FilmsDespite the many limitations, documentary filmmakers continue the work of speaking the truth about what is going on in the country, through the voices of people.Still from Anand Patwardhan's 'Reason'Four years ago, just before the screening of veteran documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan’s Reason at a film festival in Kerala, the Union government tried to stop it. Within hours, the state’s Chalachithra Academy, which organised the festival, went to the High Court and won the order that allowed them to screen it on the last day. The 4-hour-long film, which chronicles the killing of rationalists and incidents of mob lynching in India of the time, ran to a full house. This is a struggle that some documentary makers in the country go through over and over again. By the mid-70s, a few documentarians began to speak the truth about what was going on in the country,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Cris
- The News Minute
DocumentaryNausheen Khan's documentary 'Land of My Dreams', which was screened at the Idsffk, is a painful recollection of the attacks on the students at Jamia Milia and the Shaheen Bagh protests of 2020.Nausheen KhanEven though it is a story that has become so familiar, so unforgettable, the visuals and words captured by filmmaker Nausheen Khan made Shaheen Bagh and the attack of students at the nearby Jamia Milia a painful recollection. She was a former student visiting the campus when the dreadful attacks happened in early 2020, in the months before Covid-19 when protests had broken out all over the country against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). After a few peaceful protests by students of Jamia, the police had unexpectedly barged into the campus, and shocking visuals of them wielding lathis on young people sitting in a library spread through the internet. When the attacks continued and students were brutally injured,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Cris
- The News Minute
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