Events
Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival 2024
The festival highlights that reclaiming/decolonizing was the prevailing theme among this year’s submissions and nine films in the program, including Mhara Pichchar, to counter colonising narratives and histories in a variety of ways and contexts.
9th Udaipur Film Festival, 2024
Mhara Pichchar was screened at the 9th Udaipur Film Festival at R.N.T. Medical College, where it received an enthusiastic response from an engaged audience. Atish Indrekar, representing the Budhan Theatre team, participated in the post-screening discussion.
7th South Asian Short Film Festival (SASFF)
Mhara Pichchar was screened at the Nandan, the Film Centre in Kolkata alongside over a hundred short fiction and documentary films in five different sections.
Habitat Film Festival 2024
Mhara Pichchar was hosted alongside a handpicked selection of the best of Indian Cinema 2023 - 2024, a pan Indian sweep of award winning and critically acclaimed films that showcase the dynamic and changing face of contemporary Indian Cinema.
12th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2024
Mhara Pichchar (Our Film) was screened under the Documentary; Competition section of the 12th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival.
12th Dharamshala International Film Festival 2023
Mhara Pichchar (Our Film), directed by Dakxin Chhara, had its India premiere at the 12th Dharamshala International Film Festival in McLeod Ganj.
20th International Social Justice Film Festival
Mhara Pichchar (Our Film), directed by Dakxin Chhara, was screened at the 20th International Social Justice Film Festival in Chennai.
Venue: Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai
Film screening followed by Q&A
A screening of the film Mhara Pichchar was held at Centro Studi Sereno Regis, a cultural space that has been active in the city of Turin since 1982 to promote peace research, peace education and non-violence. The screening was followed by a Q&A with Dakxin Bajrange Chhara (DNT activist, artistic director of Budhan Theatre and award-winning filmmaker) Keyur Chhara (emerging filmmaker) and Alice Tilche (researcher and producer).
Exhibition: What was to pass, remained
The exhibition took place as part of the European Conference of South Asian Studies ECSAS. It brings together contemporary art forms that shed light on the history of the adivasi and denotified tribes in India and their lives and showcases the untold stories and resilience of these remarkable communities through the years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival
The Budhan Podcast project was featured in the interactive media category of the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival 2022. The Festival is held as part of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, giving filmmakers and distributors broad access to an audience of thousands of anthropologists, educators, and other attendees.
What was to pass, remained
A brief history of Adivasi and Denotified Tribes … through Covid Years
'Criminals' in the time of covid
A courageous and talented group of artists from one of India’s so-called ‘criminal tribes’, stepped out during the COVID-19 pandemic to document the stories of their communities, which have remained invisible from national and international reporting. If you’re interested in films, and would like an insight into little known stories from Indian culture and current affairs, come along to the film screening of what they have recorded. It will take you through the histories and arts of people living at the perilous margins of Indian society and will explore how they are dealing with the impact of the pandemic.
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