Jacaranda Tales

Date: 23rd – 26th March, 2022

Location: Gandhi Bhavana, Bangalore

The film festival was designed to celebrate the multiple facets of women’s relationships with nature. Over 4 days, 24 films were screened with 5 panel discussions. The festival was non-commercial and non-ticketed to ensure the inclusive participation of people from all classes and geographies. We opened the festival with filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj, whose film Sudesha, was also the first screening.

The selection of films ranged from popular and award winning films to new and emerging filmmakers. Filmmakers like Girish Kasaravalli, Deepa Dhanraj, Sunanda Bhat were available in person to discuss the films, enriching the conversation.

Panel discussions included

Food security by Dr Sylvia Karpagam, Dr Arshiya Bose and Kavita Kurugant
Climate change by Fridays for Future
Critique of Development by Bhargavi Rao, Madhu Bhushan and Du Saraswati

collaborators

Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi

An autonomous state body for furthering the objective of perpetuating the memory and message of Gandhiji to the coming generation. It has housed within its premises various Gandhian constructive institutions such as Karnataka Sarvodaya Mandal, the Sarvodaya Sahithya Samithi, the Harijan Sevak Sangh. This festival will be hosted in Gandhi Bhavan, Bangalore.

Gamana Women’s Collective

Gamana from the word meaning journey or departure (Hindi) and also mindfulness (Kannada) is an informal women’s collective working through SIEDS that seeks to deepen those areas of community interventions, campaigns, training and institutional solidarities that many of its members have been involved with for decades as part of the autonomous women’s movement.

Bangalore Film Society

A nonprofit organisation consisting of cineastes who explore cultural politics through the medium of cinema and how cinema impacts and shapes modern cultural practices, politics and social behaviour. BFS has been organising film screenings and discussions on feature and documentary films and also has been proactively curating film festivals and conducting conferences on various themes for the past 40 years.

Gram Seva Sangh

A group of like-minded individuals willing to participate in dialogues and activities that intend to bridge the widening gap that exists between the cities and villages. It aims to connect conscious city-dwellers with rural artisans with the intention of providing learning for the former and a market for the latter.

G Foundation for Art and Culture

A public trust created to promote visual and fine arts by organising cultural events, talks, workshops, documentaries and films. It intends to create social and environmental education and awareness through films and documentaries. The aim is to encourage young documentary / short-film makers by creating a platform to show their works.

Kriti Film Club

An initiative of KRITI, a development praxis and communication team, a not-for-profit entity, based in New Delhi, with work across India. They have been screening documentary films at least once a month since the year 2000 on a range of issues connected with development, human rights and social attitudes/ trends.

films screened