossed. But circumstances bring the two together and lock them in to an orbit that neither can break out of. Like planets they are caught in each other’s energy field almost without their willing. At another level, Kajarya and Meera’s circumstances are defined by the time and place of their birth. And yet the society they live in judges them for their actions. And so the film also looks at the deep societal hypocrisy that collectively supports something heinous and ugly and pushes everything under the carpet. And then stands on judgement of those who have been forced in to positions they did not really want.”
“Kajarya is a metaphor for that ugly side of society that everyone wants to hide.”
Madhureeta Anand.
IT’S YOUR FAULT
FILM RESUMES-EN 20142013 | Short | 14′ | IN | vo Eng st Fr Nl
Edgy humorous campaign against violence against women in India. Widely seen on TV and networks.
FEMALE DIRECTORS
FILM RESUMES-EN 20142013 | Fiction | 48′ | CH | vo Ch st Fr Nl Eng
with: Guo Yue & Yang Mingming
After graduating from filmmaking school Ah Ming and Yueyue can find no work, so they decide to make a film of their own lives. While working in a theater, Yueyue falls for the play’s male lead. The two young women gradually work out the preliminaries of their shooting plan, until one day the unexpected happens.”
“My best toy is my small camera, not pretty boys, because it can be a gun sometimes.”
Yang Ming Ming
EVELYNE AXELL : LA VENUS AUX PLASTIQUES
FILM RESUMES-EN 2014Evelyne Axell was a Belgian artist whose work is only aknoweldged 30 years later. She was one of Magritte’s students. Her like, her beauty and her expression are linked. She was the first woman in history to paint herself naked, who dared expressing her desire through painting. The film follows the artist’s life.
ESCAPE FROM GARDEN GROVE
FILM RESUMES-EN 2014Life isn’t all rosy for 16-year-old Sophie. Her dad moved out, her mom’s never home, and nobody tells her anything. So when she makes a disturbing discovery, she turns to the one person who knows how to make things better: Grandma. The plan’s simple: break out of the nursing home and escape to Belgium. If only the bus would come. If only Grandma knew where Belgium was.
EN LA CASA, LA CAMA Y LA CALLE
FILM RESUMES-EN 2014Nicaragua, a female film crew decides to make a TV series about women’s lives.
DEFINED LINES
FILM RESUMES-EN 2014A hard-hitting parody of Blurred Lines by 3 New-Zealand law students
ELEVAGE DE POUSSIERE
FILM RESUMES-EN 20142013 | Documentairy| 47′ | BE |vo Eng st Fr Nl
What is the value of images as objective testimonies of a conflict? Can we believe what we see? In her new work, Sarah Vanagt turns her attention to an important chapter in recent European history: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The artist examines obstacles to reconstructing a war that is nevertheless well documented. She has started from a simple movement of the hand – a pencil being rubbed on a sheet of paper placed over an object – and adapted this “revelatory” rubbing process to the courtroom. The film Élevage de poussière / Dust Breeding offers a penetrating account of her exploration. Measuring the gap between the facts, the material proof of these facts, the images that represent them and their interpretation, she attempts to decipher the secret language formed by traces of war. Sharpening her eye until it becomes a microscope lens, Vanagt reveals a landscape of details inviting us to look at things differently.
“Something is past and something has yet to emerge and we don’t know what that is. But how can one already tell something”
DES ÉTOILES
FILM RESUMES-EN 20142013 |Fiction | 90′ | FR/ SEN | vo st Fr
with: Ralph Amousou, Mareme Demba Ly, Souleymane
Fates and lives cross one another’s path between Turin, New-York and Dakar. Migration seen as a constellation.
“Je ne voulais pas être devant la caméra, mais derrière, pourraconter des histoires” Dyana Gaye
DE LA RAGE
FILM RESUMES-EN 2014They didn’t want to believe her. From that came the rage. And from the rage came the need for the truths to be told.