4th INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE FILM FESTIVAL-IFFF- 2021 January 8-9-10 INDIA-KERALA (Hybrid Film Festival) ------Organised by: Thrissur Chalachitrakendram- IFFT- Orange Film Academy-St.Thomas College, ICT Academy of Kerala, Naatukalakarakootam,Nehru Yuvak Kendra Supported by: Thrissur Jilla Panchayath-Kerala Folklore Academy-FFSI,Keralam- Kerala Chalachitra Academy ------Screen 1 – Medlycot Hall, St.Thomas College,Thrissur Screen 2 – Centre For Media Studies,Thrissur Screen 3 – Centre For Media Studies,Thrissur ONLINE Platform : ORANGE FILM ACADEMY & Research Centre,Kerala
Screen 1 – Medlycot Hall, St.Thomas College,Thrissur 2021 January 8 Friday Country-Title-Director-Duration-Language 10am • Argentina /Trash/Dir:Nicolas Jofre/02:52/English
A young man wakes up wanting to have dinner, but notices that there is nothing to eat because he is in extreme poverty, added to the fact that he suffers from a depression disorder, which does not allow him to be happy, his table is empty as well as his refrigerator teach you your true and unique reality, while your microwave will give you what you have been looking for a long time
• France/Cross and Banner/Dir:Jürgen Ellinghaus/54:15/German
Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, somewhere in the middle of Germany, celebrates its "Schützenfest", the traditional Marksmen's Festival. In 2008, Beverungen had the honour of hosting the annual festival of the “Confederation of Historical German Marksmen's Brotherhoods" with thousands of participants coming from all over the west of the country. The Marksmen Tradition has been recognised by the German UNESCO Commission as “intangible cultural heritage” in 2015.
• China /East Wind/Dir:Yuanhua Luo/06:09
In the Chinese context, “East Wind” can be interpreted as ”the coming of spring”. This film describes the process of winter to spring which compares the process to a baby growing up in a mother’s uterus. By depicting the microscopic perspective of the fetus slowly growing from a single point to complex tissues, it refers to the birth process of small lives in early spring. Those invisible changes like the east wind reflect the poetic nature of the process of spring new life from simple to complex And beauty. Those subtle changes like east wind represent the poetry and beauty of the process which is from complexity to simpleness of new life in spring.
• India /Vaishali Ki Nagarvadhu/Dir:Aditya Dhingra/04:57/Hindi
'Vaishali ki Nagarvadhu' is a painting by Madhu Gupta. Madhu Gupta has been a painter for more than 50 years. This film is an attempt to bring into limelight the dedication and perseverance shown by the artist throughout her life. The film is a short documentary. It reveals the story behind the painting - narrated by the artist herself. Through this film, the filmmakers pass the message to its audience to make good art. The painting is not an original.
• Bahrain /jeshoo/Dir:Mohammed Sudaif/16:23/Arabic
The film revolves around the character (Jishu), who is an Asian cleaner, as the film sheds the light on the suffering he encounters in his work, which consists of mistreatment, harassments, and abuse both physically and emotionally. The film features a purely humanitarian context as the film reviews a day in the shoes of Jishu’s, where we see his suffering as the film ends tragically.
12 Noon • Brazil /First Carnival/Dir:Alan Medina/05:00 A child experiences the magic of carnival for the very first time.
• Chile /Quele Quele/Dir:Pablo Mellado, Marianne Fuentealba/ 01:00:00/Spanish In the cultural manifestations of the north of Chile, within the diversity a red-skinned dance attracts attention, it is immediate to wonder why. The motivations tell an incredible story that goes back to the exploitation of saltpeter, its decadence and how image referents generate identity. "El Indio Piel Roja" is built on the imaginary from the western cinema, the adventures of the far west novels or the comic and the world famous Buffalo Bill show. They represented as Indians manifest their spirituality and indigenous identity assimilating the virtues of the American Indian, their wisdom, their connection with nature, their artistic manifestations and rituals to transform them into devotion to the Virgin of Carmen following a tradition of ancestral worship to the pacha mama that the process of syncretism transformed into the Chinita del Carmen de La Tirana. This documentary, more than telling a story, unfolds in photographing the desert and its beauty, a situation in which the Red Skins manifest spiritually surrounded by elements such as choreography, rituals, dances, music and the transformation of these people when putting on their clothes.
• Poland /In Chopin's Footsteps Through The Berry Region/Małgorzata Szyszka 31:27/English, French, Polish
Inspiration story of a French folk culture in the works of Frederic Chopin. Berry wandered into the region where Chopin stayed with George Sand in Nohant. Our quest was accompanied by the sounds of the artists participating in the Festival.
2pm • Brazil /Samsara/Dir:Stefano Capuzzi Lapietra/02:37/Portuguese
The search for a way out pointed him to the true path.
• Italy /Eporedia/Dir:Andrea Lazzari/20:00/Italian
Eporedia is a tribute to the value of the Carnival of Ivrea, whose spectacular traditions are today the symbol of the city itself. A great party that reflects a popular spirit handed down over the years, pushed over the strong smell of citrus that during the
demonstrations creates, in the squares, big orange carpets. A battle - that of the oranges- told by the two enemy factions, the citizens in revolt - "aranceri a terra” - and the weapons of the tyrant - “aranceri sul carro” - with the voice of the "Pantere Nere", the fair team of shooters whose colors recall the elegant exotic animal. Filmed entirely in the town of Piedmont, Eporedia retraces with refined meaning the moments of the Carnival Historic, recalling through its music and its colors, the atmosphere of a manifesto symbol of a part of the Italian historical memory.
• Macedonia/A Note/Dir:Gligor Kondovski/07:00/Macedonian
YAN (40) goes to the house of his deceased FATHER (70) and is reminded of the left photo and the dried apple in the room where he was born and lived. His father died of KOVID-19. Yan could not attend the funeral because he is in isolation due to the situation with the
KOVID pandemic. Unable to send his father in a dignified manner, he takes the photograph, as a kind of note from his time and throws it into the river for a final greeting.
• Netherland/The Craftsman,The Art of Henk ten Bos/Pau Han Kho/08:25/Dutch
Henk ten Bos (1921-1995) was an artist from Hengelo who painted at world level. From detailed military vehicles for Holland Signaal (nowadays called Thales Netherlands), to the most beautiful countryside of Twente. A nostalgic graphic story in his own words.
• Brazil/The Traditional Brazilian Family KATU/Rodrigo Sena/25:00/Portuguese
Produced in the year 2007, a photographic essay realized in recognition of the indigenous roots, portrayed twelve adolescents belonging to Eleutério do katu, RN Brasil. Twelve years later the photographer returns to katu in search of these protagonists, now adults, to know about his personal trajectories and his world views.
• Korea /Greening Korea: From Hadong /Dir:Finn Harvor/14:58/English, Korean A personal documentary about the agricultural life in Hadong-gun, the region of South Korea where my wife grew up. Filming was on the farm belonging to her family, and in the marketplace of the nearby town. Green tea production is particularly prevalent in Hadong. But its farmers are under extreme economic pressure. More than this, Koreans’ habits in terms of favored beverages are changing, and the popularity of coffee is having a severely detrimental effect on green tea sales. Kimchi, on the other hand, remains a staple of the Korean diet. And kimchi-making (kimchang) remains a traditional activity in most Korean households. Usually a group activity, after my wife’s mother’s death, my wife took this over duty solely. [Note: a .txt file transcript is available for translation] (Note: I have both 2K and 4K versions of this project.)
