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A completely different take on the Palestine-Israel conflict... straight from people like you and me!
Five random travelers come together to trek to a waterfall in Hampi a serene heartland in Southern India , famous for its ruins, temples and a river. They trudge across the surreal landscape, happily disconnected from their routines. To recharge their energy after walking for sometime, they stop under a rock shelter. An innocuous discussion begins to change the trajectory of their thoughts.

Meanwhile, in yet another part of Hampi, an young photographer from Israel is searching for peace through meditation, when most other backpackers seem to choose drugs.

And, a young Palestinian doctor, travels half the globe to a small country in South America, hoping to make others understand the routine challenges of life in her homeland.

Everybody is searching for something. Can they find it?

'The Waterfall' is a journey that brings together some people, as they share their hopes and angst while searching for answers.

An acoustic folk and rock gig with multilingual, multicultural mix of songs that engages the audience to join in - sing along or play small percussion instruments which are passed on. The idea of participation of the audience is important to us, for people must sing ‘songs of people’ together. To achieve this, wherever possible, visual projection is used to assist the audience.

The repertoire is a carefully selected compilation of folk and rock songs from various places. The lyrics reflect the happiness, angst, troubles and issues they face and need to think about and question. It includes English folk, rock and blues (from the likes of Dylan, Bob Marley, Bloodhound Gang etc.), Indian folk (e.g. Himachali, Central Indian, Bengali), Latin musica protesta and some original numbers.

Journey to the Everest Base Camp is all about sharing the Trekking experience of making it to the Everest Base Camp, Himalayas in Nepal.

IGNITING MINDS Guest Talk on Gandhian Economic Thought by Prof. Naresh Kumar Sharma from HCU (Economics Dept.)

Collateral Damage is a Documentary by 4 Hyderabadi makers. It is a moving account of a few 'chosen' men. They were among 70 Muslim men picked up by the Hyderabad police in the wake of two terror attacks in the city last year. At least 15 of them, according to a report by a state government panel, were subjected to various forms of torture during custody that lasted six to nine months: stripping, physical abuse, electric shocks, some had their beards plucked out; in one case, a two-litre water bottle was said to have been hung from the victim’s penis.

Now the Andhra Pradesh government admits they are innocent and, as a ‘healing touch,” is offering them a “rehabilitation package” of Rs 30,000 and Rs-80,000 loans to buy autorickshaws.

Through this panel discussion and interactive session with the audience, we try to take a peek into the current political context which leads to production of shows like "Satyameva Jayate", and the reactions to it. Thus we use this show as a lens to zoom into the contemporary socio-cultural and political economic paradigms we are living in. Our 3 panelists will open up various points of discussion about the show and its context, and we hope that the discussion will be taken forward through interaction with the audience.

Siyaah Haashiye are vignettes of the partition of India; black borders written with the same dark blood that oozed from both sides on a land that was ripped to pieces and has never quite managed to pull itself together yet. More than 60 years have passed; 55 since Manto himself was laid to rest but the bloodstains of that massacre still haunt the generations on both sides of the divide: dates have changed; places have changed and so have names but the nature of man remains the same; the struggle against our own self continues

GOETHEZENTRUM,HYDERABAD Documentary Circle of Hyderabad
LAMAKAAN
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE of HYDERABAD
Great Hyderabad Adventure Club
cordially invite you to a screening of
GRIZZLY MAN
103 min, 2005
Director: Werner Herzog

A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
For thirteen consecutive summers, the American Timothy Treadwell moved to Katmai in the Alaskan Peninsula to live among the grizzly bears, with the pretext of studying and protecting them. In 2003, his girlfriend Amie Huguenard and he were surprisingly attacked and eaten by a bear.

Werner Herzog somehow accessed more than one hundred hours of footages filmed by Timothy and released this documentary, showing the life and death of Timothy Treadwell



Werner Herzog is undeniably one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, and one of the great figures of German Cinema. Many people find Herzog’s documentaries even more fascinating than his feature films.

No one has done more than Herzog to promulgate the deeper truth that every fiction film has an element of documentary, and that all documentaries are constructed fictions. Herzog’s docs show an appreciation for imagination, poetry, adventure, and most of all -- how documentaries at their best can be an expression of one artist’s vision of the world.

As a part of Lamakaan's Night school series, We present A workshop on "Caste and Indian Political Economy" by Dr. Anand Teltumbde.

Dr. Teltumbde is a Mumbai-based Dalit intellectual, writer, thinker and human rights activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, who authoredKhairlanji: A Strange And Bitter Crop.

As a part of Lamakaan's Night school series, We present A workshop on "Caste and Indian Political Economy" by Dr. Anand Teltumbde.

Dr. Teltumbde is a Mumbai-based Dalit intellectual, writer, thinker and human rights activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, who authoredKhairlanji: A Strange And Bitter Crop.

