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Showcasing different shades of life

Filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

The Public Service Broadcasting Trust in partnership with the International Public Television and Habitat Film Club is organising a weeklong festival of documentaries at India Habitat Centre in the Capital beginning this Thursday.

“PSBT-INPUT Film Retrospective” brings to discerning film lovers a selection of powerful and insightful documentaries hitherto unseen in India. Spanning two decades, the documentaries range from satire to hard-hitting human stories. They deal with contentious issues of identity, conflict, freedom, personal passions and quests, reconciliation, peace and the intricacies of the human situation in contemporary societies and polities. They explore the subjective realities of people and situations across a range of contexts while bringing forth the significance of challenging established assumptions and traditions, the rule of the powerful, seeking answers, dialogue and conversations across borders, real and imagined. One of the highlights of the festival would be screening of documentaries like “Images of a Dictatorship” by Patricio Henriquez on General Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile; “Welcome to the Human Race” by Betty Wolpert on the extraordinary meeting between two families in apartheid-infested South Africa; “The Inner Tour” by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz chronicling the tour of Palestinian families to Israel, and others like “Thinking Allowed” and “Maski-Show”. As part of the weeklong festival, PSBT will also organise a special screening of the Dadasaheb Phalke award winner Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s film “Naalu Pennungal” (Four Women) on June 8. The film is about four women in which each comes from a different social stratum: a sex worker who gives up her profession to lead a normal life with her lover, a farm worker married off to a petty shopkeeper who avoids any intimacy with her and eventually abandons her without any explanation, and a housewife who is visited by a senior classmate of hers.

Madhur Tankha

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