The Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) is organizing a film festival with films by or concerning women, such as: Frida, Women Behind the Camera, Tales of the Night Fairies and so on.

Location: ULAB Auditorium

Day 1
"Tales of the Night Fairies" by Shohini Ghosh
14th March, 12:50PM
Five Sex-workers and a filmmaker embark on a journey of storytelling. Tales of the Night Fairies explores the power of collective organizing and resistance while reflecting upon contemporary debates around sex-work. The simultaneously expansive and labyrinthine city of Kolkata forms the backdrop for the personal and musical journeys of storytelling.

"4 Months, 3 weeks and 2 days" by Cristian Mungiu
14th march, 2:40 PM
When the flighty Gabita decides to terminate her pregnancy - a crime in Romania from 1966 until 1989 – her fiercely loyal university dorm-mate and best friend, Otilia, accompanies her to a hotel room to be “helped” by one Mr. Bebe, the only black market practitioner they can afford. When the foul Bebe requests something far more precious than money for his services, the girls descend into a harrowing journey of the soul that is nothingshort of shattering.

Day 2
"Kandahar" by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
15th March, 12:50 PM
Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister. Overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women, she has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
Clothed in the traditional head-to-toe Burqa, and posing as a subservient wife, Nafas’ odyssey takes her across a dramatic desert landscape where she encounters bandits, corpse- robbers, marooned exiles, overwhelmed red-cross workers, hordes of land-mine victims, and finally a wedding procession that brings her within eyeshot of Kandahar.

"Women of Fire" by Manzare Haseen
15th March, 2:40 PM
This documentary tries to arrive at a chronological history of women right from the beginning of history of the political activities of women in Bengal in the context of political scenario of the sub-continent. The political struggle of women right from the beginning of history to the war of independence of Bangladesh has been depicted in “Women of Fire” through use of documents, photographs, film , footages etc.

Day 3
"Frida" by Julie Taymore
16th March, 12:50 AM
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

"Women Behind the Camera" by Alexis Krasilovsky
16th March, 4 PM
From the secret films by camerawomen of Taliban beating Afghani women, to historic footage by China’s first camerawomen of Mao’s travels through the Chinese countryside… From the playful narrative of a Russian filmmaker  who learned the art from her father, her choice of career told as a love story, to rural India, where subsistence-level  women are taught camerawork as a means of empowerment, to the glowing young  Senegalese camerawoman willing to climb onto a man’s shoulders – literally – to get her subject, Professor Krasilovsky shows us a world of beauty, courage and technical skill