5-7 March 2021
In collaboration with the International Association of Women in Radio and Television, the Foundation organised a film festival on Nurturing Peace Resolving Conflicts in March. The sessions focused on documentary practice interlinked to ideas of conflict, resistance and possible resolutions towards nurturing peace. It featured the following films:
- Aditi Maddali’s Songs of Our Soil (India) that explores uyyala songs and how they record women’s histories in the fight for agrarian rights
- Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s Drapchi Elegy (Belgium/India) that weaves together vignettes from the everyday life of Namdol Lhamo, one of the famous Singing Nuns of Drapchi now living in exile in Brussels, that presents a facet of spiritual resistance, reflecting how resistance can come in different forms.
- Tamara Stepanyan’s Village of Women (Armenia) that looks at a global phenomenon of migration for work and how that challenges women, through the lives of women in an Armenian village whose husbands leave to work in Russia for 9 months of the year.
The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) is a not for profit professional organization of women working in electronic and allied media. It is in consultative status with United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). IAWRT organizes conferences, film festivals and other allied activities. It also offers scholarships for professional advancement and grants for research projects.