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Chairman & Festival Director: Vice-Chairperson & Artistic Director: Bina Paul Secretary & Executive Director: Mahesh Panju Treasurer: Santhosh Jacob K Deputy Director (Festival): H Shaji Deputy Director (Programmes): N P Sajeesh Programme Manager (Festival): Gopeekrishna S Programme Manager (Finance): Sajith C C Programme Manager (Programmes): Vimal Kumar V P Print Unit Coordinator: P S Siva Kumar Programme Assistants: Tony Xavier, Saiyed Farooq Festival Assistants: Madhavi , Sree Vidya J Cashier: Manu S T Festival Cell: Mary Ninan, Rijoy K J, Sarath M, Abhilash N S, K Harikumar, Shiju Lukose, Jaya L, G Sasikala, K Velayudhan Nair, K John Kurian, Lizy M, Nishanth S T, Shamlal S, Nithin, Abdulla K, Manu Madhavan, Naveen L , K Venukuttan Nair, Vijayamohan B, K Ravikumar, Arun R, A Maheshkumar Design: Priyaranjanlal FESTIVAL BOOK Chief Editor: Mahesh Panju Executive Editor: H Shaji Associate Editors: Vinayakumar V, Sooraj S Word Processing & Page Setting: Sivaprasad B Academy is grateful to various journals, festival publications, film festival websites from which we have borrowed content to put together this book. The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily that of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy or the Editors. Last minute changes to the programme have not been included in this book. Published by: Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, Centre for International Film Research & Archives (CIFRA) (Sathyan Smarakam), Kinfra Film & Video Park, Chanthavila, Kazhakuttom, Sainik School PO, – 695 585 www.idsffk.in Processed and Printed at: Akshara, Thiruvananthapuram

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I am very happy to know that the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy is organising the 12th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, from 21st to 26th June 2019 at Thiruvananthapuram. It is commendable that the Festival which attracts delegates from all over the country would showcase some of the best celluloid works of our times. I am happy that the Festival gives due importance to campus , animation and music videos to attract the youth. I compliment the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy for organising this event and wish the Festival all success

Justice (Retd.) P. Sathasivam Hon'ble Governor of Kerala

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I wholeheartedly welcome film enthusiasts to the 12th edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy. The Festival has been able to showcase the major works in the documentary and short film domains to the large number of delegates who see IDSFFK as a key platform for non feature films in the country. The documentaries and short films from across the globe are trying to portray myriad lives in all its varying hues. The films are reflecting the unflinching struggle of humans against forces of oppression the world over. The voices for equality and social justice are amplified through the works screened at IDSFFK. I wish that the Festival offers avenues to widen our world view thus evolving respect and tolerance towards the Other. While every effort is made to create an alien Other, the humanising effect at the soul of every art should be highlighted at the festival. I hope the Festival turns out to be an opportunity for us to look inward and liberate our minds from our preconceived notions.

Pinarayi Vijayan Hon'ble Chief Minister of Kerala MESSAGE

The International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy remains the most significant documentary, short film festival in the country. The festival, noted for the active participation of the youth and live debates, has also acquired special character as a cultural collective of resistance. This is a place for new comers who enter the documentary, short film world with novel ideas and treatment to test their talents. The festival provides the college students in Kerala an opportunity to nourish their cinematic sensibility. The festival, screening documentaries and short films which were produced across the world within the past year, will provide deep insights into the contemporary human situation. I congratulate those who worked behind those films that were chosen for the IDSFFK and wish that the delegates are served with a rich visual fare.

A.K.Balan Hon’ble Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes, Law, Culture and Parliamentary Affairs WELCOME NOTE

With the boom of technology, many young filmmakers have been bold in bringing about radical changes in the field of short films and documentaries. The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy is more than happy to lend a platform to showcase such new trends through the 12th edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala. The festival over the years has been an opportunity to promote diverse voices by sharing narratives from across the world. This year too we have taken the efforts to uphold this practice of enriching your experience by presenting more than 200 short films and documentaries. The various experiments and efforts by these filmmakers in expressing creativity and resistance often spur thoughts and discussions. With this thought in mind, the Academy has decided to increase the duration of the festival by one day, i.e., total six days. With the hope of kindling new and exciting discourse, I, on behalf of the Academy welcomes the delegates and the filmmakers to the 12th IDSFFK to meet, share and connect through the visual experiences offered to you by the IDSFFK.

Kamal Festival Director, IDSFFK Chairman, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy CHIEF EDITOR'S NOTE

Our country is experiencing a sociopolitical scenario where documentaries and short films are of much significance. Documentaries are a powerful weapon of protest in a period of post-truth politics that tries to conceal facts and distort truths in order to perpetuate totalitarianism. Presenting the latest film of directors who have weaponized the camera and initiating discussions on it is a very significant sociopolitical activity of the IDSFFK. The festival also opens ups an arena of competition for the short filmmakers who successfully accomplish the task of conveying content and ideas to the utmost with the least amount of visuals. The increase in the number of delegates with each edition is a sign of the growing popularity of the festival. I wish that the IDSFFK which presents its audience with the issues and hardships faced by the contemporary world will again offer a unique visual experience to all the delegates this year.

Mahesh Panju Executive Director, IDSFFK Secretary, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy A NOTE ON PROGRAMMING

Welcome back to the 12th IDSFFK, the vibrant annual meeting point in Kerala. Every year the programme team attempts to bring to the audience work that reflects current concerns both with content and form. The internet has opened up a space like never before for creators to share discuss and evaluate their work. What place does a festival have in such an atmosphere? I think two things that make this annual event significant are: curation and audience creation. Both are crucial elements to the planning and execution of the IDSFFK. We would prefer to look at this one week not as an ‘event’ but rather as a forum for the creation of discourse on current concerns. This year we lost three significant women who contributed to this discourse: Agnes Varda, Jocelyn Saab and Vijaya Mulay – three giants to whom we humbly pay tribute. The subject of documentary films is often based on the research and activity of numerous others. The filmmaker becomes a vehicle for the interpretation and propagation of ideas. P Sainath has dedicated his life to working with the marginalised. We screen The Dispossessed and hear him speak on his current work. Madhusree Dutta is being presented the Lifetime Achievement Award, acknowledging her magnificent contribution not only to filmmaking but also her engagement with the ideas of filmmaking. We continue to keep the Competition restricted to films produced in as this is one of the rare platforms that filmmakers get within the country to actually meet and share with audiences. The noise of the visual overtakes us today, but at the IDSFFK we hope it is a moment to pause and reflect. As we go to press the loss of another giant reaches us: Girish Karnad. Another big tree falls, shaking us at the core!

Bina Paul Artistic Director, IDSFFK Vice Chairperson, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL FILM RESEARCH AND ARCHIVES (CIFRA) The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy has relocated to the newly built Centre for International Film Research and Archives (CIFRA) at KINFRA Film, Video & IT Park, Kazhakuttom, Thiruvananthapuram. The Centre also houses a library for research, archives of films, mini theatres and conference hall. It houses a comprehensive collection of noteworthy photographs relating to Cinema. The CIFRA has a collection of more than 8,000 films. It will house assorted memorabilia like photographs, old film publications, notices, song books, posters, and letters written by film personalities and so on. The centre can be seen as the initiation of the great task of preserving the rich history of for the ABOUT US future generations.

Activities Kerala State Chalachitra Academy International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) In a pioneering initiative, the Government of International Short & Documentary Film Festival Kerala set up Kerala State Chalachitra Academy of Kerala (IDSFFK) (Motion Picture Academy of the Kerala State) in August 1998. The first of its kind in the IDSFFK is an initiative which was kick started country, the Academy is an effort to counter in 2008. It aims to catalyse a vibrant short and the gross commoditisation of the film medium documentary film movement. and a rightful recognition of the contribution Regional IFFK of cinema to the cultural enlightenment of the society. It is guided by the motto that Cinema The Academy conducts two regional IFFKs should contribute to the complete development annually in different parts of the State. The of human being, both as an individual and as a festivals feature a selection of contemporary social being. world cinema which was screened at the IFFK. The Academy today has become a major player National Film Festival of Kerala (NFFK) in the cultural landscape of Kerala reaching students, teachers, and ordinary people through The annual NFFK is organised to give the viewers various initiatives designed to carry the message a glimpse of the contemporary Indian cinema. of cinema as not only a means of entertainment The Festival will have a regional language cinema but of serious academic reflection and a tool to as Focus. preserve and document the history of society. Touring Talkies Core objectives of the Academy include being The Academy has been conducting Touring a link between the Government and the film Talkies programme aimed at taking meaningful industry, the conducting of Film Festivals, the cinema to the remote, rural areas of the preservation and propagation of Malayalam State. The screenings are conducted through Cinema, to intervene in film education, to the five regional centres of the Academy at document the history of Malayalam Cinema, the , , , Kottayam and honouring of persons and films that contribute Thiruvananthapuram. Libraries and voluntary to the aesthetics of Malayalam cinema, which organizations are arranging screenings apart celebrated the 90th year of birth in 2018. from organizations affiliated to FFSI. Educational institutions are now catered through a special the Academy has instituted the Annual State programme School Talkies which screens TV Awards. movies for schoolchildren. The programme is conducted in collaboration with the Department JC Daniel Award instituted in the name of of Education, Government of Kerala. the founding father of Malayalam cinema is awarded each year to an individual for Monthly Journal an outstanding contribution to Malayalam cinema. The Academy has started bringing out bilingual monthly film journal. The comprehensive journal Welfare Activities 'Chalachitra Sameeksha' has been covering all aspects of cinema. The welfare activities undertaken by the Academy includes pension and medical Teachers’ Workshop on Film Appreciation assistance for Cine Artists. The teacher empowerment programme promoted by the Academy and SSA addresses the critical issue of imparting cinema education to teachers recognising that they will catalyse the downward spread of film education. The programme is implemented in collaboration with the Department of Education, Government of Kerala. Appreciation Camps for Children Each year, the Academy organises visual appreciation camps for children during summer holidays. The camps aim to equip the children with basic understanding and appreciation of films. The camps are held in four regions of the State. Film Appreciation Camps for Public The Academy, in collaboration with various organisations and trade bodies in the film field, has been organising Appreciation camps for the general public. Television workshops The Academy is conducting workshops for the creative minds in the television field. Collaboration with Film Societies The Academy has contributed to strengthen the film societies by providing grants to those affiliated with FFSI. It partners with the film societies in organising film festivals, seminars, discussions, and film appreciation courses. Awards The Academy is the agency which organizes the decision and distribution of the Annual for Malayalam cinema aimed at promoting films with artistic value and encouraging artists/technicians. In recognition of Television as a popular and important medium ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Philip Cheah Mathieu Roy Anu Rangachar Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Eventival C-DIT KSFDC Qube Wire Griffith Film School NETPAC Olivier Hadouchi, Mathilde Rouxel & Nessim Ricardou Andrea Guzmán & David Varela CONTENTS

