Nagari 2020 | Films

Mayavi Swapnamahal

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A Marathi rap music video about the issues faced by citizens at the hands of exploitative builders in a nexus with the government, providing them woefully inadequate housing facilities. Language: Marathi with English subtitles

A City Within A City

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Confronting the communal nature of the city of Ahmedabad by focusing on the neighborhood and houses of Juhapura, one of India’s largest Muslim ghettos.

Beyond Four Walls

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A film that explores the relationship between access to livelihood and housing, through a comparison between Parry’s Corner and Kannagi Nagar, two neighbourhoods in Chennai.

Udta Banaras

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An attempt to document displacement and resettlement due to the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, through the experiences of Rinku Kannaujia, a former resident of the Dalit Basti near the temple. The film looks at his experience of displacement while questioning what development means for a culturally rich city like Banaras

Fish out of Water

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Exploring the changing realities of the Koli community of Mumbai. One of Mumbai’s native inhabitants who live along its coastline have seen it all, from the 7 islands to the bustling and ever growing metropolis that the city has now become. Shot across three Koliwadas, the urban fishing villages in which the Koli’s reside, in Khar Danda, Madh and Versova, we have tried to mirror the Kolis as they navigate through their daily lives, from the sea where they go to catch the fish early morning, to the fish auctions at the end of each day and the time in between where life has other things in store for them.

Water Water Everywhere

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In Guwahati city, flash floods occur every year, the reason being the Brahmaputra river flowing beside it overflows. Meanwhile, people struggle for drinking water every day in this same city. This reminds us of the famous lines by Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink”!

Adrushya Niwasi

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The film unpacks the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in highlighting the prevalent housing inadequacies for the migrant in the city of Mumbai.

Jar jar ghar

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A documentary about century-old buildings on the verge of collapsing and the generational tenants who live here with nowhere better to go. With a glimpse into the rehabilitation policies of the state of Maharashtra, the film tells multiple stories of families in south Mumbai who are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Day One

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Debajit, a young man from a village in Lower Assam arrives in Guwahati with the hope of a better livelihood. The city unfolds to him as a space etched on a discursive landscape and temporality; bearing signs of the past, present and future. His journey in his day one of the city pings him with a feeling of displacement-emotional as well as physical

Game of Homes

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A film which portrays speculation on real-estate in Goa, questioning the affordability of housing in the state, depicted through a game of Monopoly.

Nagari 2020 | Jury

pradeep dalal

Pradeep Dalal directs the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Grant Program in New York. He was co-chair of Photography at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

sankalp meshram

Sankalp Meshram is an Indian Director, Editor, Writer and Producer, working in Mumbai since 1994. An Alumnus of FTII, Pune, he has won Five National Awards and one IDPA Award. He has made many notable films on Architecture, specially on the Architecture of Charles Correa, Music and Dance apart from having
made an award winning Fiction Feature Film ‘Chhutkan Ki Mahabharat’.

Snehanshu Mukherjee

Snehanshu Mukherjee has over 34 years of experience in the field of architecture and planning. He also has over 28 years of experience of being an academician. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.

Shilpa Ranade

Shilpa Ranade trained in architecture at CEPT, Ahmedabad and did her graduate work in Cultural Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Shilpa has co-authored an influential book on women and public space in Mumbai called “Why Loiter?” published by Penguin Books India in 2011.

Paromita Vohra

Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer whose work focuses on gender, feminism, urban life, love, desire and popular culture and spans many forms including documentary, fiction, print, video and sound installation. She has directed and written many films, ‘Partners in Crime’ in the year 2011 is one such film.

Nagari 2020 | Mentors

sanjiv shah

Sanjiv Shah is a film editor, producer, and filmmaker engaged largely with documentaries dealing with social issues, and exploring forms of film. As a part of the exhibition The State of Housing (2018) in Mumbai, he directed a video looking at the housing crisis in India over the last 70 years.

bina paul

Bina Paul works mainly in Malayalam-language films. She has over fifty editing credits and has directed four documentaries. Her first editing work was in 1985 on Aravindan’s documentary The Seer Who Walks Alone and her first feature film work was on Abraham’s Amma Ariyan in 1986. Paul won her first National Film Award for Revathi’s Mitr, My Friend, which had an all-woman crew.

Avijit Mukul Kishore

Avijit Mukul Kishore is a filmmaker and cinematographer, working in documentary and interdisciplinary moving image practices. He’s involved in cinema pedagogy as a lecturer and curates film programmes for prominent national cultural institutions.

