The ViBGYOR Film Festival celebrates the vagaries of identity and the richness of its embodied diversity in the festival of short and documentary films held every year in Thrissur, Kerala.

The Second Edition of ViBGYOR will be held from 10 -13 May 2007. The four-day Film festival invests not just in the banquet of films of value and sense but strive to make the event a rich visual and intellectual experience in interfacing with filmmakers, activists, peoples' movement leaders and academicians from as divergent streams of life and activities. The marked difference from the last year is the absence of the competition section. Instead, we are introducing the 'Festival to the People', creating an additional venue in a rural area next to Thrissur town, where screenings and interaction with the filmmakers will be interspersed.

ViBGYOR Package will have seven themes like `Indigenous People', `Dalit Reality', `Gender & Sexuality', `Fundamentalism v/s Diversity', `Nation State', `Globalization' and Country/Region focus. Seven films each will be selected for each catagory. `Earth' will be the theme for the Focus of the Year 2007. The festival will start with a national conference on the same theme. Apart from the above two packages, there will be Short Fiction, Music Videos, Animations and Spots, a `Kerala Spectrum' and as usual the Retrospectives. The other features include Open Forum every day and a film market.

Focus on the Global South has entered 2 of its documentaries at the festival:

i. WTO HONG KONG DEAL: WHY IS IT REALLY BAD FOR YOU? April 2006
This video from Focus on the Global South explains what happened at the 6th WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong, what the elements of the BAD DEAL are and what we can do about it. The video explains in simple terms how there is no development in this supposed development round. It also shows the massive resistance the peoples movements showed in Hong Kong and how we can still stop this round from being concluded.

ii. A WORLD WITHOUT THE WTO. November 2006
Focus on the Global South presents life without the WTO. This provocative and inspiring video answers questions about life in a post-WTO era and invites you to imagine a world without the WTO.  The past three videos all talked about how and why the WTO is BAD for you and on development and the majority of the world's people and what could be done about it. This latest video goes beyond that and instead presents the many alternatives to the WTO and how the world will be better off without the WTO.

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