Iranian Film ‘Offside’ by Jafar Panhi will be screened at Jalandhar

Offside InvitationIranian Film ‘Offside’ by Jafar Panhi will be screened on 29th Aplir at Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar by People’s Voice. The details are given below:

Language : Presian with English Subtitles
Duration : 93 Minutes
Vanue : Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar
Date & Time : 29th April, 2012 at 5 P.M.
You are cordially invited

Offside is a 2006 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, about girls who try to watch a World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain but are forbidden by law because of their sex. Female fans are not allowed to enter football stadiums in Iran on the grounds that there will be a high risk of violence or verbal abuse against them. The film was inspired by the director’s daughter, who decided to attend a game anyway. The film was shot in Iran but its screening was banned there.Most of the characters in the film are not named. The film was filmed at an actual stadium, at a real life qualifying match for the Iranian National team.
About Driector:
Jafar Panahi is an Iranian filmmaker and is one of the most influential filmmakers in theIranian New Wave movement. He has gained recognition from film theorists and critics worldwide and received numerous awards including the Golden Lionat the Venice Film Festival and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.On 20 December 2010, Jafar Panahi was handed a six-year jail sentence and a 20-year ban on making or directing any movies, writing screenplays, giving any form of interview with Iranian or foreign media as well as leaving the country. Panahi’s first feature film came in 1995, entitled White Balloon. This film won a Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His second feature film, The Mirror, received the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno Film Festival. His most notable offering to date has been The Circle (2000), which criticized the treatment of women under Iran’s Islamist regime. Jafar Panahi won theGolden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival for The Circle, which was named FIPRESCI Film of the Year at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and appeared on Top 10 lists of critics worldwide.Panahi also directed Crimson Gold in 2003, which brought him the Un Certain Regard Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival. During that time Panahi was detained in the JFK airport, New York, while taking a connection from Hong Kong to Montevideo, after refusing to be photographed and fingerprinted by the immigration police. After being chained and waiting for several hours, he was finally sent back to Hong Kong.
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Screening of Italian film “The Postman” on 18th March, 2012

The classic Italian movies “The Postman” will be screened by the People’s Voice on 18th March, 2012 at Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar.
Brief Synopsis:
Postino is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford. The film was originally released in the U.S. as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title.The film tells a fictional story in which the real life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda forms a relationship with a simple postman who learns to love poetry. It stars Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. The screenplay was adapted by Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, and Massimo Troisi from the novel Ardiente paciencia by Antonio Skármeta. Skármeta himself had previously adapted his novel for the screen in 1985 as Ardiente paciencia (English translation: “Burning Patience”).

Bhumika : The Role screened by People’s Voice at Jalandhar

Famous hindi film Bhimika was screened by People’s Voice at Jalandhar. Bhumika is a 1977 Indian film directed by Shyam Benegal. The movie stars Smita Patil, Amol Palekar, Anant Nag, Naseeruddin Shah and Amrish Puri. The film is broadly based on the memoirs of the well-known Marathi Stage and screen actress of the 1940s, ‘Hansa Wadkar’ who led a flamboyant and unconventional life and focus at an individual’s search for identity and self-fulfillment. Smita Patil gave the strong performance of transforming herself in its course from a vivacious teenage girl to a wiser but deeply wounded middle-aged woman. The film won two National Film Awards and Filmfare Best Movie Award, it was invited to Carthage Film Festival 1978, Chicago Film Festival, where it was awarded the Golden Plaque 1978, and in 1986 it was invited to Festival of Images, Algeria.

Screening of docudrama Seven Islands And A Metro on Dec18th, 2011

Screening of Seven Islands And A Metro will be held at Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar by People’s Voice and organisation
Seven Islands And A Metro :
Director: Madhusree Dutta | Producer: Majlis Productions
Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2006 | Story Teller’s Country: India

Synopsis: The multilingual Bombay. The Bombay of intolerance. The Bombay of closed mills; popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaught. The metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado…. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema verite, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. The film is structured around imaginary debate between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto; the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis; over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon, the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay. An aspect of Mumbai which is generally not included in the popular narrative of the city.
• Language: Hindi with English subtitles
• Year: 2006
• Genre: Documentary
Duration 98 minutes

The Great Dictator Screened by People’s Voice at Jalandhar

Charlie Chaplin’s classic The Great Dictator was screened by People’s Voice at Jalandhar. Details will be posted shortly.

Remembering Emergency: Documentary Show organized at Jalandhar

Jalandhar: 26th June, 2011- On the occasion of 36th anniversary of Emergency declared by Indian Government on 25th June, 1975, two documentary films namely ‘Waves of Revolution’ and ‘Prisoners of Conscience’ have been screened at Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar.Before screening, kulwinder gave a brief introduction about the films as well as director Mr.Anand Patwardhan. He also explained the circumstances that led to making of both films.

Down Memory Lane: Sudershan an Institution of Simplicity

Sudershan: An Insitiution of Simplicity was made by Peoples vocie a decade ago. The film is directed by noted documentray film director Daljit Ami.

Unite and Fight is the message given by May Day film screenings

Jalandhar, 02.05.11 – ‘Unite and Fight’ was the message given by Canadian Farm Workers’ Union to their Indian counterparts on the eve of May Day celebrations. The context was the screening of documentary films ‘A Time To Rise’ by organization ‘the People’s Voice at cultural programme organized by Punjab Lok Sabyachark (PLUS) Manch at Ludhiana. Hundreds of viewers watched this classic documentary made by international fame filmmaker Anand Patwardhan in a pin drop silence in a packed open air theatre of Punjabi Bhawan at Ludhiana. A Time To Rise, a documentary made in 1980, is eloquent testimony of the conditions among Chinese and East Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and labor contractors to the threat of unionization. Made over a period of two years, the film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the workers’ movement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members. the progress of the workers’ movement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members under the banner of Canadian Farm Workers’ Union. Before the screening, while introducing the film, Mr.Kulwinder, Convener of the People’s Voice said that the film is bilingual and therefore some dialogues may not be properly understood by non-English knowing viewers but he is sure that since the problems faced by the workers are common throughout the world, this will not effect the clear message give by the film. He explained the aims and objectives of the ogranisation to the viewers and added that a decade ago, the organization was established to introduce the progressive art and culture, especially cinema among the masses and at present three big screenings at Mela Gadari Babian De during the month of October, PLUS Manch programmes of January at Jalandhar and May at Ludhana is being held. He said that apart form big screenings, the organization is holding screening on every month in which screening of film is followed by a discussion. In addition to this they are continuously writing in Newspapers as well as Journals on cinema. He further added that theirs’ is a non-funding organization run by the support of common people. Prior to this, a similar screening was held by the People’s Voice at Jalandhar in which apart from screening of ‘A Time To Rise’, ‘Immigrant’ a short film made by Charlie Chaplin was screened.

Forthcoming screenings by the People’s Voice :

May 1^st, 2011 at Cultural Programe by PLUS Munch Punjabi Bhawan Ludhiana at 7.30 PM

Recent Screenings held :

Venue: Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar

 

April 24^th , 2011  : Children of Heaven

March 20th 2011 Faiz : The Poet of Trubled Times

Feb 19, 2011   : Khamosh Pani

Jan 25, 2011   : Rabba Hun Ki Kareeye

Dec 05, 2010 : Saurya

Oct 31, 2010   : A Dog’s Life & Inqulab