Sep 03 2025 to Sep 03 2025 7 p.m.

Where

Sabha Blr

No.44/A, Kamaraj Road, Bharati Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru 560042

Event Description

Time & Location
03 Sept 2025, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Bengaluru, 262, Kamaraj Rd, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560042, India

About the event
Vikalp Bengaluru presents

ಸಂಗಮ Sangama | coming together

A film by Sunanda Bhat

Produced by CeMIS in association with Songline Films

67 mins | Germany, India | 2025

Kannada, English, Hindi with English subtitles

About the film: 

A behind-the-scenes look at how a people’s movement against divisive politics, takes on an authoritarian party in power in the Indian Election-2024. Eddelu Karnataka unites with citizens’ groups across India, dramatically shifting conversation from ‘mandir’ to ‘mudda’, making this a closely fought election.

Commissioned by the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen, Germany, the film is part of ‘Election Diaries 2024’, nine election campaigns filmed across India that celebrate the hope and resilience of Indian democracy.

Filmmaker Sushma Veerappa will be in conversation with the film-making team and members of Eddelu Karnataka after the screening.

Sunanda Bhat

Sunanda is a documentary filmmaker and founder of Songline Films (songlinefilms.com). She takes a patient, unhurried approach to making films, allowing stories to unfold in layers that reveal the resilience of people and the subtle transformation of their environment.

Her documentaries have screened at several international and Indian film festivals and won awards, prominent ones being - ‘Monde en Regards’ at the Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris; Planet in Focus Film Festival, Toronto, Golden Conch for Best Documentary at the Mumbai International Film Festival, John Abraham National Award for Best Documentary. Her film ‘Ningal Aranaye kando?’ | ‘Have you seen the arana? featured at Musée de l’homme in Paris and was part of the ‘India Film Week’ at Metropolis Kino, an art-house cinema theatre, in Hamburg, Germany. 

She was an artist-in-residence at the Pepper House Residency hosted by Kochi-Muziris Biennale and is an active member of Vikalp Bengaluru, a collective of filmmakers that screens the best in non-fiction cinema in the city.

Sushma Veerappa

Sushma has engaged with the world of filmmaking as sub-editor of a film quarterly, conceived and executed a film education programme for school children, and has worked in various aspects of filmmaking over the years. She is founder-member of film collective, Vikalp Bengaluru. 

Currently, she is focused on understanding decentralised systems of production in the land-to-loom value chain with naturally coloured brown cotton, through Kandu (https://kandu.in/).

About Vikalp Bengaluru:

Vikalp Bengaluru is a collective of documentary filmmakers screening the best in non-fiction films in Bengaluru for over two decades. We intend to cultivate a strong, vibrant community of documentary enthusiasts in the city.

https://vikalpbengaluru.weebly.com/