• India /The Saviour/Dir:Arjun Mukherjee/02:39/English
Based on a true story that happened in Nabha, Punjab. Sometimes the biggest crisis brings out the best in people. When you hear the whistle today, please know what to do. Here is the original video in Nabha Punjab where you can see how people giving their love and respect to the frontline worker
• India /Woven Lives/Dir:Ani Mank/12:53/Malayalam Neythedutha Jeevithangal - Ani Mank who narrated the life in Kuttanad with his previous creations 'Ithuvazhi' and 'Velicham' is trying to explore the price that ecosystem is paying for this tourism boom.
5pm - 6pm Inaugural Function Welcome: Dr.C S Biju,Director,Centre For Media Studies Presided by M K Varghese,Mayor,Thrissur Corporation Inauguration : Davis P K ,President,Thrissur Jilla Panchayath Chief Guest : C J Kutappan,President, Kerala Folklore Academy Chief Guest : VK Prakash,Filmmaker Festival Note:Dr.Aju K Narayanan,Festival Director E book Release :T Krishnanunny,Chairman Orange Film Academy K L Joy,Principal,St.Thomas College Felicitation : Cherian Joseph ,President,IFFF K G Pransingh,Secretary , IFFF Presence: Saju K V(Jilla Panchayath Member),Surjith (Jilla Panchayath Member) Vasanthan K V,Joint Director,Anuranj K B,Deputy Director(IFFF-2021) Ramesh Karinthalakootam, Shameer,Nehru Yuvak Kendra,Jos K A, Dr.Anandan Raghavan,Radhakrishnan A,
Inaugural Films 6pm -8pm • Chile/The Offspring/Dir:Javier-castro/51:00/Spanish
The Offspring is an experimental documentary that portrays Peruvian culture and its connection with the cosmos from a mythological, artistic and photographic perspective where the colors and shapes offered by Ayahuasca are taken on the screen. In the documentary a girl portrayed in a painting tells the story of the Andean spirit called "the offspring" who seeks her destiny in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
• Poland/Mexico awaiting for the souls of the dead/Małgorzata Szyszka/29:05Eng
MEXICO awaiting for the souls of the dead An anthropological and travel documentary reveals the secrets of the Saints' Day in Mexico. Our guide is a Polish anthropologist has been conducting research in San Cristobal de la Casa and Veracruz. It is a new film taken by Malgorzata Szyszka and Artur Socha in the form of travel and anthropological document. The private experience of the authors acquired during travel in combination with the knowledge of Polish anthropologist Witold Jacórzyński shows different world and customs. Owning to Witek and his friends we could know the religious rituals associated with the November 1, which were practiced by both group Mestizos and Indians from Chiapas and Veracruz. Film tells about construction of the altar, preparing special foods, the symbolism of opening the doors of the churches, ringing bells, dancing and singing. Accordance to the beliefs the death is a stage of transition from one life to another and a promise to return to earth. Men return as women, women as men. The Indians stand at least nine different underworld to which the souls of the dead go.
• Perumeen Package/Naatukalakarakootam/50:00
Screen 1 – Medlycot Hall, St.Thomas College,Thrissur 2021 January 9 ,Saturday Country-Title-Director-Duration-Language 10am • Mexico /The Butterfly's Utopia/Dir:MIguel J. Crespo/30:00/Spanish
Lucas Avendaño is the most important artist of the Muxe community. Poetry, dance and anthropology are the tools he uses to enunciate and express himself. Since May 10, 2018, his brother Bruno disappeared in a mysterious way. In Mexico are among 40 thousand missing persons. For Lucas, searching for Bruno is an utopia. • Mexico /TOCI our grandmother/Dir:Andrea Alvarado Sánchez/10:00/Spanish
TOCI is a documentary short film that exposes life in general of today's society: stress, fear, monotony and insecurity; proposing as an escape from our reality a prehispanic method with physical, mental and spiritual benefits: the temazcal.
• Moldova /CĂLĂRAȘI - A LAND BY THE GATE OF HEAVEN/Dumitru Grosei/ 52:00/ Romanian
The land of Călărași is a very special place. Even though the whole of Moldova is a really charming and beautiful place, Călărași stands out because of its location. The land is situated right in the middle of the
"Codrii" (ancient dense woods). This rich and beautiful location, has its own specific priorities: of history, culture, spirituality, ethnography, agriculture, crafts and customs, but also of using the ”Codrii” as a means of defense. Because of ”Codrii”, Calarasi was able to resist to all the barbaric invasions that happened in the past. Călărași is situated in the region of a great Basarabian cross, formed by four holy monasteries, Hârjauca, Frumoasa, Hârbovăț și Răciula. And if we look at the Basarabian (Moldovan) map, we can see this huge cross of these four locations.
• Poland/Video 96/Dir:Wawrzyniec Turowski/04:16
Have you ever wondered what you saw before you came into the world? A recovered video of soul travel.
12Noon • Ecuador /Hanan Hurin/Dir:José Cardoso/15:27 Meeting with the vortex Fragments of the whole Howl of Being
• Egypt/My grandpa is a troublemaker /Dir:menna elbezawy/08:40 A documentary about the great Egyptian writer Mahmoud El Saadany who was banished from writing in the era of president El Sadat and decided to leave the country with his kids
• Italy / Humanity /Dir:Vincenzo Lamagna/02:54/Italian
The Coronavirus pandemic is shaking the whole world but, moreover, it is testing the strength of the doctors, devastated especially by the extreme loneliness that surrounds the dying patients
• Greece /A Remedy for Envy/Dir:Nektaria Kapsala, Marion Reichstaler/12:15
This short documentary film explores α traditional spiritual phenomenon that has undergone a lot of changes the last years in Greece, in terms of belief and practice. The “evil eye” and all the myths and stories around it can be approached and perceived through many different perspectives. Many intriguing questions about different aspects of human interaction and institutions in the Greek Culture and Society, such as industry, religion, family, medicine and much more, arouse from the narratives of people we interviewed about that folklore topic. Considered as a superstition by most of them, the “evil eye“ still remains a deep part of the Greek Culture and brings up admiration and fear in their narrations about the “unknown” – even in the young generations.
• Iran /Without Ticket/Dir:Saba Ghasemi/29:00/Persian
• India /From Durga To Hudur Durga/Dir:Subhasish Christche/10:59/Bengali
Durga Puja is the biggest celebration among the Bengalis. A celebration filled with joy and happiness. But behind this, there's a sad story which is not known to the mass. An ancient native community who have been deprived by the powerful. Misrepresentation of historical events forced them to live under the shadow. Gradually they lost their culture, language and identity. Such community is Asur, who are based in Bengal and Jharkhand. Their leader Hudur Durga is misrepresented in the Hindu Mythology as Mahishasura and characterized as evil. According to this community, their leader was betrayed and murdered by a foreign lady called Durga. They were thrown out from their own land and their leader was portrayed as evil. During the four days of Durga Puja the Asur tribe mourns for their great loss. Living in their own country with an identity crisis is not letting them to come forward and tell their story. "From Durga To Hudur Durga" is based on the untold story of Asur community in India.
