Скачать или смотреть Urban Lens 2021 | Tamara Stepanyan in conversation with Samina Mishra | Filmmaker in Focus

The Urban Lens Film Festival is a one-of-a-kind international film festival that brings together filmmakers, academics and urban practitioners to dialogue with each other on cinema and the urban experience. Curated by the IIHS Media Lab, the festival has presented 201 films from various genres from 40 countries in 37 languages.

The IIHS Urban Lens Film Festival was hosted online from 18-21 November 2021, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Institut Français.

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In a newly introduced section this year, Urban Lens has curated select works of Joshua Oppenheimer, Philip Scheffner and Tamara Stepanayan to be screened at the festival. Each of them have a wide body of work with unique formal preoccupations that informs their film practice. The filmmakers will be in conversation about their films, and contexts in which each of their work have been produced.

Tamara Stepanyan was born in Armenia. During the breakdown of the Soviet Union in the early 90's, she moved to Lebanon. After studying and working in Lebanon, Tamara pursued her studies at The National Film School of Denmark under the supervision of Arne Bro. “Embers” is the first feature documentary of Tamara that has won the Best Documentary Award at Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.
For 11 years now, she has been working and living in France where she has already made two feature documentaries "Those from the Shore" and "Village of Women". Her films have won prestigious awards around the world, Best Documentary at Busan International Film Festival, Best Director at Boston, Best Film at Amiens in France, and some more. Right now she is in preparation for two new films.
Stepanyan made a number of films that were shown and primed in prestigious festivals like Locarno, Busan, La Rochelle, Boston, Leipzig, Amiens.
Stepanyan teaches film at 2 high schools in Paris.

Samina Mishra is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and teacher based in New Delhi, with a special interest in media for and about children. Her work uses the lens of childhood, identity and education to reflect the experiences of growing up in India. Her recent work includes Jamlo Walks, a picture book that tells a story of the migrants walking back home during the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, Nida Finds a Way, a chapter book for early readers that follows a young girl as she explores the world around her including the anti-CAA/NRC public protest at Shaheen Bagh, and Happiness Class, a documentary that explores the idea of happiness seen through the Happiness Curriculum introduced in the Delhi government schools in 2018. She is currently teaching the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Film at Pathways School Noida. Samina also collaborates on Torchlight, a web journal on libraries and bookish love, curates for Half Ticket, the children’s section at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, and runs The Magic Key Centre for the Arts and Childhood, a virtual resource centre for children as well as adults working with and for children.