Film Screening

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For Colored Girls
Time: 10:30 am
Year (2010)Dur. 133 mins. Language : English. Director : Tyler Perry The highly acclaimed drama film adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. The film's lead cast consists of African American women, each them portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular

Liberatarias

Time :2.30 pm

Year(1996) Dur. 125 mins. Language : Spanish Director: Vicente Aranda This is a Spanish historical dramamovie set in 1936 in Barcelona in the midst of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War. Militia women Pilar (Ana Belen) and Floren Victoria Abril) are joined by former prostitute Charo (Loles Leon) and former nun Maria (Ariadna Gil). Even as the working class militants demolish the citadels of orthodoxy shouting "down with Capitalism" and "long live the libertarian revolution", Pilar and friends find themselves fighting against gender inequality which complicates their efforts in the war against the Franco's fascist forces.

Dahan

Time: 4.30pm

Year 1997, Dur: 114 mins. Language : Bengali, with English subtitles Director: Rituparno Ghosh A story of a woman's struggle after being harassed and molested by a gang of men on the streets of Kolkata. The film is an incisive comment on the hurdles of societal hypocrisies that the women confront in their struggle for justice against sexual violence.

Pink Saris

Time:At 8.30pm

Year 2010, Dur: 96 min Documentary Director: Kim Longinotto The Gulabi gang was founded in 2006 by Sampat Pal Devi, a mother of five and former government health worker (as well as a former child bride), as a response to widespread domestic abuse and other violence against women. The film is a gripping film documentation of the upsurge among the poorest of the poor women in Bundelkhand and neighbouring areas of North India as the fiery women of the Gulabi Gang empower themselves and take up the fight against gender violence, caste oppression and widespread corruption.

The Accused

Time : 10.30pm

Year 1988,Dur: 111 mins. Language: English Director: Jonathan Kaplan Written by Tom Topor, the film is based on the reallife gang rape of Cheryl Araujo that occurred at a bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on March 6, 1983. Starring Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis, it is one of the first Hollywood films to speak in a direct manner about the web of legal and social questions in dealing with the crime of rape and the victim's quest for justice.

20 JAN. Sunday SSS-Audi 10.30 am onwards

Akbar Chowdhary,Convenor JNUSUSSS