• Romania/Col & Ibri discover electricity/Dir: Cosmin Dolea/13:03
The film follows the story of two guys in an era where electricity is a new thing, shot with no budget in b&w this short movie takes the viewer on a time travelling experience you won't forget shortly
2pm • Peru /Amongst the Plants/Dir: Mark Lindenberg/33:35/Spanish
Entre las Plantas (Amongst the Plants) portrays a Peruvian Amazonian family living in the Ucayali region. Flor, Karina and Julio work and communicate with plants that according to their Asháninka culture have an elevated status of teachers. In their garden they cultivate medicinal plants to protect against negative energies and to heal their Peruvian and foreign clients. During the night, they sing to ‘the mother of all plants’, plant- teacher Ayahuasca, for her to visit, heal and to consult on how they can help their clientele. In their garden, which is a microcosmos in itself, good and evil seems in a constant duel as dangerous gorillas and snakes get contested by brave chickens and eagles. With patience the film-maker learns as an apprentice how plant, animal and human work together in this garden for his own and other’s healing process.
• Russian Federation /LAND OF KEREKS/Dir:Ivan Golovnev/26:00/Russian Film-essay bout the Kereks – the ancient people of the Arctic, the smallest ethnic group in the World, of which, according to the 2010 census, only 4 people left.
• Spain /Love in times of Covid/Dir:Andrea Alborch /01:38/Spanish Relationships are often complicated, and in extreme situations even more
• Turkey /A Section from Troy/Dir:Ülkü Sönmez/17:00/Turkish
Engin has lived near the ancient city of Troy for 46 years. He has been working as a worker in Troy excavations since 2000 and produces gift wooden horses as an additional job. Without realizing it, Engin lives with mythology and transforms mythology. Engin interprets the story of Troy, told by archaeologists and academics, according to himself. • United States /Meliae - Nature movie/Dir:Ramesh Kumar/09:14/English
In Greek mythology, the Meliae, or Meliai were nymphs of the ash tree. Movie starts with an eight year old boy getting attracted by the beautiful singing of a nightingale that draws him deeper into the forest. While looking for the nightingale he falls down and hurts his legs. A little girl comes to his help and they make friendship. Through their conversation, movie progresses and discusses some important topics like preserving nature. What the eight year old boy experiences in this exchange is a new appreciation of the things around us. In the end the little girl with the name Meliae becomes one with the nature. 4pm
• Peru /The Portrait Of Loneliness in Quarantine/Dir:Miguel Reyes/14:57/ChineseEnglish, Spanish His girlfriend has left him and he is in quarantine. Locked in his painful loneliness, Mateo, a young painter, seeks an escape on an online dating site. By mistake he meets Lily, a sweet young woman from China with whom he lives a tender friendship, without knowing that she is enduring the drama of a toxic relationship. Between talks and games, love arises in Mateo. He is determined to get on a plane and meet her. However, Lily is not ready for a love story. Malasia and Peru | 2020 | Made with iPhone 8 and iPhone XS | 15’ | 16:9 | Spanish, English and Chinese.
• Russian Federation /To kill a Man/Dir:Даниил Ющенко/23:20/Russian Screen adaptation of Jack London's story "To Kill a Man"
• Bangladesh/Nomadic Population (BEDE)/Md.Khairul Islam Tufan/32:00/Bengali The Nomadic Population or Gypsy Community is one of the mysterious communities of the world. The arrival of the Nomadic Population in Bangladesh, their way of life, movement, occupation, their history, the reason behind the declinations of their profession in the current science oriented world and the story of not being able to integrate with the general society of Bangladesh and finally, the authentic activities of the initiative taken by some people to give them opportunities in different professions in the general society of Bangladesh by showing them interest in various activities including helping them to come to the present society and improving their education is the tale of BEDE (Nomadic Population).
• India /Hitlerin kadaisi ninaivugal (Hitler's last memories)/Dir:Vigneshkumar B/ 19:01/Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
A drug addict named hitler tries to escape from rehabilitation centre with group of other patients. He regains the memories experienced in his past with kannagi. Atlast they all escaped or not?
------Screen 1 – Medlycot Hall, St.Thomas College,Thrissur 2021 January 10 , Sunday Country-Title-Director-Duration-Language
10am • Mexico /The Last Celebration/Dir:Adrián Ramos/16:52/Spanish
The patron Saint Festivities is the most important celebration of the year. Esther knows it and has a great hope to attend. Esteban, her husband thinks the opposite. The situation of the past involve a debate in this elderly couple to attend the celebration that can relive their relationship for the last time.
• Spain /FIRE EXTINGUISHER/Dir:Rodrigo Sopeña, Joana Solnado/05:00/Spanish
Milagros is obliged to install a fire extinguisher in her chapel. But first she will have to ask someone's permission... Rodrigo Sopeña ("Club Houdini", "Fermat's room") and Joana Solnado ("Morangos com Açúcar", "Paixão") present this unusual short film made during the workshop "Filming in Navarre with Asghar Farhadi" under the supervision of the Iranian filmmaker winner of two Oscar. Asghar Farhadi said: "I like it because it's a complete movie, and it's something new. It will please those who believe in God and those who do not".
• United Kingdom /Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stay Sane?/Dir: Nick Hales/03:05/Eng.
The slow decline of a worker over lockdown. A story that may, or may not echo my own days of the Covid pandemic in front of the computer screen...
• United States /iSalsa/Dir:Sandra Lena/07:00/English, Spanish Salsa a dance that build life-connections. iSalsa is short-form documentary that reflects salsa dancing as an element for breaking with cultural and social barriers. A documentary about Salsa and how this dance builds connections between people with an independence of their background, culture, race or age.
• India/In Search of Our Lost Rice Seeds/Dir:Suma Josson/39:47
This film is on the conservation of traditional rice seeds in the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka in India. Through these seed savers and those of scientists and environmentalists, the film looks at the ecological benefits of these paddy seeds and traditional knowledge systems. It also exposes the role played by Green Revolution in the gradual destruction of agro- biodiversity and economic practices, which has led to the agrarian distress faced by small farmers in India.
• Mexico /The empire of shadows/Dir: Carlox Cadena/08:03/Spanish
A man blames a doctor who sat next to him in the subway for infecting him with Covid-19. While he waits for someone to test him, he will be immersed in the anguish of truly having been infected.
• India/Theyyam/Dir:Jayan Mangad/20:00/Malayalam 12noon • Serbia /Dance For The Deceased Emilijan/Dir:Predrag
Todorović/39:13/Serbian Vlach Ethnic Community in Serbia preserves its language, material and cultural heritage for centuries. The dance for the dead (dat uora đi pomană) is only one of a series of autochthonous rituals by which the Vlachs cultivate the cult of the dead. • Turkey /Smirna'nın Çukuru/Dir: Çukurhattan/13:00/Armenian, Turkish
Izmir is a city that has hosted people of many religions and races throughout its history. But it has suffered many disasters throughout its long history. It was particularly shaken by fires. Undoubtedly, the 1922 fire is one of the most damaging of them, financially and spiritually. The 1922 fire started in the Basmane District of Izmir and one of the burning places is the Surp Krikor Lusavoric Armenian hospital. The grounds of the hospital, which was destroyed in the fire, are empty today and cannot be used. The land is named by names such as the pit of shame or the pit of Basmane. This land at the end of kültürpark was used as a bus station of Izmir during the Republican period, but was empty when the bus station was moved. As a land that has been auctioned many times, but cannot be placed on stone for various reasons, it has settled on the head of the people of Izmir. Çukurhattan about continued story of this land.
