The screenings begin every morning at 09:15 and finish by 21:00.
There will be Q&A sessions with visiting filmmakers after the screenings.
The 15th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival will showcase over 50 films from 20 countries directed by Asian women filmmakers from Armenia, Bangladesh, Estonia, India, Iran, Sri Lanka, Syria, Turkey and other countries.
Besides the general category, the film selections include curated segments on Female Gaze, Childhood, Seven Sisters (films from North East of India), by IAWRT's pool of talented filmmakers - Bina Paul, Samina Mishra, Iffat Fatima, Jerro Mulla, Anandana Kapur and Supriya Suri. One of the festival highlights is a special country focus on Georgia curated by Smriti Nevatia and Soundphile by Shikha Jhingan.
"The 15th edition of the IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival is being held at a time when women in cinema are central to world discourse in many ways. Discussions about women's participation in cinema and the Me Too Campaigns in the film industry from Hollywood to the 900-film-a year Indian film industry - has put women in cinema at the heart of several critical discussions. It is not surprising therefore that Female Gaze organically became the theme of our festival's 15th edition" observes Nupur Basu, Managing Trustee, IAWRT Chapter India.
The Asian Women's Film Festival (AWFF) was first held in New Delhi in 2005.The festival has grown in strength and popularity over the years with increasing participation of filmmakers. This year the festival received over 700 entries from 37 countries.
'The AWFF showcases extraordinary narratives from Asian woman from around the world...curating the festival was a personal journey of rediscovering the essence of cinema", says Gauri D. Chakraborty, the festival director.
Besides the film screenings the festival includes the following programmes:
Monday, 4 March 2019: A roundtable on Me Too in the Indian media and film industry anchored by Paromita Vohra and Nupur Basu.
Tuesday, 5 and Wednesday, 6 March 2019: A two-day workshop with school girls titled Little Directors conducted by Nina Sabnani and Samina Mishra.
Tuesday, 5 – Thursday, 7 March 2019: An art installation, Bioscopewalli by design students and artists conceived by the festival director.
