Length: ca. 75 min
Director: Annelies Kusters
Research: Annelies Kusters, Sujit Sahasrabudhe
Producer: MPI MMG
Editor: Visual Box
Camera: Harish Chaudhari, Prakash Khairnar, Rohan Satardekar
Location: Mumbai, India
Synopsis
"Ishaare" has a double meaning: it means "gestures" in Hindi and Marathi, but it also means "signs", as such indicating that there cannot be made a strict distinction between them. However, whilst there seems to be overlap between gestures and sign language, they differ too, as the protagonists of the movie show and tell us. The film "Ishaare" documents how six deaf signers communicate with familiar and unfamiliar hearing shopkeepers, street vendors, customers, waiters, ticket conductors and fellow travellers in Mumbai. Reena and Pradip, who is deaf blind, go grocery shopping along local streets, in markets and in shops. Sujit, our guide throughout the movie, communicates in public transport. Mahesh is a retail businessman who sells stocks of pens to stationery shops. Komal runs an accessory shop with her husband Sanjay, where most customers are schoolgirls. Durga is the manager of a branch of Café Coffee Day, an upmarket coffee chain. When enquiring, selling, bargaining and chitchatting, these deaf and hearing people use gestures and signs, and they also lipread, mouthe, read and write in different spoken languages. In the film, they share how they experience these ways of communication.
Length: ca. 60 min
Producer: MPI MMG
Camera: Dörte U. Engelkes
Sound: Anna Seegers-Krückeberg
Editor: Abbas Yousefpour
Location: Jurong West, Singapore
Coming spring 2015
Synopsis
This film features the residential area of Jurong West at the edge of Singapore where many people from all over Asia live and meet. The focus is on living with diversity in public spaces: a small path between huge high rises, a food hawker as the central meeting point of the neighborhood and places around the homes of the protagonists. Mrs. Heng and her husband come every Sunday to the path to join a small flea market. Raj is spending the whole day roaming around the food hawker where he meets many friends and strangers. Ramdass who arrived in Singapore some years ago and chose to live in a neighboring dormitory for male working migrants and Ofelia who spends most of her time with her friends from the Philippines.
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by Dörte U. Engelkes
Length: 59 min
Producer: MPI MMG
Camera: Dörte U. Engelkes
Sound: Anna Seegers-Krückeberg
Editor: Abbas Yousefpour
Location: Johannesburg/South Africa
Synopsis
This film features a neighborhood of Johannesburg in South Africa. Hillbrow’s population changed after the Apartheid era from an almost exclusively white suburb to a dominantly black area. White South Africans and migrants from rural South Africa meet people from all over Africa who recently arrived to look for a better life. The documentary portrays different protagonists, their way of living and how they get along with friends and strangers in the streets and places of Hillbrow.