• Iran /Quarantine/Dir:arash payam/01:10
• United States /Everything I Wanted to Say/Dir:Clarisse Aruino /04:09/English
In the short personal poetic film "Everything I Wanted to Say", people will get to experience the internal struggles many women experience everyday. Clarisse Aruino shares her own thoughts through a poem touching upon body image and the objectification of women. In a world dominated by men, this short film hopes to amplify the voices of women, especially with a
Filipina background, whom are often silenced.
• United States /"Founders of Time" – Auramics/Dir:Kristi
Scarvelis/05:49/English
(Tick tock, tick tock. Tick tock, tick tock.) Being quite inspired by the electronic music pioneers Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire (the composer of Doctor Who's Theme Song) who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and their technique/medium of Musique Concrète, Radiophonics, Spoken Word and Hauntology, this video explores an aural and visual exploration into the medium using stop motion and layering techniques. The imagery, lyrics and music all created under the same lens to immerse the viewer in this fantastical, almost Alice In Wonderland-esque world. I hear the clocks, but I cannot find them. "Madness and Malaise" "The clocks they turn." "Founders of Time" is the music video for the New York/LA based duo Auramics that was directed/animated/edited by Kristi Scarvelis the singer/musician of the band.
• United States/ The Raven /Dir: Zachary James/21:42/English
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven brought to life as a short music film by Zachary James with a new score by Kristin Hevner
• Philippines/Playing Deaf/Dir:Arjanmar Rebeta/04:20 A man who has a strong hearing & realization to the world but gives no actions to real happenings.
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• Morocco /The Invisible/Dir:Reda Sabor, Hamza Makdoum/16:14/Arabic
Badr a young man of 25 lonely years, work as much as clown in the squares public by disguising themselves as Spiderman. He feels that he has no place in society. Because of her loneliness calls every day a show of radio, despair try to be commit suicide afterwards does not happen not hoping for more from life. After a day that goes very badly, he commits suicide. A girl who watches him every day dressed as Santa Claus, decide to visit him but too much late it's too late.
• Iraq /She was not alone/Dir:Hussein Al-asadi/08:48/Arabic Fatima, 50, lives unmarried and alone in the Iraqi swamplands and keeps buffalo, chickens, a kitten and other animals. She describes her lonely and often hard life, but she would never move to the city, as she would perish there like a fish out of water.
• Iran /Serok/Dir:Zhivar farajzadeh/05:00/Kurdish
Serok is a boy who helps her father in the summer. children are the most vulnerable group in society.who are exposed to direct influxes of disasters, pressures and problems of life caused by the elderly. Serok by Zhivar Farajzadeh Serok is a boy who helps his father in the summer, when school ends, to herd sheep. In his heart he dreams of leaving the countryside, becoming a policeman and catching thieves. The documentary by the very young Zhivar Farajzadeh, just fourteen, gives the floor to the protagonist who tells about his life as a child. The result is a tiptoe diary of his little existence made of fatigue, deprivation but also hope for a better future. Serok wants to talk about the extreme vulnerability of children in society: they are the most exposed to natural disasters, catastrophes and problems caused by adults. ZHIVAR FARAJZADEH He was born in 2006. He completed his cycle of elementary studies in the small town of Saheb, in Iranian Kurdistan. Serok is his second short film, which has already participated in more than fifty national and international festivals. Despite the scarcity of means and possibilities, both economic and material, Zhivar from an early age showed a keen interest in cinema and began producing his works with the support of his father. Zhivar aspires to become a great director and with his work he would like to contribute to supporting and helping the Kurdish people, offering opportunities for work and emancipation, especially for children. • India /The Fox of the Palmgrove/Dir:Divakar SK/08:56/English,German,Tamil
A random television visual triggers the memories of an old man in which we go through a sequence of random events that summarizes his entire life.
• Iran /Saffron Base Lifestyle/Dir:Parisa Bajelan/11:28/English
Saffron which it’s White bud & purple sprout, comes out of the soil at night and must be picked before sunrise so that the sun doesn’t fade its aroma. In this video, we tried to show you slices of this lifestyle in front of your eyes. This flower has a close relation to people’s lifestyle and is a symbol of collaboration between family members.
• India /Kalimaattam/Dir:Akhilesh Prabhakar /20:05/Malayalam
• India/Bamboo Ballads/Dir:Sajeed Naduthody/ 29:49/ Malayalam
Bamboo Ballads is a documentary that tells the story of a school student, Naina Febin, who is using music to conserve her favourite plant, bamboo. She plants bamboo saplings in every available space—school campuses, public areas, private compounds, and so on. She distributes bamboo saplings to the residents in her neighbourhood. Naina is even writing a book on bamboo. She has formed a bamboo music band that uses only instruments made of bamboo. She is the lead vocalist and the band has only one goal—spread awareness on bamboo conservation. The band performs folk songs from a bygone era when bamboo was the main building material and the mainstay of the rural economy. Naina wants to retrieve that bamboo culture, which is a route to sustainable development. Bamboo Ballads takes the viewer through a journey that covers the philosophy, myth and the heritage of bamboo and its importance in conserving the environment.
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• India /Uranjadunna Deshangal/N.E.Harikumar/58:24/Malayalam (Biopic)
5pm Closing Function
• India /Life in a Puppet/ Dir:Rajen Das/01:34:00/Assamese
Puppet theatre was a very important part of village life in India. Puppet artist spent their whole life in Puppet theatre without any profit. They sacrifice their life in a puppet .They are not rich.There are so many struggle factor in their life.But they love puppet and respect the art form. Satya Nath and his wife Urvashi is a puppet artist. Their daughter Rupali also love puppet. They are facing so many trouble in their life. But they are trying to continue their Puppet theatre. Satya Nath died without any medical treatments. They have no money. Rupali was declared witch -hunt by some anti social element. But at last Urvashi and Rupali able to arrange a Puppet show again. Folk art is root of our society. It never finished. Puppet art also never finished. Their life are connected in a Puppet.
4th INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 January 8-9-10 INDIA-KERALA (Hybrid Film Festival) ------Screen 2 – Centre For Media Studies, Thrissur 2021 January 8 Friday Country-Title-Director-Duration-Language 10am • Chile/Mi último Kajef/Dir: Matías Bravo Lar , Carlos Reyes Raffo/29:00/Spanish Eticia and Andrea accompany their father, a Kawéskar artisanal fisherman, to return to the navigation route through which their ancestors fished, hunted and lived. But a bad decision causes Ayayema, a powerful energy that inhabits the Jautok (inner channels), to become furious and makes them remain stranded there. This is how they spend their days faced with the beauty and hostility of the place, while they must search for water, firewood and food to survive. And at night, they talk and reflect on the damage that the salmon industry is doing to that ocean. This trip is a call to protect the Kawésqar territory and the life that inhabits it.
• Germany /A Universal Love Story/Dir:Natalie MacMahon/08:57/English
“A Universal Love Story” is a sci-fi drama in Esperanto about the possibility of finding love in an impersonal world in the distant future, where everyone is so focused on himself, that it seems almost impossible to connect to another person. All that’s left is the memory of love and the hope to experience it one more time. It seems that sometimes it takes a miracle from a different universe to start a revolution. Review of the film- "Largo Film Awards": Many things in human relationships seem strange and alien. Alien is a keyword here, explored by Natalie MacMahon in a very inspired and creative way. There is nothing more strange than finding love where it wasn’t before or seeing it fade and disappear knowing how deep it was in the beginning. From complete happiness to utter despair, "A Universal Love Story" reflects on the way these situations develop in a fictional setting still being developed: the future and its aesthetics, here seen in a very positive light. "A Universal Love Story" is different, is alive and is filled with hope. Romance can develop anywhere, and the beautiful future developed in the mind of MacMahon seems to be bright, social and positive, three things we should work hard to achieve by then.