13 Opening Film 17 Competition Long Documentary 24 Competition Short Documentary 37 Competition Short Fiction 48 Competition Campus films 54 Focus Long Documentary 60 Focus Short Documentary 70 Focus Short Fiction 87 Malayalam Non-competition 98 International Fiction 109 International Non-fiction 122 Animation 128 Music Video 132 Negotiating Dissidence: Madhusree Dutta Lifetime Achievement Award, 12th IDSFFK 137 Hypnotic Pictures: a selection of Bill Morrison's work 140 Carte Blanche Documenta Madrid 142 The Archive as Memory: Curated by Bina Paul 146 Doi Moi & Beyond: Vietnamese Shorts Curated by Philip Cheah 149 Artists Cinema: Curated by Dr C S Venkiteswaran 158 Cinema of Resistance: Curated by Amrit Gangar 163 Special Screenings 168 Playful Visionary: Agnes Varda 170 History's Witness: Jocelyn Saab 173 Contact 180 KSCA Executive Board Members 181 KSCA General Council Members 182 Index Italy / 86:00 / 2019/ Italian Direction & Screenplay Agostino Ferrente Production Marc Berdugo, Barabara Conforti SELFIEEditing Letizia Caudullo, Chiaro Russo Music Andrea Pesce

An experimental documentary film, Selfie sees the documentation of life in the run down corners of Naples through the eyes of two youngsters, which the director films vicariously through youngsters he equips with smart phones and selfie sticks. t\-¸nÄ-kn-sâ C-cp­ï aq-e-I-fn-se Po-hn-Xw cï-­v sN-dp-¸-¡m-cp-sS Im-gv-N-¸m-Sn-eq-sS Nn-{Xo-I-cn-¡p-¶ H-cp ]-co-£-Wm-ß-I Nn-{Xw. skÂ-^n Ìn-¡p-Ifpw kv-amÀ-«v t^m-Wp-Ifpw bp-hm-¡Ä-¡v \Â-In kw-hn-[m-bI³, ]-tcm-£-am-bn Nn-{Xo-Ic-Ww \nÀ-h-ln-¨n-cn-¡p-¶p. OPENING FILM

AGOSTINO FERRENTE is an Italian director, screenwriter, producer, art-director and music director. He founded the Pirata Produzioni Cinematografiche production company and belongs to the Apollo 11 collective which transformed historic cinema in Rome into a cultural centre. The Orchestra di Piazza Vittoria, which was founded there, became the subject of one of his documentaries. He also created the Doc/it Award for documentaries at the Venice International Film Festival where the film Le cose belle, which he co-directed was premiered in 2013. JURY NONFICTION

ANDREA GUZMÁN Andrea Guzman is a cultural manager and filmmaker. She has been working professionally in the audiovisual field from 1993. She has been a coordinator and programmer for Documenta Madrid, FIDOCS (Santiago de Chile), Miradas- Doc (Tenerife) and Festival de Málaga among others. In 2011 she founded El Mar Films to distribute and programme independently auteur films. In 2007 she founded DOCMA, the Documentalists Association, which she headed until 2016, to promote and spread non-fiction cinema in Spain. She has participated as a jury in film festivals such as Morelia Mexico, Seminci Valladolid, Filmadrid, Alcances Cádiz, and Mostra de Lleida.

HAOBAM PABAN KUMAR Haobam Paban Kumar is a filmmaker from Manipur. Kumar's debut feature film Loktak Lairembee (Lady of the lake) won the National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation at the 64th , 2016. Kumar's documentary ‘AFSPA 1958’ in 2006 attempted to showcase the harsh reality of the ill effects of Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur. His other films include 'The First Leap' (2008), 'Mr India' (2009) and 'Ruptured Spring' (2012).

SANJAY KAK Sanjay Kak is a social activist and self-taught filmmaker who makes documentaries dealing with issues such as environmental activism and resistance politics. Kak also hosts a local Pune radio talk show entitled ‘Kak Talk with Sanjay Kak.’ His works include documentaries such as Punjab: Doosra Adhay (1986), Pradakshina (1987), One Weapon (1997), In the Forest Hangs a Bridge (1999), Words on Water (2002), and Jashn-e-Azadi - How We Celebrate Freedom (2007). JURY FICTION

VASANTH SAI Vasanth S Sai is an Indian film director and screenwriter working in the Tamil . Accolades came to him in the form of a National award for the short film Thakayin Meethu Nanku Kankal in the year 2006 and three State Government awards for his films Keladi Kanmani, Aasai, and Satham Podathey. Thakayin Meethu Nanku Kankal found international recognition by bagging the Indo-Russian International award. In 2016, his short film Sanath won the National award for the best short film on social awareness. In 2003 the ‘Kalaimamani’ (Repository of artistic excellence) title was conferred upon him by the Tamil Nadu Government for his contribution to the Tamil film industry. He has served twice as a jury member and once as South Jury Chairman in the National Film Awards.

MANJU BORAH Borah is a multiple international and national award- winning Indian film director and short story writer from Guwahati, . Her first film Baibhab bagged the top award at the 6th Dhaka International Film Festival. Her film Ko-Yad (Whirlpool) won two National Awards for Best Cinematography and for the Best Film in the Mising language. She was bestowed the Women of Excellence Award by FICCI for her outstanding contribution to the Film and Entrepreneurship in 2009 and the Memorial Award by the Asian Film Foundation in 2012. She has served as Jury Member at Indian Panorama, IFFI 2007, MAMI International Film Festival 2008, 3rd Eye Asian Film Festival 2008 and National Film Awards for 2007 (Feature Films).

NAMRATA JOSHI Namrata Joshi is the Cinema Editor of the newspaper , based in Mumbai. She won the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 2004. Namrata Joshi is an alumnus of the University of , Film and Television Institute of India and Times Centre for Media Studies. In 1999, she joined Outlook as a special correspondent. During her Outlook tenure, she also wrote weekly reviews for Showtime magazine. Joshi also serves as a member of the Indian branch of the International Federation of Film Critics. IDSFFK AWARDS

Best Long Documentary (40 minutes and above) Rs. 2,00,000 and Certificate Second Best Long Documentary (40 minutes and above) Rs. 1,00,000 and Certificate SELECTION Best Short Documentary (15 to 39 minutes) COMMITTEE Rs. 1,00,000 and Certificate MEMBERS Second Best Short Documentary (15 to 39 minutes) Rs. 50,000 and Certificate Best Short Fiction (under 40 minutes) Rs. 2,00,000 and Certificate LONG DOCUMENTARY Second Best Short Fiction K G Soman - Chairperson (under 40 minutes) Narayanan A V Rs. 1,00,000 and Certificate Dr T K Santhosh kumar Best Campus Short Fiction Produced within Kerala SHORT DOCUMENTARY Rs. 50,000 and Certificate to the creative team Asha Achy Joseph - Chairperson Best Documentary Cinematographer Gireesh Kumar K Donated by eminent cinematographer Mr Navroze Contractor Vijayakumar P K Cash prize of Rs. 15, 000 and a certificate Lifetime Achievement Award SHORT FICTION The Lifetime Achievement award is conferred Mohan Kupleri - Chairperson upon a film personality who has contributed to S Chandramohanan Nair the art of documentary through her/his lifetime Deepika Suseelan work. A cash prize of INR 2,00,000 and a memento will be awarded. CAMPUS FILMS, ANIMATION & MUSIC VIDEO Prakash Moorthy S - Chairperson T Krishnanunni Dr Anu Pappachan

INTERNATIONAL Bina Paul Sanju Surendran Prema Chandran COMPETITION LONG DOCUMENTARY A Journey of Passion A Place to Live India / 51:45 / 2018/ Odia India / 95:10 / 2018/

Direction, Screenplay Bijaya Kumar Nishanka Direction, Screenplay & Editing Sanjiv Shah Production Prashant Pathrabe Editing Atish Nandy Production UDRI Urban Design Research Institute, DoP K.S. Shridhar, Bijaya Kumar Nishanka, AF Architecture Foudation DoP Ajay Noronha, Pradip Nayak Sound Design B. Suresh Kumar, Navroze Contractor Other Suresh Rajamani Ayan Bhattacharya

A Journey of Passion tells the tale of Tanmayjt who Migration caused by poverty, calamities, civil strife is in search of his grandfather’s works to build a and displacement due to ‘development’ projects personal archive, a journey that reveals to him the have made India a country with one of the largest key role his grandfather played in the making of homeless populations in the world. The film the Odia film industry. argues for a broader and inclusive imagination around existence in villages, towns and cities, an imagination that respects the fundamental rights of the people and is rooted in the ecology of the land. Xsâ ap¯Ñsâ hnhc§Ä tiJcn¨v t]gv-kW Zmcn{Zyw, {]IrXn Zpc´§Ä, B`y´c Iel§Ä XpS- BÀ-ss¡hv X¿mdm¡p¶Xn\pÅ X³abnPnXnsâ §nbh ImcWapïmb ]embm\§Ä, 'hnIk\ ]²- bm{XbmWv F tPÀWn Hm^v ]mj³. HUnb ^nenw C- XnIÄ' ImcWapïmb IpSnsbmgn¸n¡epIÄ F¶nh bmWv C´ysb temI¯nse Xs¶ Gähpa[nIw ³Ukv{Sn cq]oIcn¡p¶Xn Xsâ ap¯Ñ³ hln¨ `h\clnX P\kwJybpÅ \mSm¡n amänbXv. {Kma ]¦v AXneqsS Npcpfgnbp¶p. §fpsSbpw ]«W§fpsSbpw \Kc§fpsSbpw AkvXn- Xzw \ne\nÀ¯ns¡mïv, P\§fpsS auenImhImi- §sfbpw Øe§fpsS ssPhnIamb ]cnØnXn-sb bpw IW¡nseSp¯p sImïpÅ hfsc hnimeamb Hcp hnIk\ k¦ev]¯n\p-th-ïn-bmWv Cu Nn{Xw hmZn¡p¶Xv.

Bijaya Kumar Nishanka is a direction graduate from Sanjiv Shah has a diploma in editing and filmmaking FTII Pune.He has worked in many TV series’ and from FTII, Pune. He worked as an associate director in films in Odisha and Mumbai before joining the Films a Telugu Feature film and was awarded the National Division. His student film Moksh, based on story by award for editing, for the Hindi feature Mirch Masala. Pratibha Roy, was highly appreciated at many film He has edited and worked on many documentaries festivals. dealing with various issues.

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Coral Woman If She Built a Country India / 52:00 / 2019/ English, Tamil Agar Wo Desh Banati India / 60:00 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction, Screenplay & Editing Priya Thuvassery Direction, Screenplay & DoP Maheen Mirza Production Psbt Rajiv Mehrotra DoP Nitasha Kapahi, Production Rajiv Mehrotra Editing Puloma Pal Arnav Kakar, Nefertiti Chakravarti Editing Reena Sound Design Bigyna Dahal Other Rinchin Mohan Music Bindhu Malini Sound Design Amrith Shankar Avantika Nimbalkar Animation Mithun Mohan

Coral Woman revolves around Uma, a 53 year old Agar Woh Desh Banati voices out the concerns of scuba diver. The film is about how the presence rural Adivasi women, from the villages of Raigarh in and the reality of the coral reefs of the Gulf of Chhattisgarh, on issues of land-grab, displacement Mannar inspired a homemaker in her 50s, to and increasing ecological degradation. All of learn to swim, dive and paint, in order to garner which has been happening under the pretence of attention to an alarming environmental issue. development of the country. The pertinent question their voices and position poses for our times is, “What does development really mean?” 53Imcnbmb DabpsS IYbmWv tImd hpa¬. B] `qan X«nsbSp¡Â, IpSnsbmgn¸n¡Â, ]cnØnXn¡p- XvIcamb ]mcnØnXnI {]iv-\§fnte¡v P\§fpsS ïmIp¶ £bw XpS§nb {]iv-\§fn O¯o- {i² £Wn¡m\mbn am¶mÀ DÄ¡Sense ]hng- kvKUnse dmbvKUnepÅ BZnhmkn kv{XoIfpsS ¸päpIfpsS km¶n[yhpw AhbpsS \nehnse Ah- Bi¦IÄ shfnhm¡p¶ kn\na. cmPy¯nsâ hnI Øbpw Hcp ho«½bv¡v, AhcpsS 50Ifn \o´Â, k\w F¶ t]cn \S¡p¶ C¯cw {]iv-\§fnepÅ ssUhnMv, Nn{XcN\ XpS§nbh ]Tn¡p¶Xn\v {] AhcpsS A`n{]mb§fpw \ne]mSpIfpw \½psS Ime- tNmZ\ambsX§s\ F¶Xns\¡pdn¨mWv kn\na. L«¯n DbÀ¯p¶ {]kàamb tNmZyw "F´mWv bYmÀ°¯n hnIk\w?' F¶XmWv.

