Sunday - Tuesday, March 5 - 7, at the Symbiosis Vishwabhawan Auditorium
Open Space and the Association of Iranian Students in collaboration with the Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication invite you to a concert of Sufi music followed by a 2-day film festival. The films screened at the festival deal with issues verging on the status of women in Iran, to the crumbling social structure vis-à-vis the youth in the Iranian community to a fable about a child's innocence and a complex look at faith and humanity. The conjunctions between elusive dreams and drab realities come forth starkly in some of the films, while reaffirming faith in the ability of the human impulse to win over debilitating social forces.

Monday, March 5, 5.30pm – 8.00pm
Sufi concert performed by Ghogha, a group of musicians who integrate the values of diversity, pluralism and religious co-existence in the creation of their music.
Nima plays on Daf and Mazdak plays on Tanboor

Monday, March 6, 1.30pm - 5.30pm
Candle in the wind (Dir: Pouran Derakshandeh), 90 mins
Candle in the Wind is a film about the extent to which the youth in the Iranian community is exposed to drug addiction and hallucinogenic drugs, and the consequences young addicts suffer from the use of ecstasy pills.The film raises the issue of separation of family because of addiction, AIDS, ecstasy pills etc. The film portrays the separation in family, class gap in society and poverty as being reasons for drug addiction among the youth in Iran.

Baran (Dir: Majid Majidi), 94 mins
At a construction site in Tehran, Afghan refugees provide cheap labour. When Najaf, an Afgan widower, breaks his foot in a fall, he dresses his teen daughter Baran as a man and sends her in his place. Memar, the avuncular foreman, sees that this "lad" is too weak to carry bags of cement, so he gives Baran's job to his tea boy, Lateef, and gives her Lateef's easy assignment. Lateef is furious with Baran, but when he discovers her secrets--that she is a young woman and the sole bread-winner of a large family – he discovers within himself more noble and empathic impulses. His transformation and actions become the film's center.

Tuesday, March 7, 1.30pm - 5.30pm
Colour of Paradise (Dir: Majid Majidi), 90 mins  
Colour of Paradise is a fable about a child's innocence and a complex look at faith and humanity. Visually magnificent and extremely moving, the film tells the story of a boy whose inability to see the world only enhances his ability to feel its powerful forces

Lineless Paper (Dir: Naser Taghvaei), 95 mins
The film utilizes a folktale in a film directly in the form of the characters' everyday lives.The film is about a woman Roya who considers herself a successful novelist and screenwriter in her daydreams but is actually not in good terms with her husband, Jahangir. She attends screenwriting classes, while he always quarrels with her. After continual conflicts, Roya eventually leaves home for her mother's house. Completing a script on her life with Jahangir, Roya returns home a few days later. Her husband burns the script page by page. The film dwells on the fact that there is no distinction between imagination and reality - as it is in our actual lives.     

Venue: Symbiosis Vishwabhawan Auditorium, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune 411 004. 
Entry free on a first come first served basis only  

Monday, March 20, 5.00pm – 8.00pm, Open Space
Open Space invites you to a screening of the feature film Devi (Dir: Satyajit Ray), based on the short story - 'Devi' by Prabhat Kumar Mukherjee The screening will be followed by a discussion.
Devi (Dir: Satyajit Ray), 93 min, B/W, (Bengali with subtitles)