Final schedule for Dialogues 2013

DIALOGUES: 7th CALCUTTA LGBT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2013 Organised by Sappho for Equality & Pratyay Gender Trust in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata FINAL SCHEDULE : NOVEMBER 21-24, 2013 [D = Documentary Film; F = Feature Film; Shorts = Short Film] SCREENING DATE

SEGMENT GENRE *

21.11.2013

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F

22.11.2013

DIRECTOR

SYNOPSIS/STORYLINE

RUNTIME

SEGMENT DURATION

HALL 1

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30 mins

6.00pm-6.30pm

Humayun Ahmed

A teenage boy is hired along with the music group of his father by a Zamidar (landlord) for entertaining him until the annual flood is over in the Haor region of East Bengal. But the boy finds out that he has to do something more than the rest of the members of the group are required- he has to satisfy the landlord sensually as well. The wife of the landlord cannot stand this new 'rival' of hers and conspires to kill the boy.

96mins

1hr 36 min

6.30pm-8.06pm

Indranil Roychowdhury

An adolescent boy ( Phoring) growing up in a back-of-beyond township in North Bengal. Surrounded by the lush Dooars countryside the town barely survives the shutdown of a factory and its jobless population. Maladjusted and a born loser, Phoring fights the voices in his head he calls God. And then a new teacher ( Doel) arrives in school. Doel opens up his mind to things unknown and just when Phoring starts believing that this is not a dream, Doel disappears abruptly leaving behind a trail of doubt and suspicion. Phoring decides to go looking for her in Kolkata.

127mins

3 hrs 32 mins

5.00pm-8.31pm

54 mins

10.30am-11.24am

Inauguration

Ghetu Putro Komola

Phoring

Dresden Shorts

III

SCREENING TIME

COUNTRY & YEAR

Bangladesh 2012

India 2013

II

F

23.11.2013

TITLE

§ Films are subjected to last minute changes

Tomboy

France 2011

Céline Sciamma

A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children. It is heavily implied that Mikhael is a closeted transgender boy. This film follows his experiences with his newfound friends, his potential love interest, Lisa, his younger sister and his parents. It focuses in on the significance of gender identity in social interaction from an early age, the difficulties of being transgender and young, and how Mikhael navigates these in the background of childhood play and love.

It's Consuming Me

Germany 2012

Kai Stänicke

I can’t move on, I wish I could. But I’m caught in the thought of what could have been, losing my grip on reality.

The Duck's Migration

USA, Chile 2011

Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo

Jeremy is confused about his friendship with Alphonse while obsessed with the ducks in the park’s lake and their migration. They inevitably leave, Alphonse goes back to Paris, and Jeremy stays, but all of them depart to discover something new.

Leben will ich (Taboo)

Germany 2011

Chiara Grabmayr

Chantal lives with her 6 year old son Marlon in a housing estate in Munich.

Ever since her childhood, she feels uncomfortable with her body. She wants to be accepted as a man and a father as well. At a parents' evening in Marlon's school, Kevin has his first public appearance as a man.

85mins

3mins

14mins

8mins

HALL 2

III

Dresden Shorts

23.11.2013

D

23.11.2013

Germany 2012

Benjamin Teske

Die Katze tanzt (Cat's Dance)

Germany 2011

Esther Bialas Kathrin, who is going to get married the next day. An unexpected occurrence

USA, Uganda 2012

Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika ZouhaliWorrall

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death.

David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Susan Muska, Greta Olafsdottir

After 42 years, feisty and delightful lesbian couple Edie and Thea are finally getting married. From the early '60s to the present day, the tireless community activists persevere through many battles, both personal and political. These two compassionate and brave women are a model of courage and strength that speaks to everyone, of any age. Through this film audiences will recognize that dancing, like loving, can continue at any age, and rediscover the timeless message “Don’t postpone joy”.

61mins

Rijul Bar

Motherhood comes as a bless to a woman. She gives birth of her baby after going through lot of suffering and pain for 10 months & 10 days. Lots of dream & hope she knits during the time of her pregnancy. Even if the newborn comes unfortunately with some physical or mental disorder, the mother can’t able to keep the baby away from her. But if the child is of sexually different test (LGBT), pressurized by norms of the society created or maintained by some so called educated persons restricts the mother to be with her baby. Suddenly society becomes more concerned with the thing between two legs rather than affection, moral & family values of our society.Where we always talk about women’s rights but our all slang which we all time deliver spontaneously , are started with mother, sister then how can a mother, a simple homemaker say that my child belongs to the community, come-let us accept it.