Priya Thuvassery is an independent filmmaker Maheen Mirza is a fiction and documentary film and television producer from Kerala. She has had maker committed to cinema that is born out of the experience of directing, producing and editing collective practice. Her work strives to challenge the documentary films & television programmes for ND grammar of commercial cinema and serves to nurture TV, Fox Traveller, National Human Rights Commission a culture of independent filmmaking. She has been of India, Films Division, Public Service Broadcasting Trust & Khabar Lahariya. Her works include several a part of the scripting and cinematography of Jaadui documentaries - Khanabadosh, My Sacred Glass Bowl Machchi (2013) and Turup (2017) among others. and Survey Number zero. 12TH IDSFFK 19 Janani's Juliet Moti Bagh India / 53:00 / 2019/ Tamil, English India / 59:25 / 2019/ Hindi

Direction, Editing, DoP & Sound Design Pankaj Rishi Direction, Screenplay, Editing, DoP & Kumar Production Rajiv Mehrotra (PSBT) Screenplay Sound Design Nirmal Chander Dandriyal Ambika Gupta Other Pritam Das, Vinayak Ram Production PSBT / PSBT / Doordarshan Editing Reena Mohan

Deeply disturbed by a spate of honour killings Moti Bagh sees an 83 year old farmer-poet, in a in India this documentary sees Indianostrum, a remote Himalayan village in India, struggling Pondicherry based theatre group, setting out to to keep his farm alive in the face of rampant introspect the implications of caste, class and migration. gender through an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. What emerges in the process is a critical reflection and commentary on the contemporary world, where love struggles to survive. XpSÀ¨bmbn Zpc`nam\sIme]mXI§Ä DïmIp¶ Ihnbpw IÀjI\pamb, 83 hbÊpImc³ lnameb- C´ybnÂ, t]mïnt¨cnbnepÅ C´yt\mkv{Sw F¶ ¯nse hnZqc {Kma¯nÂ, XpSÀ¨bmb ]emb\-§Ä- \mSI {Kq¸v PmXn, kapZmbw, enwKt`Zw F¶nh-bpsS ¡nSbnepw Xsâ Irjnsb kwc£n¡m³ A\p- hnh£sb Bß]cntim[\ sN¿m\mbn tjIvkv]n `hn¡p¶ {]XnkÔnIfmWv tam«n _mKneqsS ImWn- bdnsâ tdmantbm Bâv Pqenbäv A\pcq]s¸Sp¯p- ¡p¶Xv. ¶Xns\¡pdn¨mWv tUmIypsaâdn. kaImenI temI- ¯v {]Wbw AXnPohn¡m³ t\cnSp¶ kwLÀj- §fpsS hnaÀi\hpw ]p\cmtemN\bpambn AXv ] cnWan¡p¶p.

Pankaj Rishi Kumar is an editor, curator, teacher Nirmal Chander Dandriyal is a National Award winning and filmmaker. He was assistant editor on Sekhar filmmaker who has been working in the field of Kapur's ‘Bandit Queen’. After editing numerous documentaries for the last 20 years. He started his documentaries and TV serials, he made his first film career as an editor. He made his directorial debut Kumar Talkies. His films have been screened at film in 2008. The films edited and directed by him have festivals all over the world. travelled to many international festivals and have received awards.

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Peacock Plume Reason India / 52:00 / 2018/ English, Marathi Vivek India / 236:00 / 2018/ Marathi, English, Hindi

Direction & Screenplay Shabnam Sukhdev Direction, Screenplay, Production, Editing Production Rajiv Mehrotra DoP Shanti Bhushan Roy & DoP Patwardhan Editing Sidhant Sharma Sound Design Mohandas V P DoP Simantinu Dhuru Music Shahir Nikam, Music Venkatesh Shastri, Bhavnani Sheethal Sathe Sound Design P M Satheesh

Peacock Plume is a cinematic tribute to the Between 2013-2017 four prominent Indian Indian classical dancer Shubhada Varadkar’s rationalists killed by dissenters of right wing excruciating personal journey, battling cancer Hindutva supremacy; reminiscent of Gandhi’s and overcoming the experience of it with her gift murder. Today the same forces, having taken on of dance. It looks at how an artist finds in dance, a new face, is in power, lending impunity to hate a language to ground an experience of rupture, crimes, lynching and other such acts of violence. which was both physical and emotional. Vivek explores how resistance seems to be an unavoidable recourse and response at this point. C´y³ ¢mkn¡Â \À¯In ip`Z hcZvIdn\v \ 2013\pw 2017\pw CSbn \mev {]apJ C´y³ bpàn- ÂIp¶ Hcp Zrtiym]lmcamWv ]otIm¡v ¹qw. X\n¡v hmZnIsf heXp]£ lnµpXz ta[mhnXzw ]peÀ¯p- hcZm\ambn e`n¨ \r¯¯ns\m¸w AhcpsS ITn\ ¶hÀ sh-Snsh¨p sIm¶p. Ac \qämïv ap³]v KmÔn amb PohnX kmlNcy§sfbpw, Im³kdns\bpw sImÃs¸-«Xv t]mse. C¶v AtX iànIÄ A[n AhÀ XcWw sNbvXp. Hcp \À¯In imcocnIhpw Imc¯nencn¡pIbmWv. hntZzj B{Ia-W§Ä, sshImcnIhpamb hnÅepIsf AXnPohn¡m\pÅ BÄ¡q« B{IaW§Ä hÀ²n-¨p-h-cp¶p. C¯cw `mjsb Xsâ \r¯¯neqsS Isï¯p¶sX§s\ L«-¯n {]XnIcW§fpw {]Xntcm[§fpw XoÀ sb¶v kn\na ImWn¡p¶p. t¡ïXv F{Xt¯mfw Hgnhm¡m\mIm¯XmsW¶v hnthIv hniZoIcn¡p¶p.

Shabnam Sukhdev is a screenwriter, director and Anand Patwardhan has been making political producer. In 2014, she won a National Award in documentaries for over four decades pursuing India for a feature length documentary on her father, diverse and controversial issues that are at the crux of the renowned documentary filmmaker, S. Sukhdev. socio-political life in India. Many of his films despite Her last film was a documentary about sustainable garnering national and international awards were at architecture titled Earth Crusader. one time or another banned by the censors and by state television channels and became the subject of

litigation. 12TH IDSFFK 21 The Death of Us Tides of Life India / 76:00 / 2018/ Telugu India / 52:00 / 2018/ Bengali, English

Direction, Screenplay & Editing Vani Subramanian Direction, Screenplay & Editing Suhel Banerjee Production Rajiv Mehrotra Public Service Production Secretary IGNCA DoP Kaushik Mandal Broadcasting Trust DoP Desmond Roberts Composition Muktak Kanjilal Editing Kuldeep Gaur Sound Design Pratik Biswas Other Snehashish Misthy

The debate on death penalty is loud and Tides of Life revolves around a film crew travelling impassioned. Instead of echoing that cacophony, to the Sundarbans in West Bengal in India looking The Death of Us, quietly reflects on several cases for the elusive Bengal tiger. It looks at how over in which the death penalty was pronounced. the course of their journey, through a landscape of Speaking to those who have been on death row, labyrinth like tidal mangroves, they are confronted or others closely involved with such cases, the by various questions instead of the answers they film attempts to evolve a more nuanced dialogue were looking for. on questions around crime and punishment, revenge and justice, popular rhetoric and personal experiences. h[in£sb¡pdn¨pÅ kwhmZ§Ä Ft¸mgpw XoÀ- ]Ýna_wKmfnse kpµÀ_\n _wKmÄ ISphsb ¸p-ïmImsX \ofp¶hbmWv. XÀ¡§sf {]Xn[z\n- At\zjn¨v t]mIp¶ ^nenw {Iqhnsâ bm{XbmWv Cu ¸n¡p¶Xn\v ]Icw h[in£ hn[n¨ Nne tIkpIsf Nn{Xw. Iï¡mSpIÄ¡nSbneqsSbpÅ Ah-cpsS ]cntim[n¡pIbmWv Cu Nn{Xw sN¿p¶Xv. ZpÀLSamb bm{Xbn AhÀ At\zjn¨nd-§nb D¯ c-§tf¡mÄ tNmZy§sfbmWv t\cntSïn-hcp-¶Xv.

Vani Subramanian has been a women's rights activist Suhel Banerjee is an incidental yet aspiring and documentary filmmaker since the nineties. Her filmmaker. His previous short film,Bookseller from the films have been screened and have received awards, Mountains was screened at the IDSFFK. at both national and international venues. Some of her other works are Yeh Dilli Hai Mere Yaar, Play on Tiger, Ayodhya Gadha, It’s a Boy etc.

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Waste Band India / 53:58 / 2018/ Bengali

Direction & Screenplay Supriyo Sen Production Prashant Pathrabe DoP Mrinal Mondal Editing Saikat S Ray Music Sanjay Mondal Sound Design SK. Abdul Rajjak

In 2010, a group of young kids from a slum in reached the grand finale of 'India's Got Talent". Waste Band looks at their current day plight, post their stint with fame.

2010 sIm¡¯bnse Hcp tNcnbn \n¶pÅ sIm¨pIp«nIfpsS kwLw ""C´y lmkv tKmSv Smeân''- sâ {Kmâv ^n\msebn ]s¦Sp¯ncp¶p. AhÀ C¶v t\cnSp¶ ZpcnX§sf¡pdn¨v, {]ikvXn AhÀ¡v \Â- Ip¶ ]cnanXnIsf¡pdn¨v thÌv _m³Uv ImWn- ¡p¶p.

Supriyo Sen is an independent documentary filmmaker. His films include like Wait Until Death, The Nest, Way Back Home, Hope Dies Last in War, Rupban – The Beautiful, Wagah etc. Supriyo has won several awards at Berlinale, Karlovy Vary, Commonwealth Film Festival, Abu Dhabi Film Festival, MIFF, Hamburg, Uppsala IFFI, and MIFF. He has won three National Awards. 12TH IDSFFK 23 SHORT DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

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Achoubi in Love An Island of Illusion India / 30:00 / 2018 Mayadweep India / 19:00 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction & Screenplay Meena Devi Longjam Direction Chandan Sen Production Vaibhav Production Rajiv Mehrotra DoP Doren Oinam, Sharma Scriptwriting Anuj Malhotra, Chandan Meena Longjam Editing Chaoba Thiyam Music Sen DoP Anand Bansal Editing & Sound Design Tomba Heisnam Sound Design Loitongbam Anuj Malhotra Music & Sound Design Amet Animation Andy Tourangbam Bhandari Animation Hari Pandit

The documentary tells the story of an impeccable Mayadweep chronicles the various circumstances effort on the part of Achoubi, a widow who that resulted in the institution of the iconic Bikaner reinvents a solution to protect indigenous Gang Canal in Rajasthan, India. It examines the Manipuri ponies, which is rooted in self-evolved legacy of aristocratic apathy and speaks of the principles of inclusivity and sensitive existence. suffering it yields, and the social upheaval that it results in. aWn¸qcn am{XapÅ Hcn\w t]mWn (tImhÀIgpX) cmPØm\nse _n¡\oÀ KwKm I\mensâ Øm-] IfpsS kwc£W¯n\mbn Hcp ]cnlmcw Isï-¯p¶ \hpambn _Ôs¸« IYIfmWv ambmZzo]n ]dbp- ANu_n F¶ hn[hbpsS ITn\m[zm\s¯¡pdn- ¶Xv. {]`p¡fpsS AekXbpw, ]²Xn \S¸m¡ ¨mWv Cu Nn{Xw ]dbp¶Xv. Wsa¶ kmaq-lnI{]t£m-`-hpw ]cn-tim-[n-¡p¶p.

