Lamakaan hosts a 3 day film festival "focus FEMME" a showcase of films that question
gender, sex and stereotypes.
‘Unlimited Girls’ is an exploration of engagements with feminism in contemporary urban India. A narrator called Fearless who starts accidentally in a chat room and embarks on a journey where she encounters diverse characters – feminists who remember the songs and actions of the Indian women’s movement, yuppies who discuss their modern marriage, a policeman writing films for “women’s upliftment”, women shopping at a bra sale, college kids practicing a dance, teachers who feel girls must not take injustice – or break a home;a woman cab driver, a priest, academics, activists, and unseen but much-heard women like AtillatheNun, Chamki Girl and Deviisa_Diva, in a feminist chat room – all talking of their engagements with feminism and its place in their lives today.
Organizer
Masooma
Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer whose work has focused on issues of gender, politics, urban life and popular media. Her 12 years in film-making have included work in documentary, television drama and music shows, feature film and short fiction.
She has written, produced and directed Unlimited Girls, an exploration of what feminism means to different people in urban India (for Sakshi), A Womans Place (dir: India segment), a film about women's legal strategies in India, South Africa and the USA (for PBS) which has been shown in several festivals including Bangkok, MIFF, Chingari and Bite the Mango, Annapurna: Goddess of Food about an organization of women food workers in Bombay's textile mill area ( Yellow Line TV) which has been broadcast in 10 countries and screened at MIFF and Films du Femme, Creteilles, and A Short Film About Time a short fiction about a woman with a broken heart, her therapist and his watch (independently produced). She has written the faux documentary Skin
Deep, a film on women, body image and self-identity (dir: Reena Mohan. Festivals Film South Asia, Chingari, Women in the Directors Chair); the feature films Veru, about a woman whose life is transformed by growing fundamentalism in a Pakistani village(dir: Sabiha Sumar) and Kumari Shobha, about a former Kumari struggling to make sense of love in contemporary Kathamandu (dir: Tsering Rhitar); and co-written Waiting for the Mahatma, a feature film set in the Indian independence struggle (dir: Srinivas Krishna).
Paromita began her film career working with various documentary filmmakers like Anand Patwardhan (on the films In the Name of God, Father Son and Holy War and Narmada Diary), Ruchir Joshi (Kricket) and Eisha Marjara (Desperately Seeking Helen).
A Womans Place Project and an Associate of Partners for Urban Knowledge and Action (PUKAR).
