Film Festival Catalogue - 2nd MenEngage Global Symposium

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FESTIVAL TEAM CURATOR Smriti Nevatia FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Uma Tanuku FESTIVAL CO‐DIRECTORS Aaradhana Kapur Kohli Manak Matiyani FESTIVAL ASSISTANT Afrah Shafiq BLOG & SOCIAL NETWORK Manak MatiyanI Priyanka Chhabra Uma Tanuku POSTER & BROCHURE DESIGN Manak Matiyani Centre for Health and Social Justice PRESS COORDINATION Anupama Srinivasan VOLUNTEERS Iram Ghufran, Subasri Krishnan Reena Mohan, Anupama Srinivasan Navdeep Sharma, Vishrut Singh, Pushpa Rawat, Akshika Chandna, Satendra Singh 2

CURATOR'S NOTE Uma Chakravarti, renowned feminist historian and filmmaker, was invited to speak in my city last month on Sexual Violence in Contemporary Indian Society. In the course of her talk she recollected wryly how various men, catapulted to overnight expertise on the TV talk shows that followed the infamous gang rape in Delhi in December 2012, were suddenly intoning the word “Patriarchy” like they had just discovered it. It was as if all the decades of discourse by feminists, and the struggles by women's groups against the said Phenomenon, all the movements, all the books, had been breathlessly awaiting this moment of male endorsement. I do not think Prof Chakravarti was exaggerating. Her remark was true in spirit, if not letter. Very many women were invited to participate in those media discussions, and their voices were heard, night after night. Even the shrillest of male anchors seemed actually to defer to their knowledge and experience, for a change. But it is really that “for a change” that is the trouble with Patriarchy, whether critiqued by the minority of men who believe in gender equality and justice, or perpetuated by the majority who don't. With the country and the world for some reason shocked out of their usual apathy in the face of unending gender-based violence everywhere, the fact that women were briefly given their due does not mean that men, historically, have NOT been dismissive of women's experiences; it does not mean that they have NOT routinely appropriated women's scientific discoveries and ignored their artistic accomplishments. It does mean that men need to understand that men may take the credit (or blame) for the invention of the ancient, oppressive and even now internationally popular system of social organisation called patriarchy; they may not lay claim to the discovery of patriarchy as an explanation for much of what is wrong with our world. It was a pleasant surprise, then, in the course of my work towards this film festival, to come across a TED talk by Jackson Katz just a day or two after attending Prof Chakravarti's lecture. The author and educator, known for his pioneering work in gender violence prevention, says, “Women built these movements…that are affecting in a positive way everybody, not just women and girls but also men and boys. Oftentimes men like myself get a lot of credit and public acclaim for doing the work that women have been doing for a long time. So one of the ways in which we can use the spotlight is to thank women and honour women's leadership, going forward today, tomorrow and into the future.” Those words bear remembrance and repetition as all of us, people of different professions and different genders, in different parts of the world, using similar or different means, do the tough and rewarding work of undoing patriarchy in our communities and in our own lives. (The Jackson Katz talk is, happily, part of this film festival. I believe it has been widely translated, and those wishing to use it in non-English-speaking settings might try sourcing it in their preferred language.) The task of putting together this festival presented unusual challenges. I was looking mainly for films that focused on men and boys. Of course, most films do. Popular cinema is so maledominated that “women-oriented” films are singled out for honourable mention but for an event called Men and Boys for Gender Justice, I was not exactly in search of big screen wonders that would miserably fail The Bechdel Test (to pass, a film must be able to tick“yes” on three simple questions: Are there two or more women in it, who have names? 3

And do they talk to each other? About something other than a man?). While this is a wonderfully ironic and largely accurate way of identifying sexism and tokenism in mainstream fiction films, we needed something else. Pick any ten films running in nearby theatres or being shown on TV, and chances are that most, if not all, will fail the test, but that is precisely the point: popular culture is all around us, and we can consider its overt and hidden messages any time we care to do so. For this festival, we wanted works that concerned themselves with masculinities more purposefully. Documentaries, which often engage deeply with our social and political realities, brought in a different set of curatorial issues. There is no dearth of amazing films made around women's experiences of, and struggles against, misogyny and gender discrimination – but their narratives tend to foreground women and girls. I did eventually include three documentaries primarily centred on women, for reasons I have discussed in my comments accompanying those titles. But since we were trying to bring the discussion into the male camp, as it were, and look at “what men do” rather than at “what happens to women”, this festival specifically called for films and videos that brought men and boys into sharp(er) focus. And so began the search for films that had men telling their stories, living their lives; men trying to change their problematic behaviours; men showing what being a man can mean, and what it need not mean. Films portraying “female masculinities”, and films about persons assigned gender female at birth who identify as men, which might help us understand gender identity and gender expression as separate things from bodies. (A small aside: I received many submissions that had hijras or other transwomen as protagonists. For this film festival about men and masculinities, I made the decision not to include films about persons assigned gender male at birth who do not identify as men, in order to respect their self-chosen gender identities. This is not to downplay the bullying and worse that peers, cops, strangers inflict on them, and I have not excluded “male femininities”.) Films about soldiers. Workers. Artists. Jobless men. Child labourers. Bullies. Gentle men. Gay men. Feminist men. Did enough such work even exist out there to make for an exciting and varied festival, and would I be able to access some really good cinema even though we couldn't afford to pay exorbitant fees? I jogged my memory and trawled cyberspace and wrote to filmmakers, producers and distributors for films I knew I wanted, or wished to preview, and got in touch with film schools, hoping for newer perspectives and younger creative voices. Meanwhile, submissions began to trickle in from sources unfamiliar to me. Many groups doing impressive work with men and boys have been documenting their projects, and enabling men from the communities in which they work to create their own video stories – and thanks to word put out by the Symposium's organisers, these groups were now sending me their DVDs and online links. Gradually, it began to look like a solid and exciting festival would be possible after all. As I looked for films exploring masculinity's role in “random” as well as institutionalised violence, I was re-reading an article about the victim-blaming and rapist-defending after the 2012 Steubenville High School gang rape (which was “breaking news” in the US just months before the Delhi gang rape) when a senior political leader in India spoke his mind. Making light of the rape culture in his state, he said, “boys will be boys” and advocated leniency for rapists. As I previewed a film about migrant workers from Nepal contracting HIV in India and then infecting their wives back home, a health minister suggested AIDS prevention using “Indian culture” rather than condoms. 4

And as I debated the inclusion of a film on Israeli army reservists, the bombing of Gaza moved into full swing, with state impunity hitting new lows. Then, as we rejoiced with Uganda at its respite from a hateful homophobic law, and I assigned tracks to the films addressing various types of “forbidden” relationships, the “love jihad” by Hindutva groups roared its ugly head off again. And as I write these lines, final hearings have just begun in a trial that seeks justice on behalf of more than 40 Muslim men abducted and shot by armed police in a north Indian town 27 years ago, while a rabid militia laying spurious claim to Islam decimates religious and ethnic minorities across two countries. All of this, let us not be fooled otherwise, is male-pattern violence in action. I hope the selected films will enable us to make some of these connections. Of the 71 titles from 23 countries, approximately one third are from India, which should come as no surprise. We have animation and short fiction, public service ads and actual product ads(!), talks and illustrated lectures, personal stories and testimonials, satires and skits, community videos and student films, long and short documentaries as diverse as possible in form and content. All seven thematic “tracks” around which the Symposium is organised are well represented, if not “equally” (see the Tracks Chart that follows this Note). While the brochure is organised alphabetically, all the entries have “track tags” assigned to them (see the Guide to Using this Brochure at the back); besides, points for discussion are interwoven throughout. Finally, thanks are due to the Centre for Health and Social Justice for asking the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), India to organise this film festival. And gratitude to my colleagues: Reena Mohan and Uma Tanuku for offering me sage advice and virtual handholding while dealing efficiently, in the midst of their busy and demanding lives, with everything that landed on their Festival Coordinator plates; and Afrah Shafiq, who made me feel rather chuffed about my steady luck with Festival Assistants, and whose contributions were innumerable and invaluable.

Smriti Nevatia Bombay | 17 August 2014

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Most of the films and videos selected for the festival will be part of a travelling DVD package or kit available for non-commercial screenings to groups working with men and boys. Some films, however, may be used only by member groups of the Forum to Engage Men (FEM) Network in India. And a few others were given to us on special request, for screening only at the film festival in Delhi. The nature of permission has been specified where applicable, under the relevant titles, along with filmmaker/ distributor contact details, so that interested persons or groups may source the films directly.

Conventionally, film catalogues refer to films as being from the country to which the producer or production company belongs. However, in this brochure we have identified each film first by the country in which it is wholly or mainly set, to make it easier for users to identify films relevant to their purposes. Where the country of productionis not the same, it is mentioned second.

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Peque Varela 1977 UK | 2007 | animation | 8 min | non‐verbal | NFTS SEXLTY & ID VIOL

(also see Boy, Manjuben…, Shinjuku Boys, Through the…, Two Friends) Animation merges with personal photographs to tell the story of a girl in a conservative community struggling to come to terms with her gender identity. “The film talks about it from my own experience as a woman breaking social stereotypes in a heterosexual, Catholic, capitalist society and in a very small town where you can never be invisible,” says the filmmaker. [This film can be combined in interesting ways with other films from the package with the same track tags,or even other animation films. Also see the notes under Boy and under Moustaches Unlimited.] Audience Award, London Int'l Animation Festival Best Student Film, Stuttgart Int'l Animated FF Best Animation, Celrà Short FF, Spain Sexual Diversity Award, Festival Int'l de Cortometrajes de Cusco, Peru Best Debut, Int'l Short FF of Montecatini Terme, Italy and many others

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Peque Varela grew up in Ferrol, a small town on the coast of Galicia, Spain. 1977 was her graduation film at the National Film and Television School, London. It screened in competition at prestigious festivals such as Sundance and ClermontFerrand, and won 15 international awards. She has been working in advertising as an animator and compositor, and in 2009 co-founded a production company devoted to creating independent projects. Their first film was Gato Encerrado (Cat in a Box).

Nazli Deniz Guler 1/2/3 Turkey| 2010 |fiction | 8 min | Turkish MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see I Am a Man, The Quest for…, A Sunny Day) Ahmet's adventures start with his circumcision at the age of five and continue till he is thirty, as he experiences all the unique stages of “becoming a man” in Turkey. [This package has three very different films that question beliefs and rituals around male circumcision, from three different countries and cultures. See note under The Quest for the Missing Piece.] AVM Prize, Atif Yilmaz Short Film Contest, Turkey IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, New Delhi Flying Broom Int'l Women's FF, Turkey Istanbul Int'l Short Film Festival and many others

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Nazli Deniz Guler was born in 1983 and graduated in International Relations from Gazi University. She has been working since 2005 as a producer and writer. Her first film Others was a finalist in the Stranger Festival at Amsterdam in 2008. 1/2/3 is her second film. Nar ve Elma Kurdu, her first book for children, has just been published in Turkey.

Vidya Sagar Suresh ARIVU India | 2013 |fiction | 11 min | Kannada | WWI CAR-REL-EMO, HEALTH

(also see Northern Lights, Praner Manush) A doting son who is taking care of his ailing mother runs out of steam. Then, through an emotional journey of self-inquiry, he moves from his agony, suffering and pessimism towards love, compassion and hope, thus finding his bearings again.The Kannada word “arivu” means “to understand, to know”. Best Screenplay, Pune Int'l FF, India

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Vidya Sagar Suresh has a diploma in filmmaking from Whistling Woods International Film School, Mumbai. His interests lie in exploring human nature, building narratives around it, and writing poems and stories. He is working on a group of short stories called naked cities.

Meera Dewan BACKSTAGE BOYS : Punjab's Labour Goes Global India | 2002 | 30 min | Hindi, Punjabi | PSBT POVT & WORK, VIOL (suicide)

(also see Bahadur…, Candles…, Mardistan, My Migrant Soul) An exploration of the vicious cycle of illegal immigration of youth from Punjab to Europe and North America in search of a better life.Some make it; some don't. Many are duped by agents, but the film also tells the story of an agent who killed his family and tried to commit suicide. [The festival films that really echo this one are Bahadur… and My Migrant Soul, as all three look at migration of labour from one country to another, though the context and style of each may be very different. But unless migration is the core issue being discussed, it could be very interesting to watch Backstage Boys along with Candles in the Wind: men and boys from Punjab's farming communities going abroad because it's hard to survive there; male farmers in Punjab killing themselves because they can no longer provide for their families. Two films with ten years between them; two effects of the same structural and cultural matrix.]

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Meera Dewan has extensively filmed documentaries in India, South Asia, Vietnam, Germany and Canada. Her films have won over 21 international and national awards, including at the International Film Festival of India; Festival de films du femmes, Créteil; Oberhausen; Leipzig; Reina Film Festival, France; Okomedia Film Festival; and the Mumbai International Film Festival. She curates film programmes and has been on the juries of the Oberhausen, Leipzig, Okomedia, Freiberg, Indian Panorama and National Film Festivals.

