Nagari 2020 – Housing Adequacy in Urban India
A City Within a City
Udta Banaras
Beyond Four Walls

Nagari 2021 – People and Livelihoods in Urban India
Taal Betaal
Golden Fish
यह वक़्त हमारा है (The Present is Ours)

Nagari 2022 – Water in Urban India
अख्खा दिन, अख्खी रात (All day and all of the night)
শিলসাঁকোৰ উদং বুকু (Remember Silsako)
Pipe Dream
The Chaviwallahs of Mumbai

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with senior documentary filmmakers Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jaysankar.

Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar are retired Professors, School of Media and Cultural Studies (www. smcs.tiss.edu), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. They superannuated in 2020,  after a stint of nearly four decades. They are involved in media production, teaching and research. They have played a key role in setting up the School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS and the MA programme in Media and Cultural Studies. Their documentary films, which have been screened across the world, have won 32 national and international awards, such as the Best Film award at the International Folk Film Festival, Kathmandu, the Basil Wright Prize for So Heddan So Hoddan (Like Here Like There) at the 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2013, Edinburgh, and Jury’s commendation in the Intangible Culture category 2019 for A Delicate Weave at the Royal Anthropological Institute Festival, UK to name a few. 

They have served as jury and as festival consultants and directors to several film festivals in India, including the Nagari Short Film Competition, where Anjali Monteiro was the juror for the 2022 edition of the competition. They have mentored many student and fellowship documentary film projects as commissioning editors. They are both recipients of several fellowships, including the Howard Thomas Memorial Fellowship in Media Studies, the Fulbright visiting lecturer fellowship, and the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, among others. They have also been visiting faculty at several leading media and design institutions and lectured at universities in the USA, Australia, Europe, and in Asian countries.  

They have both been actively involved in movements against censorship including Vikalp, which is a collective of documentary filmmakers campaigning for freedom of expression and are also associated with boards of various universities,  and media and voluntary organisations.