Dr Meena Longjam is an award winning independent Chandan Sen is a Mumbai-based Indian filmmaker, filmmaker and the first woman filmmaker from ad filmmaker and screenwriter. He is a Post Graduate Manipur to bag a national award, for her documentary (Associates Degree) in Filmmaking, Direction (Gold film Autodriver. Medallist) from Whistling Woods International, Mumbai, India and New York Film Academy, New York City, U.S.A. (Distance Learning). 12TH IDSFFK

25 Before it Vanishes By My Side Mayum Munpe Ennodoppam India / 21:30 / 2018/ Malayalam India / 29:07 / 2019/ Malayalam

Direction & Screenplay Biju Pankaj Production Direction & Screenplay Abhijith Pulparambath News Channel DoP P S Production Shobhila Andathodath DoP Ajay Sound Design Anoop David Editing Amal Jith Sound Design Shaiju M Other Amiya Meethal, Ishaan Shaan, Surya Ishaan, Miya Sivraam, Sivajikumar Thankappan

Before it Vanishes is a documentary featuring the Ennodoppam is about two trans-persons and lifecycle of the much endangered Slender Loris, their ever-supportive parents’ who had to brave found primarily in India and Sri Lanka. While these all kinds of odds in the society. beings are very few in numbers they do not enjoy the endangered species status, as no reliable statistics exists on their numbers. The film tries to outline the various reasons that make it imperative to have them classified as an endangered species and hence protected. cïv {Sm³kv-sP³UdpIsfbpw AhcpsS amXm]nXm- {][m\ambpw C´ybnepw {ioe¦bnepw ImWs¸Sp¶- ¡sfbpw Ipdn¨mWv Ft¶msSm¸w ]dbp¶Xv. kaq- Xpw hwi\mi`ojWn t\cn«psImïncn¡p¶Xpamb l¯nsâ FÃm Häs¸Sp¯epIsfbpw t\cnSm\pÅ Ip«nt¯hm¦pIsf¡pdn¨v. F-®¯n IpdhmsW- Icp¯v AhÀ¡pïv. ¦nepw Cu PohnIÄ hwi\mi`ojWn t\cnSp¶ KW- ¯n DÄs¸«n«nÃ. ImcWw AhbpsS F®s¯-¡p dn¨v hnizkn¡mhp¶ ØnXn-hnhc¡W¡pIÄ Hu tZym-KnIambn e`yaÃ. Chsb hwi\mi`ojWn t\cnSp ¶ PohnIfn DÄs¸Sp¯p-¶-Xnsâ BhiyIXbmWv Cu kn\na ]dbp¶Xv.

Biju Pankaj is a seasoned journalist and documentary P Abhijith is a senior photographer at Madhyamam director. In 2003 he received the state government daily and an aspiring filmmaker. His Avalilekkulla award for best investigative documentary, Visham Dooram, a short documentary, has been screened at Nirayunna Sugandhagirikal. Another documentary of various festival venues. his, The great Indian hornbill’s symphony of life got 3 state awards and the best cameraman award for National science film festival 2016 in Mumbai.

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Chai Darbari Colors of Narol India / 28:54 / 2018/ Hindi India / 26:07 / 2019/ Hindi

Direction & Screenplay Prateek Shekhar Production Direction Shawn Sebastian, Tejasvi Dantuluri Daljeet Wadhwa Music Nipun Bhatnagar Production Aajeevika Bureau Scriptwriting Shawn Sebastian Editing Shawn Sebastian DoP Tejaswi Dantuluri Composition Ashish Zachariah Animation Varun Browney

A pursuit of truth invariably comes into Colors of Narol set in the dense textile and conversations echoing print, electronic and industrial hub of Narol, in the periphery of social media dialogues, conversations evocative Ahmedabad, is a moving montage of the arduous of the lived contexts of a city. Inspired by real journeys undertaken by five migrant workers as life conversations, the film presents a range of they move out of their villages to find a foothold perceptions and recollections in a conversational in the city, in a quest for livelihood and survival. format.

Hcp \Kc¯nâ DbÀ¨bpsS kXyw A¨Sn, Cet{Îm- Pohn¡m\pw ]nSn¨p\n¡m\pw thïn X§fpsS WnIv, tkmjy am[ya§fneqsS CSXShnÃmsX {Kmaw hn«v Al½Zm_mZnsâ {]m´{]tZi¯pÅ hcp¶p. Cu kn\na HmÀ½IfneqsSbpw \nehnse XpWn-hyhkmb§Ä sImïv \ndª \mtcmfnse- sXfnhpIfneqsSbpapÅ Hcp kwhmZamWv. ¯nb A©v IpSntbä sXmgnemfnIfpsS Pohn-X-s¯- ¡p-dn-¨pÅ Nn{XamWv CXv.

Pratheek Sekhar has a Masters in Media and Cultural Shawn Sebastian is an independent journalist Studies from TISS, Mumbai. As a part of his Master’s and, documentary film maker. He is the winner of programme, he worked on two documentaries - Not two UN awards and other film festival awards for Cast in Stone and Govandi, Crime aur Camera. After his development themed documentaries. Tejaswi finishing his Master’s, Prateek assisted filmmaker and Dantuluri is a development communication expert and documentary film maker. She has been video artist Amar Kanwar on his film, Such a Morning researching on women, indigenous issues and (2017). studying, and working on, food and nutrition security, communication sovereignty and agro-ecology. 12TH IDSFFK 27 Elephants Do Remember Exhibit – A India / 37:37 / 2019/ English India / 18:00 / 2019/ English, Hindi

Direction Swati Pandey Editing Biswaranjan Pradhan Production Prashant Pathrabe Scriptwriting Anil Kumar, Swati Pandey, Viplove Rai Bhatia, Avadesh Direction & Screenplay Madhuvanti Maddur Kumar Maharaja, Manohar Singh Bisht Animation Production 64TF FILMS DoP Bakul Sharma Editing Ankit Mehrotra DoP P Rajendran Sound Design Prasanna Arbab Ahmad Sound Design Malay Vadalkar R Gadge Other K. Sathiya Murthy, Pritirashmi Das, Animation Pawan Anand Avinash C. Bangera, Mushuka Ramchiary

Elephants Do Remember is a biographical montage Exhibit - A is a documentary film about a on Rama Khandwala's life. Khandwala is the oldest polyamorous couple and their cat, living in tourist guide of India, living the life of a recluse in a metropolis in India. In a heteronormative Mumbai. She reminisces her revolutionary youth society that prefers to operate in binaries, the in the Indian National Army, her connection with film hopes to represent an alternative counter Subhash Chandra Bose, and her involvement in narrative alongside predefined ideas of what a India's Freedom movement, painting an intriguing ‘relationship’ should be. collage of the present with the memories from the past. C´ybnse Hcp sat{Sm\Kcnbn Pohn¡p¶ _ cam J´v-hmebpsS PohnX¯neqsS \S¯p¶ Hcp lpssewKnI kz`mhapÅ Z¼XnIsfbpw AhcpsS ]q- bm{XbmWv Cu Nn{Xw. {]knUânsâ AhmÀUv t\ ¨sbbpw Ipdn¨pÅ tUmIypsaâdn. GI ssewKnIX- Snb C´ybnse Gähpw {]mbw IqSnb SqdnÌv ssKUv sb¶ Nn´mKXnbn Pohn¡p¶ Hcp kaql¯n Bb Cu kv{Xo Ct¸mÄ apwss_bn GImInbmbn _豈 F§s\bmIWsa¶v Cu Nn{Xw ]d- Pohn¡p¶p. kp`mjv N{µt_mkpambpÅ _Ô¯n- bp¶p. eqsS C´y³ \mjW BÀanbn F¯nbXpw Ahn Ss¯ hn¹hbphXzhpw AhÀ HmÀ¡p¶p.

Swati Pandey is a film curator, event-programmer and Madhuvanti Maddur is a graduate from National aspiring filmmaker. She has worked as the co-festival Institute of Design specializing in Film and Video director of MIFF. This is her directorial debut. Communication. She also holds a BFA specializing in Visual Communication from College of Art, . She has worked in a variety of projects in the field of design & film.

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Longra Maida India / 26:36 / 2019/ English India / 19:16 / 2019/ Hindi

Direction Sankhajit Biswas Production Rajiv Direction, Screenplay & DoP Lubna Yusuf Production Mehrotra DoP Sourabh Kanti Dutta Editing Samik Vinay Mishra, Preety Ali Editing Jasir Imtiaz Siddiqui Basu, Sankhajit Biswas Sound Design Rameez K Zubair Music Santajit Chatterjee Other Tulika Srivastava

‘Jhum’ or Shifting cultivation is an age-old farming Maida filmed across a span of eight years, traces practice prevalent amongst the indigenous tribes of the dreams and aspirations of a young school . Jhum being an integral part of the girl living in a regressive village in Bihar. Through Naga way of life, any effort to discourage Jhum has the mediums of stories and Bhojpuri folk songs, been more or less futile. In 2010, Longra a small the documentary punctures the myth of women yet progressive village of the Chang tribe, decided empowerment as we know it. to walk a different path. Longra is a visual exercise in the tracing of that path. hS¡v Ing¡³ C´ybnse tKm{XhÀ¤¡mÀ¡nSbn _nlmdnse Hcp ]n¶m¡ {Kma¯n Pohn¡p¶ Hcp hÀj§Ä¡papt¼ {]Nmc¯nencn¡p¶ Hcp coXn- kv-IqÄ hnZymÀ°n\nsbbpw AhfpsS kz]v\§sf- bmWv Ppw AYh Øew amdnbpÅ Irjn. \mK·m- bpw A`n\nthi§sfbpw F«v hÀjw ]n´pSÀ¶v cpsS PohnXcoXnbpsS `mKamWv Ppw. Ppan\v ^e]p- sNbvX Nn{Xw. IYIfneqsSbpw t`mPv]qcn \mS³ ]m- jvSn Ipdhpanà IqSpXepanÃ. 2010 NmwK tKm{X- «pIfneqsSbpw kv{XoimàoIcWsa¶ an¯ns\ B- ¡mcpsS {Kmaamb temw{K H¶v amdnNn´n¡m³ Xocpam- {I-an¡p¶p. \n¨p. B hgnbpsS ]n¶msebmWv temw{K F¶ kn\na k©cn¡p¶Xv.

