Join us at Arthshila Goa for a screening of four short films that focus on the sustained engagements with communities and beings that exist within layered social and cultural systems.

DETAILS
Date: 27 February | Friday
Time: 6.30 PM Onwards
Runtime: 61 mins

Kari explores the paradoxical reverence of the animal elephant in the central districts of Kerala. Looking at the festival, spaces of devotion transform into a realm of panic and disdain.

Billa Number follows the lives of women coolies in the small town of Bhavnagar, Gujarat. Most of these women have been working here for over 15 years. Bhavnagar was and continues to be the only station in India with female porters.

Qiaomin explores Mumbai’s Chinese community from its eighteenth-century origins to its present decline, reflecting on economically driven migration and how later generations negotiate a hybrid cultural identity.

Ghar, Bhagal, Gaon set in Rajsamand, Rajasthan, examines themes of raatri jagran, bhaav, home, and belonging through cultural events and oral histories passed down within the filmmaker’s family. Looking at power embedded in land through zoning, mining, ownership, and commodification, while land itself continues to hold cultural, spiritual, and ecological narratives.