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“Yi As Akh Padshah Bai”
(There was a Queen…)
105 minutes/ India/ 2007
Kashmiri/Urdu/Hindi/English with English subtitles

“Give us guns and we’ll play our role!” - These are not the words of a hardened criminal, these are the words of a teenaged girl in Kashmir less than a week after her sister was buried.

Farha’s sister Shahnaza, and her friend, Ulfat, victims of ‘crossfire’, would have been adult women today - they were barely seventeen when they died, as old as the tehreek, the movement, that exploded into existence in 1989, shattering forever the peace of the Valley, and turning it into one of the most critical conflict zones in the world.

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'There was a Queen'

Copies of ‘There was a Queen’, the film on women in peace processes in Kashmir is available for purchase. DVD copies are released recently and order can be placed directly with Other Media Communications. The details can be availed from this website.

This film is part of the series on ‘Women, War and Peace’ planned by Other Media Communications. The film is directed Ms. Kavita Pai and Hansa Thapliyal. It is selected and screened in film festivals like,

1.MIFF 2008

2.ViBGYOR 2008

3.IVFK 2008

4.14th Kolkatta Film Festival

5.10th Madurai international Film Festival

6. 5th Tricontinental Film Festival -2009

7. SIGNS 2009 - Cinema of Resistance Award

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'Cinema of Resistance' award for 'There was a Queen' 'There was a Queen' won 4th JOHN ABRAHAM NATIONAL AWARD for 'Cinema of Resistance' in SIGNS 2009- the Indian festival for features and non-features, held from Feb. 12th to 19th in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The Jury said 'the film depicts with courage, compassion and sensitivity the situation of the Kashmir valley in recent times and its tragic consequences on the lives of women living there. It combines actuality footage and interviews to give us a picture that seriously calls for debate and action in our society, often swayed by jingoistic, rhetoric and manipulative leadership'. The Jury consisting of noted filmmakers, was headed by Mr. Arun Khopkar, and Mr Chalam Bennurakar and B.Ajith Kumar as members. The world renowned filmmaker Mr. Adoor Gopalakrishnan presented the awards.

Documentaries in Production

North East Womens Film

A film on women's experience in North East in the context of continuing wide spread violence is under production. It is part of the series on 'Women, War and Peace' produced by Other Media Communications.

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