Sankhajith Biswas is an editor and film maker. Dui Lubna Yusuf is an author, design thinker and founder Dhuranir Golpo (2012), his debut documentary as of La Legal. She is a debut director. director, has been screened in CPH:DOX, Yamagata, DocPoint Helsinki, IDSFFK and many LGBTQ festivals around the globe. His second documentary The Wind in the Maruwa Field, produced by Films Division, was part of Indian Panorama 2016.Currently, he is making his first feature length documentary Metamorphosis. 12TH IDSFFK 29 Nodir Kul Nai Piraña India / 17:30 / 2019/ Bengali, Assamese India / 13:00 / 2018/ Hindi, Gujarat

Direction, Screenplay & DoP Parasher Baruah Direction, Screenplay, Editing, DoP Production Kishalay Bhattacharjee, National & Sound Design Nainisha Dedhia Foundation For India NFI, Parasher Baruah DoP Production National Institute of Design Paldi Chandra Kumar Sound Design Rukmajit Baruah, Music Bhaskar Rao Nayan Bhuyan Editing Zedrin Phukan Other Shalim M Hussain, Mayuri Rajkonwar

Nodir Kul Nai features the inhabitants of the Chars Out of all things humans do as a species, - sandbanks of the river Brahmaputra. It explores generation of waste might be the strangest. We their relationship with the river, their struggle for are supposedly smart and claim to have easy survival and the larger issues of migration and solutions to get rid of the waste, yet every piece questions of identity that are constantly looming of plastic ever produced still remains. Pirana is a over them. contemplation of this reality.

{_Ò]p{X \ZnbpsSXoc¯v Pohn¡p¶ OmÀ kapZmb- Hcp Po-hn-hÀ-Kw F-¶ \n-e-bn a-\p-jy³ sN-¿p-¶- ¡msc AhXcn¸n¡p¶p. \ZnbpambpÅ AhcpsS -Xn sh-¨v G-ähpw hn-Nn-{Xam-b Imcyw am-en-\y- _Ôhpw AhcpsS AXnPoh\hpw IpSntbä¯nsâ ¯n-sâ DÂ-¸m-Z-\-amWv. amen\y§Ä \in¸n-¡p¶p- henb {]iv\§fpw sFUânänsb¡pdn¨pÅ tNmZy- sh¶v AhImis¸Spt¼mgpw F¶pw \ne\nÂ-¡p¶ §fpsaÃmw At\jn¡p¶p. ¹mÌnIv Ah³ D¸mZn¸n¨p sImtïbncn¡pw. Cu bmYmÀ°ys¯¡pdn¨mWv ]ncm\ ]dbp¶Xv.

Parasher Baruah is a cinematographer from Dibrugarh, Nainisha Dedhia is an undergraduate film student at Assam. A graduate of FTII, he has been involved with a the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. number of feature films and several documentaries. He won much international acclaim for the documentary Supermen of Malegaon. His Assamese feature film Dikchow Banat Pallax, was awarded the Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration, at the 64th National Awards in 2017. 30 COMPETITION SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Pixelling Memory Rediscovering Jajam Marananantharam Samayam India / 25:58 / 2018/ Hindi India / 20:00 / 2018/ English, Hindi

Direction & Screenplay Ravisankar K V Direction Avinash Maurya Gupta, Kriti Gupta Production Film and television Institute of India Production Rachel Bracken-Singh Scriptwriting DoP Karthik Gopal Ramawtar Singh, Kriti Gupta, Avinash Maurya Sound Design Rahul Tiwary Editing Bablu Murmu Editing Kriti Gupta Sanjay Maharishi DoP Ashish Garg Other Sankalp Agarwal

Pixelling Memory is a video essay exploring As public spaces are going missing in the face of various perspectives on one’s relationship with rapid urbanization, Indian craftsmen share their the idea of death and people's perspective on it. It stories of Jajam, a large traditional textile that explores the various perspectives on this thought was a gathering space for people in the villages through the juxtaposition of director’s own take of Rajasthan. Rediscovering Jajam is about how on it arranged alongside others’. Jajam’s presence has featured in peoples’ lives, their experiences of it, beliefs and so on. acWsa¶ Bibs¯¡pdn¨v HcmÄ¡pÅ _Ôhpw {ZpXKXnbn hfcp¶ \Kch¡cW¯n\nSbn \ aäpÅhÀ¡v AXnepïmIp¶ Nn´Ifpw hyXykvX ãamIp¶ s]mXphnS§Ä¡nSbn PPman\s\¡p- ImgvN¸mSpIfneqsS AhXcn¸n¡p¶p. dn¨pÅ IYIÄ ]dbpIbmWv C´ybnse s\bv¯p- ImÀ. cmPØm\nse _rl¯mb Hcp ]c¼cmK-X hkv{X \nÀ½mW imebpw P\§Ä¡v Hcpan¨ncn¡m- \pÅ Hcp CShpamWv Cu {Kmaw. AhnsS Pohn¡p¶ P\§fpsS A\p`h§fneqsSbpw hnizmk§fneqsS- bpw Cu {Kmas¯ \ap¡v ImWn¨p XcpIbmWv kn- \na.

Ravisankar, from Kerala, has been making shorts and Avinash Maurya is from the capital city of Delhi. He is documentaries from 2014. He is currently pursuing a a post-graduate dropout and has no formal training or Diploma in Film direction and Screenplay writing from experience in film making. the Film and Television institute of India. Kriti Gupta is from the state of Rajasthan in India. She is a post-graduate in Fine Arts with no formal training or experience in film making. 12TH IDSFFK

31 River Story Rooting for Roona India / 06:05 / 2018 India / 39:59 / 2019/ Bengali, Hindi, English

Direction & Screenplay Pavitra Chalam, Akshay Shankar Production Curley Street Media DoP Sujit Direction & Screenplay Yapangnaro Longkumer Anand, Umakanth AN, Divakar Chopra, Mark Production Samaj Pragati Yojana Samaj Pragati Swaroop, Udhay Thangavel, Sreekanth Sivaswamy, Yojana DoP Maibam Amarjeet Singh Sean Somanna, Nonidh Yadav Editing Jyolsna Editing Sesino Yhoshu Music Alfred Besu Panicker Sound Design Baylon Fonseca Composition Tapas Relia Other Anannya Roy

Set in Nagaland, the film hopes to find resonance Rooting for Roona is the story of a little girl Roona in other geo-political locations of the world where Begum born with a birth defect that caused her people living on the margins are challenged head to swell to a size the world had never seen. It by the seemingly inevitable phenomenon of is the story of a family that raises an extraordinary modernization. The film follows Zarenthung, a first child against insoluble odds. generation fisherman while he navigates his new profession as the reality around him is changing.

temI¯n AcnIph¡cns¸Sp¶hÀ B[p\n-I- temIw CXphsc Iïn«nÃm¯, Xehfcp¶ tcmK- hÂ-¡c-W¯nsâ Ime¯v F¯c¯n shÃphnfn¡- hpambn P\n¨ dqW _oKw F¶ sIm¨p s]¬Ip«n- -s¸Sp¶psh¶v \mKmem³Unsâ ]Ým¯e¯n ]d- sb¡pdn¨mWv Nn{Xw. ]cnlcn¡m\mIm¯ {]iv-\§- bp¶ kn\na. B[p-\n-I-hÂ-¡-c-W-sa¶ shÃp-hnfn fpÅ Hcp Ip«nbpsS IpSpw_¯nsâ IY IqSnbmWnXv. t\cnSp¶ BZyXeapdbnse aÕys¯mgnemfnIfn- sem-cmfmb km-sc´pwKneqsSbmWv Cu IY ]dbp- ¶Xv.

The filmmaker is a graduate from the Mass Pavitra Chalam is an award-winning documentary Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, filmmaker based in . She has been directing New Delhi. She hails from Nagaland. films for over 15 years and is the founder of Curley Street. Akshay Shankar is a filmmaker and the CEO of Curley Street. He made his directorial debut with Two Feet to Fly, India’s first film on marathon running.

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Scorched Small-Scale Societies Taapar India / 29:37 / 2018 India / 23:00 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction & Screenplay Akshay Gouri Direction & Production Vipin Vijay Scriptwriting Production SRFTI Kolkata DoP Layashree Joshi Vipin Vijay, Deb kamal Ganguly DoP Rahul Editing Asim Bera Sound Design Kalhan Raina Balachandran Editing Deb kamal Ganguly Sound Design Jose Tome, Antonio Ferreira, Jeremy Hegge, Keith De Mendonca, Joe Stevens

In a predominantly agrarian society, providers of Small Scale Societies is a video exploring food to millions struggle to eat and are often forced ‘archaeological imagination’ ranging from the to kill themselves. Through the story of Raj Singh, tagged-organized museum space with its sense a marginalized peasant, and Jaswant, the tiller of linearity, to various other evocative yet less who consumes poison but eventually doesn’t die, visited prehistoric sites in India – Toba volcanic Taapar explores the several problems that have ash, the Palaeolithic past, painted rock shelters, engulfed farmers and their families for decades, to Megalithic sites and Neolithic burial grounds. The underscore the necessity of a real solution. film attempts to account for life, death, dreams and realities spread across time and space {]_eamb Hcp IÀjI kaql¯nepw, Bbnc§Ä¡v through its narrative. `£Ww \ÂIp¶hÀ BßlXy sNt¿ïn hcp¶p. ]mÀizh¡cn¡s¸« Hcp IÀjI\mb cmPv knwKpw C´ybn C\nbpa[nIw kµÀin¡s¸«n«nÃm¯ Nne DghpImc\mb Pkz´pw hnjw Igns¨¦nepw IãIme- Øe§sf¡pdn¨pÅ "]pcmhkvXp k¦Â¸'amWv Cu ¯n\v acn¡p¶nÃ. IÀjIcpw AhcpsS IpSpw_§- Nn{Xw. {]mNo\inembpKhpw tXm_m Aán ]ÀhX Nm- fpw ]XnämïpIfmbn t\cnSp¶ {]iv-\§sf¡pdn¨pw c§fpw, Nn{XcNnXamb KplIfpw alminem {]tZi- AXn\pÅ ]cnlmc§sf¡pdn¨pw At\zjn¡p¶p. §fpw \ntbmenXnIv ihIpSoc§fpw FÃmw CXn hcp¶p. Imehpw Øehpambn _Ôs¸«pInS¡p¶ PohnX§Ä, acW§Ä, kz]v-\§Ä, bmYmÀ°y§Ä F¶nhsb hniIe\w sN¿pIbmWv Cu hoUntbm.

Akshay Gouri a graduate of direction and screenplay Vipin Vijay is a screenwriter, video artist, producer writing from the Satyajit Ray Film & Television and filmmaker. His films have won short Tiger Award – Institute, Kolkata, hails from Rohtak, Haryana. Rotterdam, Best Film – Signs Du Nuit, Paris, National His other works are Farzandi, Gilaani, Adhinayak, Film Awards, India, Grand Jury Award MIFF, Golden Pratikaar and Janeu. pearl HIFF, Kodak Award, Kerala State Film & TV Award, Puraskaram, IDPA Award, Incredible India Award - IFFI Goa, National Awards, and Hassankutty Award- IFFK 2010. The prestigious Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany, 12TH IDSFFK honoured him with a retrospective. 33 Somewhere Nowhere The Sea Laughs at the India / 27:20 / 2019/ Hindi, Marathi Mountain Dariya Hase Dongravar India / 19:47 / 2018/ Marathi Direction Reema Kaur, Shashank Walia Direction & Screenplay Robin Joy Production Film Production Rajiv Mehrotra Scriptwriting Shashank and Television Institute of India, Pune Walia DoP Shashank Walia Editing & Sound Design Editing Aniket Kale DoP Sreekanth Shivaswamy Reema Kaur Other Saurabh Kumar Sound Design Ramandeep Malhotra

Somewhere Nowhere is a cinematic essay on The film looks at the transitioning lives of fishermen the episodic evolution of a city, about how the of Valmiki Nagar Koliwada, Harihareshwar, city as a space tends to be in a constant state of affected by the arrival of the monsoon rain. It tries flux, opening up to newer narratives and at times to look at how the life of the Koli community is revamping the old ones. The narrative is explored intricately woven into the nature that envelopes through the eyes of an old man, who is also a them. photographer.