Radiation Stories: Koodankulam
80 min; Tamil with English subtitles; 2012; Documentary
Produced and directed by Amudhan R.P.

The people's movement against the Koodankulam nuclear plant is an over 20-year-old story. When the mainstream media muffles the voices from the ongoing people's struggle in Koodankulam, Amudhan R P breaks the silence and takes us to the villages at the centre of the resistance. Completed just before Section 144 was enforced in the area, the film presents rare footage from the protests.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Amudhan, the director and producer of the film.

A bit about Amudhan:

Born in 1971, Amudhan completed MA in Development Communication from Madurai Kamaraj University. He has been involved in various documentary-related activities such as making films, writing about documentary films and filmmakers in Tamil, and organising film screenings, video workshops and film festivals in Tamil Nadu.

Amudhan founded Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival in 1998 and has been co-ordinating the festival since then every year.

'Radiation Stories' is a series of films that Amudhan has been making since 2007 on nuclear issues. The first part is about monazite mining by Department of Atomic Energy in Manavalakurichi, Tamil Nadu and the second part is about various case studies of health hazards in and around Kalpakkam due to the nuclear power complex.

Open Show is a free monthly event that provides photographers, filmmakers and multimedia producers the chance to present their work in an interactive space.

OPEN SHOW FORMAT
Four curated presenters have 15 minutes each to introduce one project. Both ongoing and completed work is accepted. We welcome diverse topics ranging from documentary to fine art.

The book launch of 'Valiyachalai Times' by Author Deepa Balasubramanian. Book Signing and Book Reading to follow.
Guests of Honor
Chandana Chakrabarty - Actor, Writer and Critic Mahesh Kathi - Director
Arvind Krishna - Actor

Introduction to travel writing is a free seminar for those interested in travel writing.

New service for music lovers of Hyderabad

The Listening Post
. Exposure to the beauty of Jazz and Western Classical music
. Pure listening - Classical and Jazz music recordings
. Heighten and enhance our musical sensibilities and ability
to listen and hear music without any visual aids

"Those who threaten our traditional code" , says Jai Singh Ahlawat, the Head of the Ahlawat Khap. "... are the educated youngsters, the Dalit officers, who want everything to be equal... And, of course, our "asabhya betiyan", (immoral daughters) who imagine equality like animals and want our age-old customs to die out..."

Voices like Jai Singh Ahlwats's belong to the patriarchal and casteist pillars of a feudal society -- the Khaps; those who oppose "self-choice" marriages and deny young people the right to love.

In Izzatnagari ki Asabhya Betiyaan, we have the stories of five young Jat women who dared to resist. These women take on take on the powerful Khaps and in the process confront "honour" crimes, injustice and social boycotts.

These multi-narratives of women are intercut with that of the Khaps. Through these stories, Asabhaya Betiyaan exposes the fissures, hypocrisy and violence in a supposedly modern and
democratic India.

Crew-
Director- Nakul Singh Sawhney
Camera- Deval Samanta
Sound- Vinit D'Souza
Editor- Neetu Singh

Grim Pumpkin Theatre presents 'A Night of the Absurd', a staging of four plays by Alex Broun, an American playwright.
Synopsis:

Alex Broun is one well known name in the circuit of ten minute plays. He has written over seventy ten minute plays till date and aims at completing a hundred. He has his own website at http://www.alexbroun.com.au/. All his scripts are available on this website and are available for performance and screening purposes.
We have picked up four of those ten minute plays, namely, “George Clooney and Brad Pitt get laid”, “Five Houses for Harriette”, “10,000 Cigarettes”, and “50 Guns” and will be performing in that order. There is nothing that connects these four plays, except for the fact that these are all stories of people and their lives. Rather people and their short lives. Short not in duration, but perhaps in their meaning, in validity, in their being. The first play is a hilarious conversation between the two hollywood actors, George Clooney and Brad Pitt. The second play is about a woman’s search for her perfect house. The third play, is about four voices in the head, in a conversation with each other about the fantasies related to cigarettes and what can be the final destination of such a fantastic tour. The fourth play is about a woman who suffers from the guilt of killing her sibling.
The four plays develop one after the other, but also simultaneously. Each play is enhanced by the next play. Characters from each of these plays can easily interchange between themselves. Each play hence can be the story of all the characters in all the plays. Each play can be the story of any one of us.

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PechaKucha Nights are informal and fun gatherings where creative people get together and share their ideas, works, thoughts, holiday snaps - just about anything really, in the PechaKucha 20x20 format.

The workshop is for photography entrepreneurs and professionals. With aims to help you to engage with your customers and grow your photography gig using social media in an efficient and profitable way.

It's not about handouts, it's about a hand up. Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. He fought poverty by micro-lending $27 to 42 women, an effort which has now grown to 8 million women and 8 billion dollars.
The aim of Rang De Hyderabad Chapter, that presents this screening, deals with social issues that India faces today and discuss about the topic of the documentary amongst the Indian context.