Aditya Seth BAHADUR : The Accidental Brave Nepal‐India | 2011 | 53 min | Nepali, English HEALTH (HIV), POVT & WORK, MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see Backstage Boys, Gandhi's Children, My Migrant Soul, Seeking Safety, Sixth Sense: Rites…) For decades, a combination of rural poverty and political instability has driven thousands of Nepali men south across the open border with India, to take on poorly paid work with no job security. Living away from their families, they are susceptible to high-risk sexual behavior and often end up contracting HIV. On their rare visits home, many pass on the infection to their wives - who, along with their children, get thrown out of their homes by family elders. Far western Nepal is reeling under the impact of an HIV micro-epidemic. [Besides issues of poverty, labour, migration, health, the film depicts a certain kind of masculine behaviour and attitude that is extremely self-destructive. The infected women are matterof-fact – they just wish their men didn't have to go so far to find work. The husbands are not mean and hateful creatures, but soft-spoken, fatalistic men. But why won't they just use condoms? What is it about masculinity that makes it so inflexible, despite such dire consequences? Land is sold off to pay for medicines, money for food runs out, people die, there is nobody to look after their orphaned children. It is these children in the film that connect it with Gandhi's Children making it a possible back story for some runaway boy, from Nepal or from any part of India, in a shelter home in Delhi.] Best Documentary, Dada Saheb Phalke FF, India Award of Excellence, Int'l FF for Peace, Inspiration, Equality, Indonesia Best Feature (Non‐Fiction), Indian IndependentFF, Bengaluru Kathmandu Int'l Mountain FF Int'l Human Rights Documentary FF, Glasgow and many others 17

Aditya Seth has been associated with media in India since 1986. An independent, awardwinning filmmaker with a sound grounding in theatre and music, he has been involved in the making of short films & documentaries, across genres, for national as well as international audiences. He also teaches filmmaking and related media at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Breakthrough BELL BAJAO India | 2007 | 3 fiction shorts (PSA)|Hindi VIOL, CAR-REL-EMO, PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn) MAK OF MEN (domin & alt)

(also see Jor se Bol, Joys of…, Soch Sahi…, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense: Neither Boss…, Violence…, Wrestling…) These PSAs or public service announcements were created for Breakthrough's signature campaign Bell Bajao (Ring the Bell) which urged men and boys to take a stand against violence against women. Existing social norms consider domestic violence a private matter. Breakthrough tried to break this notion by making it a public matter. The campaign was aimed at converting bystanders and asking them to intervene. Men of varied backgrounds, irrespective of their age and economic status, “ring the bell” and halt domestic violence. The campaign won 25 awards, both nationally and internationally. Bus Driver | 1min A woman asks her husband to stop drinking. He becomes outraged. A bus driver passing by overhears… Knock Knock | 1min Knock, knock! Who's there? A group of young boys take time out from playing cricket. Ring Ring | 1min When a man hears a neighbour beating his wife, he suddenly wants to make a call. Gold, Public Service, Charity Fund Raising, Spikes Asia Gold, Indian Documentary Producers' Association Gold, Creative ABBY Awards, Goafest, India Silver, Film Lions, Int'l Advertising Festival, Cannes Best PSA, UNFPA Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity and many others

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Breakthrough is a global human rights organisation working to make violence and discrimination against women and girls unacceptable. Their mission is to prevent such violence by transforming the norms and cultures that enable it. Working out of centres in India and the US, they create innovative, relevant multimedia campaigns, tools and programmes that challenge domestic violence, early marriage, gender-biased sex selection, sexual harassment, sexual assault, to inspire and equip individuals and institutions to build a world in which all people may live with dignity, equality and justice.

Samreen Farooqui, Shabani Hassanwalia BEING BHAIJAAN India | 2014 |80 min | Hindi | PSBT MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see Moustaches…, Respect…, TrueLoveStory, Tough Guise) Posters of his dance shows call Shan Ghosh, Salman-Khan-lookalike by profession and passion, the “Junior Salman of Nagpur”. Along with other fans of the Bollywood actor with a macho image, Shan is in search of a larger identity to replace the very ordinary one handed out by life. Being Bhaijaan explores aspects of Indian masculinity by mapping the various levels of impact Salman Khan has on three men in small-town India, who find themselves increasingly dissociated from their changing country, with its competitiveness and its new kind of woman. They seek solace in a notion of manhood, constructed brick-by-brick, that matches the superstar's personality as perceived through his films. Being Bhaijaan really must be seen with TrueLoveStory, to experience the different ways in which hero worship of a macho movie star can go.]

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S a m r e e n Fa r o o q u i a n d Shabani Hassanwalia founded Hit and Run Films in 2005, an independent video production unit that engages with changing sociopolitical-personal realities through documentaries, video art and intervention films. Their first documentary, Out of Thin Air, on Ladakhi local cinema, was screened at numerous international film festivals. Their second feature documentary Online and Available (2012) told a story of an India-in-transition through its online identity f o r m a t i o n .T h e y w e r e associate directors and editors on Star, directed by Dibakar Banerjee for the B o m b ay Ta l k i e s ( 2 0 1 3 ) omnibus, and directed Bioscope: Non-Binary Conversations on Gender and Education (2014) for the NGO Nirantar.

Julie Bezerra Madsen BOY Denmark | 2013 | 30 min | Danish | NFSD SEXLTY & ID, MAK OF MEN (alt)

(also see 1977, Manjuben…, Moustaches..., Shinjuku Boys, Through the…, Two Friends) Oliver was raised as a girl, but feels like a boy. Everything is wrong when he meets himself in the mirror. He hides his breasts and lowers his voice before he walks out the door. He asks: "What do you think when you see me?" The creation of a new identity has just begun. [In a recent, very interesting Turkish documentary called Voltrans, someone says that if trans (trans*, transgender) can do what it has for feminism and feminists - expand their understanding of gender - why not for normative men? Let's talk about how an understanding of trans* lived realities, and all kinds of non-normative gender expression, can free us from rigid, binary, body-based notions of gender and help us see and be “masculine” or “feminine” in a multitude of ways. Also see the note under Moustaches Unlimited. ] Best Documentary, Festival Int'l du Film d'Aubagne, France Special Mention, Sehsüchte Int'l Student FF, Germany Florence Queer Festival Merlinka Int'l Queer FF, Serbia Melbourne Queer Film Festival and many others

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Julie Bezerra Madsen was born in Brazil, but grew up in Denmark. After a course in TV & Media Production at The Danish School of Media and Journalism, she studied Documentary Film Direction at The National Film School of Denmark. Boy was her graduation film, before which she made The Truth Behind Green Fuel, Another and Under Pressure.

Lalit Vachani THE BOY IN THE BRANCH India | 1993 | 27 min | Hindi, English| MLM (distrib) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (fundm) MAK OF MEN (domin), VIOL

(also see Father Son and…, Gandhi's Children, Maula…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) The RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) is India's foremost Hindu fundamentalist organisation. The film juxtaposes the activities of two different RSS shakhas or branches in Nagpur, where the RSS has its headquarters. “The commentary tells us that (the filmmaker) went to Nagpur expecting to see images of fascist indoctrination reminiscent of Nazi Germany. What he saw instead was so simple in its ingenuity that it was almost brilliant. Young boys came to the shakha and under the watchful eye of the shakha pramukh (branch leader), they played games. These games were the first step in an elaborate chain of RSS indoctrination. For instance, one game begins with the children shouting 'Kashmir belongs to us!'…Through these games, the young boys acquire a sense of belonging to the collective of the RSS shakha even as their consciousness is systematically communalised.” (from Breeding Little Fascists by Sudhanva Deshpande in Frontline) [People using this film may also be interested in its sequel, Men in the Tree, which is not included in this package.] Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany

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Lalit Vachani's documentaries include The Starmaker (about the business of “star making” in Bollywood); The Men in the Tree (a sequel to The Boy in the Branch); Natak Jari Hai (about a left-wing street theatre group); The Salt Stories (following the trail of Gandhi's salt march); Tales from Napa (a Gujarat village resisting the communal violence of 2002); In Search of Gandhi, broadcast across 48 international television channels as part of the Why Democracy? series. Vachani divides his time between India and Germany, where he teaches courses on the political documentary and documentary theory and production at the University of Göttingen

Kavita Bahl, Nandan Saxena CANDLES IN THE WIND Kavita Bahl is a researcher, India I 2013 I 52 min I Hindi, Punjabi, some English I PSBT scriptwriter and director. An MAK OF MEN(domin), POVT & WORK, VIOL (suicide)

(also see Backstage Boys, In the Shadow…, Pola, My Migrant Soul)

unpublished poet, she likes to write about “places”. A student of Hindustani classical music, she plans to build a body of work documenting the folk Sufi traditions of the subcontinent.

Against the backdrop of non-remunerative agriculture in Punjab, farmer suicides are escalating. As the widows learn to cope with their loss within the ambit of their altered social and economic reality, they re-negotiate the rules of engagement and the politics of male domination in their bid to survive. The Nandan Saxena is a director, film brings us a nuanced understanding of the silent cinematographer and also an avid photographer. In 2009, undercurrents of their gender-specific struggle. he mounted a 30-day solo [This is one of the few films in this curated package that is exhibition of his photographs centred on women, not on boys and men. And it is precisely the at the India Habitat Centre, physical absence of men in this narrative that reveals the harm New Delhi. a certain conservative masculinity does to men themselves, not to speak of the untold damage to their families. It is not just Both are National Awardabout economic despair; being unable to feed and care for your w inning independent family is considered so shameful, such a blow to male pride and filmmakers, who conduct honour that dying seems preferable to living. The deep workshops in filmmaking to systemic causes of crop failure and impoverishment, the state's agricultural policies and apathy, are of course hugely to blame ignite young minds. for the thousands of farmer suicides in the country. But is patriarchy not reaping its own bitter harvest as well? Must see with Pola.] Special Mention, National Film Awards, India John Abraham National Award for Best Documentary, Signs FF, India Special Jury Mention, IDSFFK, Thiruvananthapuram, India Thessaloniki Int'l Doc Film Fest, Greece Documentarist, Istanbul, Turkey and many others 22

Hamed Alizadeh CHECK POINT (from The Streets of Kabul series) Baz Mohammad (Hamed) Afghanistan | 2011 | 29 min | Dari | Les Ateliers Varan Alizadeh trained at the POVT & WORK, PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (militar)

(also see The Last Rites) 15 policemen inspect all the cars that enter the city centre from Dehbori district. These men, recruited from different provinces to maintain the security of Kabul city, stay cooped together in three green containers with the barest living facilities. Exhausted, homesick, freezing, working mechanically, they don't know what exactly is going on, because nobody pays them much attention or informs them about the situation elsewhere in the city. Yet they know theirs is an important task, keeping the citizens of Kabul safe. Best Director & Best Camera, Afghanistan Human Rights FF Visions du Réel, Switzerland Punto de Vista Festival, Spain Mumbai Int'l Documentary and Short FF Festival dei Popoli, Italy and many others

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Ateliers Varan workshop in 2009 and under the EURODOC Program in 2013. He is a Director of the Afghanistan Documentary Filmmakers Organization in Kabul, and has been making documentaries that reflect social and cultural issues. His work has been screened at many film festivals around the world; some of his films have been broadcast by European TV channels as well as on Afghan TV. He has also worked as technical manager with the Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival.

Andreas Koefoed A DAY IN THE SMOKE Egypt‐Denmark | 2008 | 29 min | Arabic| NFSD MAK OF MEN (spaces), POVT & WORK

At the far end of a dark Cairo alley sits a café that never closes and never sleeps. Elaborate old murals cover its nicotinestained walls. Shisha pipes lurk on the sawdust floor. Here, where time has slowed to a smoky haze, men of all social classes, young and old, meet and talk of broken dreams, stolen kisses, sensual women, lost fortunes and the eternal hope for a greener patch of grass on the other side of the fence. Sitting alone, a young man writes down poetry from what he sees and hears and remembers. A colourful glimpse of Egyptian diversity just before the country's recent revolution. [This is simply an enjoyable film set in a certain space that encourages visitors to linger, spend time with others or with oneself. The fact that the café has an almost exclusively male clientele could lead us to ask certain questions. What seem to be the men's preoccupations? Why is this such a gendered space? Do women have such spaces too? The woman who comes in, looking for someone - can we think of her as a protagonist in In the Shadow of a Man, the other Egyptian film, and what would be her story?] Premiere, Int'l Documentary FF Amsterdam Silverfjäril Documentary Award, Sweden and many others

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Andreas Koefoed was born in Copenhagen. After studying sociology, anthropology and political science at Copenhagen University, he graduated in 2009 as a documentary director from The National Film School of Denmark. His last six films were all selected to premiere at I D FA , four of them receiving Best Film nominations at this p r e st i g i o u s A m ste r d a m festival. His films, among them Albert's Winter and The Ghost of Piramida, have won awards at Tribeca, S i l v e r d o c s , Fu l l Fr a m e , Sheffield Doc/Fest, Nordisk Panorama, CPH:DOX and other film festivals.

Ketan Rana DEKH LE India | 2013 | fiction | 2 min | Hindi | WWI MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see Jor se Bol, Macho, The Others, Respect…, Violence…, Voices…) The men who stare at young women going about their daily lives find their “male gaze” turned back on themselves, deflected by the simplest of devices. It really isn't for these confident women to cover up. Let the lecherous man look out…and look away! [See note under Jor se Bol.]

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Ketan Rana dropped out of Engineering to do a Bachelor's in Journalism and Mass Communication from Amity University. He also studied Graphic Design and Visual Effects, and worked for various TV production houses, before joining the Whistling Woods International Film School. During his two-year course he made several short films, some of which have won awards. Currently he works as an independent filmmaker and producer.

Michal Aviad EVER SHOT ANYONE? Israel | 1996 | 57 min | Hebrew| WMM (distrib) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (militar), MAK OF MEN (domin, spaces)

(also see Father, Son and…, The Quest for…,Tough Guise, Valmiki…, Violence…, Wrestling…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to Women Make Movies) The filmmaker documents her attempt to infiltrate the world of Israeli army reservists during their annual tour of duty on the Golan Heights. This is a woman's take on how national culture is informed by a male identity built through the military experience that bonds her country's Jewish men. Gradually, but not without suspicion and hostility toward the intruder in their midst, the middle-aged civilian-soldiers reveal their notions about manhood, friendship, family, and gender relations, to the ultimate outsider - a woman. [This was one of the films specially sourced for the package, in the expectation that it would question Israel's military occupation of Palestine and the various human rights abuses by state and army. The film is in no way pro-occupation but it does not do that questioning overtly. So if you didn't know, you might wonder what war these guys are keeping themselves in reserve for. And even as the film's inclusion was being debated, the attacks on Gaza began – and the genocide there is still going on at the time of writing this note. A simple idea resolved the dilemma: why not use the film to discuss the very things it leaves out? Let's join the dots between what it does show – a dominant masculinity, patriarchal attitudes, military nationalism – and the realities we know are present, just below the film's surface, just outside its frames. Related subjects: the US army's role in Afghanistan and Iraq; the Indian army in the North-East and Kashmir. All of this in the specific context of how “manhood” is constructed and expressed.] Hong Kong Int'l Film Festival Feminale, Cologne London Jewish Film Festival Leipzig Int'l Film Festival and many others 26

M i c h a l Av i a d h a s b e e n working as a director and producer of documentary films in San Francisco and Tel Aviv since 1986. Among her films are the award-winning A m e r i ca n d o c u m e nta r y Acting Our Age which explored women and aging. The Women Next Door, filmed during the Intifada, examined the roles of Pa l e st i n i a n a n d I s r a e l i women in the conflict. Jenny And Jenny was a film on two teenage working-class Israeli girls, and Ramleh was about the lives of four women in the town of Ramleh, a JewishArab town. For My Children and Invisible followed. Aviad teaches film production at Tel Aviv University.