Hcp \Kc¯nsâ L«wL«ambpÅ hnImkhpw AXv ImehÀjw _m[n¨ hmÂaoIn \KÀ sImenhmU, t\cnSp¶ AØncmhØbpw ]gbsXÃmw \hoIcn¡-- lcnltcizÀ F¶nhnS§fnse aÕys¯mgnem-fnI- s¸«Xnsâ ]pXnb BJym\hpamWv Cu Nn{Xw. Hcp fpsS ]cnhÀ¯\ PohnXamWv CXv. {]IrXnbpambn t^mt«m{Km^dmbncp¶ hr²sâ ImgvN¸mSpIfneqsS- sI«p]nWªv Pohn¡p¶ tImen kapZmbs¯¡p- bmWv IY ]dbp¶Xv. dn¨pw Nn{Xw ]dbp¶p.

Reema Kaur is a filmmaker and editor. She has edited Robin Joy is an aspiring filmmaker. several short films, including National Award winning best short fiction for 2016 Aushadh.Shashank Walia is a filmmaker and screen writer. He is an alumnus of FTII, Pune. He recently scripted and directed a short fiction, In the month of Love (2019).

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Traces: Stories Village in the Sky India / 25:15 / 2018/ Marathi Aagaswadi India / 19:52 / 2018/ Marathi

Direction, Screenplay & Editing Suranjay Mandal Direction & Screenplay Ramesh Holbole Production Film and TV institute of India Production Film and Television Institute of India, DoP Rajeev Dharavat Pune Editing Varun Saraswat DoP Anu Shersha Sound Design Pradumna Chaware Sound Design Nitheen R

The film traverses through the Konkan region Aagaswadi looks at the distressed lives of a of Maharashtra in India, a landscape filled with population settled in the drought prone village of various traces from the past, looking through Aagaswadi located in Satara district on the hills memories, travelogues, rumour, lore and history of Mann in Maharasthra, India. While accounting to set up a comprehensive narrative around the for the general issues plaguing the region the film region. zooms in on Bhimrao, who digs a well to quench his and his farm’s thirst.

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Suranjay is a visual artist and an independent Ramesh Holbole is an aspiring filmmaker from filmmaker. He is a Film and Television Institute of Namded, Maharashtra. India alumnus. 12TH IDSFFK

35 Waning Moons Waterbodies India / 28:00 / 2018/ English, Hindi, India / 15:03 / 2019/ Hindi Urdu

Direction, DoP, Editing, Animation Direction, Production & DoP Krishanand R K & Sound Design Nooryaab Nakhat Scriptwriting Ruhan Nagra Sound Design Sam Production Rajiv Mehrotra, Tulika Srivastava, Santhosh Editing Rakesh Cherumadam Music Ajmal Ridhima Mehra Other Swaroopnath Bhatra, Hasabulla Other Vysakh Reetha, Syama Bindu, Ajith Maisam Ali Shah Haridas, Ruhan Nagra, Nikhil PS

Waning Moons is a visual exercise in the This short documentary is about the current reminiscence of ’s glorious cultural past crisis the indigenous people in the valley of and tradition of the Chup Tazia, as remembered Narmada are facing because of the unplanned by Nawab Mirza Abbas and his sister Naaz Abbas. and callous construction of dams across the river. The documentary looks into the human rights violation aspect.

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Nooryab Nakhat did her Masters in Mass Krishanand is an independent filmmaker, Communication at Jamia Millia Islamia. She is cinematographer and writer-director from Bangalore, settled in Mumbai after her completion of course India. His films deal with the themes of urbanization, in screenplay writing from the Film and Television religion, corporatism, crime and social stigmas. He is Institute of India, Pune. the director of Utsaha Ithihasam, a Malayalam web series currently running on Zee5. The Series won the '2018 - Best dramedy' at Seoul Web Fest.

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37 A Monsoon Date A Star-Studded Sky India / 20:43 / 2018/ Hindi, English Zari Wala Aasmaan India / 20:00 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction Tanuja Chandra Production Ridhima Lulla, Direction, Screenplay & Production Aasif Moyal Rakesh Singh Screenplay Gazal Dhaliwal DoP Kartik Bhagat Music Nilesh Patange DoP Saurabh Goswami Editing Akshara Prabhakar Editing Kostub Vyas Sound Design Hemant Rao Music Veer Kowli Art Sound Design Dharmil Halvadia Direction Aparna Sud, Garima Mathur

Set on an eventful rainy evening, A Monsoon After the death of a cow in an accident, a peaceful Date tells the tale of a young woman’s emotional small town in India closes down out of fear commute, as she is on her way to see the man she of communal tension, wherein a poor Muslim is seeing with a resolve to share with him a heart- labourer trying to earn his livelihood finds himself breaking truth about her past. having to hide his identity, to avoid becoming a victim of possible hostility.

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Known for making films with female protagonists, Aasif Moyal graduated from FTII (Film and Television Tanuja Chandra was among a handful of women Institute of India) in 2016. Ever since then, he has directors when she first started out. Even now, with been working as a screenplay writer and director in 20 years in the industry, she continues to champion the Indian film industry. His films have won National stories of women by women. Her filmography includes Film Awards in India and have been appreciated in Dushman, Sangarsh, yeh Zindagi Ka Safar, Sur, many reputed international film festivals, including Filmstar, Zindagi Rocks, Hope and A Little Sugar, London Asian Film Festival and Children International Silvat and Qarib Qarib Single. film festival, Dubai. 38 COMPETITION SHORT FICTION

Calycopteris Floribunda Doobie Pullanji India / 17:15 / 2019/ Marathi, Hindi India / 16:08 / 2018/ Malayalam Direction Keith Gomes Production Keith Gomes, Direction & Screenplay Girish Macreri Ashish Patwardhan DoP Archana Ghangrekar Production Vinod Kumar DoP Prajith Vengad Editing Huzefa Lokhandwala Music Roshan Editing & Animation Vishnu OV Machado Sound Design Resul Pookutty Art Direction Music Composition Sachin Balu Sound Design Suresh Selvarajan Co-Producer Marc Baschet, Golda Charan Vinayak Art Direction Mahesh Maroli Sellam, Sandeep Kamal, Girish Talwar

Pullanji is a story based on the life of Koragas, Doobie revolves around a 5 year old child, living a tribal community native to Kasargod district in the life of a rag picker in a garbage dump. The film Kerala. sees the child in pursuit of a desire, amidst the fast paced madness life is in the city of Mumbai.

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Girish Macreri is a well known artist and journalist Keith Gomes started his career with acclaimed from Kerala. documentary filmmaker Riyad Wadia of Wadia Movietone. After which he transitioned into where he worked in various capacities- as a writer, a creative associate, assistant director etc. His filmography includes Aladin, Once Upon A Time in Mumbai, Hey Baby, Kick and Knock Out. 12TH IDSFFK

39 Dying Wind in her Hair Flight of Freedom Bebaak Udne Do India / 20:35 / 2018/ Hindi, Urdu, English India / 20:00 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction Shazia Iqbal Production Direction Aarti Bagdi Production Usha Kakade, Editing Jabeen Merchant DoP Sachin Gadankush Preety Ali, Vinay Mishra, Pallavi Rohatgi Screenplay Music Alokananda Dasgupta Sound Design Vinit Sulekha Bajpai, Aarti Bagdi Composing & Music D’Souza Art Direction Madhura Gokarn Amit Dasani DoP Shashank Telgote, Ershad Shaikh Editing Ganesh Sakpal Co-Producer Abhishek Gautam Sound Design Rameez Zubair Art Direction Ramesh Chowdhry Animation Bilva Design Studio Other Suveera Ambade, Anuj Gupta

Based on a true story, Bebaak explores the body of patriarchal notions around male-authority and female bodies, a body of thought constructed Udne Do tells an unsettling tale of child abuse and systematically and built into social and theological its beyond for a child. premises. The film looks at how the liberal values upheld by an ambitious architecture student are put to test when she is offered a scholarship by a conservative Muslim trust. kw`hIYsb Bkv]Zn¨mWv Cu Nn{Xw. B¬þs]¬ _me-]o-U-\-s¯bpw A-Xn-\p-ti-jw H-cp Ip-«n t\-cn- icoc§fpsS ]pcp-jm-[n]Xyk¦Â]\§Ä Isï¯m Sp-¶ A-h-Ø-I-sfbpw Ip-dn-¨p-Å A-kz-Ø-P-\-Iam-b \p-Å {ia¯nemWv Hcp BÀ¡nsSIvNÀ hnZymÀ°n\n. H-cp I-Y-bmWv Cu Nn{Xw ]-d-bp-¶Xv. A¯cw Nn´ IrXyXtbmsS \nÀ½ns¨-Sp ¡pIbpw kmaqlnIhpw ssZhimkv{X]chpamb Npäp]mSn sI«n¸Sp¡pIbpw sN¿p¶p. bmYmØn- XnI apÉnw {SÌnsâ kvtImfÀjn]v hmKvZm\w sNbv- Xn«pw F§s\bmWv kzX{´ aqey§sf DbÀ¯n¸n- Sn¡p¶sX¶v Cu kn\na ]dbp¶p.

Shazia Iqbal has been working as a Production Aarti Bagdi is a filmmaker known for her Designer in India. Bebaak is her debut short film. winning Khamakha and multiple award winning and It won the Audience choice award for Best Short at Filmfare nominated film Flight of Freedom (Udne Indian Film festival of Los Angeles, 2019 and Best Do). She began her career as an assistant director Short Narrative (Jury Award) at the New York Indian to a couple of acclaimed mainstream filmmakers in film festival 2019. She designed Anurag Kashyap’s Mumbai, India. Recently her feature film Bombairiya film, and is the lead Production designer as Co-Writer and Associate Producer is now streaming for India’s first original Netflix series, Sacred Games. on Netflix. 40 COMPETITION SHORT FICTION

I, Reborn Insidious Indifference India / 20:39 / 2019 India / 19:10 / 2019/ Bengali

Direction & Screenplay Manoj A Michigan Direction, Screenplay & Editing Seemonta Halder Production Gaurang Bookseller, Abhinav Verma DoP Screenplay Dipta Kumar Sinha Chowdhury, Supriyo Dutta Editing Sangalp Bhowmick Music Seemonta Halder DoP Sandeepan Nath Sound Samik Roy Choudary Sound Design Amit Kumar Design Soumya Chatterjee Art Direction Prosun Dutta Art Direction Tapan Seth Mondal Music Debojyoti Acharya Basonto

I Reborn, a short silent, opens up a window into Unapologetic indifference that is prevalent in the world of a mortician who lives in isolation with the society may at times cause serious harm, in his aged father in the backwaters of the Bay of ways that are barely visible at times. Insidious Bengal. Their uneventful lives take an unexpected Indifference is about two promising young men turn, as they come across a baby and the corpse who decide to swim against the overpowering of a woman. current of passivity, hoping for the betterment of humanity.

