RED CARPET
Day 1, Fri, Dec 16, 2011
6.30PM-8.45PM
6.30 PM: INAUGURATION 7.00 PM: THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT Director: Stephan Elliott Country: Australia Language: English Year: 1994 Runtime: 103 min Storyline: Two drag‐queens and a transexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they've contracted with is Anthony's wife. Their bus breaks down, and is repaired by Bob, who travels on with them. Three friends, three lives, one persuasion and a pink bus named Priscilla head into the Australian desert with their colourful, extravagant show in a road movie that brings culture clash to the forefront of a comedy of errors. A mixture of vast landscapes, narrow minds and a melancholy, reflective mood that with the help of a larger than life gal that is Priscilla she more than widens the comfort zones and finds not just new horizons but also finds that is lost.
ORANGE CARPET
Day 2, Sat, Dec 17, 2011
10.00AM-1.15PM
10.00 AM: BOYS DON'T CRY Director: Kimberly Peirce Country: USA Language: English Year: 1999 Runtime: 118 min Storyline: It is a dramatization of the real‐life story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man, who pursues a relationship with a young woman, and is beaten, raped and murdered by his male acquaintances after they discover he is anatomically female. The picture explores the themes of freedom, courage, identity and empowerment. 12.15 PM: SHAAYAD Director : Sundeep Malani Country: India Language: English Year: 2011 Runtime: 26 min Storyline: This short film is about life in a big city. It could be any metropolitan city where people feel the inherent to belong to another. It somewhere reminds us of JON BON JOVI's quote that "No man is an island!" Surviving and struggling to find your place in the rat race of life becomes a bit easier when you have a companion. In this slice of life film these companionship cover various kinds: 2 room‐mates(a boy and a girl),2 supposed lovers(the girl and another boy) and finally a homo sexual fling(2 boys). It takes an interesting look at how the uncomplications of simple companionship outdo the insecurities that love can bring. 12.45 PM: ANYO MON Director : Swapan Nandy Country: India Language: Bengali Year: 2011 Runtime: 30 min Storyline: Singer Titas Roy is transsexual human beings. He feels that he is a woman within a male’s body. He cannot accept this. For this phenomenon he has faced insult, disrespect and physical assault from male dominated society, since his child‐hood. Rupai is the only light to Titas in his dark solitary life Rupai and Titas love each other. Still Titas somehow feels himself as an incomplete human being. Can Rupai give complete fulfilment to Titas by virtue of his love?
YELLOW CARPET
Day 2, Sat, Dec 17, 2011
2.00PM-4.00PM
2.00PM: FAMILY ALBUM Director: Nishtha Jain Country: India Language: English Year: 2011 Runtime: 52 min Storyline: Set in Kolkata, Family Album attempts to gain some insights into our notions of family as mediated through personal photographs in private collections. Encounters with members of a large joint family, a nuclear family, an elderly woman now living alone and a single man with an extensive family archive help to explore the ways in which we construct meanings in photos: through direct and indirect memory; through different ways of looking; through the conventions of portraiture itself. And we see how family photos may be read as cultural and historical narratives.
3.00 PM: BENGALURU PRIDE SHORT FILMS ON THE PROWL Directors: Henry, Sandeep, Charan Country: India Language: English Subtitled Year: 2010 Runtime: 4.18 min Storyline: Shot to the soundtrack of “I Wanna Mmm” by THE LAWYER, this music video is about cruising along the busy streets of Bangalore, desperately trying to find someone. FESTIVAL OF LOVE Directors: Veerath Bharathi, Rajesh Srinivish, J. Devi Gayathri Country: India Language: English Subtitled Year: 2010 Runtime: 9.10 min Storyline: This short celebrates love between two women through the medium of poetry. A DREAM NOT DEFERRED Directors: Amrita, Charu , Kannan, Siddharth Country: India Language: English Subtitled Year: 2010 Runtime: 6.56 min Storyline: This short film explores themes of migration, sartorial style and freedom in the life of a female‐to‐male transgender. CHALLENGE Directors: Pavan, Kiran, Christy Country: India Language: English Subtitled Year: 2010 Runtime: 4.30 min Storyline: A short documentary about a physically handicapped female‐to‐male transperson who makes room for himself in this world with unflinching courage and determination.
3.30PM: BOXING LADIES Director: Anusha Nandakumar Country: India Language: English Year: 2010 Runtime: 26 min The Boxing Ladies is the story of Zainab, her sisters Bushra (17) and Shugra (16). These teenage sisters from Kidderpore in Kolkata are from a slum colony where several young people find solace in pummelling others in a ring. Anusha Nandakumar, researched, wrote and directed this film, which was completed in June 2010, as a part of her course at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute’.