50mins

Pramada Menon

When visualizing the “other”, there are constant assumptions made on who these people are, what they look like, what they must be thinking – and as one gets to know the “other”, one realizes the emptiness of these characterisations.

The film, And you thought you knew me brings the lives of five People Assigned Gender Female at Birth (PAGFB) into focus. Five people, whose only common meeting ground is that they identify themselves as outside of the heterosexual framework and live in the same city. What they identify as, their stories, relationships and activism, set against the backdrop of Delhi - all form part of the narrative and create a tapestry of images and metaphors, that invites one to re-engage with and rethink the notion of the other, the ‘sexual deviant’.

53mins

Call Me Kuchu

D

D

V

Edie & Thea

Maa I Exist Beyond X & Y

And You Thought You Knew Me

USA 2009

India 2013

India 2013

To finally gain her father’s acceptance, transsexual Leonie decides to return masqueraded as a man to the world of her childhood: the funfair. Though even the old owner of the ghost train has something to hide...

Ever since their childhood Anne is secretly in love with her best friend,

during the Hen’s Night celebration is bound to shake up their friendship.

IV

D

23.11.2013

Fliehkraft (Escaping Gravity)

54 mins

10.30am-11.24am

2 hrs 28 mins

11.45am-2.15pm

2 hrs 28 mins

2.45pm-5.15pm

23mins

6mins

87mins

23.11.2013

V

D

Trailer

23.11.2013

Je Jan Aachhe Majhkhaane (Caught in the Middle)

India 2013

A Swiss Rebel: Annemarie Switzerland Schwarzenbach 2000 (1908-1942)

Debalina; Associate Director & Research: Dr. Payoshni Mitra

Critical debates about intersexuality in the west have been about medical management of intersex children. In India, debates surrounding the issue of intersexuality received attention in relation to sportspersons. Inspired by the resilience shown by Pinki Pramanik, a former Indian athlete, in tackling social stigma, we felt the necessity to document Pinki’s journey since her arrest last year after a woman she lived with accused her of rape. Our film is an emotional journey into the life of Pinki as she bravely encounters public slander and resists social conservatism and sexual binary. The camera follows Pinki in public as well as private spaces in order to capture the real person behind the monstrous image that was created by popular media. The crew travels with her to her village, to the seaside for an outing and to various spaces in the city or in suburban Bengal where Pinki travels either for work or for leisure. The film is, in fact, a story in progress. It is about the journey of the protagonist from being the aberration, the feared rapist and a cheater in the public eye to self-realization, to someone who is comfortable with her body, and fearless, ready to take on the world – evident from her increased visibility in events organized by Sappho for Equality and her ability to publicly acknowledge her intersex variation. The film that will be shown in the festival is a work-in-progress version.

45mins

Carole Bonstein

Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 1908-1942. Annemarie received a doctorate in history from the University of Zurich and connected with intellectual and bohemian circles in Berlin and Paris. She rebelled against her prestigious family’s conservative values and struggled with her mother’s possessiveness.

Nonetheless, Annemarie lived openly as a lesbian and developed her journalistic voice and camera skills through adventurous travel and keen observation of social conditions. She embarked on affairs with various prominent women, such as Thomas Mann’s daughter Erika, and briefly married a gay man, Claude Clarac, a French diplomat to Iran. Throughout her life, Schwarzenbach fought depression and morphine addiction, and attempted suicide several times. Her life tragically ended in a bicycle accident at age 34.

This shorty is the trailer of the documentary 'A Swiss Rebel: Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942)' to be screened as the prequel of the feature film ‘The Journey to Kafiristan’

6mins

Donatello Dubini & Fosco Dubini

In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was among Erika and Klaus Mann's circle of friends in the 30s, is searching for a place of refuge in the Near East to discover her own self. Ella Maillart justifies her restlessness, her need for movement and travel, with a scientific pretext: she would like to explore the mysterious Kafiristan Valley and make a name for herself with publications on the archaic life of the nomads living there. Both women are on the run, but political developments and their own biographies catch up with them again and again. Their mutual journey through the outside world, which runs from Geneva via the Balkans and Turkey to Persia, is compounded by the inner world of emotions with a tender love story.