• China /Living alone in the green hills and smoke/Dir:Xiao Hu/56:30/Chinese
On the border between China and Vietnam, there is a mountain called Yaohuang Mountain. The white seedlings on the top of the mountain have all been moved down the mountain, but Grandpa Wu and his wife still cling to the top of the mountain, living a traditional nomadic life, and their production and lifestyle follow the ancient laws of the nation. . Under the impact of China's modernization tide, the ethnic minorities were shattered and fragmented. They neither touched modernization nor lost their national roots. A couple like Wu Grandpa belonged to a small number of alpine white seedlings. They were the last family on the border of Demon Emperor Mountain in China and Vietnam to stick to the top of the mountain and maintain national traditions.
They work at sunrise and rest at sunset. They are very classical, philosophical and indifferent. Fame and fortune, tranquility and long-term, are not poverty living on the top of the mountain, but an attitude of pursuing nature, a philosophy of life in harmony between man and nature, and it is worth thinking about by people living in reinforced concrete. Tradition does not necessarily represent backwardness, and modernity does not necessarily represent advanced. The choice of lifestyle depends entirely on the state of mind.
12Noon • Italy /Plague 1984/Dir:emmanuele paudice/12:10/Italian
The year 1984 is running and the world is besieged by a contagion which occurred in a completely random way, time is running out and the human race is in danger of extinction. But will all this be real? or will it be just a fantasy of the director?
• Japan /Taka Kura Omega World/YOSHIMAX (Yoshimasa Higashi)/19:30/ Japanese
Taka Kura is fighting against the Time Emperor. Taka Kura found the ancient time machine in Italy, and he came to the world of the middle age Japan. Time Emperor was attacking the cities. Taka Kura will have the last duel against the Time Emperor.
• Iran /A Trivial Thing!/Dir:Seyed Morteza Sabzeghaba/12:23/Persian Ardalan, a young slightly deaf man, is working in a movie theater as janitor and operator. He wishes to play in movie and watch himself on the screen. • Indonesia /AMARTA (The Girl and Water)/Dir:Bambang Kuntara Murti/19:25
A city where its people are forced to buy water and work for a Boss who controls the springs. Water Goddess who is believed to be the guardian of the springs gives no answer to the problem. In the midst of misery and despair, a girl appears and tries to help free people from the Boss’s cruelty. Will the girl succeed in saving the people from the drought? What has happened between Water Goddess and the greedy Boss?
• India /They Are Dying/Dir:Dhananjay Bhawalekar/28:37/Hindi "They are dying....let us preserve them before their extinction".... a valid people's linguistic survey denotes that India boasts 780 languages, majority of which are unknown...let us conserve them through pictures and sounds...let us capture them in lenses to save dying cultures.
2pm • Brazil /Oríkì/Dir:Pâmela Peregrino/05:54/Portuguese
A poetics about death, disease and healing, to value and strengthen the worldview of the Traditional Peoples of Terreiro in a pandemic context.
• Chile /Patu - The Legend/Dir:Waitiare Kaltenegger Icka/50:00 A tale of two warrior brothers, Heru and Patu, haunted by female spirits, blinded by beauty, magic and their own pride, lament the terrible consequences of the spell.
• Czech Republic/The Treasure/Dir:Silvia Gregorova/24:52
Black comedy “The Treasure” was based the eponymous neorealist tale by Alberto Moravia from the collection “The Roman Stories (1954)”. The main impulse to write the script came from an actual article from the Czech tabloid about buried Jewish gold. The film takes place in a Czech town and tries bitterly to criticize the absence of piety and the persisting anti-Semitism hidden in some of us. The whole film is illustrated by the music of the Prague Yiddish band and photographs of the Jews.
• Iran /Nine/Dir:Behzad Yaghmouri/00:51/No Dialogue Nine is a mobile film for woman's rights in humans society that...
• Iran /Unfinished Game/ Mohammad Heydari Khalili /08:40/Persian
Due to the lack of human burial sites, such lands are turned into cemeteries.
• India /Harmonium/Dir:Jhanvi Gadhvi/05:17/Hindi
Raghu (19) is seen drying his mother’s saree outside his small house, in a small village. Raghu finishes doing that and taking his worn out bag, leaves. He is seen sitting, alone, under a tree, staring at the sky, and suddenly, two school girls who knows raghu, comes running towards him, they look excited. Raghu has a board behind him which says “harmoniyu seekhne aaye” meaning “come here to learn harmonium” and the spelling of harmonium is incorrect. The girls sit, and start humming, close their ears and flapping them in a way that makes a humming sound to them, and raghu is seen doing it and teaching it to them too, like some real class. The class finishes and one of the girls hands over a wrapped packet which has rotis (Indian bread) and jalebi (Indian sweet). Raghu sees and gets excited and they leave. While going back home, raghu sees a bunch of village boys playing cards, he sits in one corner, excited and looks at them, hoping he’ll be called but instead he is ignored by them completely. Raghu sighs and leaves slowly while looking at the bunch of boys having fun. Raghu reaches home, he gets inside and starts talking to his mom, saying he has got her favourite sweet as it’s her birthday today. He puts the sweet in the plate and goes near the mother, he is talking to her and as we slowly move back, he starts flapping his ears and humming a tune for her mother, we reveal an empty cot with raghu humming with his eyes closed.
4pm • Iran /Bride of the Forest/Dir:Iman Pourgholami Moghaddam/25:00/Persian
A little boy is looking for a young girl who is kidnapped by an old witch. Through his journey, the boy is faced with many challenges that he has to solve them in order to find his friend.
• Iran /The Little Plant/Dir:Komeil Soheili/18:24/Korean A little plant got lost on a remote and can't find any other plant that looks like. Talking with locals, including immigrants from Yemen who have recently resettled there, he gets to know new things about how their life got affected by climate change.
• Kuwait /The Mask/Dir:Ahmad Yousef/03:00/Arabic, English this short film takes place in a Mysterious society where everyone wears masks
• India "Pulluvan Paatu"/Dir:Anandan Raghavan/04:46/Malayalam An attempt of reviving our traditional Pulluvan Pattu to the current generation
• Iran/ Freedom/Dir:sadegh ghasemi/11:11 ------Screen 2 – Centre For Media Studies, Thrissur 2021 January 9 Saturday
10am • Turkey /Neither Far Nor Close/Dir:Muaz Gunes/19:36/Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish This documentary is about the disadvantaged groups of Syrian refugees such as children, women, elderly and disabled people who have taken refuge in different cities of Turkey. Through different stories, the documentary shows their endeavours of holding on to life. • India /We: The Broken Cogs In The Machine/Sonatan Karmakar/ 21:25/Bengali
In this time of rising fascism, what is the thought of young leftist art practitioners? Do they succeed? We also tried to find the answer through some young artists that can art be only practiced for art's sake or not.
• Turkey /Return/Dir:Selman Deniz/18:34/Armenian, Kurdish Eyüp crosses the mount Ararat and starts to look for his aunt in the Yerevan by following a mad man's words. Her aunt also expects someone to come from behind this mount for years. Eyup can not be sure about the one who he found behind the blue door, whether his aunt or not. Because they can't understand each others.
