"South Asia and the Himalayas in pictures and debate" cycle 2024-2025
Programming 2024-2025
Session 1 - Bangladesh in images and debate: meeting Bangladeshi migrants
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 6pm-9pm - PLC (Paris 13th) - Auditorium
- The Game, directed by Joy Banerjee and Prokash Roy, 2023 l 43 min l VOST l French
Their names are Mohamed, Abdullah, Ujjal...They all left Bangladesh one day to come to Europe, hoping for a better life. Some have succeeded in settling in Paris, even though they are undocumented. Others were not so lucky, and tell of the ordeal they endured in Libya, trapped by their smugglers. In France, the immigration debate is raging. The film, shot in the Sylet region of Bangladesh and in Paris, gives a face to these Bangladeshi migrants.
Debate in the presence of Philippe Benoit, Bengal specialist (Inalco-Cerlom)
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in the presence of the filmmakers
Session 2 - India in images and debate: Agroecology in India
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - 6pm-9pm - PLC (Paris 13th) - Auditorium
- Indian soil in revolution by Renuka George, 2023 l 55 min
In 2015, with the support of the state government of Andhra Pradesh in India, senior civil servant T. Vijay Kumar introduced natural agriculture on a large scale. The aim: to convert 6 million farmers to chemical-free agriculture. Through encounters with farmers and with T. Vijay Kumar, this film is an insight into the success of these new methods and the vision behind the world's largest agroecological transition experiment.
Debate with Annie Montaut, professor emeritus of Hindi (Inalco), author of Trois mille ans d'écologie indienne : penser autrement la nature(Le Seuil, 2024) and in the presence of the director.
Session 3 - India in images and debate: fighting social injustice
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - 6pm-9pm - PLC (Paris 13e) - Auditorium
- Alms for the Blind Horse by Gurvinder Singh, 2011 l 1h52 min
A family wakes up to the news that a house on the outskirts of their village has just been demolished. The indignant father joins the rest of the small community in demanding justice. On the same day, his son Melu, a rickshaw driver, goes on strike alongside his union.
Debate in the presence of Marie-Caroline Saglio, anthropologist specializing in India (Inalco/CESSMA) and Nicolas Jaoul, anthropologist, specializing in India (CNRS/IRIS).
Session 4 - India in images and debate: reincarnations and ghost hunting
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 6pm-9pm - PLC (Paris 13e) - Auditorium
- Black Hole. Why I have never been a Rose d'Emmanuel Grimaud and Arnaud Deshayes
In Calcutta, patients explore their past lives in a hypnotist's office and find themselves propelled into the remotest folds of the past. Meanwhile, a group of ghost hunters investigate the abandoned sites of colonial history and attempt to communicate with wandering souls via their radios. Black Hole oscillates between mediumistic device and ghost trap, tracking the strange paths of reincarnation, right up to the short circuit.
Debate with the two directors, Emmanuel Grimaud, anthropologist at the Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (CNRS) and Arnaud Deshayes.
Session 5 - Bhutan in image and debate: learning democracy
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 6pm-9pm - PLC (Paris 13e) - Auditorium
- The monk and the gun from Pawo Chyning Dorji, 2024 l 1h47 min
2006. Bhutan opens up to modernization and discovers the Internet, television... and democracy. To teach its people how to vote, the government organizes "white elections". But in the land of Gross National Happiness, where religion and the King are more important than politics, the inhabitants seem unmotivated. However, in a remote mountain province, a monk decides to organize a mysterious ceremony on voting day and instructs one of his disciples to find a rifle...
Debate with Jeanne Mascolo, journalist and documentary filmmaker (to be confirmed) and Nicolas Silhet (CESAH), anthropologist specializing in Tibetan Buddhism.
Session 6 - India in images and debate: Rural India in times of pandemic
Wednesday, April 9, 2024 - 6pm-9pm - PLC (Paris 13th) - Auditorium
- One side of the road, by Jalil Nordman, 2024 l 86 min l English and Tamil, French subtitles
Between 2019 and 2022, on a road that crosses a rural locality in Tamil Nadu (South India), four dalits from the same village describe their daily lives through intimate and rare testimonies, which form a life journey around three extraordinary years marked by an international pandemic and its harsh economic and social consequences in rural India.
Debate with Cécile Mouchel (CESSMA), in the presence of director Jalil Nordman (Laboratoire d'économie de Dauphine, DIAL-LEDA).