Are You Home?

8220;The filmmakers present their perspective of what home is,8221; says Ali Zaidi, creative director of 60215;60, who wanted to 8220;focus on creative exchange between Britain, India and Pakistan8221;. The project began last year with calls for entries. 8220;We received 55 proposals from India, 47 from Pakistan and 49 from Britain,8221; he says.

Arif, 30, vents her anger through a story of a young model who is relentlessly questioned by the police after finding a picture of her against the Twin Towers. 8220;Once, we were what we thought we were. Then 9/11 happened, and how we looked at ourselves became different from how others looked at us. Even in our own home ground, we8217;re under constant surveillance,8221; says Arif. The spectre of terror shadows another Delhi filmmaker. Ritu Datta8217;s film We Do follows the drama of hatred through the moods of a Kathakali dancer. Twenty-somethings Neel Chaudhuri, Samar Grewal and Kartikey Shiva, meanwhile, confront a motorist8217;s fear on the Capital roads. 8220;In a city like Delhi, our fears and insecurities come alive when the road becomes a landscape of uncertainty,8221; says Chaudhuri. The film, Man on the Road, is a photorama, a series of spliced photographs taken on winter nights at Connaught Place and near Khan Market.

But it is not just terror 8212; or the absence of it 8212; that defines home. British director Said Adrus8217;s film Homebound shows his mother in her Swiss home, constantly surfing channels for Hindi films and soaps. Hers is a journey that began in a Gujarati village and the 80-year-old is still looking for a place called home.

Screenings of the films are on at Islamabad and London. A special screening was held at Delhi colleges in September, but an official premiere is planned later this year in the Capital.