• Mexico /Resistencia/Dir:Salma Millán/24:40/Spanish A self-portrait narrated from episodes in adolescence, revisiting events and places where the author has lived, where space and non-physical presence approach the images to travel through different times within the movie. The present, memories and dreams, where a dialogue takes place between the author and her mother, with her sister, with friends, and at all times with the viewer.
• Iran /Forty keys/Dir:sadegh ghasemi/05:18/Persian Forty keys is a ritual ceremony which is accomplished in some areas of iran n among of Iranian culture, forty keys has sanctity Based on their beliefs, mentioned water which is utilized to the bath of newborns, cause purification and clearness for babes.
• India /The Grey/ Dir:Amudhan R P/08:03 There is grey everywhere.
• Argentina/Kakuy/Dir:Ramyro-caporin/7’/Spanish A young watchmaker's apprentice, who works with his grandfather, is transported to a river after winding an old gold watch. There he meets Mother Earth in the form of a girl, who, by singing a couplet, induces the young man on an astral journey through the north of Jujuy where he will discover a desperate truth.
12Noon • Tunisia /Earth is home/Dir:noomen noomen/07:58/Arabic,English,Persian
Coronavirus has spread around the world until the period of global quarantine that allowed people around the world to stay at home and then go back in time 1920 about the forgotten Spanish flu whose victims were most affected by COVID-19 in the end we learned that the coronavirus has no limits in Our world, Earth is becoming less polluted and we need to protect it because Earth is our home.
• Mexico/Ahuaques, the water elves/Aarón Álvarez,Saudhi Batalla/20:00/Spanish
The grandparents of Santa Catarina del Monte in Texcoco narrate in Nahuatl and Spanish some stories and beliefs of the children of the god Tláloc, known as Ahuaques. With roots in the land, they visit the elves in the bowels of the river where they make an offering of request for rain and protection.
• India /Outsider/Dir:Sathwik Hande P S/06:51/Kannada Urban themed documentary short film about people who migrate to cities for employment
• Japan /Her Voiceless Song/Dir: Nobuyoshi Suzuki/14:02/Japanese The first video work by Nobuyoshi Suzuki who directed, animated, screenplay, music, sound design, and edited all by himself.This work depicts the heavy subject and sin of having a dog.I would like many people to see my work, but especially those who have dogs, people who want to have dogs, and people who have had dogs before.
• India/ Inside/Dir:Remya Rajeev/03:41/Malayalam
The story is about a boy Mathu, who ventures on his own in a dreamland on his visit to temple with his mother.
• India /Kafir/Dir:Remya Rajeev/05:31/Malayalam Kafir is a docu-fiction that explores the Kappiri myth of Fort Kochi, Kerala. In the film, an attempt to dig the real history behind African slaves brought in by the Portuguese is made. How a slave from Africa became the savior spirit of Fort Kochi is the question the story teller tries to crack open. In short, it's all about History, Myth, and Mystery behind the Kappirimuthappan of Fort Kochi.
• Indonesia /Lockdown/Dir:Daffa Amrullah /10:00/ English, Indonesian
'Lockdown' gives a clear visual of how the people of Jakarta struggle to celebrate Ramadan as a special month for its majority in the middle of a pandemic.
• India/ Oorali/Dir:Arjun P S/14:16/Malayalam A musical documentary on the musical band oorali who sings songs for the common man
• Spain /Exhalation/Dir:Al Díaz/14:56/English,Spanish
We come to the world with an exhalation and we leave it with another one. Everything in between is a frenetic, shuddering sigh, a brief transit in the act of living. A casual coincidence of the union of two cells, whose final outcome is death.
2pm • Russia/Architecture Of The Blockade/Dir:Maxim Yakubson/01:20:00/Russian The documentary film tells about the feat of inhabitants of Leningrad, the work of architects and alpinists, the disguise of the city and the preservation of monuments. Thanks to the unique chronicle, drawings and photographs, eyewitness accounts and analysis of historians, fragments and motifs of the play "Hecatomb. The Siege Diary" the film rediscovers the events of the terrible and holy days of the siege of Leningrad.
4pm • Argentina /The roads of Cuba/Dir:Luciano Nacci/01:11:00/Spanish
The roads of Cuba is a documentary that seeks to rescue the voice of some people who tell us the day to day of their country and the great transformation that has been carried out in Cuba for a few years. These characters open their history and allow us to participate in it, they speak of their passions, their loves, their sorrows. All of them with different histories and cultural backgrounds but all crossed by the revolutionary struggle and Cuba.
• China /Du Jie/ Dir: Xiao Hu / 16:22 The Landian Yao nationality is a branch of the Yao nationality, calling itself "Men" and "Golden Gate". The Landian Yao is an ethnic group that lives deep in the mountains. Lan Dianyao called "zaisei", and it is one of the most important rituals in Lan Dianyao's life. It is to make Lan Dianyao youth into a qualified and complete Lan Dianyao male. The author believes that Lan Dian Yao’s ritual not only has the characteristics of adult ceremony, but also a tool of Lan Dian Yao ethnic identity. It is the foundation of Lan Dian Yao’s religious activities and the core religious ceremony in Lan Dian Yao’s social culture. An orderly life becomes possible. The ritual of salvation is closely related to the social life of the Lan Dianyao. The salvation ceremony is the result of the continuous creation of religion, culture, system and social process by the Lan Dianyao in the overall social environment. Under the impact of random urbanization, a large number of young and middle-aged Lan Dianyao men go out to work in order to live their lives. They also like some fashionable elements. However, the village is always their final place of belonging. Land settled and lived, the wandering and nomadic Lan Dianyao combined ritual and religion to form a ritual of salvation. Sometimes, can Mandarin really replace the emotional effects of national languages? Sometimes, the staggered heights of brick houses can really replace the ethnic memories of the smooth and flat wooden houses? Sometimes, the man, the mountain and the dog, really can't resist the mechanical temptation of reinforced concrete?