101mins

John Greyson, Jack Lewis

Set in 18th century South Africa, the film dramatizes the true story of a white Dutch sailor man and a black Khoi herder, both prisoners on Robben Island, who were later executed for sodomy. The Khoi were part of the Hottentot tribal group and considered “untouchable”. This retelling of their story, based partly on court transcripts, uses intentional anachronisms of dress, and objects like transistor radios, typewriters and jeeps, to illustrate the larger theme that homophobia and racism are still very much present in today's world.

97mina

VI

F

F

The Journey to Kafiristan

Proteus

Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands 2001

South Africa, Canada 2003

2 hrs 28 mins

2.45pm-5.15pm

3 hrs 24 mins

5.30pm-8.54pm

D

23.11.2013

Flying Inside My India Body 2008

Flying Inside My Body explores how the form of the body can become a powerful physical language to express dissent over societal norms and conventions. The film is a journey with veteran photographer Sunil Gupta, who has used his art to challenge the stereotypes that define one's body, sexuality and identity. Gupta has spent over 20 years compiling the first photographic chronicle of the gay community in India, while at the same time, exploring his own relationship with his country of origin. The film's lyrical style marries still photography with moving images and text, to unfold an intensely personal narrative that questions the deeply ingrained prejudices that we all carry within ourselves.

Catherine Scott

Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientèle - people with disability.

70mins

Phoebe Hart

Orchids, My Intersex Adventure is an auto-biographical 2010 documentary about one woman's struggle to understand her own intersex condition while interviewing other intersex people. Director Phoebe Hart used digital cameras and a small crew while on a road trip of self-discovery through various areas of Australia, recording some personal struggles disclosed to her by the other intersex individuals.

60mins

Ian Iqbal Rashid

Surviving Sabu is a story of the generational conflict in a Muslim Asian family.

The Indian film actor Sabu, the childhood star of The Thief of Baghdad and Elephant Boy is the flash point in the troubled relationship between Amin and his father, Sadru. Amin is making a film about Sabu, who's acting roles dried up once he reached adulthood. Amin sees Sabu's tragic life as an example of cultural colonialism, while for Sadru he is a symbol of Asian success and achievement in the West. During his childhood, the Sabu movies linked Amin and his father, but now they have become the battleground for settling other, more personal arguments, about sexuality and family obligations. The men's different interpretations of the Sabu story serves as a jumping point from which find a new understanding of each others' lives. Featuring clips from Sabu's most famous films, this funny yet touching film offers an understanding of the colonizing affect of Hollywood on everyday life.

16mins

In the animated short film 1977, we watch Maria grow from adolescence through to adulthood in a conservative society in Spain. Preferring basketball to frilly pink dresses, cycling to catty gossip, girls to boys, society often attempts to rectify Maria with little success. Director Peque Varela punctuates Maria’s repression with dream like visual imagery that stays with you long after your initial viewing, a feat no doubt aided by the fact that this is an autobiographical tale for Verela.

8mins

VII D

Scarlet Road

D

Orchids, My Intersex Adventure

Other Shorts

Surviving Sabu

23.11.2013

Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas, Sumit Sharma, Ajeeta Chowhan

VIII

Australia 2011

Australia 2010

UK 1999

1977

UK 2007

Peque Varela

What Do You Know?

USA 2011

Ellen Brodsky they know about gays and lesbians, what they hear at school, and what they'd

Wolf

Malaysia 2008

Anrie Too

Manipuri Transgenders Seek Acceptance

India 2011

Mercy Kamei frequent discrimination.

Elementary school children from Massachusetts and Alabama describe what like teachers to do.

Water changes...as change is constant. A girl reminisces and reevaluates her relationship. Has she changed, like water often does? From water to ice to vapour and yet it is water... maybe because change is the only constant.

