THE 116th EDITION OF THE fd ZONE Part I THEfdZONE and International Association of women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) India present OUR LIVES…TO LIVE (seeking a JUST world!) A 3-day festival of film CURATOR’S NOTE: A festival of films around seeking a just world... Slippery fellow, Justice. As murky as prejudice, as amorphous as inequality, as two-faced as patriarchy, as evasive as discrimination, as cunning as privilege, as unforthcoming as sweatshop wages, as ephemeral as a politician’s pre-election promises. To cut to the chase, the world is still filled on every side with the big “I” of Injustice, with the small satisfying joys of justice few and far between. The notion of injustice is linked to the idea of justice denied, which is based on a sense of what our rights are, or of how they are being trampled on – which in turn brings us to our struggles to obtain or regain those rights, as equal citizens of the state and equal members of our various communities. The festival includes several films that portray people’s movements for the protection of their land, resources, livelihoods, cultures, health, lives, freedoms – against the ravages of bauxite mining, nuclear reactors, army brutality, social exclusions, and compromised systems of justice. There are also individual stories, personal musings, satirical takes, heartwarming triumphs, and examples of resistance through art. We have exciting student films, testimonials and community videos, reports shot with urgency in a day, films made lovingly over years. There is animation, there are music videos, delectable fiction shorts and three fiction features! Together and singly, these films -- sourced from India, South Asia and the planet at large – tell us intense, moving, prescient, disturbing, hopeful human stories. Many of the filmmakers will be present, along with other discussants who are deeply engaged with some of the concerns these films foreground. Do join us to make the three days truly vibrant with discussion and debate, about cinema as well as about our lives...to live. - Smriti Nevatia, Curator, Our Lives...To Live FF
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