Jacaranda Tales

A Film Festival on Women and Nature

23 – 26 March 2022

Organized in collaboration with

Bangalore Film Society (BFS),

Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi,

Gamana Women’s Collective, Gram Seva Sangh,

G Foundation for Art and Culture, and Kriti Film Club

4 Days • 24 Films • 5 Panel Discussions

Celebrating the multiple facets of women’s relationships with nature

The event will be non-commercial and non-ticketed to ensure the inclusive participation of people from all classes and geographies.

Schedule for Jacaranda Tales.

DAY 1 : 23rd MARCH 2022, Wednesday

10:30 AM	Inauguration by Deepa Dhanraj
11:30 AM	Tea Break
11:50 AM	Film screening : Sudesha by Deepa Dhanraj \| India \| 1983 \| 34 mins Film introduction and discussion with filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj
12:55 PM	Film screening : The Last Rhododendron by Yashavi Juyal \| India \| 2022 \| 37 mins
1:30 PM	Lunch Break
2:30 PM	Film screening : Water Flows Together by Palmer Morse, Matt Mikkelsen, Taylor Graham \| USA \| 2020 \| 12 mins A Few Acres at a Time by Will Sardinsky \| USA \| 2017 \| 07 mins
3:00 PM	Panel Discussion on Food Security (by Dr. Sylvia Karpagam, Dr. Arshiya Bose and Kavitha Kuruganti)
3:45 PM	Film screening : Seed Guardians by Kewekrozo Thopi, Tshenyilo-u Chirhah, Vizoli Khamo \| India \| 2017 \| 13 mins Food from the Wild by Besutolu Shijoh, Povelu Shijoh, Vepralu Sapu \| India \| 2017 \| 04 mins
4:05 PM	Tea Break
4:15 PM	Film screening : Missing – Women and Climate Change by Krishnendu Bose \| India \| 2014 \| 14 mins An Uncertain Winter by Munmun Dhalaria \| India \| 2020 \| 06 mins
4:35 PM	Panel Discussion on Climate Change (by ‘Fridays for Future’)

DAY 2 : 24th MARCH 2022, Thursday

10:30 AM	Film screening : Coral Woman by Priya Thuvassery \| India \| 2019 \| 53 mins
11:25 AM	Film screening : Asha de Vos on Studying Blue Whales by Irushi Tennekoon \| Sri Lanka \| 2019 \| 04 mins
11:30 AM	Tea Break
12:00 PM	Film screening : Thengapalli by Vandana Menon, Vivek Sangwan, Debashish Nandi \| India \| 2020 \| 09 mins Aikya (Unity) by Anjali Khosla \| India \| 2019 \| 06 mins Dance with Hands held Tight by Krishnendu Bose, Kavita Das Gupta \| India \| 2005 \| 62 mins
1:20 PM	Lunch Break
2:20 PM	Earth Crusader : Remembering Didi Contractor by Shabnam Sukhdev \| India \| 2016 \| 54 mins A Glow Worm in Jungle by Ramana Dumpal \| India \| 2018 \| 12 mins
3:30 PM	Panel Discussion
4:15 PM	Tea Break
4:35 PM	Film screening : The Jujurana’s Kingdom by Munmun Dhalaria \| India \| 2020 \| 06 mins Achoubi in Love by Meena Longjam \| India \| 2019 \| 30 mins

DAY 3 : 25th MARCH 2022, Friday

10:30 AM	Film screening : SuryaGanga by Valli Bindana \| India \| 2018 \| 75 mins
11:45 AM	Tea Break
12:00 PM	Film screening : Narmada : A Valley Rises by Ali Kazimi \| India \| 1994 \| 87 mins
1:30 PM	Lunch Break
2:30 PM	Film screening : Agar Woh Desh Banati by Maheen Mirza \| India \| 2018 \| 60 mins
3:35 PM	Panel Discussion on Critique of Development (by Bhargavi Rao, Madhu Bhushan and Du Saraswati)
4:20 PM	Film screening : Up the Yangtze by Yung Chang \| China \| 2008 \| 93 mins

DAY 4 : 26th MARCH 2022, Saturday

10:30 AM	Film screening : Niyamgiri, You are still Alive by Suma Jasson \| India \| 2010 \| 17 mins
10:50 AM	Panel Discussion
11:40 AM	Tea Break
11:50 AM	Film screening : Ningal Aranaye Kando? by Sunanda Bhat \| India \| 2012 \| 73 mins followed by a discussion with filmmaker Sunanda Bhat
1:30 PM	Lunch Break
2:30 PM	Film screening : Dweepa by Girish Kasaravalli \| India \| 2002 \| 132 mins followed by a discussion with filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli

Organizers & Collaborators

Bangalore Film Society (BFS) is a nonprofit organisation consisting of cineastes who explore cultural politics through the medium of cinema and how cinema impacts and shapes modern cultural practices, politics and social behaviour. BFS has been organising film screenings and discussions on feature and documentary films and also has been proactively curating film festivals and conducting conferences on various themes for the past 40 years.

Bangalore Film Society (BFS) is a nonprofit organisation consisting of cineastes who explore cultural politics through the medium of cinema and how cinema impacts and shapes modern cultural practices, politics and social behaviour. BFS has been organising film screenings and discussions on feature and documentary films and also has been proactively curating film festivals and conducting conferences on various themes for the past 40 years.

Gamana Women’s Collective: Gamana from the word meaning journey or departure (Hindi) and also mindfulness (Kannada) is an informal women’s collective working through SIEDS that seeks to deepen those areas of community interventions, campaigns, training and institutional solidarities that many of its members have been involved with for decades as part of the autonomous women’s movement.

Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi is an autonomous state body for furthering the objective of perpetuating the memory and message of Gandhiji to the coming generation. It has housed within its premises various Gandhian constructive institutions such as Karnataka Sarvodaya Mandal, the Sarvodaya Sahithya Samithi, the Harijan Sevak Sangh. This festival will be hosted in Gandhi Bhavan, Bangalore.

Gram Seva Sangh is a group of like-minded individuals willing to participate in dialogues and activities that intend to bridge the widening gap that exists between the cities and villages. It aims to connect conscious city-dwellers with rural artisans with the intention of providing learning for the former and a market for the latter.

G Foundation for Art and Culture is a public trust created to promote visual and fine arts by organising cultural events, talks, workshops, documentaries and films. It intends to create social and environmental education and awareness through films and documentaries. The aim is to encourage young documentary / short-film makers by creating a platform to show their works.

Kriti Film Club is an initiative of KRITI, a development praxis and communication team, a not-for-profit entity, based in New Delhi, with work across India. They have been screening documentary films at least once a month since the year 2000 on a range of issues connected with development, human rights and social attitudes/ trends.