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Manoj A Michigan is a short and feature filmmaker Seemant Halder is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s from Allahabad, India. His filmography includes Aami degree in Geography from Barrackpore Rastraguru Joy Chatterjee, Damadol, 89, Trito Adhyay and Hello Surendranath College, West Bengal. Kolkata. 12TH IDSFFK

41 Leaping Towards Acceptance Lightwala Geyser Aarohan India / 25:47 / 2019/ English, Marathi, India / 17:01 / 2018/ Marathi Hindi

Direction Nitish Patankar Production & Screenplay Direction & Screenplay Nikhil Patil Anushri Thakar, Nitish Patankar, Sailee Khare, Production Syed Sultan Ahmed DoP Sreejith Shirisha Sathe DoP Atharva Wagh Editing Onkar Gopalan Editing Ghanshyam Shimpi Pradhan Music Sameer Dublay Sound Design Sound Design Piyush Shah Vikrant Pawar Art Direction Anil Gherade

Divorcee-mother to a specially-abled child, all hell Lightwala Geyser tells the tale of Shobhana, a breaks loose in Adyta’s life as her ex-husband school teacher who is looking forward to her re-enters their lives. The film revolves around her maternity break, eight months into her pregnancy, concerns and worries about her situation. and an interesting exchange she has with a six year old that teaches her an important lesson she’s unlikely to forget.

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Nitish Vivek Patankar is an aspiring feature film Nikhil Patil is an FTII product currently working as a maker, who started working in the field as an freelance writer and director in Mumbai. His final FTII Assistant director to multiple National Award-Winning project Chav has been screened and awarded at many film makers such as Sumitra Bhave, Sunil Sukthankar film festivals which include Mumbai International Film and Sujay Dahake. Nitish’s debut short fiction, Na Festival (MIFF-Student Category), Pune International Bole Wo Haram, was selected to Indian Panorama in Film Festival, Third Eye Asian Film Festival, International Film Festival of India 2018. Chitrabharati Film Festival Delhi, etc.

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Look at the Sky Meena India / 30:16 / 2018/ Assamese India / 10:16 / 2019 / Tamil

Direction Dhanasekar Mohan M Production Sujatha Direction & Screenplay Ashok Veilou Sundarapandian Suja DoP Vasanth Michael Edison Production Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Music & Sound Design Charles Dhana Editing DoP Jithu George Editing Pousheru Ngade Pravin Baaskar B Other Gurumurthi Pandurangan, Sound Design Sandeep Singh Pradeep Vijayakumar, Yaagna Kuppusamy Co- Producer Sujatha Sundarapandian, Neeraj Poddar

Hai, a 40 year-old man, is ousted by his villagers Meena revolves around a teenager of the same for not supporting the village candidate in the name, her desires, dreams while living in the elections. Look at the Sky follows Hai’s journey, slums of . to claim and exercise his will and the right of suffrage.

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Ashok Veilou hails from Purul village in Manipur. He Dhanasekar Mohan M is a film maker and sociologist, recently graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in currently working as Assistant Professor of Sociology direction & screenplay writing from Satyajit Ray Film & in a private law college in Chennai. He has directed Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata, India. two other short films. 12TH IDSFFK

43 Motherhood Nooreh Mamatva India / 22:22 / 2018/ Kashmiri India / 30:16 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction & Screenplay Kirti Singh Direction, Screenplay, Production Production Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute & Sound Design Ashish Pandey Kolkata DoP Arun Rushdie Editing Barnali Bose DoP Susheel Gautam Editing Pallavi Singhal Sound Design Shamik Mukherjee Music Daniel George Other Raja Shabir Khan Other Anubhaw Krishna

Mamatva looks at the life of a lower caste Nooreh tells the tale of eight year old Nooreh, midwife, from a village in central . It living in a small village cradled in the militancy looks at how the birth of a baby boy, born to her and military occupation affected valley of younger sister-in-law, sets in motion an outflow of Kashmir, who to her surprise discovers something unacknowledged desire within her. fascinating.

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Kirti Singh has a post graduate Diploma in direction Ashish Pandey graduated from Satyajit Ray Film & and screenplay writing from the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. The other shorts he has Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata, India. made are The Cabin Man and Open Doors.

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O'kabira Patharosa India / 13:25 / 2018/ Hindi India / 30:55 / 2018/ Tamil

Direction Shyamkant Dhanorkar Production Archana Direction & Screenplay Hariharasudhan K dhanorkar Screenplay Sudhanshu Sharma Production Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute DoP Rahul Jadhav Editing Somnath Bhonde Institute DoP Prathyush Kotha, Roopesh Kumar Composing Pankaj Awasthi Shaji Editing Adhil N Asharaf Sound Design Sabaridas Thottingal

O’Kabira is about a traveller lost in a vast sea of Patharosa tells the tale of Boosayya and Maga, nothingness until an unlikely tie drags him back who have to deal with personal loss and shame to a moment he thought was long lost. amidst resisting displacement and trying to motivate the rest of their village to do the same. The film at its core is about how life happens to you all at once, catching you off guard even in your moments of vulnerability.

A\´amb ISensâ iq\yXbn hgnsXän Ae- _qk¿bpsSbpw amKbpsSbpw IY. hyàn]camb \ bp¶ Hcp k©mcnsb¡pdn¨v. Akw`hyamb Hcp ãhpw \mWt¡Spw Øm\\ãhpw Dïmbn«pw AXn- sI«p]mSv XncnsI hens¨Sp¡p¶Xphsc FÃmw F s\sbÃmw {]Xntcm[n¨p \n¡pIbpw, A§s\ sN- s¶t¶¡pambn \ãs¸«p F¶bmÄ hnNmcn-¡p¶p. ¿m³ {Kma¯nse aäpÅhscbpw {]tNmZn¸n¡pIbpw sN¿p¶p. Ac£nXhpw {hWnXhpamb kµÀ`§fn PohnXs¯ F§s\ t\cnSpw F¶XmWv kn\nabpsS ImXÂ.

Shyamkant Dhanorkar is an aspiring filmmaker Hariharasudhan K is an aspiring screenwriter and currently working in television. director. He has worked under in his film Pattarai and has a post graduate Diploma in film making from the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata. His other films are Evan Thakkon, Homers, Mirror and Heart & Soul. 12TH IDSFFK

45 The Disguise The Fence India, United Kingdom / 17:38 / 2018/ Aavruthi English India / 22:33 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction Sandeep A Varma Screenplay & Production Direction & Screenplay Sreehari Dharman Riya Mukherjee Editing Sandeep Francis Composing Production K.R.Narayanan National Institute of Anuj Danait DoP Ezequiel Romero Sound Design Visual Science & Arts DoP ArunSekhar Editing Vinit Gala, Matteo Di Cugno Sajeesh Swaminathan Music Alphons Joseph Sound Co-Producer Nancy Nisa Beso, Ajay Arora Design Arun Kumar K. P, Amrith Sushakumar

The Disguise is an intimate film about the lives of Aavruthi is about a young vowess in a two women living in London. One, a conservative Mindamadham- a convent of silence where a vow holding on to her native values and beliefs, of silence is observed as much as possible, and while the other, a liberal assimilated into her her queries and concerns about her faith. environment. One day an incident on the road, a hate crime, pushes matters to a head, and forces them to rethink their conceptions around self and identity. eï\n Xmakn¡p¶ cïp kv{XoIfpsS ZrV- Hcp anïmaT¯nse bph au\{hX¡mcnbpsS hn-izm _²amb PohnXs¯¸änbpÅ Nn{Xw. AhcnsemcmÄ k-s¯¡pdn¨pÅ At\zjW§fpw DXvIWvTI-fpw. Xsâ hnizmk§fpw BNmc§fpw apdpsI¸nSn¡p¶ bmYmØnXnIbpw atäbmÄ Npäp]mSn\\pkcn¨v kzX{´ Nn´mKXnbpÅhfpamWv. Hcp Znhkw tdmUn- epïmb Hcp kw`hw, shdp¡s¸« Hcp Iäw, kzXz- s¯bpw sFUânänsbbpw Ipdn¨pÅ [mcWIÄ ]p\- cmtemNn¡m³ Ahsc \nÀ_ÔnXcm¡p¶p.

Sandeep A Varma is an award winning filmmaker. Sreehari Dharman is a final year student of Direction As a writer, director and producer he’s won multiple and Scriptwriting at K R Narayanan National Institute accolades and recognitions. His feature film of Visual Science and Arts. He has directed six short Manjunath won the Ramnath Goenka Award for films and two documentaries. A campaign video cinematic excellence & the best screenplay award at that he made in support of World Environment Day the Screen Awards 2015 apart from being nominated was featured in the official page of United Nations for the Best Debut Director Award. Environment Programme.

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Wig India / 26:00 / 2019/ Hindi

Direction, Production & Editing Atanu Mukherjee Production Pooja Gupte, Vinay Mishra Music Anjo John Sound Design Dhiman Karmakar DoP Pooja Gupte Art Direction Naveen Lohara Other Pawan Singh, Urvi Patel, Pranit Hatte, Ipshita Chakraborty Singh

Wig tells the tale of Artika, hailing from a small town in India, who believes she is a liberal- progressive individual. The film follows her encounter with a transperson, which makes her question her notions about self, perceptions and the society.

C´ybnse Hcp sNdp ]«W¯n \n¶pÅ, kzX{´- bpw ]ptcmKa\ Nn´mKXn¡mcnbpamsW¶v hnizkn- ¡p¶ BÀ¯nIbpsS IY. Hcp {Sm³kv hyànbp- ambpÅ Iïpap«ens\¯pSÀ¶v kzXzs¯bpw kaq- ls¯bpw ]änbpÅ AhfpsS [mcWIÄ tNmZyw sN¿s¸Sp¶p.

Atanu Mukherjee is an alumnus of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata, India. Atanu was selected as director-editor in Berlinale Talents 2015, Germany. He has written and directed many shorts and features that went on to be screened at various festival venues across the world. A few of his other works are The Gatekeeper, Unknown Faces,

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A Small Desire Aham Oru Kochu Moham India / 06:54 / 2019/ Malayalam India / 20:43 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction, Screenplay Satyajith Gopikrishna Direction Sooraj S Production Jwala S Parameswar Production LV Prasad Film and TV Academy DoP Screenplay Navya Joseph Editing Sujoy Joseph Ayon Joseph Mathew Editing & Sound Design Libin Art Direction Vishnu G R Antony Laly Music Akhil Alex Mathew Art Direction Muhammed Khais Animation Manodhattan R

Oru Kochu Moham is a visual essay on desire Gender rights-acknowledgement, justice and and its cost, explored through the interactions suffrage were, for the longest while, realities the between a boy and a girl, through the trials and Trans community had no access to. Aham tries to demands of the desire that exists between them. look at how suffrage or the right to vote has set in motion a relatively better reality.

Hcp B¬Ip«nbpsSbpw s]¬Ip«nbpsSbpw kw`mj- {Sm³kv-sP³UÀ I½yqWnänbpsS enwKmhImi Aw- W-¯neqsS Hcp tamls¯bpw AXnsâ hnesbbpw KoImcw, \oXn, thm«hImiw F¶nhsb¡pdn¨pÅ Zriymhnjv-Icn¡pIbmWv Hcp sIm¨ptamlw F¶ NÀ¨IÄ Gsd\mfmbn \S¡p¶p. {Sm³kv-sP³UÀ Iym¼kv kn\na. tamls¯¡pdn¨pÅ hniZoIcW- I½yqWnänbpsS thm«hImi¯n\v thïnbpÅ hmZ- ¯neqsS AXv AhÀ¡nSbn Xs¶ \ne\n¡p¶p. ¯nsâ bmYmÀ°ys¯ Zriyh¡cn¡pIbmWv Alw.