GREEN CARPET
Day 2, Sat, Dec 17, 2011
4.15 PM: I AM Director : Sonali Gulati Country: India Language: English Year: 2010 Runtime: 71 min I Am chronicles the journey of an Indian lesbian filmmaker who returns to Delhi, eleven years later, to re‐open what was once home, and finally confronts the loss of her mother whom she never came out to. As she meets and speaks to parents of other gay and lesbian Indians, she pieces together the fabric of what family truly means, in a landscape where being gay was until recently a criminal and punishable offense.
4.15PM-8.00PM
5.30 PM: SEARCHING 4 SANDEEP Director : Poppy Stockell Country: Australia Language: English Year: 2007 Runtime: 55 min Humorous and thoughtful, Searching 4 Sandeep explores the collision of love and ethnic, religious, and sexual identity. Filmmaker Stockell raises serious questions about a new kind of global/online romance at odds with the cultural, social, and geographical distances between people. Will the star‐crossed lovers surmount the obstacles separating them? Through raw, incredibly frank footage, Searching 4 Sandeep follows the couple’s tumultuous relationship across two years, and three continents, in a touching examination of sexuality, religion, globalization, and culture seen through the lens of this uniquely modern love story. 6.30 PM: I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT Director: Shamim Sarif Country: USA, UK, India Language: English Year: 2007 Runtime: 80 min Storyline: Novelist and filmmaker of South Asian and South African heritage Shamim Sarif’s autobiographical novel serves as the inspiration for this film directed by the author, and concerning two women from deeply diverse backgrounds who discover that the love between them is too powerful to deny. Tala (Lisa Ray) is a London‐based Jordanian of Palestinian descent. She's a spirited Christian in the midst of planning her wedding to her handsome Jordanian fiancé. Leyla (Sheetal Sheth) is a shy Muslim who's currently dating Leyla's best friend, Ali. Brought together by chance, Tala and Leyla form a slow bond that grows deeper with every minute they spend together. Eventually, the two girls reveal their true feelings to one another, and realize that they have fallen in love. The film is the recipient of 11 International Awards: Best Feature, Audience Award ‐ Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009, Best Feature ‐ International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Of Canary Islands, 2009, Best Feature ‐ Afterellen Visibility Awards 2008, Best Feature, Audience Award ‐ Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2009, Best Feature, Audience Award ‐ Pink Apple 2009, Audience Award Best Feature Film – Fairy Tales International Queer Diversity Film Festival (Calgary) 2009, Jury Winner Best Feature Film ‐ Festival Del Mar, Majorca 2009, Audience Award, Best Feature ‐ Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2009, Best Lesbian movie of the Holebifilmfestival Vlaams‐Brabant 2009, Belgium, Jury award for Best Women's Feature ‐ Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009, Best Feature Film ‐ Gay Film Nights International Film Festival 2009.
BLUE CARPET
Day 3, Sun, Dec 18, 2011
10.00AM-2.00PM
10.00 AM: MILK Director : Gus Van Sant Country: USA Language: English Year: 2008 Runtime: 128 min Storyline: Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, another city supervisor who was Milk's assassin. The film was released to much acclaim and earned numerous accolades from film critics and guilds. Ultimately, it received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, winning two for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Penn and Best Original Screenplay for Black. 12.15 PM: BERLINALE SHORTS BONNE MERE Director : Maxime Desmons Country: Canada Language: English Year: 2008 Runtime: 3 min Storyline: Alfred has left northern France to look for his mother in Marseille. She works as a prostitute, and he changes his name to be near her.
