Social Justice Film Festival 2023

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai together with Marupakkam  is  hosting a three days of film screenings, expert talk and interaction with film makers at the SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL   curated by RP Amudhan from 28-30 April 2023 as a special cultural initiative.  

MARUPAKKAM is a media activist group that screens and disseminates documentary films across South India.
 
This festival brings together filmmakers to encourage interaction and engagement through films and events. The festival will include programmes with experts who will bring attention to social justice concerns through the stories of groups and people who are working for a better future. Shorts and feature-length documentaries and narrative films from India and around the World will be screened.  The festival will showcase works that challenge society structures all over the globe on a macro and micro level. Long and short documentaries from Germany, Australia, Mexico, USA, Republic of Korea and India will be screened.
 
Amudhan RP, the festival curator, is a filmmaker, curator, mentor, festival programmer and an activist based in Chennai.

The entry for all the events is free. Seating on first-come; first-served basis. 

For information / Film schedule visit the site SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL 2023.


German Films @ Social Justice Film Festival 2023

@Goethe-Institut Chennai Nasim 
Dir.: Ole Jacobs  & Arne Büttner |  Germany |  2021 | 102 min.  

A documentary about refugees that addresses neither their journey to the country of refuge nor their integration. Instead, directors Arne Büttner and Ole Jacobs have made a film about stagnation: Nasim and her family are stranded on the island of Lesbos, at Moria refugee camp, which was still open in 2020. The directors observe the operation of the camp with a distant eye, concentrating on the everyday and inner life of the Afghan woman Nasim. Within the daily monotony, she develops an awareness of the opportunities that Europe will offer her – especially her rights as a woman. You can see the awakening of self determination.


@Goethe-Institut Chennai Ecocide
Dir.: Andres Veiel | 2020  | Germany |  90 min. 


A court drama, as low-key as it is spectacular, about the climate catastrophe. It is 2034, and 31 nations have filed suit against the Federal Republic of Germany claiming damages for the consequences of climate change. Ecocide moves masterfully between the past, present and future, between docudrama and fictional documentary.




@Goethe-Institut Chennai House Without Roof 
Dir.: Soleen Yusef | 2016 | Germany |  124 min.

Three siblings born in the Kurdish part of Iraq who grew up in Germany – Liya, who performs as a singer in a night club; Jan, whose wife is expecting a child; and misfit Alan – return to their country of birth in order to fulfil their late mother’s last wishes. She wanted to be buried in her home village next to her husband, who was killed during the war against Saddam’s regime, but her relatives in Kurdistan are vehemently opposed to this. Wanting to fulfil their mother’s wish, the squabbling siblings make off with the coffin and, pursued by their furious relatives, embark on a strenuous journey through a land in which the Peschmerga are battling IS terrorists.

*Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai does not have car parking facility.