Despite their efforts to fit in, the transgender community in Manipur still faces

35mins

2 hrs 45 mins

2.30pm-5.15pm

2 hrs

5.45pm-7.45pm

13mins

7mins

3mins

Other

23.11.2013

VIII

5.45pm-7.45pm

2 hrs

City and Her

India 2013

Sulakshana Biswas

This video art maps a departure from the phenomenon of the city and the Baudelerian Flaneur - a male, unemployed intellectual youth roaming around the metropolis; to its female counterpart- the Flaneuse. This work lingers on the possibility of the Flaneuse in reality, roaming around the city, alone and fearless. The film also annotates some characters from Indian cinema, where many actresses have brought the character of the Flaneuse alive on screen.

Khoshra Khata

India 2013

Sulakshana Biswas

The thematic thread of the film deals with the cult of Meerabai, her art, her music, her desire, her sexuality, her Krishna, her cuckold.

Achalayatan

India 2013

Hyash Tanmoy, Mrigankasekh ar Ganguly

Rape is a social cancer. Woman is victimized in everywhere. The country is roaring. The intellects are walking with candle. The government pay the allowances to the victim. The oppositions are taking the advantages. The process of purgation has been already started. The media get excited with the justice. But, what will happen if the victim is not a female?

16mins

Priyadarshi Banerjee

The protagonist Hiya took a decision in her early life to establish her wished identity, but when she revealed it to her admirer,Anirban, he took it as an unacceptable reality.It was like a tight slap on his face.Actually her decision was bold,painful and also very suspicious for our modern society and its all about "ANOTHER LIFE STORY."

23 mins

10mins

Mailuki Shorts

Arekti Jiboner India Golpo (Another 2013 Life Story)

2mins

6mins

La Pleimobil

Spain 2013

Isaí Escalada & Carlos González

A human playmobil

Tres En Un Cuarto (Three in a Bed)

Spain 2013

Federico Calabuig

‘Tres en un cuarto’ relates to the uncomfortable moments that someone lives after getting involved in a threesome. With a sense of humor and comic awkwardness, it's inevitable that there's no going back to how things were.

Soy JuanA ( I am JuanA)

Argentina 2011

Laura Bondel can be what he really is, rather than what other people expect him to be.

7mins

The first time can be really hard, especially when you feel you've got something to prove to your mates. Alex and the others hang out at the beach, chatting and bragging. He tries to get closer to Sofia with a joke she finds Anders Hazeliustotally unfunny. Nevertheless they go off together. A first awkward kiss, they lie in the grass, zips get undone. They both want something to happen but it simply doesn't work out. Never mind, they think, but what will they tell the others?

9mins

Första gången Sweden (The First Time) 2013

Two Girls Cambodia against the Rain 2012

Brasilia 2012

Sao Sopheak

A captivatingly, courageous and touching film about a lesbian couple in Cambodia. The two women have known and loved each other since the time of the Khmer Rouge. The deep bond existing between them and their strength have helped them overcome all different kinds of resistance, including that of their families.

11mins

Rafael Aidar

At a new school Leandro meets the lively Jefferson. They form an instant attachment and soon realize that theirs is no ordinary friendship. But Jefferson has to tell Leandro something and he is clearly struggling to get it out. Leandro enquires further, hoping it’s some kind of a joke. Except Jeff does not look like he is joking. If they want to be together there's one irreversible thing Leandro must deal with: Jeff is HIV positive.

18mins

Berlinale Shorts

O Pacote (The Package)

JuanA is going through some decisive moments in his life. He wonders how he

7mins

24.11.2013

IX

3 hrs

10.30am-1.30pm

Berlinale Shorts

24.11.2013

Ja kada sam bila klinac, bila sam Serbia klinka (When I 2013 was a Boy, I was a girl)

D

F

X

30mins

Israel 2013

Oren Adaf

Friday afternoon in a park in Jerusalem. Shabbat is about to begin and people are making their final preparations. The park is almost empty – apart from the gay cruising scene. A young man, Oren, needs to make a phone call, but he hasn’t got a mobile with him. He addresses a passing Armenian but isn’t sure if the man has even understood him. But the cleric is after something else entirely. Oren acquiesces, caught between curiosity and fear, desire and danger. Then his lover appears; this is the man he really wants. The two go to his apartment where Oren again tries to make his phone call, this time with success. Their passion is delayed by his phone call, but not prevented.

20mins

Ta av mig (Undress Me)

Sweden 2013

Night. Two people - a man and a woman – meet. Above all else, their attraction for one another is palpable. Their attraction and their desire to kiss, and more.

