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Now it’s the turn for the young maidens to charge forward. A young polo sisterhood is developing in Manipur that ploughs on in spite of adversity and political turmoil. They are intensely connected to their sacred Manipuri pony and play an international tournament every year. Roopa Barua’s film is a tribute to these polo players and the modern Manipuri women. Documentary, produced and directed by Roopa Barua. 33 minutes, Editor: Hemanti Sarkar, Music: Sunayana Sarkar English, Meiteilon with English subtitles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea6607ee0980876e500911e/1588429439442-YA4QPFB3Q13LVYH2AW6Z/winnners.png Daughters of the Polo God https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea6607ee0980876e500911e/1588429621108-5LYCVBZ6K07LIWCSH9IL/POLO+1+01.jpg Daughters of the Polo God https://www.kahinimedia.com/sister-of-the-trees daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea6607ee0980876e500911e/1588588185072-IJNF3KHGOD6BF9GQ76SD/73199901_756384044810934_1496831355747565568_o.jpg Sister of the Trees - Sisters of the Trees (2018) Sisters of the Trees is a documentary, co-produced by Roopa Barua along with the Argentinian trio of producer Victoria Chales, Directors Camila Menéndez and Lucas Peñafort about a village called Piplantri in Rajasthan, India where the people celebrate the birth of a girl child in the family by planting 111 trees on the village’s grazing commons. This initiative began in 2005 and has already turned Piplantri into an oasis. Where there was only mining waste, lack of water and violence against women — today there is greenery, drinking water, literacy and ample employment opportunities for the locals. 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The ponies are free-grazing and live in the riverine islands of the Brahmaputra Valley. They come and participate in the annual racing event of a colonial era planters club in Jorhat, Assam. This documentary is a portrayal of the races as they unfold, the jockeys and their lives and these ponies that become part of the tradition every year. The heavy mist that hovers over Jorhat during this time of the year is a fitting backdrop to this quirky phenomenon that has a fleeting presence for a few days every year and is gone almost as soon as it arrives. 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His films are ripe with commentary that come from unexpected corners and experimental sources Rong is his attempt at storytelling where he mixes up cinema completely to create his own unique language of cinema. Noir and blanc elements mix up his canvas and create works of art that is nowhere to be seen in the filmmaking of the Assam valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea6607ee0980876e500911e/1588751404065-PFUQJUD6BAFBXI10CH4O/PD.png Project Desh - PROJECT DESH (2016) WHAT IS PROJECT DESH? desh dɛʃ/ noun INDIAN a person's or a people's native land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea6607ee0980876e500911e/1588736592773-NXMX6253XPY3ZM13UJIT/Chaatak+Poster+Vertical+01.jpg Project Desh - Chatak by Shrishti Shreyam Introducing Srishti Shreyam and her short film Chaatak as the third film of the five part series. Growing up in an increasingly changing socio-political landscape, Srishti has incorporated gender into the equation in her studies. Complexities sore as the variables become one too many and the stage opens up for a full discourse of a women’s needs and wants. Chaatak is her attempt at storytelling where she incorporates all these elements and we are thrust into the world of a modern young women in a society that is moving at lightspeed and her own search for she wants rightfully and her supposed attempt to go from incompleteness to fulfillment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea6607ee0980876e500911e/1588736632096-CAY4WOVRJV3LT13K92E0/image-asset.jpeg Project Desh - Modar by Amrita Goswami Introducing Amrita Goswami and her short film Modar (The exiled) as the fourth film of the five part series. Growing up in Dhubri in Assam, she has a deep grasp of acceptance, tolerance and the humane aspects of demographics that is way more than what her young shoulders can carry. The world in full of movement today. What was home yesterday is a flooded plain today. What was once thought of as an identity proof has become a null and void document today. Where does identity start and end? Topography? Fingerprints? Or just plain political scheming? Modar is her attempt at stortytelling about two families at the crossroads of love, longing and belonging. After all when the very ground under our feet becomes a moving target, what do we hold on to? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea6607ee0980876e500911e/1588736317766-KJFBZ6S6M4QCDLH4S7AM/Bheko+Bhaona+Poster+Vertical+01.jpg Project Desh - Bheko Bhaona by Sagar Saurabh Introducing Sagar Saurabh and his short film Bheko Bhaona (Much Ado About Nothing) as the first film of the five part series. Growing up in the pristine countryside of Assam, Sagar Saurabh focuses on the languid ease of Assamese rural life and the essence of a delicately touched land of the past. His writing is rich with Assamese folklore and regional trivia, serendipity and idiosyncrasy, which is true to the valley of Assam. Bheko Bhaona is his attempt in his classic ‘son of the soil’ style to portray the story around a certain comedy of errors that unfolds in his native village. An unfolding story of a culture rich with increasing self importance and bloated egos in a land which stands for quite the opposite – green, lush and ever forgiving without asking for anything in return. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea6607ee0980876e500911e/1588736718138-7A58NHERN9B5EN42YBEM/RedPlus+Poster+Vertical+01.jpg Project Desh - Red Plus Yellow by Snehankar Introducing Snehankar and his short film Red + Yellow = as the fifth and final film of the five part series. Assam is at the crossroads today. The euphoria of newly found patriotism, the claustrophobia of meaningless ritualistic observations, the hype surrounding every little news item. All much ado about nothing. Our long-term vision has been sacrificed to ape, repeat, loop and be in sync with bourgeoisie mediocrity. Red + Yellow = is Snehankar’s attempt at surrealism. Inspired by Samadura Kajal Saikia’s poem ‘Desh’, Shehankar is attempting to open up a dialogue about the hydra-headed monster that we all have chosen to become as a state. 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She seeks to create nuanced cinema that goes beyond geography or human boundaries. Three of her films Daughters of the Polo God, Sister of the Trees and Riders of the Mist have all gone on to win rare reviews and multiple awards internationally in New York, London, Houston, Vancouver and in India. Roopa’s films have been shown in over 20 international film festivals and TV broadcasts. Themes of roots, belonging, alienation and the human spirit find constant space in her works. Her newer works and endeavours are at the crossroads of rural futures and a racing human civilization. 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