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A hard-hitting movie treat for Delhi

Madhur Tankha

New Delhi: Sensitive as well as hard-hitting movies from across the globe will be screened at “Open Frame 2007”, a weeklong international festival and forum of documentary films that opens at India Habitat Centre in the Capital beginning this Thursday.

The festival, which will showcase over 70 films, is being organised by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust in collaboration with Prasar Bharati Corporation, UNESCO, Max Mueller Bhavan and INPUT.

On the first day, Santana Issar’s film “Bare” will be screened. Described as a visual representation of an inner feeling, the film takes a no-holds-barred look at an alcoholic father.

August 24 will see the screening of a special film on freedom by Vijay S. Jodha. “Pedalling to Freedom” is an unusual story that shows how a bicycle can change lives dramatically. Fifteen years later, it revisits a unique initiative in one of India’s poorest districts where mobility of women was seen as a tool for empowerment and promoting literacy.

Mallika Sarabhai’s film “Prerana” that traces the journeys of six ordinary women from housewives to becoming breadwinners in unexpected professions will also be shown the same day.

On August 25, there will be a welcome address by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Das Munsi. It will be followed by a conversation among veteran filmmakers Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shyam Benegal.

That three-wheelers are an indispensable part of Lahore’s culture will be highlighted in a film from the neighbouring country on August 26. “Living Literature: The Canon of the Three-Wheelers” takes a look at three-wheelers on whose back are painted poetry, limericks and slogans.

August 27 will see the screening of a special documentary from Egypt titled “Fatma”. It is about a girl who desperately wants to get educated to fulfil her dream of becoming a lawyer. Films from the Netherlands, Mongolia and Germany will also be shown the same day. Also slated is a seminar on “Capturing children’s imagination”. Nafisa Ali and Lushin Dubey will be among the panellists.

On August 28, a film from the United Kingdom titled “The Boys Who Killed Stephen Lawrence” will be screened. The reporter goes undercover to prove that five people are guilty of murder despite not being found guilty by the court.

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