'My place, or yours?' A journey begins through the city's empty streets. He caresses her, wants to kiss her. 'You're the first …' he whispers into her ear, but surely she isn't his first woman ' … who is taller than me and who has a deeper voice.' 'I had an operation, three years ago.' After his initial shock, Victor Lindgrencuriosity gets the better of him. He wants to touch her but she withdraws.

'You've got breasts, I've felt them. Can I see them?' 'Here?' 'Yes, there's nobody around.' 'But it's cold … can I see your dick?' 'Here?' 'If I have to show you my breasts, I should be able to see your dick.' Plenty of viewing and gazing occurs during this night. Desire will always find a way. But who is creating who, and what will remain?

15mins

Intersexion

New Zealand, Germany, USA, South Grant Lahood Africa, Australia 2012

The first question any new parent asks… “Is it a boy or a girl?” What if it’s neither? 1 in 2,000 babies is born with genitalia so ambiguous that the doctors cannot easily answer this question. In this groundbreaking documentary, intersex individuals reveal the secrets of their unconventional lives – and how they have navigated their way through this strictly male/female world, when they fit somewhere in between.

68mins

India 2010

The film is about emotional archiving. A bereaved mother(50) dumbstruck by the news of an accidental death of her 28 yr old son comes to Kolkata to finish of the last rituals, pack & carry his belongings back to Delhi. Her 4 day stay in Kolkata in her dead son's office apartment laden with memories & her constant interaction with his office colleagues (his only family in the City) makes her realise that the ownership of her Son's belongings, tangible or otherwise, which she claimed to be exclusively personal is actually ubiquitous, distributed among all his friends and acquaintances. So much so that it can't be packed and moved away. She also realises her own presence in the midst of these unfamiliar people the fact that she has been inhabiting their hearts and thoughts much before destiny brought them together.

104mins

IX Beshivhey Hayom (In Praise of the Day)

24.11.2013

Goca is a transvestite in Belgrade, the capital city of a country where organising or participating in a gay pride parade is forbidden. She is raising a daughter who is really her niece. Although her eighteen-year-old boyfriend steals the money she risks life and limb to earn as a sex worker, Goca still Ivana Todorovicloves him and manages to retain her sunny, open-minded nature. On her thirtyninth birthday she decides to celebrate her coming-out on stage in front of a live audience. And so she tells them the story of her life: "When I was a boy, I was a girl."

Memories in March

Sanjoy Nag

3 hrs

10.30am-1.30pm

3 hrs 31 mins

2.00pm-5.31pm

24.11.2013

X

F

F

24.11.2013

Desert Hearts

Sweden 2011

USA 1985

AlexandraTherese Keining

Donna Deitch

It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranchowner's daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian's insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs.

Javier van de Couter

Ale, Camela Sosa Villada, a real life transgender actress, is a trans woman collecting Buenos Aires rubbish for a living and residing with her friends in the Pink Village, a ghetto community that acts as a refuge for transgender and gay people on the outskirts of the city.In one of her collection trips, Ale finds the diaries of a fashion journalist named Mia, who leaves the notebook explaining to her daughter Julia what she was going through, while grieving husband Manuel drowns his sorrows in the bottle. Ale and Julia grow closer as she steps in to fill the mother's shoes. Events escalate as pressure increases to move out and the news that Julia and her father will move away to the south, threatening her long awaited dream of a home and a child.The real Villa Rosa, or Pink Village, was founded in 1995 in the city of Buenos Aires and was violently destroyed three years later by a federal judge's orders, the film states. In real Buenos Aires, it was created as a reactionary location to the controversial homophobic statements by archbishop Antonio Quarracino, who argued that the LGBT community should be ghettoized because “in that way a stain would be cleaned up from the face of society."

106mins

Alisa Lebow & Cynthia Madansky

TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With personal narration, real and imagined educational films, and haunting imagery, filmmakers Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky examine the Jewish identity of their upbringings and its impact on their lives. Incisive cultural critics, astute, poignant, and poetic—never cynical—they weave their way from New York to Jerusalem in pursuit of a progressive, secular Jewish identity that draws from their childhood reminiscences as much as from their contemporary queer lives. As referenced in Alisa Lebow’s book First Person Jewish, TREYF is iconoclastic and intelligent, humorous and poignant, a personal journey from kibbutz summers to coming out, from keeping kosher to “Bat Mitzvahs.” A reflection on culture, community, and individual desire, this witty film follows the filmmakers as they discover what they thought was most profoundly “treyf” about their worldviews still has roots in Jewish history.