Anand Patwardhan FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR (Pitra, Putra aur Dharmayuddha) (2 parts) India | 1994 |120 min| Hindi, some Marathi (both English and Hindi commentary versions available) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (fundm, militar, campn) MAK OF MEN (domin), VIOL

(Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) The film suggests that the psychology of violence against “the other” may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of “manhood”. Pre-patriarchy is invoked, not to determine the past, but to imagine the future. Part 1: TRIAL BY FIRE (also see The Boy in…, Maula…, Violence…) This part looks at the fires that consumed India in the preceding years. The banned ritual of sati in which a woman was burnt on her husband's funeral pyre; the “purifying” fire rituals of upper caste Hindus; the communal fires that ravaged Bombay after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. These are set against a few, scattered fire-fighters: a Rajasthani woman who, against the odds, condemns sati; a Muslim woman who battles gender-discriminatory laws; a band of people who march for communal harmony in the riot-torn streets of Bombay. Part 2: HERO PHARMACY (also see The Boy in…, Ever Shot…, Maula…, Hakim Tartoosi's…, Violence…) This part examines “manhood” in the context of religious strife. The Hindu majority has been raised on stories of marauding Muslim invaders who raped their women, destroyed their temples, and forced religious conversions on them. Today, centuries later, some Hindus demand revenge; they reject nonviolence as impotence and set out to be “real men.” Meanwhile the Muslim minority, despite fears of genocide, will not take things lying down. Here, too, we find those who are driven to be “real men”. The result is carnage. National Award, Best Investigative Documentary, India National Award, Best Social Documentary, India Special Jury Prize, Yamagata Int'l Film Festival Grand Prize, Jerusalem Int'l Film Festival Special Jury Prize, Vancouver Int'l Film Festival and many others 27

Anand Patwardhan has been making political documentaries for over three decades. His awarded and acclaimed films include Hamara Shahar, Ram ke Naam, War and Peace, Jai Bhim Comrade. In 2014 he was honoured with the V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Awardat the Mumbai International Film Festival. An activist from his student days, he participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement; volunteered in Caesar Chavez's United Farm Workers' Union; worked in Kishore Bharati, a project in central rural India. He has been active in movements for civil liberties and democratic rights, for communal harmony, and against unjust development and nuclear nationalism.

Visa Koiso-Kanttila FATHER TO SON Finland | 2004 | 70 min | Finnish CAR-REL-EMO MAK OF MEN(domin & alt), HEALTH (mental), VIOL

(also see Listen…, Pola, Silence Speaks, Tough Guise) The first film of a trilogy about fathers and sons, this is the director's personal voyage into the history of his family and his own relationship with his father. It deals with the conflict between generations, changing notions of masculinity, and subjective memory. How often and to what extent do we repeat the behavioural patterns of our fathers; can we change or break these patterns? The film's emotional complexity is matched by visual motifs like the eloquent yet enigmatic images of water. Alongside archival material and interviews is cinéma vérité material depicting the present. The seriousness of the topic is leavened with black humour. [Although this is not the film's main thread, at some point the filmmaker speculates on the connection between traditional forms of masculinity and military culture, echoing strands from several other films in this package.] Best Nordic Documentary Film, Nordisk Panorama Risto Jarva Prize, Best Finnish Documentary, Tampere Int'l Short FF Audience Award, Best Documentary, Kazimierz Dolny FF, Poland Taiwan Int'l Documentary Festival Documenta Madridl and many others

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Visa Koiso-Kanttila was born in Finland in 1970. He graduated from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki and studied documentary film at The New School University and at Film/ Video Arts in New York. He founded his own p r o d u c t i o n c o m p a n y, Guerrilla Films Ltd, in 1999, and is a member of Elephant Films Ltd -The Finnish Directors' Group. He directs and produces documentaries in collaboration with his wife and colleague Iiris Härmä. Their films have won awards in several national and international film festivals.

Erik Santiago FIVE FRIENDS USA | 2011 | 70 min | English | MEF CAR-REL-EMO, MAK OF MEN (alt)

(also see Gandhi's Children, Tough Guise, Two Friends) (Not available as part of the travelling package. Those interested may please write directly to [email protected]) "If you've got five friends when you die," American philosopher Elbert Hubbard was fond of saying, "then you've had a great life." Five Friends tells the story of one man who decided to live that life. The film chronicles 65-year-old Hank Mandel's relationships with five close male friends, providing a deeply personal look at how they navigate success, conflict, marriage, divorce, fatherhood, and death, and revealing what men are capable of when they dare to break out of "bro culture" and open up to one another. Along the way, the film encourages us to think critically about the high price boys and men too often pay for adhering to rigid cultural ideas of manhood. A powerful resource for courses that examine gender roles and masculinity. [While Two Friends is cross-referenced here because it, too, is a powerful ode to friendship, Gandhi's Children also has moments of caring and bonding that are particularly moving when expressed by young boys in a grubby shelter home. The trajectories of their lives, lived on society's margins, could make for an intriguing counterpoint to the narratives of the far more privileged men in Five Friends - whose deep emotional relationships are nonetheless remarkable.]

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Erik Santiago is a writerproducer-director-husbandminister and father of three. He began his career in advertising in Minneapolis where he produced television commercials for a range of well-known brands. In 1999, he started a company on the East Coast specialising in m e d i a co m m u n i ca t i o n s consulting. His company's clients included several big corporations, and The White House. After having overseen product launches, publicity campaigns, and large-scale events in the sporting arena, he began an entertainment production company.

Ajita Chowhan, Rintu Thomas, Sumit Sharma, Sushmit Ghosh FLYING INSIDE MY BODY India | 2008 | 36 min | English | AJK MCRC, JMI SEXLTY & ID MAK OF MEN (alt)

(also see Milind Soman…, Praner Manush, The Quest for…) The film is a journey with veteran photographer Sunil Gupta, who uses his art to document queer people and histories while challenging stereotypes about the body, sexuality and identity. The film's lyrical style marries still photography with moving images and text, to unfold an intensely personal narrative that questions the deeply ingrained prejudices we carry within ourselves. Queer Nazariya Int'l LGBTI FF, Mumbai VIBGYOR Int'l FF, Kerala Breakthrough Tri‐Continental FF, India Voices from the Fringe FF, Netherlands Syracuse Int'l FF, New York and many others

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Flying Inside My Body was the Master's project of the filmmakers at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia University, New Delhi. Ajita Chowhan works with a leading digital news platform in Delhi; Rintu Thomas, Sumit Sharma and Sushmit Ghosh are freelance media professionals.

David MacDougall David MacDougall is a GANDHI'S CHILDREN India‐Australia | 2008 | 185 min | Hindi | MLM (distrib) documentary filmmaker and POVT & WORK (child), CAR-REL-EMO, HEALTH, PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL, VIOL (child) MAK OF MEN (spaces) (also seeThe Boy in…, Maula…, Pola, A Sunny Day, Two Friends, Vitthal) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) A shelter for children on the outskirts of New Delhi houses 350 boys. Some are orphans, others have been abandoned, still others have run away from home. Many have been arrested for petty crimes. For several months, the filmmaker explores the shelter's routines and the varied experiences of individual boys. “[The film] reveals the extraordinary resilience and humanity of children in the face of a world that has cast them out – sometimes violently, sometimes accidentally, sometimes indifferently. MacDougall does not flinch from what he finds, neither sensationalizing nor sentimentalizing his young subjects and their situation….The intellectual curiosity and generosity of the filmmaker touch every scene.”-Anna Grimshaw, Associate Prof., The Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University “MacDougall is able to look deeply into…survival in an institution that is hard to judge, for it protects and represses at the same time, it captures but gives shelter at the same time....[It is] impossible to see bad and good guys in such profound films!”-Rossella Ragazzi, University of Trømso (Norway) and director of the film La Mémoire Dure. [This three-hour documentary is worth screening solo because it offers so much, and raises so many questions about every single social structure. A little patience is called for – we are usually happier to submit to fiction and tend to be wary of “long documentaries”. Once you do enter the film, it is utterly gripping. Viewers will find much to talk about, and one of the things we could discuss is how young boys living on the streets, being sexually assaulted, denied access to health and education, succumbing to substance abuse, or trafficked into hard labour and subjected to constant beatings, do not automatically grow up to beviolent criminals and rapists any more than boys being raised in luxury do, but how the odds are clearly not stacked in the less privileged boys' favour when it comes to making life choices.] Grand Prize, Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania High Commendation & Nomination for Best Documentary Feature, Asia Pacific Film Awards Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York DOK.fest, Munich Days of Ethnographic Films, Ljubljana, Slovenia and many others

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writer on cinema. He has filmed in East Africa (the Jie films and "Turkana Conversations" trilogy), Australia, and India (Photo Wallahs [1991], Doon School Chronicles [2000], School Scapes [2007], etc.), and is also the author of Transcultural Cinema and The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses. He is presently Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University, where he is conducting a video workshops project, “Childhood and Modernity: Indian Children's Perspectives”.

Maremi Watanabe GIRL IN A BOX Denmark | 2012 | animation | 8 min | Danish | NFSD VIOL, CAR-REL-EMO MAK OF MEN (domin), SEXLTY & ID

(also see 1977, Immoral Daughters, Joys of…, Nadia's Journey, The Others, Sixth Sense: Neither Boss…, Two Friends) Core lives inside a star with her broken robot-father. Her job is to produce energy for the star to shine, every day. Her lonely, monotonous life is shaken up when an attractive comet flies in one day... [So many violent fathers – or self-appointed father figures; so much policing of girls and women, especially of their sexuality, by family and community. Sometimes the girls run away, sometimes they are killed and sometimes they finally explode. Along with those issues, flagged by many of the films in the “also see” list above, it might be interesting to discuss the use of animation to depict violence, in this film and in The Others.]

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Maremi Watanabe, who was born in Japan, came as a backpacker to Scandinavia and fell in love with the culture and atmosphere. In 2002 she attended the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark. After a stint working in film back in Japan, she came back to Denmark to do the National Film School of Denmark's animation course. She is keen to film epic stories with strong visuals, using animation or live action. She intends to draw from her own “cultural clash experience” to create her own universe. Michel Gondry and Aki Kaurismäki are among her role models.

Sarnath Banerjee HAKIM TARTOOSI'S POTENCY OIL India | 2001 | animation | 21 min | English, Hindi, Bengali | MLM (distrib) HEALTH (sexual), MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see Father, Son and…, A Man When…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) An uninhibited caricature of male anxieties derived from sexual myths, this clay animation short is full of playful irreverence. Chintu, full of doubts about his sexual prowess, enlists the help of Hakim Tartoosi whose magical potion is expected to alleviate his miseries. Endearing characters take us on a joyful ride through the world of macho men, adult videos and mysterious elixirs. Persistence Resistance, New Delhi

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Sarnath Banerjee has a Master's in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College, London, and has been the recipient of various grants and fellowships. He is the author of the graphic novels Corridor, set in contemporary Delhi; The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers, on the scandalous affairs of British a d m i n i st r a to r s i n 1 8 t h century Calcutta; and The Harappa Files, a satire on bureaucracy. His art has been exhibited at the Sao Paolo Biennial; A R C O madrid; Frieze London; the Mori Museum, Tokyo; the Centre Pompidou, Paris. He has also worked as an illustrator, and is cofounder of Phantomville, a comics publishing house.

Mayenzeke Baza Mayenzeke Baza won a pitching competition in 2008, and the prize was a course in MAK OF MEN (domin), HEALTH documentary filmmaking in (also see 1/2/3, The Quest for…, Silence Speaks) Wales. He made his first documentary, The Smuggler I In Xhosa culture, ukwaluka – being circumcised – is as sure as Met in Cardiff, for Channel 4 taxes. Just as Jewish boys are circumcised and have a bar (UK). Since then he has worked mitzvah, Xhosa boys goto the bush. The ritual is an ancient with producers who have won tradition in South African societal structures; however, currently there is a problem. Young men are dying. The film BAFTA and Emmy awards, goes in search of the reasons why communities still go through and for SABC and Al Jazeera. with it when they know the dangers. Does having your foreskin He is also co-founder of ATFT cut off in early adulthood truly make you a man? (the Association for Transformation in Film & [This package has three very different films that question the Television), championing the beliefs and rituals around male circumcision, from three development of a more different countries and cultures. See note under The Quest for equitable industry. the Missing Piece.]

I AM A MAN South Africa | 2013 | 24 min | Xhosa, English

Encounters Film Festival, South Africa Nominated, SAFTAs (South African Film and TV Awards)

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John Meletse John Meletse is a deaf man who works for the Gay & Lesbian Memory in Action SEXLTY & ID (disab) (GALA) Archives. I Have Two (also see Milind Soman…, The Quest for…, Silence Speaks, was produced during one of Voices…) the filmmaking workshops held annually since 2004 by This short encapsulates the frustrations of a man who, in the Out in Africa Gay and different spaces, is marginalised either by his sexuality or by his Lesbian Film Festival for disability. aspiring filmmakers.

