Jury for Human Unity Films
Francis Neemberry In 2005, with my partner Doris, I started making videos under the name of Auroville Video Productions. For over thirteen years we made a number of documentaries on Auroville and large amount of interviews with Aurovilians about their experiences living in Auroville. Richa Hushing Alumna of Film and Television Institute of India, Richa...
Jury for Auroville Films
Aanchal Kapur Aanchal Kapur has over thirty years of work experience as a gender and development trainer, documentation & communication specialist. She is the founder of Kriti: a development praxis and communication team, Kriti Film Club and Gestures. Since March 2020, she has been curating & organizing issue-based film festivals on Doculive. Premendra Mazumder Premendra...
AVFF 2022 – Human Unity Films
Officially selected films of AVFF 2022 in the international category “Films that develop the theme of human unity” ARAMBH (THE BEGINNING) 2019, India, Hindi, 21min Screening: Tuesday 18th Jan, 21:37hrs – Cinema Paradiso Aarambh (The Beginning) tells a universal story about one of humanity’s fundamental questions: What happens after death? The question is asked by...
AVFF 2022 – Auroville Films
Officially selected films of AVFF 2022 in the category “Films made by Aurovilians, bioregion residents or guests of Auroville” A JOURNEY OF RESTORATION 2018, Documentary, 21min 49sec, English Screening on: Saturday 22nd January, 16:40hrs – SAIIER This film is a documentation of a project between RAMCO and Auroville Botanical Garden. See how a limestone quarry...
2022 poster
Thanks to Dominique and Marco here comes our poster for the 7th Auroville Film Festival 2022
partnership with European Union Film Festival in India
We are pleased to announce our partnership with the 25th European Union Film Festival in India. It will be held digitally from 5-30 November. Registrations are now open: http://festivalscope.com/signup.html Registration is free and users are able to watch all 42 films on Festival Scope. All the information: www.euffindia.com
Two, yet one.
Like a big lunch, the 6th Auroville Film Festival ended leaving us all full, tired and with big smiles on our faces. But still, I’m not quite able to define it. Had I assisted a community festival or a film festival? Every person with whom I spoke gave me a totally different answer. They ranged...
Awards Students category
The following films have been awarded in the category ‘Films made by Students of Auroville and the bioregion’: Cinema Paradiso Award ‘DISLIKE & UNSUBSCRIBE’ by YAM Today’s society is struck by constant intrusion and distraction by social media, which is taking away time, pleasure and human interaction in more ways than one. ‘Dislike and Unsubscribe’...
Awards Auroville and the Bioregion
The following prizes have been awarded in the category ‘Films made about Auroville and the Bioregion’: Cinema Paradiso Award ‘TWO FLAGS’ by PANKAJ RISHI KUMAR ‘Two Flags’ receives the Cinema Paradiso for its deep insight into the lives of the Tamil-French community of Pondicherry and how the vagaries of politics, nations and citizenship affect them....
Awards Films by Aurovilians, Bioregion Residents or Guests of Auroville
The following films have been awarded in the category ‘Films by Aurovilians, Bioregion Residents or Guests of Auroville’: Cinema Paradiso Award ‘ASHVAMITHRA’ by EARTHLING KOUSHALYA Ashvamithra wins the Cinema Paradiso Award for its intuitive and sensitive portrayal of human relationships, care and support in the context of mental health experiences across age. The gritty expression...
Awards Human Unity
This 6th Auroville Film festival was very rich in strong movies that represent the hot topics of our time, as well as the category’s overall theme of Human Unity. As a jury it was difficult to limit ourselves to just three awards, as there were quite a few films that we feel deserve recognition. We...
Valentina’s blog Day 5
Una serata dedicata al tema femminile. #FEMALE Pleasure di Barbara Miller è un altro documentario da inserire nella vostra lista di film da non perdere, per comprendere quanta oppressione, ignoranza e stupidità siano ancora radicate e perpetrate a livello globale contro le donne. Il corpo femminile è ancora visto come offesa e oscenità, oppresso dall’oscurantismo...
Noëlle’s blog Day 5
Jour 5 – « Un moment de faiblesse. A moment of weakness ». (in English below) Un court métrage français de 15 minutes. Un homme accueille une vieille femme SDF à passer la soirée chez lui le soir de Noël. Il cuisine un bon repas, lui prépare un bain, lave son linge. Le lendemain, ils partent à...
Notizie dal Paradiso (News from Heaven) Day 4
‘Earth crusader’ is a truly inspiring film. On one side, seeing an 85-year-old woman dreaming about the future is something that fills me with hope for us all. On the other, on my way between Chennai airport and Auroville, I’ve seen so many buildings in construction, so many awful mountains of concrete with neither design...
Dear Journal Day 5
Today I saw the film #FEMALE PLEASURE. What an inspiring, brutally honest film! Such a strong reminder that despite our social normalisation and denial of the issue, the abuse and condemnation of women and women’s bodies is still very present as a justified behaviour in our societies, across several countries, nationalities and cultures. To make...
