Seminar on cinema against communalism

PUNE: The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) will hold a seminar-cum-festival of cinema against communalism from August 12 to 14.
This three-day event has been planned as a part of the year long celebrations of the golden jubilee of FTII.
Noted filmmaker M. S. Sathyu will be the chief guest, while veteran scholar Uma Chakravarti will deliver the keynote address during the inaugural session on August 12.
The first day will witness a discussion on the topic "Community and the Nation-State, a historical overview" and A Raghuramaraju, Salil Mishra, Madan Gopal Singh, K. Bikram Singh, Atul Tiwari and Ravikant will present their papers. Films Iri Madhyama (Prasanna Vhitanage) and Tamas (Govind Nihalani) will be screened in the evening.
The second day of the event will open with a discussion on "Different aspects of communalism, violence, deep structures and open manifestations", with deliberations by Govind Nihalani, Tanvir Mokammel (Bangladesh) and Prasanna Vithanage (Sri Lanka). Ajay Bharadwaj, Anirudh Deshpande and Salima Hashmi (Pakistan) will present papers on "The other side of madness abiding communitarian tendencies and the efforts towards peace" during afternoon session. Besides, "The breaking of silences and recent films" will be discussed by Shama Zaidi, Ira Bhaskar and John Hood. Rabba Hun Kee Kariye (Ajay Bharadwaj), I live in Behrampada (Madhusree Dutta) and Tarpan (K. Bikram Singh) will screened in the evening.
The last session of the event will be held on the third day, with a discussion on "Enduring Myths and Icons of Communalism" by Jyotirmaya Sharma, Deepak Mehta, Madhusree Dutta and Mohd Arshad. The event will conclude with screenings of the films Amu (Shonali Bose), Garam Hawa (M S Sathyu) and Promised Land (Tanvir Mokammel).