DISH Director : Brian Harris Krinsky Country: USA Language: English Year: 2008 Runtime: 15 min Storyline: Two emos in eastern Los Angeles chat about the sexual escapades of others. After Israel has found out everything from Louie, innocent Israel decides it’s about time he knew firsthand what it’s all about. The proviso is that the hair has to stay in place. THE ISLAND Director : Trevor Anderson Country: Canada Language: English Year: 2008 Runtime: 5 min Storyline: After receiving a letter which asks: ‘why don’t all gays just go and live together on an island and infect each other with Aids?’ filmmaker Trevor Anderson sets out across the ice and creates a gay scenario with a happy end. An animated, essayistic narrative film. TOMMY Director : Tora Mårtens Country: Sweden Language: English Subtitled Year: 2007 Runtime: 18 min Storyline: Havana, Cuba. The film’s director returns to the island to meet the film’s protagonist, Tommy, a onetime dancer at the Cuban national opera house who is HIV positive. In this film he talks about love and his sense of longing as he shares his life with us. TOMORROW EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT Director : Akram Zaatari Country: Lebanon Language: English Subtitled Year: 2010 Runtime: 7 min Storyline: “An iconic story of love, loss and longing unfolds through an intense ex ‐ change of thoughts between two persons. An unsettling use of communication, recording, and writing makes the film fluctuate between a dream, a script, and an exchange of love that everyone longs for.”Akram Zaatari B TEME (IN THE THEME) Director: Olga Popova Country: Russia Language: English Subtitled Year: 2007 Runtime: 14 min Storyline: A young couple celebrates their first wedding anniversary. Having both prepared surprises for each other, they crack open a bottle of champagne and, proudly showing each other their wedding rings, they look back on their relationship. With musical accompaniment from Frida Selander, they ponder such questions as marital rows, quarrels with their peers, the desire for children, and their daily lives “in the theme”. CON QUE LA LAVARE? (WITH WHAT SHALL I WASH IT?) Director: Maria Trénor Country: Spain Language: English Subtitled Year: 2003 Runtime: 11 min Storyline: Day break in the red‐light district of a Spanish town. Someone who earns their living in these parts makes their way home, sits down in front of the mirror and begins to remove their make‐up. As they do so, they reflect on the events of the night to the strains of a song from the Middle Ages entitled “Con qué la lavaré?”, a lament about single women which was once sung in four‐part harmony. A celluloid tribute to homosexual artistes of the late 1970s, just after Franco’s dictatorship. THE INTERVENTION Director: Jay Duplass Country: USA Language: English Year: 2004 Runtime: 15 min Storyline: All Steve’s friends know about his big problem and provide him with emotional support when it comes to learning the truth about Bill Parcels, the New York Giant’s coach. They hope that this will help him to come out with the truth about another pressing issue. LA DUCHA (THE SHOWER) Director: Maria José San Martín Country: Chile Language: English Subtitled Year: 2010 Runtime: 10 min Storyline: A couple spends their last morning together in the bathroom. One of them is about to leave the country. The other has decided to stay. But who will take care of the cat?
INDIGO CARPET Day 3, Sun, Dec 18, 2011
2.45PM-4.30PM
2.45 PM: DIARIES OF TRANSFORMATION Director: Anirban Ghosh Country: India Language: English Year: 2011 Runtime: 54 min Storyline: The film completed in January 2011, captures the tales of love, violence and social acceptance of seven individuals with trans‐identities in and around Kolkata, India in the times of change. It has been screened at 10th Q! Film Festival‐Jakarta, Indonesia, OutView Film Festival 2011,Athens, Greece, Serile Filmuli International Film Festival, Romania and has been shortlisted for International Film Festival Ahmedabad, IFFA‐2011, amongst others. Storyline: The documentary made as a part of a post‐doctoral research on intersex 3.45 PM: Y CAN’T I RUN? athletes in India was made in July, 2010. It contains the story of Santhi Soundarajan as THE STORY OF SANTHI SOUNDARAJAN told by her and her family members and friends. Santhi Soundarajan is a former Indian Director: Payoshni Mitra track and field athlete who remains in the public memory as an athlete who failed a Country: India sex test at the Asian Games in Doha in 2006. Since then her body has been publicly Language: English discussed, her sexual anatomy scrutinized, and her identity questioned. The Year: 2011 documentary will take us through the life of Santhi Soundarajan, her rise as an athlete, Runtime: 15 min the Asian Games and the sex test and the humiliation she suffered since then. 4.00 PM: DOUBLE THE TROUBLE TWICE THE FUN Director: Pratibha Parmar Country: UK Language: English Year: 1992 Runtime: 24 min Storyline: A rare and lively examination of disability and homosexuality as it affects both women and men, Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun advocates for acceptance rather than pity for participants in this video. Interviews with a wide range of disabled lesbian and gay people are inter‐cut with dramatic recreations and performances. This enlightening video dispels the myth that all disabled people are unhappy or have no sexual identity. It also looks at the difficulties of enduring prejudice as both a disabled and gay person.
VIOLET CARPET Day 3, Sun, Dec 18, 2011
4.45PM-8.30PM
4.45 PM: ELENA UNDONE Director: Nicole Conn Country: USA Language: English Year: 2010 Runtime: 111 min Storyline: Elena Winters, a mother and a pastor's wife, and Peyton Lombard, a well‐known lesbian writer, are two different personalities. When their paths cross, they feel connected to each other and eventually fall in love. Fate brings two diversely different women together, and sets them on a collision course that will shatter their preconceived notions about love, life and the power of one's soul. 6.45 PM: TRANSAMERICA Director: Nicole Conn Country: USA Language: English Year: 2005 Runtime: 103 min Storyline: A road movie unlike any other, Transamerica tells the story of a pre‐ operative male‐to‐female transsexual who takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York. Lead actor Felicity Huffman won an Academy award nomination (2005) for her performance in the film. It also won awards at the Cannes film Festival(2006), Berlin Film Festival and the Tribeca film festival. **Films are subjected to last minute changes