I HAVE TWO South Africa | 2004 | 4 min | English| OIA

[This is the only film in the package where disability has been cited as an elaboration in the track tags, but we need to be receptive to the implicit and explicit ways in which disability – besides other markers like caste, class, race, religious or tribal identity, sexuality, gender, age, mental health – could be at work in the lives of the people we meet and stories we hear in many of the other films as well.] Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian FF Queer Nazariya Int'l LGBTI FF, Mumbai and many others

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Nakul Singh Sawhney IMMORAL DAUGHTERS India | 2012 | 63 min | Hindi | MLM (distrib) VIOL, MAK OF MEN (domin) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (caste, fundm), SEXLTY & ID

(also see Father, Son and…, Girl in a Box, Joys of…, In the Shadow…, A Man When…, Nadia's Journey, Violence…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) The film narrates the stories of five young Jat women who have dared to take on the all-powerful Khap Panchayats (quasijudicial village councils) in the north Indian state of Haryana, and depicts their struggles as they protest "honour" crimes, injustice and social boycotts. The women's chilling personal experiences are intercut with the viewpoint of the Khap leaders that “our immoral daughters imagine equality like animals, and want our age-old customs to die out.” The Khaps, patriarchal and casteist pillars of a still feudal society, oppose “self-choice” marriages and deny young people the right to love. Immoral Daughters exposes these fissures, and the hypocrisy and violence that persist in a supposedly modern and democratic India. [This is the only film in the package where caste has been cited as an elaboration in the track tags, but we need to be receptive tothe implicit and explicit ways in which caste – besides other markers like class, ability, race, religious or tribal identity, sexuality, gender, age, mental health – could be at work in the lives of the people we meet and stories we hear in many of the other films as well.] IDSFFK, Thiruvananthapuram, India Vibgyor Int'l FF, Kerala, India Film South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal Our Lives…To Live (NO! to gender violence), India and many others 36

Nakul Singh Sawhney directed his first film With a Little Help From My Friends in 2005, winning an award for 2nd Best Film at the 60 Seconds to Fame Film Festival in Chennai. He then studied TV direction at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune. His student films Agaurav and Undecided won awards at the Hyderabad International Film Festival. On graduating, he made Once Upon a Time in Chheharta, a documentary on the history of a working class movement in Amritsar, a n d a l s o w o r ke d w i t h filmmaker Saeed Mirza. Since 2003, he has been actively involved with the Delhi-based theatre group Jana Natya Manch.

Hanan Abdalla IN THE SHADOW OF A MAN Egypt | 2012 | 60 min | Arabic VIOL PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (conflict), MAK OF MEN (domin & alt)

(also see A Day in…, Father, Son and…, Joys of…, Immoral Daughters, A Man When…, Nadia's Journey, Violence…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) In the wake of the recent Egyptian revolution, four women speak about what it means to be a woman in Egypt, and of their fight for the future. The film weaves through their worlds as they tell us their stories of marriage, divorce, love and resistance, their lives mirroring Egypt's greater struggle for freedom and self-determination. [This is one of the few films in this package that is centred on women, not on boys and men. More about this in the Curator's Note; suffice it here to say that even engaging with men and boys about men and boys does mean letting them - and getting them to – listen closely to women's experiences of men and patriarchy in women's voices.] Premiere, Berlin International Film Festival Best Documentary Filmmaker, Doha Tribeca FF Special Jury Prize, Ismailia Film Festival, Egypt Audience Award, Rencontres de l'Image Festival, Cairo Special Jury Mention. LatinArab Film Festival, Beirut and many others 37

Hanan Abdalla is a BritishEgyptian freelance documentary filmmaker. Born in London in 1988, she studied Politics and Philosophy at Oxford University, graduating in 2010. She went on to pursue short filmmaking courses at the National Film and Television School, London, and elsewhere. She is part of the third generation of a family of Egyptian political activists, and has been in Egypt since February 2011, b o t h d o c u m e nt i n g a n d participating in the turbulent struggles of the ongoing revolution. She is currently in post-production on her second feature-length documentary, on women candidates running in Egypt's first parliamentary elections after the fall of Mubarak.

Samata Jadhav, Pradeep Paralkar, Amol Lalzare, Yashodhara Salve JOR SE BOL India | 2009 | 19 min | Hindi | Apna TV VIOL, MAK OF MEN (domin & alt)

(also see Dekh Le, Macho, The Others, Respect…, Soch Sahi…, Violence…, Voices…) Street sexual harassment is experienced by the majority of women. It might be in the form of ogling, touching, comments or stalking. Women feel harassed, angry and frustrated. There are laws against it, but “eve teasing”, as it's commonly called, continues. Why do men engage in it? Why is it considered so unimportant? This video probes the reactions of young men and women. (“Jor se bol” is Hindi for “Shout out loud”.) [It could be interesting to watch this film, Dekh Le and the Respect for Women: Air Fryer ad together with The Others and Macho, to enable a discussion on ogling, street sexual harassment and rape as being part of the same continuum of sexual violence.] Abhivyakti Film Festival, Nashik, India Nazariya Film Festival, Gujarat, India Women at Work FF, Gujarat, India Our Lives…To Live (NO! to gender violence), India and many others

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Samata Jadhav, Pradeep Paralkar, Amol Lalzare, Ya s h o d h a r a S a l v e a r e members of a community youth group trained by the NGO Akshara to produce short documentaries as part o f a co m m u n i t y m e d i a initiative. They have chosen to call their production unit Apna TV.

Qader Aryaei JOYS OF FERVENCY Afghanistan | 2009 | fiction | 32 min | Farsi VIOL MAK OF MEN (domin), PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (conflict, fundm)

(also see Bell Bajao, Girl in a Box, Immoral Daughters, In the Shadow…, A Man When…, Nadia's Journey, Respect…, Sixth Sense: Neither Boss…, Violence…) Sofi Karim's pigeons are a source of joy and income, but have turned into such an addiction for him that he sacrifices his wife and children in the bargain. [So many violent fathers – or self-appointed father figures; so much policing of girls and women, especially of their sexuality, by family and community. Sometimes the girls run away, sometimes they are killed and sometimes they finally explode. It might be interesting to view this film along with Girl in a Box, Immoral Daughters and Sixth Sense: Neither Boss Nor Bully, to discuss the major role played by natal family violence in the whole picture of domestic violence.] Award, Autumn Human Rights Film Festival, Kabul Mumbai Int'l Documentary and Short FF IDSFFK, Thiruvananthapuram, India

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Qader Aryaei entered the film industry for the first time in 1979. He was unable to complete his studies in the Journalism School of Kabul University due to the instability in Afghanistan. He has acted in many narrative films such as The Circle, The Stranger, Ascent, Escape, Earth and Ashes. His short films The Moon behind the Window, Swamp and Joys of Fervency have been screened in many film festivals and have received prestigious awards.

Yasmine Kabir THE LAST RITES Bangladesh | 2008 | 17 min | non‐verbal | MLM (distrib) POVT & WORK

(also see Check Point, My Migrant Soul) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) The film is set in the ship-breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh – a final destination for ships that are too old to ply the oceans any longer. Every year, hundreds of ships are sent to the yards, where thousands of people come seeking work. Through the visuals and sounds of hard labour, The Last Rites portrays the elemental struggle between human and metal, as men carry the weight of steel ropes over their shoulders, pull huge parts of the vessels inland, and break down great sheets of metal. They breathe in asbestos dust and toxic waste, risking their lives to save their families from hunger. [This film without dialogue encourages us to have our own conversation with what the filmmaker shows us. Who are the men doing this hard labour? Are they migrants? What sort of worlds and families have they left behind? What are their living conditions? What about unions? Safety measures? Can we look at these men and find connections with the son who has gone abroad in My Migrant Soul?]

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Ya s m i n e K a b i r i s a n independent filmmaker from Bangladesh, who lives and works in Dhaka and Chittagong. Her films have been seen widely all over the world and have received many awards and much acclaim.They include Death Chant (1992), A Day at the Embassy (1996), For Solaiman (1997), A Mother's Lament (1999), My Migrant S o u l ( 2 0 0 0 ) , A C e r ta i n Liberation (2003).

Tangella Madhavi LISTEN LITTLE MAN India | 2007 | 29 min | English | PSBT MAK OF MEN (domin), HEALTH (mental), PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (militar), VIOL

(also see Mardistan, Nothing Can…, Tough Guise, Valmiki…, Violence…, Voices…, Wrestling…) The film explores the tradition of ragging in educational institutes through the experiences of students, as well as their families and friends who have been affected by it and protested against it. A connection unfolds between ragging and larger forms of violence in society, which involve following orders without questioning them.

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Tangella Madhavi was the recipient of a SARAI Fellowship in 2005, and majored in Direction and Screenplay Writing from the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata, in 2009. Her fiction short The Last Act won awards for its screenplay, and screened at many international festivals. Her documentary Dhaga Mil Gaya (I Found A Thread) won a Silver Conch at the 2010 Mumbai International Film Festival. Her other films include Anna Sound Please! Based in Mumbai, she spends her time writing, teaching and canine counselling, wherein she specialises in teaching sign language to deaf dogs.

Nia Dinata A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN IN BONDOWOSO Indonesia | 2013 | 15 min | Indonesian | Kalyana Shira Foundation CAR-REL-EMO, MAK OF MEN (alt)

(also see Respect…, Silence Speaks, A Sunny Day, Soch Sahi…, Voices…) A religious teacher at a madrasa in Bondowoso becomes a role model in the community, preaching what he practises. He values gender equality, and shares household chores and childcare duties with his wife.

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Nia Dinata is an awardwinning filmmaker known for tackling subjects considered controversial or "risky" in Indonesia, such as homosexuality, migrant workers, and polygamy. She began her film career directing video clips and commercials in the mid-1990s and worked on a television show before directing her first feature film, Ca-bau-kan. She has since made two more features, and faced censorship and controversy because of the subjects she explores. She has also won critical acclaim internationally, being called Indonesia's "most talented new filmmaker". Two of her films were submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Lucinda Broadbent MACHO Nicaragua‐Scotland| 2000 | 26 min | Spanish | WMM (distrib) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (militar, campn), MAK OF MEN (domin & alt) VIOL

(also see Bell Bajao, Gandhi's Children, A Man When…, MenCare…, Narrow Passage, The Others, Seeking Safety, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense, Tough Guise, Two Friends, Valmiki…, Violence…, Wrestling…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to Women Make Movies) In 1998, Nicaragua saw one of the most publicised and controversial cases of sexual abuse to hit modern-day Latin America. At the epicentre of the scandal stood none other than Sandinista leader and ex-President Daniel Ortega. Revered as a revolutionary hero, Ortega was accused on multiple charges of rape and battery by his stepdaughter, Soilamerica Narvaez. A group rallied around the episode to organise a radical campaign against domestic violence and sexual abuse. Their efforts eventually led to the formation of the internationally acclaimed organisation, Men Against Violence. Macho tells that story, and offers glimpses of the methods used by Men Against Violence to discuss the abuse of power and the damage it causes families and communities. Despite living and working in one of the most destitute countries in Latin America, this group has evolved a model that is now used worldwide by other groups working with men and boys for gender justice. Barcelona Women's Film Festival Women in Film and TV Film Festival, London WYBE Through the Lens Series, USA and many others 43

Lucinda Broadbent has worked for over 20 years as a D i r e c to r a n d E xe c u t i v e Producer of documentaries for Channel 4, BBC, Scottish Television and Sky, specialising in human rights and social justice films. Her prizes include Amnesty International's Media Award and ECHO Human Rights Award. She has been involved in founding a number of feminist, LGBT, solidarity and peace activist groups and campaigns, as well as a housing cooperative, and is a tutor on international forums for e m e r g i n g d o c u m e nta r y filmmakers in the Middle East and Asia. She loves her bicycle, and grows geraniums and potatoes on the roof of her flat.

Valeria Sarmiento A MAN, WHEN HE IS A MAN Costa Rica‐Chile | 1982 | 66 min | Spanish | WMM (distrib) MAK OF MEN (domin), VIOL

(also see Bell Bajao, In the Shadow…, Macho, Nadia's Journey, Narrow Passage, The Others, Seeking Safety, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense: Neither Boss…, Soch Sahi…, Tough Guise, Two Friends, Violence…, Wrestling…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to Women Make Movies) Set in Costa Rica and touched with dark humor, this stylistically imaginative documentary illuminates the social climate and cultural traditions which nurture machismo and allow the domination of women to flourish in Latin America. As men talk frankly about the strategies they use to pursue women - and make other, more chilling confessions - their accounts are intercut with romantic songs from black-and-white era films, and strolling serenaders crooning of love and heartbreak. These songs are ironic counterpoint to “real life” as well as a confirmation of how deeply machismo is embedded in the popular psyche. “An amazing work that successfully reveals the genuinely funny elements of male posturing and its potentially serious consequences. It will be appreciated by general audiences as well as teachers interested in stimulating discussion on sex roles." - Malcolm Arth, Margaret Mead Film Festival Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam Berlin Int'l Film Festival and many others

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Va l e r i a S a r m i e n t o i s a documentary and fiction director, writer and editor. She studied philosophy and filmmaking at the University of Chile, and has been based in Paris since 1974. She is often cited alongside Angelina Vásquez and Marilú Mallet as one of the key Chilean women filmmakers living in exile, and is also well-known as the regular editor and collaborator of her late husband, filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. The critical success of A Man… gave her the opportunity to direct her first fiction feature, Our Marriage (1984). Her most recent film is Maria Graham: Diary of a Residence in Chile (2013).

Sherna Dastur MANJUBEN TRUCK DRIVER India | 2002 | 50 min | Hindi | MLM (distrib) SEXLTY & ID MAK OF MEN (alt, spaces)

(also see 1977, Boy, Moustaches…, Shinjuku Boys, Through the…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) Manjuben is a truck driver (“ben” means sister in Gujarati and is used to address women in general) but the identity she constructs for herself is that of a macho trucker, drawn from popular notions of maleness. Yet she defies simple categorisation. She has defied social, cultural and economic norms in order to be who she is, but has no stories of victimhood, and commands complete respect from her peers. The film spends a few days on the road with Manjuben.

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Sherna Dastur is a filmmaker and graphic designer. Her design work includes Project CinemaCity (2013, Tulika B o o k s ) Tr a c e R e t r a c e : Paintings, Nilima Sheikh (2013, Tulika Books), The Khoj Book (2010, Collins), and a range of interventions for social campaigns and films on issues of fundamentalisms and women's rights. She has taught the foundation course on colour and form as visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, also her alma mater, and is currently working on The Sovereign Forest, an art project by Amar Kanwar, designing the installation in museum and community spaces.

Harjant Gill MARDISTAN (MACHOLAND) India | 2014 | 27 min | Punjabi, Hindi, English | PSBT MAK OF MEN (domin & alt) VIOL, SEXLTY & ID

(also see Listen…, A Man When…, Milind Soman…, Praner Manush, Silence Speaks, Tough Guise, Voices…, Wrestling…) A writer attempts to make sense of the physical and sexual abuse he witnessed while at an elite military academy; a working class father of twin daughters resists the social pressure to have a son; a college student searches for a girlfriend with whom he can lose his virginity; a gay man decides to come out to his wife after nearly 20 years of marriage. Through the experiences of these four men, the film explores notions of manhood in a rapidly globalising India, and reflects on the entrenched patriarchy and gendered violence present in a society increasingly defined by inequalities.