------Screen 2 – Centre For Media Studies, Thrissur 2021 January 10 sunday ------10am • Mexico/ The Valley of stone rivers/Dir:Pablo Benjamín Nieto Mercado/ 01:22:08/ Spanish Around the beginning of the twentieth century, most of the rivers and lakes of Mexico City were transformed into roads, subway stations and public spaces. This documentary delves into the experiences of four older people whose lives were marked by the rivers, lakes and canals of Mexico City, when water was much more present in the metropolitan area than it is today. We seek to narrate how we have lived and coexisted with water, through the eyes of those who have witnessed the profound transformations of a capital which slowly drained away its water and replaced it with layers of concrete. The multivocal narrative will map the fading memories of our characters, juxtaposing everyday stories of water depletion in Mexico City. 12Noon • Greece /Rigors (Rigi)/ Dir:Yannis Bletas/01:20:45
ENG Rethymno is a place of history, of Venetian and Turkish decorations. A city of nobility and culture. A city of tradition. But there is another side to the city. The dark one. Stories that are true, others that are fictional. And some that are both.Stories, events that will give you the shivers, namely “Rigors” ITA Rethymno è un luogo di storia. Una città di nobiltà e cultura. Una città di tradizione. Ma c'è un altro lato della città. Quello scuro. Storie, eventi che ti daranno i brividi, vale a dire "Rigors". link per il video sottotitolato in italiano - ----> https://vimeo.com/427404312 PASSWORD: premiere17
2pm • China /Lan Ding Yao (change)/Dir:Xiao Hu/01:37:40
In Guihuotun, Guiliu Village, Baisheng Township, Napo County, on the Sino- Vietnamese border, a traditional Landian Yao traditional folk wedding will be held soon, and the changes and changes will be in it. Lan Dian Yao is one of the 36 branches of the Yao nationality, and Gui or Tun is a typical Lan Dian Yao village. There used to be traditional warriors who beat tigers, national artists who danced gods, superb Yao doctors who healed illnesses, anthologies of chanting in Yao language, and the melodious children of folk songs... But these are hard to trace now, with the generations As people age, the cultural traces attached to people are slowly erased by time. This is very distressing, and a traditional wedding that is rarely held seems to be telling the story of the past and evokes a certain na tional psychological resonance. It is unknown how long this resonance can last in the hearts of the younger generation. In the entire wedding process, the ceremony and procedures are particularly important, and the Taoists who implement the procedures and ceremonies are very prominent, and they have the final right to interpret each procedure and ceremony. On the other hand, this power of interpretation has a certain degree of influence and can cover middle-aged and elderly groups relatively, but young people are more likely to accept modern media's interpretation of themselves and society. Even the middle-aged and elderly people with the right to interpret have gradually stepped into the interpretive terms of the modern media, and money is the core interpretation. Deng Renzhi, a Taoist worker on the bridegroom's side, and Deng Zhigang, a Taoist worker on the bride's side, demonstrated the charm of money. At the same time, the bride is usually very open, often discussing sexual topics with children about pregnancy and abortion at the age of 16, dropped out of school in the third grade, and is 20 years old this year. This marriage is an unmarried first pregnancy (second pregnancy); the groom is 30 years old, No fixed occupation. The bride’s family did not agree to the marriage between the two. This contradiction broke out over the weight of the pork. Forcible marriage caused by premarital sex has impacted the traditional ideas of the older generation. The whole wedding presents this ethnic group's active or passive involvement in the masses that extend from individual activities to collective carnivals in the villages. It also interprets the silent changes in facts. How to characterize this change will be evaluated by time. .
4pm • Ukraine /Ancestral Code/Dir:Volodymyr Lutskiy/ 01:10:00/Belarusian
Documentary film «Ancestral Code» is a research of the origins of the Ukrainian people, the search for its identity through the study of the melodism of Slavic ethnographic heritage. Now many talk about brotherhood, spiritual intimacy, affinity. We want to analyze the connection between the neighboring peoples of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus and Poland through music and folklore.
4th INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE FILM FESTIVAL-IFFF- 2021 January 8-9-10 INDIA- KERALA (Hybrid Film Festival) ------Screen 3 – Centre For Media Studies, Thrissur 2021 January 8 Friday Country-Title-Director-Duration-Language
12 Noon • India /Koothu/Dir:Sandhya Kumar/52:41/English,Tamil
Koothu is a popular form of rural theatre from Tamil Nadu in which elaborately dressed performers bring to life stories about kings and demons from the Indian epics. Despite its rural popularity, because of its low-caste associations, koothu struggles to find place and patronage in urban art circles. The film Koothu delves into these questions of representation and patronage while presenting the art and aesthetics of the art form. • Ireland/The King of the Claddagh/Dir:David Souto/06:30/English
In the old Claddagh fishing village, the King was just another fisherman elected by his briny prowess. The King of the Claddagh offers a short glimpse of this unique part of Galway City in the past and the present. The film is guided by the reflections of Michael Lynskey, accompanied by the voice of Margaretta D’Arcy reading from original new writings by Paedar O’Dowd. Sweeping contemporary footage is coupled with archival images of this special place, where the menfolk farmed the sea and not the land, while the women sold the catch and the gleaming Claddagh rings.
• Indonesia/ Simfoni Reformasi/ Dir:Daffa Amrullah/14:59/Indonesian 23 and 24 September 2019 there were large demonstrations by students in front of the DPR Building which led to riots around Jakarta. Chants of criticism, yells of unity, and curses are one of the atmospheric lives that buzz throughout the big days. The unity of the aspects echoed like a symphony that was lilting amidst student riots, invisible but felt vibrations like a spirit that enlivened the demonstration at that time. In that event I captured all the audio-visual elements as well as the real experience and constructed them with the spirits I felt that day.
• Hungary/ Abnormal/Dir:Arpan Kapadia/ 06:05/English
• Vietnam/ Running Out of Mime/ Dir: Minh Ngo/ 02:00 A man's strange encounter with a mime in the middle of the night.
• Bangladesh/The Endless Circle/Dir: Arunav Belayy/07:36/ Bengali A docu-fiction based on anti-rape movement in Bangladesh 2020. This is a story of a departed and unknown times.
2pm • Coloumbia/Nakua pewerewerekae jawabelia/ Hasta el fin del mundo/Dir:Margarita Rodriguez Weweli-Lukana , Juma Gitirana Tapuya Marruá/16:00
Video experimental, part of the project UNID @ S AGAINST THE COLONIZATION: MUCHOS OJOS, UN SOLO CORAZÓN, that mixes the languages of documentary and fiction in addition to three languages: sikuani, Spanish and Portuguese. Made from the meeting of differences between the governorate Margarita Rodriguez Weweli-Lukana of the Sikuani El Merey-La Veradita Reservation and the urban alienia, in the process of cultural recovery, Juma Gitirana Tapuya Marruá, originating from the regions that have passed, after the Colonization, to be called respectively Colombia and Brazil. This video was a ritual attempt to heal the colonial pains, those open wounds that still hurt us all, human and nonhuman: natures of Abya Yala.
• Cuba/ Light upon Light/ Dir:Amir Aether Valen/ 06:45 /Arabic
"Light Upon Light" is sensorial short film consisting of the thoughts and abstractions of the archangel Azrael, or Malak-al-Maut as he is identified in Arabic culture, following his travels through the celestial and terrestrial planes before he takes a soul to the afterlife.
• Portugal/ Passing by Ze Marovas/Dir: Aurora Ribeiro/ 30:00/Portuguese Every tourist coming to Portugal throuhg Badajoz had to pass by the door of Zé Marovas. He managed to find a way to call their attention and make them stop by his store. Now that a new highway has been built, he can wait hours for a customer. But people and cars keep passing by and Ze Marovas keep passing all his time in his corner shop.
• India/ The Mirror/ Dir:Amudhan RP/09:04 / No Dialogue As it rains, the floor opens up! A new world is on a display
------Screen 3 – Centre For Media Studies, Thrissur 2021 January 9 Saturday 10am • Egypt /The Farrier/Dir:Moataz Khaled/00:04:36/Arabic Waled El Betar works as a farrier. He loves this craft passionately to the extent that he never minds about its dangers. He believes that by being a farrier, he helps horses and prevents them from being severely injured. Unfortunately, although farrier craft is of great importance, it is still not known to many people.
• Russia/Shaman’s Dream /Dir:Yulia Solntseva/21:10 The documentary film " Shaman’s Dream" is a visual immersion in the matter of the dream of the Shaman of the "Spirit" tribe - the reindeer herders living in the Sayan mountains on the territory of Mongolia.
• Iran /Be mine/Dir: Yasin faghiri /19:02/Persian Love or lust ? Love for revenge !
• India /I Want My Father Back/Dir:Suma Josson/50:57/Marathi This is a film on the suicide of farmers in Vidarbaha, Maharashtra, India.
