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Embassy of India

Alpine Tour Service

Director: Sanjay Kak
India (2007)
Audio: English
Subtitles: Japanese
120 min.

It's India's Independence Day, and its flag ritually goes up in the heart of
Srinagar, Kashmir. But the empty streets and the sullen silence that greet
India's claim on Kashmir spark off old questions about freedom – azadi – and
the denial of freedom. In the aftermath of 18 years of armed struggle, with
60,000 dead and nearly 7,000 missing, death and loss is everywhere. The
Kashmiri people begin to look within their ledger of loss. The film uses a mix of
vérité footage, rare archival material, poetry and text, in a provocative look at
Indian democracy in the 60th year of India's independence, and a reflection on
power, resistance and ‘freedom's terrible thirst’.

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

(ENVIRONMENT)
* Meltdown
* Leave Nothing but Footprints
* Turf Wars
* Timber to Tibet
(ADVENTURE)
* Riding Solo To The Top Of The
World
* A Higher Calling
* Into the Thunder Dragon
* Farther than the Eye Can See
* Trio for One
* Fatal Game
(POLITICS / HUMAN RIGHTS)
* Thin ice
* Chulo, Choli ra Banduk - a stove,
a blouse and a gun
* Better to Have Been Killed
* The Forbidden Team
* Jashn-e-azadhi (How We
Celebrate Freedom)
* Siachen: A war for Ice
* Tibetan Refugees: A Struggle
Beyond Generations
(POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT)
* Journey of a Red Fridge
* Hami kunako maanche –
We corner people
* A Bridge over the Himalayas
* Yi khel gi kawa
(The Price of a Letter)
* Tingvong: a Lepcha village in
Sikkim
(CULTURE)
* Angry Monk
* Miss Tibet
* Closer than Tibet
* Bhedako Oon Jasto...in search
of a song...

* A man called nomad
* Call it Karma
* Daughters of Wisdom
* Bhutan - Taking the Middle Path
to Happiness