Kashmir film festival shares experiences of its people

A three-day film festival, featuring documentaries on Kashmir, hopes to highlight the actual situation prevailing in the state.

The 17 films to be screened aim to share the experiences of people living in Kashmir in the backdrop of politics, history and conflict.

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"We realized its high time that we just put all of this together because each film coming out of Kashmir is talking about a point of view which is very different from the other and it is important that we as a society get to see these seven, eight, ten and twelve films together and get all these divergent points of view. There is not just one point of view, there are multiple narratives coming out of Kashmir," said Pankaj Rishi Kumar, a documentary filmmaker.

"I feel this is quite a sincere effort by Ajay Raina. The LOC, line of control, we did not know what is happening there. We came to know about the borders, what is the human life there, we could see that and of course the sceneries and the beauty of Kashmir we could see there," said a visitor, Asha Saxena.