Touring Film Festival Reaches SCMS
(SCMS, Kalamassery | August 18-19, 2006)

Kalamassery, Kerala: 'Conflicts', the film-festival on wheels touring the state, has finally reached School of Communication and Management Studies (SCMS) at Kalamassery, Kerala. SCMS organised the screening of films at the Seminar Hall, SCMS College, Pratap Nagar, Kalamassery on August 18 to 19, 2006.

The film on Tibet, the country in exile, throws up a whole lot of issues ranging from sovereignty to ethnicity and identity. The BBC documentary 'Conflicts: Tibet' brings into focus divergent views on the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Chinese claims of 'reunifying of China' and 'liberation of Tibetan from feudalism' are in constant conflict with the Tibetan perception of the territorial accession as 'cultural genocide'.

VJ Jose and Sanjiv Gopal, Toxics Campaigners of Greenpeace

'Miles to Go', a 6000-km journey across India's forgotten backyards turns spotlight on the fight for basic human dignity by a people who have been swept under the carpet of indifference and apathy. Filmed in 24 locations including the tragedy-hit Bjhopal over sixty days 'Miles to Go', according to the reviews, "is one of the most important journeys ever made in this country."

The festival of films, organised by School of Communication and Management Studies (SCMS) at Kalamassery in association with Design & People, Friends of Tibet and Greenpeace (India) concluded on August 18 with the screening of a documentary 'The Basque Ball: Skin Against The Stone' by Julio Medem.

Conflicts film-festival was organised by the School of Communication and Management Studies in association with Design & People, Friends of Tibet and Greenpeace (India) at SCMS, Kalamassery from August 18-19, 2006.