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Harjant Gill is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies at Towson University, Maryland. His academic research examines the intersections of masculinity, modernity and migration in South Asia. His documentary films have screened at film festivals worldwide and won numerous awards. His latest work, Roots of Love, explores the changing significance of hair and turbans among Sikhs. He is currently also CoDirector of the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival.

Ankur Bansal MAULA BAKSH DE India | 2014 | fiction | 12 min | Hindi | WWI PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (fundm), CAR-REL-EMO VIOL

(also see The Boy in…, Father, Son and…, Gandhi's Children, Valmiki…, Violence…) A Hindu man teaches a course at a madrasa. A warm relationship develops between him and one of the students, an orphan, and he wishes to adopt the boy – promising to raise him as a Muslim. Around this time, he is asked to be a witness for the prosecution against some Hindu men who burnt down a Muslim bakery during the 2002 communal violence. Old fears, and long-concealed guilt, come to the fore. Best Short Film & Sound Design, Filmsaaz Int'l FF, Aligarh Muslim University Selection, National Students' Films Awards, Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata

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Ankur Bansal grew up in Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering and worked for several months in a manufacturing unit in Punjab, before joining the Direction course at Whistling Woods International Film School, Mumbai, as a scholarship student. He has made several short films.

Nathan Golon MENCARE – CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA South Africa‐USA | 2014 | 9 min | English CAR-REL-EMO, MAK OF MEN (domin & alt), PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn), POVT & WORK

(also see Bell Bajao, Macho, Narrow Passage, Seeking Safety, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense: Neither Boss…, Tough Guise, Violence…) In an impoverished township outside Cape Town, a baby is only a month away from coming into the world. As the young parents prepare for their first child, the uncle-to-be, a single father, shares his thoughts on being a good dad. Poverty, unequal gender roles, violence, and their own family histories can be daunting, but there is hope and joy here. Some men embrace new ways of being men, while others begin to unlearn their old violent ways.

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Nathan Golon completed a degree in journalism at Boston University, before going on to direct, produce and photograph stories around the world focusing on humanitarian issues including the legacy of war, H I V/A I D S , child and m a te r n a l h e a l t h , g i r l s ' education, and climate change. Nathan has also worked for some of the most prestigious names in nonfiction film, including National Geographic, Discovery, Al Jazeera, CNN, ESPN and many others.

Jocelyn Lehrer THE MEN'S STORY PROJECT: OUT LOUD! Chile | 2013 | 147 min | Spanish MAK OF MEN (alt), CARE-REL-EMO, PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn) HEALTH (HIV. mental, sexual), POVT & WORK, SEXLTY & ID (disab), VIOL

(also see Bell Bajao, Macho, A Man…, Narrow Passage, Seeking Safety, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense, Soch Sahi…, Tough Guise, Violence…, Voices…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected] purchase from www.darkhollowfilms.com) With unusual candour, diverse Chilean men share personal stories with a live audience at a popular theatre in Santiago. Making use of prose, comedy, dance, photography and video, the stories critically explore social ideas about masculinity and gender relations. The presenters address topics that include family relationships; substance abuse; bullying; breaking the cycle of domestic violence; homosexuality and the Church; transgender identity and LGBT rights; violence between men; living with HIV/AIDS; manual labour, classism and dignity; physical disability and self-actualization; men's evolving social roles; and the healing power of self-acceptance, community and love. The presenters include Coco Legrand, Chile's most popular comic; Pedro Sánchez Melivilo, a leader of Chile's indigenous Mapuche community; and Andrés Rivera Duarte, the first transgender man to legally change sex in Chile.

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Jocelyn Lehrer is Founder/Director of the Men's Story Project and Senior Technical Specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) in Washington, DC. At ICRW, Dr Lehrer provides technical l e a d e rs h i p t o p ro j e c t s involving research, project implementation, technical assistance and policy advocacy across a range of initiatives pertaining to GBV and HIV/AIDS prevention and response, and the promotion of sexual/reproductive health and healthy masculinities. She holds a doctoral degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed postdoctoral work at the University of California. Her family is from Chile.

Harjant Gill MILIND SOMAN MADE ME GAY India | 2007 | 27 min | English | MLM (distrib) SEXLTY & ID, MAK OF MEN (alt) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (fundm, racism)

(also see Flying…, I Have Two, Mardistan, Praner Manush) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) In 1995, the Indian Government filed obscenity charges against supermodels Milind Soman and Madhu Sapre for appearing nude in a shoe advertisement. Using the rhetoric of preserving the nation's morality, the case relied on old colonial laws that are still evoked in arbitrary fashion. Milind Soman Made Me Gay pays homage to, and takes off from, that controversial image. "Harjant Gill's Milind Soman Made Me Gay is a powerful and moving meditation on sexuality, race, popular culture, masculinity and the traumas of exile and migration. Seamlessly moving between India and the US, Gill deftly connects the violence against Sikh minorities at the hands of the Indian state in the 1980s, to the violence against South Asian and Arab communities in the US post 9/11. For Gill, these interconnected histories of violence indelibly mark his own queer body. An excellent film for use in Asian American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies classes.” - Gayatri Gopinath, author of Impossible Desires: Queer Frameline, SanFranciscoInt'l LGBT FF Melbourne Queer Film Festival Seattle Queer Film Festival Chicago Int'l Gay and Lesbian FF Nigah Queer Fest, Delhi and many others 50

Harjant Gill is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies at To w s o n U n i v e r s i t y, Maryland. His academic r e s e a r c h exa m i n e s t h e intersections of masculinity, modernity and migration in South Asia. His documentary films have screened at film festivals worldwide and won numerous awards. His latest work, Roots of Love, explores the changing significance of hair and turbans among Sikhs. He is currently also CoDirector of the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival.

Vasudha Joshi MOUSTACHES UNLIMITED India | 2006 |29 min | English | PSBT MAK OF MEN (domin & alt)

(also see Being Bhaijaan, Boy, Manjuben, Shinjuku Boys, Through the…, Tough Guise, Vitthal, Voices…) At once comical and informative, this exploration of the phenomenon of moustaches in India answers a host of questions that many viewers will have long wanted to ask, as well as several they may not have even considered. What are the different meanings attached to moustaches by men and women, boys and girls, masculinities and femininities? As many as there are styles of facial hair, evidently. [It could be fun to watch this film together with Through the Looking Glass and Vitthal. All three have to do with self-image and self-expression. Add 1977 and/or Boy to the sub-set and the films really begin to speak to one another.] Film South Asia, Kathmandu IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, New Delhi

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Vasudha Joshi worked as a TV journalist before she started making her own documentaries in 1988, s o m e o f w h i c h s h e co directed with Ranjan Palit. Her award-winning films include Voices from Baliapal, Fo l l o w t h e R a i n b o w, A Report on Mahila Samakhya UP, For Maya, Girl Song and Cancer Katha.

Yasmine Kabir MY MIGRANT SOUL Bangladesh | 2000 | 34 min | Bengali | MLM (distrib) POVT & WORK HEALTH

(also see Backstage Boys, Bahadur…, The Last Rites) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) Shahjahan Babu, a migrant worker, left the poverty of his life in Bangladesh for work in Malaysia that was meant to improve his family's chances of survival. Having sold his only piece of property and virtually mortgaging his life, the young man arrives in the host country, only to experience disillusionment, misery and frustration. “If I live, I'll write the history of my travels in Malaysia…. I'll write a poem about it,” he had said before leaving. Babu sent home audiotapes, in which he recounted his bitter experiences in Malaysia. These tapes are used as a running narrative, and songs sung by him are woven into the film. The camera is the medium through which Babu tells us his story posthumously, along with his grief-stricken mother and sister. Best Film, Ram Bahadur Trophy, Film South Asia, Kathmandu NETPAC Award, Yamagata International FF, Japan Gold Award for Best Documentary, New York Exposition Best Int'l Documentary, Human Rights Documentary FF, Buenos Aires Special Mention for Human Rights, Tres Continentes Festival, Buenos Aires and many others 52

Ya s m i n e K a b i r i s a n independent filmmaker from Bangladesh, who lives and works in Dhaka and Chittagong. Her films have been seen widely all over the world and have received many awards and much acclaim. They include Death Chant (1992), A Day at the Embassy (1996), For Solaiman (1997), A Mother's Lament (1999), A Certain Liberation (2003), The Last Rites (2008).

Nadia Zouaoui, Carmen Garcia NADIA'S JOURNEY Algeria‐Canada | 2006 | 75 min | French, Berber VIOL, MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see Immoral Daughters, In the Shadow…, Joys of…, Macho, A Man When…, Respect…, Violence…) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to MenEngage members and groups in India. Others interested may please write directly to Nadia Zouaoui at [email protected]) When Nadia Zouaoui was 19, her parents forced her into an arranged marriage with an Algerian man living in Montreal, who was twice her age. In this film, she returns to her village in Algeria years later to see if things have changed. Her journey is a hellish voyage into a patriarchal culture that keeps women in servitude, a society obsessed with female virginity. She depicts with clarity and intimacy the cruelty endured even to this day by so many girls and women held captive in their homes. Gemini Award, Academy of Canadian Television & Cinema Caméra au poing Award, RIDM (MontrealInt'l Documentary Festival) Best Documentary Script, Gémeaux Awards, Montreal Special Jury Award, FIGRA (Int'l Current Affairs and Documentary FF), France and many others

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Nadia Zouaoui was born in Algeria and has lived in Canada since 1988. She studied literature and journalism at the University of Montreal and McGill University, and has worked with the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), the NFBC (National Film Board of Canada) and the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel. Her film Fear, Anger & Politics, about the impact of the anti-terrorist laws on Muslim communities in the U S , was one of the mostwatched films on Al Jazeera, and won several awards. Carmen Garcia grew up in Paris, where she studied humanities and was a member of an amateur theater group. After arriving in Montreal in 1973, she worked in journalism and publishing while pursuing an education in translation and communications. Since 1983, she has produced documentary films, working as a producer, researcher, and screenwriter; taking on the additional role of film director in 1993. From 2001-2002, she temporarily switched focus to work as an analyst for Telefilm Canada. However, she returned to production in 2003, where she has continued to challenge herself ever since.

Marko Popović NARROW PASSAGE Marko Popović graduated in film and television direction Bosnia‐Herzegovina, Serbia | 2014 | 26 min | Bosnian, from academies in Prague Croatian, Serbian MAK OF MEN (domin & alt) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn)

(also see Macho, A Man When…, MenCare…, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense: Going Against…,Tough Guise, Violence…, Voices…) The break up of Yugoslavia saw the re-emergence of traditional and patriarchal norms throughout the newly established countries. Young men in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia are seeking out new models of male behaviour and starting to challenge the old order of gender inequality and violence prevalent throughout the region. A teenager from Sarajevo, whose mother divorced his violent father, has become a youth activist and peer educator. Another teenager from Zagreb tries to explain to his friends why he thinks it is okay to have a friend who is gay. And another teen from a small town in Serbia promotes a local rock band, collects old books and organises poetry nights instead of drinking with the boys. They are just some of the young men in the Balkans who are trying to create more tolerant and peaceful environments.

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and Belgrade. He also attended the European Social Documentary's ZeLig workshop, Hot Docs' Doc Lab and a workshop at the Venice Film Festival. His feature documentaries have been screened and won awards at festivals in Sarajevo, Prague, Toronto, Kosice, Zagreb, Warsaw, and Glasgow. He has directed promotional campaigns for CARE, Save the Children, and other human rights groups, and established the Free Zone Belgrade Human Rights Film Festival in 2005.

Kristoffer Kiørboe NORTHERN LIGHTS Denmark | 2009 |27 min | Danish | NFSD CAR-REL-EMO, HEALTH (mental) (also see Arivu, Praner Manush)

This is a film about two brothers who, in different ways, stand unsure in the world. Their relationship, for reasons neither remembers any longer, has turned smiles into silences. The two are going on a voyage together in search of the intimacy they no longer possess, but it's not going to be an easy journey. Samuel has serious brain damage, while Simon's doubts are harder to diagnose. They set off to find the Northern Lights. But how do you find the light within yourself?

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Kristoffer Kiørboe was born in Copenhagen in 1979. His family lived in Santiago, Chile, for a few years. He was a musician and an actor in commercials, short films and TV series, and made his debut as a director in 2003. After directing several films, commercials and music videos he began his formal education in 2005 at The National Film School of Denmark, making his midterm film, Landscapes, in 2008. Northern Lights was his graduation film.

Milad Alami NOTHING CAN TOUCH ME Denmark | 2011 | fiction | 29 min | Danish | NFSD VIOL, CAR-REL-EMO, MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see Listen…, Sixth Sense: Going Against…, Tough Guise, Valmiki…, Violence…, Voices…, Wrestling…) On a cold December day, tragedy strikes at a Danish high school. Katrine survives a school shooting and is the only one to see who the shooter is. The hunt for the boy begins, which takes Katrine and three other classmates to his house. Through his belongings, pictures and a video he had made, Katrine starts to realise that she has more in common with him than with any of her other classmates. Best Student Short Film, Cleveland Int'l FF Best Short Film, Fresh Film Fest, Ireland Winner, Nordic Talent, London Best Director, La Cabina Int'l FF, Spain Best Script, Grand Off World Independent Film Awards, Denmark and many others

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Milad Alami was born in Iran in 1982 and grew up in Sweden. He graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 2011. His graduation film, Nothing Can Touch Me, travelled to over 40 international film festivals and won 10 awards. He earned a Special Mention at Nordic Talents in 2011, recently completed a short film, Mini, and is working on two features, one in Sweden and one in Denmark, with support from The Danish and the Swedish Film Institutes and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Devayush Chowdhary THE OTHERS USA | 2013 | live action & animation| 16 min | English | NYU PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (militar,racism), VIOL MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see Father Son and…, Girl in a Box, Jor se Bol, Joys of…, Macho, A Man When…, Two Friends, Violence…, Wrestling…) This short fiction film tries to explore complex questions of truth, society, and power through the story of Katrina, a timid young girl who lives in New York City and fancies her boss, one of the richest men in Manhattan. Through the use of various kinds of animation along with live action,The Others tells a stark story of violence and retribution. [The film opens with Katrina and her cats, and the morning news on the radio. Somewhere, somebody is dropping bombs on people. The reference to military aggression during an American breakfast may seem incidental, but this is a film that has white American males who make racist remarks, and which has white male violence at the heart of its story. There are certainly connections to be made here, which is why The Others has been assigned tracks in a particular manner. Also see note under Jor se Bol.] Kolkata Int'l Film Festival Special Mention, Mumbai Int'l FF Special Mention, Dada Saheb Phalke FF, India New Filmmakers New York Spring series and many others

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Devayush Chowdhary is an American-Indian filmmaker with cross-cultural roots in Kolkata, India, and Illinois, USA. After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010 he worked as an assistant director under prolific Indian filmmakers such as Rituparno Ghosh and Anurag Kashyap. He writes for several popular shows on Indian television, while working independently on his own projects, and is currently scripting his first feature film.

