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.

Day 2: 15th March
Time: 11AM – 4PM

Film Synopsis

1. "Kandahar" by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Time: 12 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.

2. "Women of Fire" by Manzare Haseen
Time: 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.