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Dear Sis: Hair Cuts Season of the Boys Beijing Cotton-Fluffer Jiang Hu: Life on the Road Living Elsewhere Old Men I Am 17 Years Old in 1997 Magcojaodkal 98 Notes Before the Revolution An Autumn Fable For Maya How Do I Survive, My Friend! I Sing the Body Electric Kumar Talkies A Season Outside Jakarta Stock Shots: No. 7 Kamas Dolls Silk Tehran, the 25th Hour Trap After School Bicycles Annyong-Kimchi The New God Princess Plum P-udding The Children of North Korea Escaped to China Talbuk Sonyeondul Chungguk e Kada Making Sundried Red Peppers Gochoo Maligi The Three-Legged Crow Empty House Bin Chip Jaiyk Child of Mermaid Between Us Two... Beirut The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore Tension Title Deed from Moses Made In the Philippines ... To Fukuoka with Love Return to the Tribes Boys for Beauty Funny Competition Between Labor and Management: You Have Me in You I Love (080) The Red Leaf Legend Swimming on the Highway Two Guys Go Hunting Exotic 101 thirdworld The Hearts That Can't See the Sun Between Two Banks		A Season Outside INDIA / 1997 / English / Color / Video / 30 min Director, Script, Narration: Amar Kanwar Photography: Dilip Varma Sound: Uma Shankar Editing: Sameera Jain Music: Susmit Sen Producer: Rajiv Mehrotra Production Source: Foundation for Universal Responsibility UGF, Zonega, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003 INDIA Phone: 91-11-464-8450 / Fax: 91-11-464-8451 E-mail: furhhdl@nda.vsnl.net.in Amar Kanwar Kanwar is an independent documentary filmmaker working from New Delhi, India for the last ten years. He has directed several documentaries for broadcast in this period and has worked on issues of health, ecology, labor, politics, and education. His film A Season Outside was recently awarded the Golden Gate Award at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival and the Golden Conch at the Mumbai International Documentary Film Festival. He is also a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for 1998 and is using the fellowship to support his current work, a film about masculinity and sexuality. Striking symbolic images punctuate this travelogue of the mind's journey through geographic and historic India. The filmmaker explores the idea of non-violence: How can it prevail, in the face of history's atrocities? Through memories of India and Pakistan's partition in 1947, a trauma and heartache for many families in the subcontinent, through government inquiries into Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence, through legends of 16th century Mughal attacks, and through records of the aggression against Tibetan monks and families. This visual essay searches for a wisdom to transform conflict through a process of humanization Director's Statement There is, perhaps, no border outpost in the world quite like Wagah, where this film begins its exploration of conflict, violence and non violence. An outpost where everyday, divided people are drawn to a thin white line. In this sense and for this reason this is a very Indian film, whose nuances and symbolism Pakistanis will certainly understand, those who remember Checkpoint Charlie might be able to relate too, and probably anyone in the eye of a conflict may find themselves here. A Season Outside is a personal and philosophical journey through the shadows of past generations, conflicting positions, borders and time zones - a nomad wandering through lines of separation, examining the scars of violence. The documentary is in the form of an analytical essay about the ambivalent dimensions of conflict, with many characters but without interviews it embarks, with the viewer, upon a search that could prefigure peace of a different kind. The film is being screened and used by groups and individuals working on issues of violence (personal or political), conflict and non violence. 　 beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee