Shillong, July 21: St Anthony’s College, Shillong as part of India Eight Film Festival will organize screening of Red Ant Dream a film directed by Sanjay Kak and directed by local editor tarun Bhartiya at St Anthony’s College auditorium of August 3 at 4.30 pm.
Red Ant Dream, a 120 minutes film is a chronicle of those who live the revolutionary ideal in India, a rare encounter with the invisible domain of those whose everyday is a fight for another ideal of the world.
The film centered around maoist, a subterranean war that broke out more than half a century ago, and the continuing battle is shaped not just with bullets and explosives, but also ideas. ‘Population is the center of gravity’, says the officer charged with training policemen in jungle warfare in Bastar, with turning them into soldiers who can take-on the Maoist rebellion – ‘whichever side the population tilts, that side wins’. This is the struggle that the Indian Prime Minister has referred to as the ‘single greatest internal security threat to the nation’.
Red Ant Dream (2013) the third in a cycle of films that interrogate the workings of Indian democracy, the film follows Jashn-e-Azadi (2007) about the idea of freedom for Kashmir, and Words on Water (2002) about the people’s movement against large dams in the Narmada valley.(SP News)