Kinshuk Surjan POLA India | 2012 | fiction | 15 min |Hindi | Srishti School of Design POVT & WORK, CAR-REL-EMO, HEALTH (mental),VIOL (child, suicide) MAK OF MEN (domin) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (militar,racism), VIOL MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see Candles…, Father to Son, Gandhi's Children, A Sunny Day, Two Friends, Vitthal) The story is set in the context of the widespread farmers' suicides in India. Bittu is a carefree and boisterous 9-year-old who grows anxious as he watches his father break down slowly under the pressure of debt. Bittu tries to protect his father in whatever ways he can. Despite all their hardships, the farmers still celebrate the festival of Pola as a tribute to their livelihood. “For its compassionate view of a father-son relationship and its sensitive yet stark portrayal of rural inequities.”(Jury citation, Cut.in Festival) Of the other films in the “also see” list above, Father to Son is also about a father-son relationship, while Gandhi's Children, A Sunny Day, Two Friends and Vitthal are, like Pola, films about children.] Silver (Short Fiction), Cut.in Students' Film Festival, TISS, Mumbai Our Lives…To Live (seeking a JUST world!), India Best Script, National Student Film Awards, India Best Film, National Student Film Awards, India Night of the Shorts Festival, WDR, Germany and many others

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Kinshuk Surjan was born in Raipur. His keen interest in becoming an artist/ painter led him to filmmaking. He graduated in Digital Video Production from the Srishti School of Design, Bangalore, in 2012.Besides the sheer joy of creation, he believes filmmaking has given him a chance to engage with perspectives and lives beyond his own.

Aritra Sarkar Aritra Sarkar graduated in engineering from Kolkata, before joining the Film & CAR-REL-EMO, SEXLTY & ID Television Institute of India, (also see Arivu, Flying…, Milind Soman…, Northern Lights, Pune, in 2011, where he Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense) majored in film sound design. Praner Manush was Set entirely in a hospital, the film revolves around a young man, one of his first year projects. and his relationships with his mother and his lover. It looks at how their paths merge when each comes to a crucial point in their lives. The young man has to take some important decisions within a limited time, even as he comes to terms with himself.

PRANER MANUSH (The One Within) India | 2012 | fiction | 15 min | Bengali, English | FTII

[Being homophobic doesn't just mean having an aversion to people with a different sexuality. It also means looking at someone and seeing only their sexuality; not seeing them as full human beings. If that is how society is going to see and judge me, let me hide my true self from society – perhaps even from myself. Does the protagonist of this film feel this way? Or is he just afraid of other people's reactions? Why should he have to go through the agony of feeling he must hurt either his mother or his lover? Why should anyone have to go through that trauma? And how is homophobia linked to patriarchy?]

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Oded Lotan Oded Lotan was born in Tel Aviv and went to film school in Jerusalem and Berlin. He PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (fundm,militar), SEXLTY & ID has worked as a director and MAK OF MEN (domin & alt) video editor in Israeli TV. A mini series in development is (also see 1/2/3, Ever Shot…, Flying…, I Am a Man, Milind Closet Stories‚ a History of Soman…, Praner Manush) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in Homosexuality in the Holy India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Land. Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) Presented as a gently humorous fairy tale, this quest addresses personal feelings towards the ritual of circumcision, the fear of exclusion, and the need to belong. Lotan pieces together the story of his own “bris” while reflecting on the complex role his sexuality and time spent away from home in Germany have played in shaping his Israeli identity. Aided by wonderful animated sequences, the film negotiates an emotive topic with considerable wit and panache. [The Quest for the Missing Piece is a gay man's personal exploration of how a heteronormative and Israeli nationalist identity are constructed through rituals like circumcision – and it's worth waiting till the very end of this entertaining film for its most political moment! That moment is the main reason for its being assigned tracks in a particular manner. Two other films in the package also question beliefs and rituals around male circumcision: 1/2/3 is satirical short fiction from Turkey; I Am a Man is a documentary from South Africa that foregrounds health concerns while gently critiquing an ancient tradition. Worth discussing: the different beliefs underlying male circumcision and female “circumcision” or genital mutilation – and yet how both practices are rooted in patriarchy.]

THE QUEST FOR THE MISSING PIECE Israel‐Germany | 2007 | live action & animation | 52 min | Hebrew

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Gauri Shinde HAVELLS : RESPECT FOR WOMEN India |2014 | 5 TVCs | 30 sec each | Hindi PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn), MAK OF MEN (domin)

(also see Being Bhaijaan, Dekh Le, Joys of…, A Little Piece…,Nadia's Journey, Sixth Sense: Neither Boss…, Soch Sahi…, Voices…) As women in a range of situations assert their personhood, the idea behind this much-discussed campaign from the Lintas Lowe advertising agency is simple: women are not kitchen appliances. [It's unusual to showcase commercials in a film festival that is not giving out advertising awards. But only very rarely do ad campaigns and other mainstream media move away from creating, perpetuating and reinforcing problematic gender norms. Ads, in particular, are notorious for playing on popular fears – of not being fair enough, attractive enough, supermom enough; or macho enough, rich enough, sexy-smelling enough. This campaign also plays boldly on certain fears – the fears of men who are clinging to their sexist fantasies in a world of changing gender equations. A quick read of the comments on youtube show just how much some men hate these ads! Which means we need more such stuff, really.]

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Gauri Shinde graduated from the Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication, Pune. As an ad filmmaker she has over a hundred ads and shorts to her credit. Her short film Oh Man! (2001) was screened at the Berlin Film Festival. She made her feature directorial debut with the highly acclaimed English Vinglish (2012), w h ic h a ls o m a r ked t h e comeback of popular actress Sridevi. Besides the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director, the film won a Laadli National Media Award for Gender Sensitivity.

Dominique Chadwick SEEKING SAFETY: Stepping Stones in Malawi Malawi | 2013 | 13 min | Chichewa HEALTH (HIV, other), CAR-REL-EMO, VIOL MAK OF MEN (domin & alt)

(also see Bahadur…, A Little Piece…, Macho, A Man When…, MenCare…, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense: Rites…, Soch Sahi…, Violence…) Members of the Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Malawi (COWLHA) and their partners meet to talk about their use of the Stepping Stones programme to overcome gender-based violence, improve communication and relationship skills, and restore peace and prosperity in their families and communities. Seeking Safety highlights the importance of developing good gender relationships through negotiations around money, medication and condom use in the context of HIV, GBV (gender-based violence) and SRHR (sexual and reproductive health and rights). Arts and Cultural Activities Program, 20th Int'l AIDS Conference, Melbourne

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Dominique Chadwick is an independent filmmaker, researcher and trainer in participatory video projects. She has experience filming in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Rwanda, Guinea, Mali, Togo, Ghana, Malawi and Kenya. Some of her work has been broadcast on BBC, BBC World, CNN, Al Jazeera and European television channels.

Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams Kim Longinotto studied at SHINJUKU BOYS England's National Film Japan‐UK | 1993 | 53 min | Japanese | WMM (distrib) SEXLTY & ID MAK OF MEN (alt, spaces), POVT & WORK

(also see 1977, Boy, Manjuben…, Through the…, Two Friends) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to Women Make Movies) At the centre of this classic documentary are three onnabe who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. Onnabes are persons assigned gender female at birth who identify as masculine or male. As the film follows them at home and on the job, all three talk frankly to the camera about their genderbending lives, their girlfriends, their views about women, sex, trans and lesbian identities. Alternating with these illuminating interviews are fabulous sequences shot inside the Club, patronised almost exclusively by heterosexual women who have become disappointed with real men. This is an intriguing and moving portrayal of some of the complexities of sexuality and gender in modern Japan. Silver Hugo, Chicago Film Festival Gold Prize, Houston Film Festival Outstanding Documentary, San Francisco Lesbian and Gay FF Reykjavik Shorts&Docs Festival Honolulu Lesbian and Gay FF and many others

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School, where she made Pride of Place(1976), a critical look at her boarding school. Her work since then includes highly acclaimed films shot in Japan, Egypt, UK, Cameroon and other countries, often in collaboration with local filmmakers and subject experts. Jano Williams went to Japan in 1974 intending to stay one year, and didn't come home for fourteen. She worked at the N H K , making radio programs about Japanese society, before moving on to television. She also learned Japanese and wrote for several publications.

Center for Digital Storytelling SILENCE SPEAKS: Men Talk about Sexuality, Responsibility, Masculinity, and Gender Equality 2007‐2014 | 5 shorts | various languages These first-person pieces were created through a participatory process, with control over story content and images firmly in the hands of the storytellers. As a series, they demonstrate the courage of individual men in taking a stand against the exploitation of women and rejecting outdated models of what it means to be a romantic partner, husband, father. For this package, we have selected just 5 shorts of many. Online Content Award, Media That Matters Film Festival

Alex's story: We are diversity |3 min| Honduras | Spanish SEXLTY & ID, MAK OF MEN (alt) CAR-REL-EMO, VIOL

(also see I Have Two, Milind Soman…, Narrow Passage, Praner Manush, Sixth Sense: Going Against…, Voices…) Alex shares his experience of coming out as a gay man in Honduras and learning to love. Alex is the director of La Asociación Jóvenes en Movimiento (AJEM) in Honduras.

James' story | 4min | South Africa | English VIOL, MAK OF MEN (domin & alt) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn)

(also see Bell Bajao, Father to Son, Joys of…, A Little piece…, Macho, MenCare…, Narrow Passage, Sixth Sense: Neither Boss…, Tough Guise, Voices…) James reflects on the cruelty of his father and on the need for men to take responsibility for changing their behaviour. James is a gender activist based in the Western Cape Province, South Africa.

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Khulile's story | 3 min | South Africa | Xhosa CAR-REL-EMO, MAK OF MEN (domin) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn)

(also seeI Am a Man, I Have Two, Mardistan, Narrow Passage, Soch Sahi…, Tough Guise, Voices…) Khulile describes living “outside the box” when it comes to gender role expectations. Khulile is a student and participant in the Sonke Gender Justice Community Action Team based in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Omar's story | 3 min | Belize CAR-REL-EMO MAK OF MEN (domin & alt), PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn)

(also see A Man When…, Men Care…, Narrow Passage, Seeking Safety, Sixth Sense: Rites…, Voices…) Omar talks about refraining from infidelity and thus countering the machismo that is prevalent in Belize. Omar is the GO Joven Belize Training Coordinator and a police constable with the Belize Police Department.

Samuel's story | 3 min | Brazil | Portuguese MAK OF MEN (domin & alt) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn)

(also see Men Care…, Sixth Sense) Samuel reveals his shame about becoming a father too early, and the joy and learning he finds in taking care of his son. Samuel is a youth worker who collaborates with Institute Promundo in Brazil on youth sexuality education and outreach.

Center for Digital Storytelling led workshops in collaboration with NGOs in South Africa, Brazil, Guatemala, Papua New Guinea, Ghana for its Silence Speaks project, in response to the global need to portray in the media new visions of masculinity and men's willingness to support gender equality.

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Puntos de Encuentro SIXTH SENSE Nicaragua | 2007‐2013 | 3 fiction shorts (TV series) | Spanish (also see Bell Bajao, I Have Two, A Little Piece…, Listen…, Macho, A Man When…, MenCare…, Milind Soman…, Narrow Passage, Praner Manush, Respect…, Seeking Safety, Silence Speaks, Tough Guise, Violence…, Voices…) The award-winning Nicaraguan “social soap” TV series Sexto Sentido (Sixth Sense) first aired in 2001, and drew in 70 percent of the audience in its time slot. Broadcast in eight countries, it discusses issues such as homophobia, domestic violence, rape, and abortion, and continues to be popular. These three short videos were chosen for this festival from among several, all compiled from series episodes and distributed along with discussion guides. They have been used in over a thousand schools and community groups.There is even a documentary, Novela, Novela by Elizabeth Miller, about the origin and impact of the show. Best Youth Telenovela, Festival and Market of International Telenovelas, Mar de Plata, Argentina SHINE Award for Excellence in Sexual Health in Entertainment Freedom Award, Outfest Los Angeles LGBT FF

Virginia Lacayo, Amy Bank Going Against the Grain | 2007 | 18 min VIOL, MAK OF MEN (domin & alt) CAR-REL-EMO, HEALTH, PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn), POVT & WORK, SEXLTY & ID

(also see I Have Two, Listen…, Macho, Narrow Passage, Nothing Can…, Praner Manush, Silence Speaks, Tough Guise, Violence…, Voices…) Teenagers confront machismo every day – at school, with their friends, in relationships. There is a dominating boyfriend, pressure to have sex, a violent father, homophobia and sexual violence.Sofia, Elena, Gabriel, Angel and Frankie become stronger by facing these situations and "going against the grain". Going Against the Grain is useful for talking about how sexism impacts our daily lives, and what we can do about it.

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Virginia Lacayo Rites of Passage| 2010| 18 min HEALTH (sexual), CAR-REL-EMO MAK OF MEN (domin & alt), PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn), SEXLTY & ID

(also see Bahadur…, Seeking Safety, Silence Speaks, Voices…) Eddy is a ladies' man and a disciplined condom user. Angel is gay, and worried about the one time he didn't use a condom. Gabriel wants to make sure he doesn't get a girl pregnant. Johnson is a medical student who is somewhat careless about protection. The consequences are somewhat unexpected. Rites of Passage is useful for talking about sexually responsible behaviour, HIV prevention, and how machismo can be a risk factor.