55mins

XI

F

D

24.11.2013

Kiss Me

MIA (Ruth Vega Fernandez) and FRIDA (Liv Mjönes), both in their thirties, meet each other for the first time at their parents' engagement party. Mia's father, Lasse (Krister Henriksson), is about to get married to Frida's mother, Elizabeth (Lena Endre), which will make Mia and Frida stepsisters. Lasse's daughter, Mia, has not visited her father in years and arrives with her boyfriend, Tim (Joakim Nätterqvist), with whom she is about to get married.

As Mia and Frida get to know one another, strong emotions begin to stir between them. Their relationship will turn everything upside down for everyone close to them with dramatic consequences.

XII

Mia

Treyf

Argentina 2011

USA 1998

3 hrs 31 mins

2.00pm-5.31pm

3 hrs 22 mins

5.45pm-9.07pm

107mins

96mins

3 hrs 17 mins

11.00pm-2.17pm

24.11.2013

D

D

24.11.2013

Oded Lotan

As a young Jewish gay man living in Tel Aviv with his German partner, Oded Lotan is in an intriguing position to examine the ritual of bris, or male circumcision. What is the significance of this `missing piece` in 21st century Jewish life? Hubby is, after all, `intact`, and can`t see what the fuss is about.

Presented as a gently humorous fairy tale bridging the gap between tradition and modernity, this quest addresses personal feelings towards the ritual, the fear of exclusion, and the need to belong. Aided by wonderful animated sequences, Lotan pieces together the story of his own bris while reflecting on the complex role his sexuality and time spent away from home in Germany has played in shaping his Israeli identity. Lotan is an endearing `hero` and a filmmaking talent to watch, negotiating an emotive topic with considerable wit and panache.

52mins

Q

Love in India is a passionate look at the way passion is perceived in India. It's a personal film, designed with fragments of the romance between the filmmaker and his girlfriend. But soon, the film spills on to the chaos that is India. Old or new? Love or sex? Love in India is a volatile story of confusion, dichotomy and revelation. A story of repressed moral values in a country with a timeless tradition of spiritual sexuality.

90mins

Saadat Munir and Saad Khan

A debut film by Saad Khan and Saadat Munir. The film features four individuals and focuses on their internal conflicts and their constant play of 'hide and seek' from the mainstream population in the urban areas of Pakistan. We follow Jenny, a trans gender college student who recently underwent castration. Kami, a fearless cross-dressing gay dancer, who openly lives with his boyfriend, Waseem, an effeminate wedding entertainer and a veteran dancing boy, and Neeli who played a huge part when the supreme court in Pakistan changed the constitution in favor of the 'third gender'.

68mins

Pushpa Rawat This film explores the options available to young, educated women looking to & Anupama take their own life decisions in a lower-middle-class colony in Ghaziabad.

Srinivasan

56mins

XII

Quest for the Missing Piece

Israel 2007

Love in India

Germany, India 2005

D

Chuppan Chupai Pakisthan (Hide & Seek) 2013

D

Nirnay

XIII

D

Gay Sex in the 70s

India 2012

USA 2005

Joseph Lovett

Gay Sex in the 70s is a stunning visual document of New York during the decade of gay liberation and sexual abandon following Stonewall and before the outbreak of AIDS. Gay men cruised the streets, frequented gay bars, and, of course, had loads and loads of sex everywhere. But only 12 years after Stonewall, AIDS brought this unprecedented era of sexual Freedom to a close.

Lovett expertly mixes archival footage and interviews with those who lived through the times, including author/activist Larry Kramer, photographer Tom Bianchi, and the former business manager of the St. Marks Baths. From Greenwich Village to the Fire Island Pines, Gay Sex in the 70s celebrates a city and an era with the unbridled joy that characterized the decade, while at the same time offering a sobering reminder of the AIDS crisis that followed.

67mins

3 hrs 17 mins

11.00pm-2.17pm

3 hrs 11 min

2.45pm-5.56pm