Film: Iqraar Naama (The Agreement)
Country: India
Released: 2022

Screening dates: 29 JULY to 5 AUGUST, 2024

Q and A with director Priyanka Chhabra: 5 AUGUST (MONDAY)
Time: 6:30 pm BST, 6 pm IST, 6:15 pm NPT, 5:30 pm PKT

This month, we’re screening Iqraar Naama (The Agreement), directed by Priyanka Chhabra. Iqraar Naama tells the story of Charandas Bangia, a Partition refugee from Lyallpur (now Faisalabad in Pakistan), who eventually settles in Amritsar. Through this journey spanning 74 years, older than both these sovereign countries, he collected, archived and preserved every official piece of paper that told this story of love and loss; of ‘home’.


About the director:
Priyanka is an artist/filmmaker whose works explore themes of memory, landscape and relationships of people to places. She articulates her practice as an archaeology of silences, digging at sites characterised by trauma; physical and emotional. Her interest in the Partition of Punjab (1947) emerges from growing up in a family of partition refugees in West Delhi. She is the author of Rock Paper Scissors, an artist's book looking at de-centering narratives of the Partition from state to personal archives. This is the third iteration of her work on the Partition of Punjab. The trilogy includes Pichla Varka (The Previous Page), 2019 and Igraar-naama (The Agreement), 2022.

Other works include In The Forest One Thing Can Look Like Another (produced as part of Monographs, Asian Film Archive), Shape of Trees (produced as part of Alchemy Moving Image Residency) and A Summer Flu. She has received the Experimenter Generator Co-operative Art Production Fund, IFA Arts Practice Grant, grants by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and the TOTO Award for Short Film. Her works have been shown in Oberhausen, York, Calgary, Cologne, Singapore, Kathmandu and Kerala. She is currently a Researcher in The After School at the Centre for Arts Design and Social Research (CAD+SR)
 

 Process:

•  Once you sign-up and your request is accepted, you will receive an email from our team on the evening of Monday, 29 July 2024 with the screening link and password. We request that you keep the link and password to yourself to safeguard the film against piracy. The link will be active for 6 days.
•  The screening of the documentary will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker on Monday, 5 August 2024 (see times above). You will also receive a Zoom link for the Q&A via email.
•  Note: Due to the large number of sign-ups, we will give preference to the first 100 sign-up requests.

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