12 Noon • Iran /Gelak/Dir:Siroos Kaffash/:12:00 This the soil of my land , don't take it from me!
• United Kingdom /The Doxey Boggart/Dir:Jonathon Watkiss/01:18:00/English Set within a nature reserve called Doxey Marshes, the film is a semi-documentary which follows a group of people investigating the local legend. From an experimental sound artist with his guide dog to his fellow esoteric associates, they seek to uncover the truth about a ‘boggart’ (an evil or mischievous spirit) that is associated with the area. Director John E Smoke is the aforementioned sound artist and has performed in many unusual locations including abandoned buildings and a set at Mermaid Pool in the Staffordshire Moorlands. During one particular session of his there were claims of a ghostly image being caught on film which went viral online and featured widely in press at the time. The film mixes a slim ‘plot’ with real-life elements as the musicians perform a set on Doxey Marshes during which a folk poem about a boggart is recited. At first nothing untoward happens but after the disappearance of a mother and child “the team are left wondering if the recital has brought something to life”. Following their investigations the film includes field recordings and footage and borrows from 'actual' local folklore relating to 'boggarts', 'bugs' and other entities.
2pm • India /YAYA(The Mother)/Saumya Sharma/01:47:11 It is an ethnographic film on Gonds of Bastar in Chattisgarh India, one of the largest indigenous groups of South Asia. The ancestry of this tribe can be traced to early African humans through various anthropological elements, as also showcased in the film.It is a nearly comprehensive study on the Gond Tribes of Bastar done via participant observation and quasi participant observation to put across an amalgamation of emic as well etic perspective via the audiovisual tools of filmmaking, presenting a social science objectivity from the POV of subject matter hypothesis of Gond culture and culture of ethnographic filmmaking. The film includes various elements that constitute a culture of an indigenous group, such as history, rock paintings, livelihood, music & dance, education system, birth/marriage/death ceremony, ancestral spirit calling etc.
4pm • Argentina /RICARDO VILCA -Quebrada, Música y Silencio/Dir: Javier García/02:03:00/Spanish
In Humahuaca, the family of the composer Ricardo Vilca, continues the tradition of organizing a cultural meeting that the artist began years before his death. From the same, the documentary reconstructs the life of this particular musician, who broke the limits of folklore; that left its mark as a rural teacher; and that he fought against the prejudices of his peers, creating a unique poetic and sonority.
------Screen 3 – Centre For Media Studies, Thrissur 2021 January 10 Sunday Country-Title-Director-Duration-Language
10am • Iran /QABAN (Wild Boar)/Dir:Sajjad Saghafi Rad/01:10:10/Azerbaijani A man who try to remember his past life by hunting animals , he remember his past but he forget his real character. it's in Azeri language
• United Kingdom /Talamanca/Dir:Davide Marino/22:42/Spanish
There is a sound echoing across the forest of Talamanca. It triggers the extraordinary in the ordinary universe of Justo, BriBri farmer, father and adventurer. It is the blow of the here and the now, the quintessence of what is alive that expands a story made by imaginative materialities enshrined amidst Earth’s liveliness and indigenous worldly epic. A film on the BriBri present in Talamanca, on its restless awakening and its companion wonders.
12noon • India /KAYIRU/Dir:I. Ganesh/02:00:00/Tamil Chinrasu is a Boom Boom Bull Man who has been wandering to the nearest villages with his bull and earned money by telling prediction to the people. At one stage he was forced to leave the village against a crime for which he is not responsible. He moved to a village Thatchakudi situated far away. There he met a girl named Thamarai and both were become lovers. Thamarai’s mother insisting Chinrasu to come out of the Job of telling predictions what he is doing using bull. He denies to leave the job by telling that his job is our culture based and I cannot leave the job for sack of love with thamarai. He loves his bull and job as his as equal to his life and also reveals to society that killing of bull is sin. Wheather his thoughts are succeeded and got married Thamarai or not is the subject matter of this film.
2pm • Iran /Nargese mast/Dir:Jalaleddin dorri/01:38:00/Persian Music is my word , traditional Iranian music is my love .
4pm • India /The Call Of Khandadhar Hills /Dir:Tarun Kumar Mishra/26:53
The Call Of Khandadhar Hills Situated on the borders of Keonjhar and Sundergarh districts of Odisha, the Khandadhar hill range is known for its beautiful bio-diversities and rich mineral deposits. The jewels in the crown of Khandadhar, its two huge waterfalls have given it a good place in the national and international tourist maps. One can locate one waterfall in the Banspal block of Keonjhar district while the other one could be seen in the Bonai block of Sundergarh district. When the Sun shines and falls on the waterfalls surrounded by dense forests from all sides, it gives the look of a sword with a very sharp edge. This is the reason why the waterfalls are known as Khandadhar (Edge of a Sword). Sometimes one may also find a number of rainbows over the fall under the reflection of the Sun. These magical beauty spots do attract tourists from across the state throughout the year. Khadadhar has also got another unique identity. It is known as the habitat of the primitive indigenous tribes-the Paudi Bhunyans who have a wonderful sense of coexistence with other living beings. There are more than 50 perennial streams, more than 15 water ponds and vast open fields do attract thousands of migratory birds from across the country in the winter. The animals do also find it as a good place for grazing. Places around it are known for citrus cultivation such as bananas, guava, lichi and crops like paddy attract elephants to the area. There is another side of the story. Large-scale mining has been happening in Keonjhar and Sundergarh for the last 100 years. The nature and ecology have suffered the worst and stories of forcible displacement of innocent tribes have been shocking. While the water resources including the ground water table are on the decline and have been badly polluted, the tribal population is also on the decline in Keonjhar. For the first time in history Keonjhar has reported migration of tribal population in search of work to unknown territories. Their major source of livelihood has been badly affected and the voiceless wild animals are also fast disappearing. Khandadhar along with all its dependent humans, animals and plant species is facing a new challenge because of the apprehension of more aggressive mining in future. This has led to further apprehension that the Khandadhar waterfalls will face extinction because of mining. A major source of River Brahmini may dry up. In addition to this the primitive tribe Paudi Bhuniya, Mundas and other forest dependent poor may be driven out from their safe heaven. Their rich culture, heritage, everything dear to them will carry no meaning for the bulldozers of the company. Laws of indian state like PESA or FRA 2006 where consultation with village councils is must for any project is seldom respected. The fear and apprehensions are not unfounded. Because of earlier mining activities several perennial streams have dried up. OMC has captured the water sources and deprived the Paudi Bhuniyas of regular cultivation. Even drinking water has been denied to them. These tribes are being forced to leave their villages. The Paudis are known for shifting cultivation. Whereas the state holds them responsible for destruction of forest, they and experts doing study on shifting cultivation say the contrary. They say it helps in regeneration of forest. Their culture has been built up around shifting cultivation. The film captures the images, the live stories surrounding these images, the helplessness of the laws made, the constitution that works or does not work, the forces that govern in spite of established constitutional provisions, the rich ecological economies, the abode of peace, non- violence in real sense of the words before all of them become part of a history. The narratives recorded in the film may also inspire a new discourse on ecology and men.
• Iran /The Other /Dir:Ako Zandkarimi , Saman Hosseinpour/24:42/Persian A teenager lives with her dad in the small village of Kurdistan. After her mother dies, her father discovers secrets that change the way he looks at his daughter.