Documentaries have come a long way from their origins as being factual and objective representations of true events, although from their inception, questions have been raised about their authenticity in terms of accurate reportage. But in today’s documentaries, increasingly, the lines between fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, memory and history, the subjective and the objective, the personal and the public, are deliberately being blurred, creating an exciting cinematic space where a new kind of filmmaking between the binaries of fiction and non-fiction becomes possible.
Film writer and educator Trisha Gupta moderates the panel discussion with directors Clara Kraft Isono (Bawa’s Garden), Hansa Thapliyal (Coming to Terms/Making Your Terms?), Nishtha Jain (The Golden Thread), and Shreemoye Singh (And, Towards Happy Alleys).
