Feminist film festival Beyond Borders to be held online

Kriti Film Club and Jagori are organizing the second edition of Beyond Borders: A Feminist Film Festival. Marking South Asian Women's Day tomorrow, the festival salutes the feminist leaders and friends who died in the year past, including feminist activist Kamla Bhasin, under whose leadership the first edition of the festival was organized.

The festival will open tomorrow with the film Mee Raqsam (2020), a Zee5 original produced and directed by Baba Azmi and presented by Shabana Azmi. In a statement, the organizers said, “Kamla-di and I spoke about bringing this film to our festival this year and I am so grateful that it has [happened], as a mark of friendship and love.”

Thereafter, from 3–10 December, the festival will screen virtually more than 50 films from India and South Asia, including shorts, animation films, features and documentaries.

The films will be presented under different themes to navigate feminist narratives and stories around the visual and performing arts, dreams and aspirations, families, memories and relationships, sexuality and disability, spiritual being, politics, writing and resistance.

The themes are Personal is Political; Family, Memory and Belonging; Possessed and Worshipped; Herstories; and Voices from South Asia.

Beyond Borders is curated by Aanchal Kapur and Reena Mohan. The festival is hosted and managed by the Kriti Film Club and supported by Jagori.