Films for Freedom (Vikalp Bangalore), in association with American Museum of Natural History brings the 2007 Margaret Mead Traveling Film Festival, to Bangalore, this weekend.

A complement of sextet celluloid pieces that should make avowed film buffs proud these have come calling to their own cinema-conscious City.

Kicking-off is Micha X Peled’s China Blue that takes one into the heart of jeans sweat shop in Southern China tracking the lives of Jasmine and young working girls struggling to fulfil impossible obligations forced upon them.

The film presents a moving portrait of complexities and demands that globalisation brings in the lives of ordinary citizens.

Flock of Dodos by Randy Olson spotlights on dodos is an interesting take evolution versus intelligent. Touring the country, Olson, tries to untangle the debate beginning his quest with his 82-year-old mother whose’s neighbourhood is the epicentre of controversy.

Turning the arclight on media and their role in war coverage, Shooting Under Fire by Sacha Mirzoeff is a riveting docu-drama that brings hazards of battle reporting focusing on the raging strife in West Bank & Gaza and how the media goes about impervious to the peril that dogs them.

Also on show are David Eckenrode, John Sheedy and John Eckenrode directed El Imigrante about the American and Mexican border crisis, illuminated by the story of a young Mexican migrant shot and killed during one of his journeys north, providing moving political commentary on the current state of border issues.

A Map With Gaps by Alice Nelson surreal and comic tale of a journey made by Nelson’s father through Soviet Russia in early 1970s in a van he built and Today’s Man by Lizzie Gottlieb about how her young brother, diagnosed with autism, struggles to go it on his own getting out of cosy coocoon of parental home and provides loving and personal portrait of one family’s journey and broader effort to understand this mysterious disorder. 

Screenings Fri to Sun, 6 pm, Centre for Film & Drama, V Floor, Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road. Entrance for members only.  Membership opens half hour before screening.