(82 min; 2017; dvd; Kannada, Waghri boli with English subtitles)

 

Direction & Photography: Vinod Raja who will introduce the film

Script & Narration: Madhu Bhushan

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The Hakki Pikkis are a free spirited nomadic tribe who began their wandering many generations ago in the North Western part of the Indian subcontinent but have travelled through and settled in different states of the country. They make a living by trapping small game in the forest and selling them along with lucky charms and trinkets. If the trap fails, begging is the next bet! With their traditional ways of life outlawed, the community share their stories of wit and survival

 

 

 

Poets and Speakers: Himadri Kumar Datta, Mandira Ghosh, Nibedita Sen, Sirsendu Chakraborty and Dilip Fouzdar

 

Chair: Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

Speaker: Dr. Nawang B. Phuntsog, Fulbright-Nehru Research Scholar to India 2017-2018 and Associate Professor of Education, Department of Elementary, and Bilingual Education, California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Phuntsog is presenting working on exploring the intersections of compassion-based inner values (secular ethics), the Middle Way Approach for resolving Sino-Tibetan issue and Tibetan Nationalism in the schooling process

 

(Collaboration: Tibet House) 

 

Directed by Kivini Shohe who will introduce the film

Produced by Films Division of India

 

Recipient of the Best Documentary Award, Film Northeast 2015, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh; and Best Documentary Award, ADDA Film Festival 2016, Guwahati

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The film explores the struggle of three transgenders in Nagaland’s commercial hub, Dimapur. In the first ever documentation of a community haunted by taboo and denial, the film catches Rongsen’s pulse as it slows down; the relationship dilemma in Moa’s life and Toshi’s journey exploring the thin line between her professional and personal life

 

An intrepid traveller with a special interest in Romani music, language and culture, Punita Singh shares sounds, sights and stories from visits to Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania