Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality would like to invite you to a screening of Maagh: The Winter Within, a film by notable filmmaker and actor Aamir Bashir. Starting at 11 am on Saturday, 12 April, the screening of the film will be followed by an exclusive Q&A session with Aamir Bashir. The venue for the event is AC-03, LR-003.

The film follows Nargis, who searches for her husband Manzoor in the city of Srinagar, until she is forced to hopelessly return to her village home. With a little help from a local man Yaseen, she silently toils away on an exquisite weave. But the quiet of the Kashmiri winter is like the silence of the graveyard, waiting to be shredded by what lies buried within.

The film touches on the disappearances of thousands of Kashmiri men, and a struggle for self-determination. ‘Maagh (The Winter Within)’ is his second film after his directorial debut ‘Harud (Autumn)’ (2010) which premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Urdu in 2012.