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Martha Clarissa Hernández, Amy Bank Neither Boss Nor Bully | 2013| 23 min MAK OF MEN (domin & alt), VIOL CAR-REL-EMO, HEALTH, PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn), POVT & WORK, SEXLTY & ID

(also see Bell Bajao, I Have Two, Milind Soman…, A Little Piece…, Macho, A Man When…, MenCare…, Respect…, Silence Speaks, Soch Sahi…, Tough Guise, Violence…) José Roberto wants to be a good husband and father, but his machismo threatens to tear apart his family. To get back the people he loves the most, he has to change. Neither Boss Nor Bully is useful for discussing how domestic violence and homophobia are linked to rigid gender roles, how there are other less harmful ways of being a “real man”, and responsible fatherhood. Amy Bank went on to produce Puntos de Encuentro's second TV series, Contracorriente (Turning the Tide). Virginia Lacayo now has a PhD in Communication and Development Studies. Martha Clarissa Hernández is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. “Puntos de Encuentro (Meeting Points), a Nicaraguan-based non-profit, were the producers of a youth radio program and a wildly popular magazine called La Boletina. The organization…worked to influence public opinion and social norms through progressive media projects. Recognizing the popularity of telenovelas in Nicaragua, (it) seized the opportunity to create one of the first Nicaraguan-produced telenovelas and use it for social goals: 'take radical, political and social ideas about human rights, about democracy, about respect for differences, about the right to live without violence, without discrimination, quite radical ideas, and put them out into the mainstream.' – Amy Bank” (from an article by Patrick Donohue on openideo.com)

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Samata Jadhav, Pradeep Paralkar, Amol Lalzare, Yashodhara Salve SOCH SAHI, MARD WAHI India | 2011| 19 min | Hindi | Apna TV MAK OF MEN (domin & alt) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn), CAR-REL-EMO, VIOL

(also see Bell Bajao, Jor se Bol, A Little Piece…, A Man When…, MenCare…, Narrow Passage, Respect…, Seeking Safety, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense, A Sunny Day, Tough Guise, Violence…, Voices…) What does it take be a “real man”? What does a “real man” look like? Does using abusive language affirm one's masculinity? What effect does this have on how children are socialised? Does caring for one's family and helping with housework make one less of a man? The film looks at these issues through the eyes of ordinary men and women in Mumbai. It calls upon viewers to revise their own definitions of masculinity and, in doing so, to challenge the patriarchal structures in our society. (The Hindi expression “soch sahi, mard wahi” means “he who thinks right is the real man”.) Abhivyakti Film Festival, Nashik, India Nazariya Film Festival, Gujarat, India Women at Work FF, Gujarat, India and many others

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Samata Jadhav, Pradeep Paralkar, Amol Lalzare, Ya s h o d h a r a S a l v e a r e members of a youth group, initially part of Video Volunteers, who were trained by the N G O Akshara to produce short documentaries for a community media initiative. They share a vision of gender equality, and have made various films on subjects such as education, communal harmony, the municipal elections, women and sports, street sexual harassment, and the need for toilets.

Selcen Ergun A SUNNY DAY Turkey | 2011 | fiction | 7 min | Turkish

Selcen Ergun was born in Ankara. After a degree in I n d u st r i a l D e s i g n f r o m CAR-REL-EMO M i d d l e E a s t Te c h n i c a l MAK OF MEN (alt) University, she won a (also see 1/2/3, A Little Piece…, Pola, Soch Sahi…, scholarship to the graduate program in Film and TrueLoveStory, Vitthal) Television at Istanbul Bilgi On the morning of a sunny day, three small boys are out cycling. University. She has worked as A small journey and a big decision await Emin, as he sails along an assistant director on many film projects. Her short on his old red bike. film, Confrontation(2006), was screened at several national and international film festivals, and won many nominations and awards, including one for Best Short Film. Screenwriting Award, The Filmmakers of Tomorrow, TÜRSAK Foundation, Turkey 2nd Best Film, Crystal Clapper Short Film, Turkey Opening Film, LUCAS Int'l Children's FF, Frankfurt Short Film Corner, Cannes Film Festival Int'l Children's Film Festival, Brussels and many others

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Sheetal Gokhale, B Prasad S h e e ta l G o k h a l e h a s a Master's in Design in Visual Communication, and has SEXLTY & ID, MAK OF MEN (alt) worked on two short films, (also see 1977, Boy, Manjuben…, Moustaches…, Shinjuku Boys, The Day She Died – Two Unfinished Stories and Sixth Sense, Vitthal) Scissor hands.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS India | 2006 | fiction | 8 min | Hindi | PSBT

One afternoon, a young man is caught by his sister B Prasad has a Master's in Design in Visual experimenting with her clothes and make-up. The film Communication, and has questions the gender identities that society enforces on worked on three short films on AIDS awareness. everyone.

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Sut Jhally TOUGH GUISE USA | 1999 | 57 min | English | MEF MAK OF MEN (domin) CAR-REL-EMO, HEALTH, PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (fundm, racism), SEXLTY & ID, VIOL

also see Being Bhajaan, Ever Shot…, Father to Son, Five Friends, Listen…, Macho, A Man When…, MenCare…, Moustaches…, Narrow Passage, Nothing Can…, The Others, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense, Soch Sahi…, Two Friends, Valmiki…, Violence…, Voices…, Wrestling…) (Not available as part of the travelling package. Those interested may please write directly to [email protected]) Acclaimed anti-violence educator Jackson Katz argues that the epidemic of male violence that plagues American society needs to be understood and addressed as part of a much larger cultural crisis in masculinity. Whether he's looking at bullying and school shootings or gay bashing, sexual assault, and violence against women, Katz makes a powerful case that male violence, misogyny, and homophobia are inextricably linked to how we define manhood as a culture. The film gives special attention to how American media have glamourised increasingly regressive and violent masculine ideals in the face of mounting social and economic threats to traditional white male heterosexual authority. This is the abbreviated version of a longer video.

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Sut Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation. He is one of the world's leading scholars looking at the role played by advertising and popular culture in the processes of social control and identity construction. The author of numerous books and articles (including The Codes of Advertising and Enlightened Racism), he is best known as the producer and director of several films (including Dreamworlds, Tough Guise, and Hijacking Catastrophe) that deal with issues ranging from gender, sexuality and race to commercialism, violence and politics.

Gitanjali Rao TRUELOVESTORY India | 2014 | animation | 19 min | non‐verbal CAR-REL-EMO, MAK OF MEN (domin & alt), POVT & WORK

(also see Being Bhaijaan, A Little Piece…, A Sunny Day) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to Men Engage members and groups in India(Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) A painted ode to romance, the film is a journey through the seductive, treacherous streets of Bombay. In a city soaked in Bollywood dreams, it moves from the fantastical to the viscerally real.

Golden Conch for Best Animation, Mumbai Int'l FF Best Animation Film, IDSFFK, Thiruvananthapuram Critics' Week, Cannes Int'l FF Indian Film Festival, The Hague IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, New Delhi and many others

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A Fine Arts graduate from Sir J J Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, Gitanjali Rao is a s e l f - t a u g h t a n i m a t o r, filmmaker and theatre artist. She has independently produced, directed and animated three awardwinning short films, Orange, Printed Rainbow and Tr u e L o ve S to r y. P r i nte d Rainbow, which describes the loneliness of an old woman, who escapes with her cat into the fantastical world of match box covers, premiered at the Cannes 2006 Critics' Week, winning three awards for Best Short, and garnering 22more awards as it travelled to over 100 festivals worldwide. TrueLoveStory also had its international premiere at the Cannes Critics' Week 2014.

Paw Charlie Ravn TWO FRIENDS Denmark | 2010 | animation | 8 min | Danish | NFSD MAK OF MEN (domin), CAR-REL-EMO, VIOL SEXLTY & ID

(also see 1977,Five Friends, Gandhi's Children, Girl in a Box, Macho, A Man When…,The Others, Pola, A Sunny Day, Shinjuku Boys, Violence…, Vitthal) Albert and his best friend Jonas are orphaned children. They live in a harsh dystopia of the future, where the women and other children are all dead. The men have begun to yearn for a woman's body. Two Friends is about friends sticking together against all odds in a world where hope is fading fast.

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Paw Charlie Ravn was born in Copenhagen in 1978, studied character animation at the Animation Workshop in Viborg, and graduated as Animation Director from The National Film School of D e n m a r k i n 2 0 1 2 . Two Friends is Paw's graduation film, after earlier animation works Daughter of Incest and Nima.

Karan Butani VALMIKI KI BANDOOK India | 2010 | fiction | 17 min | Hindi | WWI MAK OF MEN (domin) VIOL

(also see Ever Shot…, Listen…, Maula…, Macho, Nothing Can…, Tough Guise, Violence…, Wrestling…) 23-year-old Radheshyam wants to be acknowledged as a “man”, and feels the only way he can prove his masculinity in his community and among his peers is by possessing a doublebarreled gun. The narrative of his journey provides a humorous take on the weapon culture predominant in some parts of North India.

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Karan Butani worked on scripts for various production houses while doing a BA in P sy c h o l o g y a t J a i H i n d College. He graduated from Whistling Woods International Film School in 2010, and moved on to direct co m m e r c i a l s fo r m a j o r brands, which he continues to enjoy doing. He has worked as Associate Director with award-winning filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia on Paan Singh Tomar and other films, and is currently finishing his own first feature film as director, tentatively titled Bulbul Bandook – the concept for which grew out of his Diploma film Valmiki ki Bandook.

Vinoo Choliparambil VITTHAL India | 2008 | fiction | 24 min | Marathi | MLM (distr) VIOL (child), HEALTH (mental)

(also see Pola, Moustaches…, Through the…, A Sunny Day) (Available for non-commercial screenings, only to groups in India that are members of the Forum to Engage Men [FEM] Network. Others interested may please write directly to [email protected]) After the death of his grandfather, 12-year-old Vitthal's parents forcibly shave off his head, in keeping with Hindu death rituals. The boy is angry and resentful. His self-image is shattered.

National Award for Best Debut Director (Non‐Feature), India Best Short Film Award, Asian Festival of First Films, Singapore Best Short Film Jury Award, Lyon Asian Film Festival, France Second Prize, Short Film Award, Asian Arab section, Dubai Int'l FF Second Prize, Short Fiction, Mumbai Int'l FF and many others

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Vinoo Choliparambil graduated as a Telecom Engineer and worked with Infosys as a software programmer before switching to filmmaking. He started his film career in editing, and worked as editor on two fiction features and a featurel e n g t h d o c u m e n ta r y. Vitthal was his first directorial venture. He has since directed other shorts, as well as corporate and ad films, and is currently working to develop a script for a feature-length project.

Jackson Katz VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – IT'S A MEN'S ISSUE USA | 2013 | 19 min |English | TEDxFiDi Women

Jackson Katz, PhD, is an antisexist activist and expert on violence, media and MAK OF MEN (domin), VIOL masculinities. An author, PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (militar, campn) filmmaker, educator and s o c i a l t h e o r i st , h e h a s Jackson Katz asks a very important question that gets at the worked in gender violence root of why sexual abuse, rape and domestic abuse remain a prevention work with diverse groups of men and boys in problem: “What's going on with men?” sports culture and the military. Domestic violence and sexual abuse are often dismissed as “women's issues”. But in this bold, blunt talk, Jackson Katz points out that these are intrinsically men's issues - and shows how these violent behaviours are tied to definitions of manhood. A clarion call for us all - women and men - to call out unacceptable behaviour.

TEDx FiDi Women is a San Francisco-based event that strives to bring together leaders, thinkers and doers to share real ideas and solutions to issues impacting women worldwide. In TEDx events, the “x” refers to an independently organised TED event. Started in 1984 as [This significant talk has resonance across the films in this a c o n f e r e n c e w h e r e technology, entertainment package, and serves as a keynote address, as it were.] and design converged, TED today shares ideas from a broad spectrum - from science to business to global issues-in more than 100 languages.

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Must Bol VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE (2 DVDs) India | 2012 | 20 shorts | Hindi, some English text MAK OF MEN (domin & alt) PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (campn), SEXLTY & ID, VIOL

(also see Dekh Le, I Have Two, Jor se Bol, Listen…, Mardistan, Moustaches…, Narrow Passage, Nothing Can…, Respect…, Silence Speaks, Sixth Sense, Soch Sahi…, Tough Guise, Wrestling…) The 20 shorts chosen for this festival, from among many more, were made as part of the Must Bol campaign against gender-based violence. The purpose was to help young volunteers create and use digital stories to talk about gender issues, including the pressure to perform masculinities in a patriarchal context. The shorts raise critical questions about oppressive gender norms and stereotypes, issues of consent and violence in relationships, sexual harassment and homophobia. DVD # 1 (10 shorts) Rahul Both BREAK OUT | 2 min Two young men tease their friend for his “scrawny” body, but the tables turn when it is time to use one's wits and take quick action. · What stereotypes do we carry about body image? Is it always brain or brawn? · How does peer pressure impact young men?

Abhinandan Jain CHOCOLATE | 1 min A short message about how we are able to understand consent in daily life, but blur the lines when it comes to sex. · How do we understand consent and violence within intimate relationships? · Is there an automatic assumption of consent when we are in a relationship? 78

Nandan Latwal CONSENT IS KEY | 2 min A message about harassment, autonomy and consent. · How do we walk the lines between friendship, flirting and harassment? · Do we ask for consent in any interactions?

Gaurav Khandelwal DEFAULT | 3 min A short film about how roles assigned within the home, and family spaces are automatically gendered. · What are the roles given to “men” and “women”? · What part does assigned gender play in socialisation? · How does this impact our attitudes, choices and decisions?

Soumya Tejas, Rinku Yadan, Kriti Dheer DON'T BE A CLOWN | 4 min A puppet theatre skit about socialisation, and how oppressive norms of behavior are imposed on people. · What messages do we receive about gender normative behavior? Where do we get them from? How does this affect us?

Nandan Latwal FEAR IS NOT LOVE | 2 min A young woman feels nervous about receiving a phone call from her boyfriend when there are other men around. · Fear and control – do they belong in a relationship? · Is there a power equation in relationships?

Anuj Kumar Dhaka FULL STOP | 5 min Two boys taunt a college junior about his soft nature. They tell him to get a female student's number, and move to harass her as she comes into the canteen. Will the junior boy resist, and intervene? · What are the popular notions about “masculinity” and what pressures do these create? · Is it possible to resist this kind of peer pressure? · What kind of attitude and culture encourages sexual harassment? · Let's talk about “bystander intervention”.