Rajula Shah

Rajula is a Poet, Filmmaker & Visual Artist. Her practice emerges through close collaboration with people,
their histories & environments exploring boundaries of fiction/non-fiction through New Media. Developing new strategies for the study & practice of Cinema in changing contexts is a concern with her.

Tarun Bhartiya

Tarun is a political activist, documentary imagemaker and Hindi poet from Shillong.

Nagari 2020

The first edition of the Nagari Short Film Competition addresses the subject of Housing Adequacy in Urban India. It attempted to not only use film as a medium to narrate the issues, but really to expand an understanding of the subject and extend its representation and relevance in India.

housing adequacy in urban india

In 2020, the Nagari Short Film Competition focussed on the question:
“How could one tell the story of housing adequacy in urban India”?

Click on the image to learn more about the winning entries!
Click on the image to learn more about the final films!

mentors

Click on the image to watch the join Award Ceremony for the Nagari Short Film Competition 2020 and Z-axis: You and Your Neighbourhood Design Competition

jury

WHAT IS THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING?

This blogs explores the key elements of adequate housing as recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

A Bioscope on urban housing in India.

Film as a medium has played an important role in generating awareness on social issues. This blog is a list of films that address housing and issues related to housing infrastructure in India. It is not an exhaustive list but a short collection of films available in the public domain.

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Nagari 2020 | HOUSING ADEQUACY

In 2020, the Nagari Short Film Competition focussed on the question:

How could one tell the story of housing adequacy in urban India”?

India has the largest number of urban poor and landless people in the world. According to the 2011 census, approximately 13.75 million households, or approximately 65 – 70 million people, reside in urban slums. Homeless people, based on the 2011 census, are an additional 1.8 million. The numbers are staggering. In some cities, such as Mumbai, those residing in slums represent around 50% of its population. Housing, and more importantly adequate housing, is in a state of crisis in India – a case reinforced by the migrant exodus that we witnessed in Indian cities in March 2020, as a result of a national lockdown imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Nagari Short Film Competition | Winning Entries

BEST SHORT FILM AWARD

A City Within A City

Film by Prachee Bajania and Narendra Mangwani

Mentor Avijit Mukul Kishore

Jury Citation:

A City Within A City shows us the sociological fallout in Juhapura, a small locality in Ahmedabad, post the riots of 2002. The film covers a very urgent and powerful issue giving a strong message in the most straightforward way. The film speaks of ghettoization and segregation, something that we rarely discuss when speaking of urbanism and urban planning. The film presents a microcosmic individual problem of a particular family and how they are looking not only at the immediate problems while also dealing with their aspirations. The juxtaposition of the historical context of the place and people’s aspiration to build an independent community despite the apathy of the state, makes the audience value housing beyond the practicality of spaces. The film is poignant, empathetic and yet never looking at people who have suffered in a flattened way as victims but rather celebrating their resilience, showing how attitudes, policy, law and history are all integrated.

RUNNER UP SHORT FILM AWARD

Udta Banaras

Film by Apoorva Jaiswal and Manas Krishna

Mentor Rajula Shah

Jury Citation:

Udta Banaras alludes to the fact that cities keep changing with regimes and the people inside the city don’t really have a choice in where they go and which part of the city they can be in. It highlights the hurt and the absolute dislocation that’s caused by urban renewal projects and the impact of policies that have been put into place without taking into recognition the inhabitants in those neighbourhoods. The imaging and the imagery in the film was extraordinarily beautiful and compelling. The protagonist was very interesting and charismatic, bringing together a lot of complex ideas about home, his own identity, his own home, but also this idea of Banaras itself. It’s through his photographs that we get to see when we see that the famous Vishwanath gully has been completely taken away and made into some kind of piazza which is shocking and very cleverly done.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

Mayavi Swapnamahal

Film by Atharva Salaskar, Vaibhav Kadam and Aditya Desai

Mentor Avijit Mukul Kishore

A Marathi rap music video about the issues faced by citizens at the hands of exploitative builders in a nexus with the government, providing them woefully inadequate housing facilities.

COMPETITION BRIEF

The competition brief is out!

This year, the Nagari Short Film Competition is looking for films that address the question, “How could one tell the story of housing adequacy in urban India”?

REGISTRATIONS CLOSED

Registration closed at 11:59PM IST on Thursday, 15 October, 2020.

For any queries, write to us at nagari@charlescorreafoundation.org