Around 18-20 films (documentaries, shorts and features) are part of this festival categorised into themes like nationalist discourse, exile and displacement, freedom, women in conflict, Kashmiriyat and marginalisation. Other films to be screened include NVK Murthy's Diary of an Aggression, Zul Vellani's Aatish-e-Chinar, Ajay Raina's Tell Them The Tree They Had Planted Has Now Grown, Apour Ti Yapour, Na Jang Na Aman and Yeti Chu Talukpeth. Also there's Siddhartha Gigoo's The Last Day and Rajesh S Jala's 23 Winters and Floating Lamp In A Shadow Valley.
"The aim of the three-day festival is to celebrate all aspects of Kashmir -- social, historical, political and psychological. There's also a section on photographs, book readings and panel discussions," says Siddhartha Gigoo, one of the curators of the festival.
All cinema halls have shut down in Kashmir. Yet films are being made in the conflict-ridden Valley. "Professional and amateur filmmakers are making films and taking these films to the audiences across the world. There are stories to narrate. And in all these films the endeavour is to place the people of Kashmir at the forefront: their stories, what they have lost during the years of conflict and how their lives stand impacted," says Gigoo.
Under the category of women in conflict, there are films like Atul and Shabnam Ara's Waiting, Iffat Fatima's Where Have You Hidden My Crescent Moon and Sonia Jabbar's Autumn's Final Country.
Other interesting films to be screened are Pankaj Rishi Kumar's Pather Chu Zaeri, Ashwin Kumar's Inshallah Kashmir and Musa Sayeed's Valley of Saints.
While the festival has gone to different cities and many academic institutions in India with support from Films Division, Mumbai, the Delhi edition is being hosted by The School of Arts and Aesthetics and The Center for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU).
Interestingly, there are no Bollywood films on Kashmir in the festival. According to Gigoo, the purpose of the festival is to present Kashmir through films by Kashmiris and non-Kashmiri filmmakers. "However, the films should be on Kashmir. Certainly not the Bollywoodised representation of Kashmir which is one of houseboats, shikaras, picture postcard natural beauty and song and dance sequences. The films in this festival are about Kashmir as it stands today and Kashmir of the last two decades," says Gigoo.
"The films in the festival are real stories as never presented in Bollywood movies; they are human stories of trauma, pain, longing, hope, waiting, alienation, subjugation and love," he says.
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