Aashima Sharma, Soumya Tejas SHIT PEOPLE SAY | 3 min Western culture, lack of values, couples in parks: this satirical short ridicules such routine justifications for sexual harassment, and calls out the sexist culture that promotes victim blaming and violence.

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Mohammad Aasim, Kumal Malhotra THE FINE LINE| 2 min A conversation keeps shifting from care, concern and affection to anger, jealousy and controlling behaviour, and back again, as a young man speaks to his girlfriend on the phone. This short touches upon gendered power equations and violence in intimate relationships. · Is this violence? Do men also face this? Does it have the same meaning and impact for men? · How does gender influence our behavioural choices in relationships?

Karan Mehan WATCH OR ACT| 3 min Two young man start following a woman as she boards a bus. Their friend disapproves, but will he just watch without speaking up, or act to stop the harassment? · Has anyone witnessed such situations, of sexual harassment in public places? · Is it always possible to intervene against violence (bystander Intervention)? · Is it easier or more difficult to intervene when the harassers are your friends? DVD # 2 (10 shorts) Tasha Jaiswal, Nandan Singh Latwal I LET BE I | 4 min A journey through the daily grind of one young man's life reveals notions about masculinity, and how the fear of not matching up dictates behaviour, choices and attitudes. · What comes to mind when we say “masculine”? What images or ideals does that create for young men? · Is this linked to violence? How? · How do we assess discomfort or violence in a relationship?

Soumya Tejas, Suman Bharti, Karan Mehan, Jessica Jojo, Mamta Pandhi, Deepak Yadav IN THE NAME OF LOVE | 2 min A young couple's online chat reveals desires, pressures, and how the lines between consent and control can get blurred in relationships.

Soumya Tejas KISKI KITCHEN | 3 min A man who enjoys cooking is taunted for cooking at home even after his marriage. As the taunts continue, his attitude begins to change.

Apoorva Jain, Amrita Sarkar, Wayne Mathias, Dipanwita Mundul, Purva Jeswani, Akanksha Tandon, Sonali Chowdhury, Hanisha Thakker, Megh Tharya, Ankita Ray LABELS | 1 min A young man assumes many roles and labels as he goes about his daily routine in college, but when it comes to sexuality, does one label become paramount to his identity? · Do we often stereotype and label people? What are some of these labels? Does it subsume every other aspect of their identity? · What do we feel about homosexuality? About discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation?

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Nandan Latwal LESSER MAN | 4 min Three young men share their experiences of dealing with being “different” from dominant norms of masculine behaviour. · What do we mean by “masculinity”? What happens when a male person is different from that image? · What do we understand about violence from the experiences of these young men? In what ways can gender stereotypes be oppressive?

Nandan Latwal MAN URF ADMI | 3 min A visual essay on the process of becoming and being made into a “man”. Amit Ghai, Kapil Chavan, Rishabh Mehta, Sushil Veer, Thakur Ram MARDANGI | 4 min An irreverent and humorous exploration of what masculinity and being a “real man” means in the current context. · What are our gendered expectations from men? · How is the socialisation of boys and men linked with male violence?

Sundeep MOVE ON | 1 min Someone gets out of a car and walks away, playing with the car keys all the while. Do we know this person's gender? · What happened in the film? Do we make quick judgments about gender identity, based on behaviour? · On what are these assumptions based? What stereotypes do we carry about bodies and gender?

Soumya Tejas, Rinku Yadav, Kriti Dheer PHONE CALL | 3 min A girl responds to continuous phone calls and messages from her boyfriend till it overwhelms her. · What makes for a healthy relationship? · Does gender create a power imbalance?

Manish Sharma RULES OF KITCHEN | 2 min A young man talks about gender roles and looking beyond stereotypes as he makes tea for his grandmother. Must Bol, led by a core group of some 30 young people from Delhi, is a campaign against gender-based violence (GBV). It was started as a “5th Space” experiment to develop youth leadership against GBV through making short films, taking public actions and online campaigning. The short films are part of a resource kit created by young people's own experiences of negotiating gender identity, sexuality and violence. They have been extensively used in urban, semi-urban and rural contexts, both online and on ground. This is a collaborative endeavour with The Youth Collective (CYC), Partners for Prevention, and UN Women. 81

Sut Jhally WRESTLING WITH MANHOOD USA | 2003 | 45 min | English | MEF VIOL PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL (militar,racism), MAK OF MEN (domin), HEALTH, SEXLTY & ID

(also see Bell Bajao, Ever Shot…, Listen…, Mardistan, Macho, A Man When…, Nothing Can…, The Others, Tough Guise, Valmiki…, Violence…, Voices…) This educational video was one of the first to pay attention to the enormous popularity among male youth of professional wrestling, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force. Drawing the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity, it shows how this so-called “entertainment” is related to homophobia, sexual assault and relationship violence. Richly illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz offer a new way to think about the enduring problems of men's violence against women, and bullying in schools.

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Sut Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation. He is one of the world's leading scholars looking at the role played by advertising and popular culture in the processes of social control and identity construction. The author of numerous books and articles (including The Codes of Advertising and Enlightened Racism), he is best known as the producer and director of several films (including Dream Worlds, Tough Guise, and Hijacking Catastrophe) that deal with issues ranging from gender, sexuality and race to commercialism, violence and politics.

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Violence – including gender-based violence and discrimination, sexual violence, violence against children, violence among men, suicide, overt and hidden forms of violence. Health and Well-Being – including sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and AIDS, mental health, health systems, health equity and health-seeking behaviours of men. Poverty and Work – including care work, livelihood, unemployment, migration, globalisation, trade unions and movements. Caring, Relationships and Emotions – changes in roles and relationships, at home and in the world; roles in response to social, economic and environmental transformations. Sexualities, Identities – moving beyond the gender binary, privileges, vulnerabilities, subordination, hegemonies, LGBTI, homophobia and transphobia, disabilities, alternate/non-conformist men. Peace Building, Social Justice, Inclusion – including militarisation and related structural violence, peace-keeping and post-conflict situations, fundamentalisms, social movements, justice. The Making of Men: from Masculinity to Humanity – including socialisation, growing up, influence of education, sports, culture, tradition, religion, ethnicity, media; harmful masculinities and violence; developing respect for diversity.

How The Track Tags Work Each of the tracks has to do with a theme, or a cluster of ideas and concerns, derived from the work being done by activists, educators, researchers and others in the area of masculinities. Every film in this package has, accordingly, been assigned one main track, from among the seven given ones. This main track is the one listed first under each entry. For example, if VIOL is mentioned first, then “Violence” is the main track for that film (see Glossary below for abbreviations and elaborations). Other tracks that may also apply strongly to the same film are listed after the main track, in the same line, and in alphabetical order. So if we have VIOL, HEALTH, POVT & WORK, it means that while “Violence” is the film's main track, “Health and WellBeing” and “Poverty and Work” are also fairly important concerns, though we are not saying one is more important than the other. Tracks that we may further read in(to) the film, albeit to a lesser degree, are listed alphabetically in a second line below the first. So if, below the line that says VIOL, HEALTH, POVT& WORK we have a second line that reads CAR-REL-EMO, it indicates that “Caring, Relationships and Emotions” is also a relevant sub-track.

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Whether a film has just one or two track tags against its name, or several, one line of tags or two, there is always only one main track, which is usually the obvious one, but frequently it represents a difficult curatorial decision, because films – rather like the lives they reflect – are often complex, layered, even changeable. The tracks chart in the front section of this brochure is a visual representation of how all seven tracks are placed in relation to the full list of 70 film entries: how often each serves as the main track, and for which films; how frequently each occurs as a sub-track, and in which films. This chart will be extremely convenient for anyone trying to locate films related to their own work or interests. For example, whether somebody is looking for everything that touches upon “Sexuality, Identity”, or only for films where it is the main track, the chart will help to identify all the relevant films in either case with ease. Of course this is not some sort of infallible system. A viewer might feel that a particular film should have been assigned some other main track, or that a relevant sub-track has been omitted. Such contestations around the track tags would be a happy outcome, because in offering arguments for why and how we think this or that track applies, or doesn't, we would end up engaging that much more deeply with the film. After all, the various tracks may and do overlap, suggesting all kinds of intersections and connections. And it is these very connections that we seek to make and these intersections that we hope to understand better through the film screenings and discussions. It is really hard to talk, say, about “Poverty and Work” as the main track in a film, and not see its links with the track that cites “Social Justice, Inclusion” – but if we apply the former, we may leave out the latter. Or take “The Making of Men” track – hardly any of the 91 films, including very short shorts, that make up the 70 entries in this festival package, falls outside its ambit, but MAK OF MEN is the main track tag for only 20 of these. And yet all the selected works are here precisely because they look at how men are “made” or constructed by family, culture, society, relationships, religions, wars. Talking of wars, anything to do with the military might otherwise have gone under “Violence”, but militarisation – and fundamentalisms, too – are part of how the “Peace Building…” track is spelt out, and so that's where both have gone. It should be understood, then, that the assigning of track tags is also based, as far as possible, on how the tracks have been defined for the purposes of the Symposium. We have added small elaborations of our own to some of the track tags, such as HEALTH (HIV) or HEALTH (mental), so that users may have a more specific idea of the film's content (see Glossary below for abbreviations and acronyms). Additionally, below the track tags for each film there is an “also see” list of other films in the package that in some way resonate with that film. These lists are not exhaustive, nor are the included titles always based on the same criteria. Apart from having themes or concerns in common with the film in question, certain films may be mentioned only because they are from the same country, or filmmaker; others might be listed because they offer a counterpoint or contrast; sometimes it could just be – for example – that the “also see” list for a film about a child includes other films about children. There is scope, then, for combining these films in many different, creative ways. Depending on context and purpose, screening films together that are not listed together might also be very rewarding. 84

In any case, there is no need to do a great amount of guesswork while selecting or combining films, because each, of course, has its own individual synopsis! And sometimes a snippet of a review. Besides, extensive curatorial comments and suggestions have been included throughout – about things to look out for in a film, specific ways we might link it to other films, possible questions for discussion. These comments appear in parentheses below the synopses; not all entries have them, but most do. In brief, there is a tracks chart, there are track tags, “also see” film lists, individual synopses along with various other relevant details, and curatorial comments, all of which should prove useful guides while planning screenings and discussions for varied interest groups.

Glossary CAR‐REL‐EMO: Caring, Relationships and Emotions (as defined). HEALTH: Health and Well-Being (as defined). HEALTH (HIV), (mental), (sexual): specifics spelt out for special interest groups. MAK OF MEN: TheMaking of Men: from Masculinity to Humanity (as defined). MAK OF MEN (domin): dominant masculinities; overt or implicit critiques of these. MAK OF MEN (alt): alternative masculinities/ men who do not subscribe to dominant models of maleness. This is the one exception to the rule of following the Symposium tracks closely: “alternate/non-conformist men” is part of how the “Sexualities, Identities” track is defined, but we found it useful to bring this into “The Making of Men” so that we could address both “dominant” and “alternative” masculinities together. Many “alternate/non-conformist” men and masculinities nonetheless remain under “Sexualities, Identities”, as we shall see. MAK OF MEN (spaces): formal or informal spaces where boys and men gather, and which are predominantly or exclusively male, or which – like the nightclub in Shinjuku Boys – enable the expression of a non-conformist or unconventional masculinity. PEACE‐SOC JUST‐INCL: Peace Building, Social Justice, Inclusion (as defined; invoked mainly when these phenomena are conspicuous by their absence). PEACE‐SOC JUST‐INCL (campn), (caste), (racism), (fundm), (conflict), (militar): specifics spelt out for special interest groups – “campn” refers to campaigns for peace and harmony, and/ or against gender-based violence and injustices; “fundm” points to fundamentalism(s), whether in the name of religion or culture; “militar” flags militarisation or military-like activity; “caste” and “racism” indicate discussions or examples of casteist/ racist prejudice, violence, social exclusions. POVT & WORK: Poverty and Work (as defined; also applied to films depicting conditions and effects of poverty outside the context of labour, or sometimes to flag more general structural violence). POVT & WORK (child): children affected by poverty; runaway children; child labour. SEXLTY & ID: Sexualities, Identities (as defined; also used as a track tag for films like Immoral Daughters and Girl in a Box that portray how women's sexuality is policed). SEXLTY & ID (disab): disability, in the sense of a marginalised identity; the fact that it is cited only once in the track tags should not prevent us from being sensitive to its possible presence and implications in other films. 85

VIOL: Violence (as defined; includes mental and emotional violence. However, structural violence has not usually been tagged as VIOL, because it is subsumed under other tags such as PEACE-SOC JUST-INCL or POVT & WORK). VIOL (child): violence that includes violence towards children and/or among children. VIOL (suicide): violence that includes instances of actual or attempted suicide by adult men.

Some of Our Film Sources Besides film schools, media courses or workshops, other sources have been named only if multiple films were acquired from them; “(distrib)” refers to distributors, to distinguish them from producers. AJK MCRC, JMI (AJ Kidwai Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi) FTII (Film &Television Institute of India, Pune) MEF (Media Education Foundation) MLM (Magic Lantern Movies) NFSD (National Film School of Denmark) NFTS (National Film and Television School, London) OIA (Out In Africa Gay and LesbianFF, South Africa) PSBT (Public Service Broadcasting Trust) WMM (Women Make Movies) WWI (Whistling Woods International Film School, Mumbai)

Acknowledgements Ajita Chowhan Annie Worsøe Arjun Budhiraja Ashmaki Acharya Claudia Levin David MacDougall Elizabeth Rosen Line Gildam Kristen M Fitzpatrick Gavin Humphries Harjant Gill Gitanjali Rao Indu Vashist Jackson Katz Hanan Abdalla Lucida Broadbent Nadia Zouaoui

Nodi Murphy Oswaldo Montoya Telleria Pankaj Rishi Kumar Ranjan De Ridhima Mehra Sehjo Singh Sherna Dastur Vinoo Choliparambil Yasmine Kabir Lowe Lintas Magic Lantern Movies Media Education Fund National Film School of Denmark Public Service Broadcasting Trust TEDxFiDiWomen Whistling Woods International Film School Women Make Movies

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