Satyajith Gopikrishna, after his stint at L V Prasad Sooraj S is a medical student and an aspiring Film and Television Academy, has made many filmmaker from Idukki. documentaries and music videos. He has assisted in the 2018 Malayalam feature film Vimanam. 12TH IDSFFK

49 Dhaya Koel India / 13:06 / 2019/ Malayalam Kuyil India / 15:04 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction Noufal Nazeer Production Jili Thilak Direction Razaka Production, DoP & Editing Screenplay Ameer Suhail, Muhsin Majeed Mridul S Screenplay Amrutha E K, Mridul S, Fazil Writer & Creative Direction Ameer Suhail Razak, Neeraj Dayal Music Vijay Krishna, Aby Raju DoP Rohith Reji Editing Sachin Babu Antony Sound Design P K, Romlin Malicherry

Dhaya revolves around a tale of desire and the Kuyil is about a village girl, who is passionate societal reading of this desire. about acting, and her struggle to keep her passion alive in the aftermath of her father’s demise.

Hcp taml¯nsâ IYbv¡v NpänepamWv Zb F¶ Ipbn Hcp {KmaoW s]¬Ip«nbpsS IYbmWv. Nn{Xw k©cn¡p¶Xv. Cu taml¯nsâ kmaqlnI AÑsâ acWtijhpw A`n\bn¡pI F¶ Xsâ hmb\bpw CXn \S¯p¶p. kz]v-\hpambn AhÄ F§s\bmWv apt¶m«v t]m- Ip¶sX¶pw Cu Nn{Xw ]dbp¶p.

Noufal Nazeer is currently pursuing his engineering Fazil Razak is a B.Sc. Mathematics student at Union degree at Mar Athanius College of Engineering. He has Christian College in Aluva. one more short titled Grimm.

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Locker Oorali Band India / 03:26 / 2019 India / 14:16 / 2019/ Malayalam

Direction, Production & Screenplay Selvaraj R Direction & Screenplay Arjun P S Editing Nihas K P Editing Banu M M DoP Rajesh R Production Neo Film School DoP Arjundas K V Sound Design Jofy Raj

Every drop of water conserved-collected may Oorali Band is about Oorali, a based folk- help ensure a better future. Locker tries to reggae band known for being politically vocal and make a compelling case for the aforementioned conversational in their style of music, reminiscent statement. of almost all resistance-dissent genres in art.

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Selvaraj R is a research scholar in Malayalam. His Arjun PS is a direction student at Neo Film School, other short films are Thavala, Avarthanam, Kallan and Kochi, Kerala. Oru kunju dairyam. 12TH IDSFFK

51 Prathichaya Purath India / 16:04 / 2019/ Malayalam India / 14:00 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction, Screenplay & Editing Gayathri Direction & Screenplay Vinayak Suthan Sasiprakash Production Anagha Sivasankar Production Vinayak Suthan Editing Nikhil K A DoP Akshaya P S, Anagha Sivasankaran DoP Mridul S Co-Production Usha Suthan Other Kripa Jayakrishnan, Anila Sahadev, Other Fazil Razak Abhirami S Krishnan

Prathicahaya is a short documentary exploring the Purath looks at how a girl, who kills the man who similarities between cinema and Tholppavakooth, raped her, ends up having to deal with societal an age old art form native to the state of Kerala. isolation and stigma despite having been on the receiving end of a violent and transgressive act.

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Gayathri Sasiprakash is a final year student at Amrita Vinayak Suthan is a BSc psychology student at School of Arts and Sciences in Kochi. She has done Rajagiri College in Kalamaserry, Ernakulam, Kerala. multiple films as a part of her school curriculum on topics such as woman's day, Anorexia Nervosa etc.

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The Weaving Dreams Documentary On Chendamangalam Hand Looms India / 19:07 / 2019/ English

Direction & Screenplay Naveen C Wilson Production Neo Film School DoP Nandhu Kumar S Editing Lineesh Pakku Sound Design Anagha V S

The Weaving Dreams is a documentary on the Chendamangalam handloom weavers, who are now living a stranded life between the memories of a prestigious past and the present day reality of depravation. The documentary tries to set up a narrative of this transition and attempts to articulate the desire fora way out.

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Naveen C Wilson is a student of direction at Neo Film School. 12TH IDSFFK

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Baba Farid: Czechmate - In Search of Poet of the Soul Jirí Menzel India / 429:00 / 2018 / Slovak, English, India / 62:22 / 2018/ English Hungarian, Russian, Polish, French Direction Meera Dewan Editing Sushil Panwar, Direction Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Bharat Barik, Avni Ghansyala DoP David Calek Editing Irene Dhar Mallik DoP Vilayat Ali, Ajmal Jami

Baba Farid: Poet of The Soul is a cinematic journey Czhechmate – In Search of Jiří Menzel is a seven- following a 12th century Poet who is revered hour film that explores in-depth Jiří Menzel’s by both Sikhs and Sufis. The film unravels the deceptively whimsical films and the fascinating geographical, historical and poetic milestones in world of the Czechoslovakian New Wave, the journey of Fariduddin Maud, the country poet peopled by brilliant artists making films under an addressed as Baba Farid by his followers. oppressive regime. knJpIfpw kq^nIfpw Hcpt]mse BZcn¡p¶ 12þ-mw aÀ±I`cWIqSw \ne\n¶ncp¶ Hcp cmPy¯v hkn¨p- \qämïnse Ihn _m_m ^mcnZns\¡pdn¨mWv Cu sImïv Ignhpä IemImc·mcpsS ]¦mfn¯t¯msS Nn{Xw. Bcm[IÀ _m_m ^mcnZv F¶v hnfn¡p¶ hnJymX Ne¨n{XImc³ Pndn sa³sk kwhn[m\w {KmaoWIhnbmb ^mcnZp±o³ auZnsâ PohnX- sNbvX hnNn{XhntamlI§fmb kn\naIfnte¡pw bm{Xbnse `qanimkv{X]chpw Ncn{X]chpw Imhy] sNt¡mtÉmhmIy³ \hXcwKw krãn¨ emhWy- chpamb \mgnI¡ÃpIÄ Cu kn\nabn ImWmw. temIt¯¡pw Bgv¶nd§p¶ At\zjWamWv Ggp aWn¡qÀ ssZÀLyapÅ Cu Nn{Xw.

Meera Dewan is a producer, director and film curator. Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is an award- She is a recipient of many national and international winning filmmaker, archivist and restorer. His awards. She curated and organized DOCUMEDIA, the first documentary Celluloid Man pays tribute to first Doc film section of IFFI; Cinemawoman, India’s India’s legendary archivist P.K. Nair. Shivendra has first International Women’s Film Festival, with Alliance collaborated on two world-class restoration projects a; Cinematic Images of Indian Women. Her first film with Martin Scorsese: Uday Shankar’s Kalpana and Gift of Love won 7 international awards. Some of her Lester James Peries’ film Nidhanaya. He was a donor other works are Dhun Mein Dhyan, In his inner voice, for the restoration of Hitchcock’s silent film The Travelling light, My beloved son and Amrit Beeja. Lodger that was done by the British Film Institute. 12TH IDSFFK 55 Kaifiyat Koothu India / 45:48 / 2018/ Urdu, Hindi, India / 52:00 / 2018/ Tamil, English Marathi

Direction Elroy Pinto DoP Elton Pinto Direction & Editing Sandhya Kumar Editing Swabha Pal Music Amol Ghode DoP Saumyananda Sahi, Kabothu Sound Sound Design Udit Duseja Art Direction Sairandhri Design Christopher Burchell Raut Composing Neela Bhagwat

Kaifiyat looks at the syncretic nature of the tabla, a Koothu is a popular rural theatre from Tamil Nadu, musical instrument, and the playing style of Ustad belonging to a semi-epic mythological tradition. Nizamuddin Khan (d.2000). The tabla, much like Despite its rural popularity, because of its caste Nizamuddin's style, developed in the courts of associations, the form struggles to find place Indo-Islamic rulers of India. The film intersperses and patronage within urban art circles. The film fiction and non-fiction to set-up a narrative and delves into the questions of representation and leans on a narrator to further strengthen it. patronage while presenting the art and aesthetics of the form. cïmbnc¯n A´cn¨ DkvXmZv \nkmap±o³ Jmsâ Xangv-\m«nse P\{]nb {KmaoW \mSIcq]amWv AÀ² Bem]\ coXnbpw Hcp kwKoX D]IcWhpw AXn- CXnlmk ]mc¼cyapÅ Iq¯v. CXnse PmXn_Ôw cn¡p¶ taibpw X½nepÅ CgbSp-¸amWv ssI^nbm- aqew {Kma§sf At]£n¨v \Kc§fn CXn\v ¯v. C´ybnse Ct´m- CÉmanIv `cWm[nImcnIÄ CSwt\Sm\mbn«nÃ. Cu Iebpw CXnsâ kuµcyhpw hnIkn¸ns¨Sp¯ \nkmap±n³ ssienbpÅ X_e. AhXcn¸n¡s¸Spt¼mÄ Bcv c£m[nImcn-bmbncp BJymbnIbpw A\mJymbnIbpw tImÀ¯nW¡n ¶p-sh¶ tNmZyamWv Cu Nn{Xw At\z-jn-¡p¶Xv. IY ]dªmWv Cu Nn{Xs¯ iàns¸Sp¯p¶Xv.

Elroy Pinto is an academician, curator and filmmaker. Sandhya Kumar is a film and communications Kaifiyat is Pinto’s extensively researched directorial graduate of San Francisco Art Institute and Jamia debut. Millia University, New Delhi. Her 2012 documentary, O Friend, This Waiting! won the Indian National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film, for its unconventional exploration of the Devdasi tradition in South India through the medium of love-poetry.

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Line of Control : Ekalochana Janmam India / 52:00 / 2018/ Urdu, Kashmiri India / 82:18 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction & DoP Raja Shabir Khan Direction Neelan Premji DoP Shehanad Jalal Editing Sneha Singh Editing Renju R V Other Harikumar Madhavan Nair Sound Design Amit Kumar Dutta

Keran is a village situated on the Indian side of LoC. The documentary is a cinematic plunge into the With the onset of militancy in the state of Jammu and life of M R Bhattathiripad/ Premji, an actor, poet, Kashmir in early nineties, around 90 percent people playwright, and social reformer who played a vital are known to have fled from Keran and crossed over role in the renaissance movement in Kerala during to the other side. The film revolves around Ashraf the fifties. Joo and his struggle, to procure the necessary travel documents, to be able to visit his family on the other side.

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Raja Shabir Khan has won three awards (Two Gold Neelan Premji is a senior journalist, writer, film critic, and One Silver) for his film Shepherds of Paradise, filmmaker and teacher of cinema. in the category of best non-feature film and best cinematography at 60th National Film Awards. While in school he directed and wrote a short film called, Pagla Baba, which won the Bronze Remi Award for short fiction film in the World Film Fest 2007 in

Houston, Texas. 12TH IDSFFK 57 Resonating Burra - The Three Sisters Story of Burrakatha India / 54:26 / 2019/ Bengali India / 41:25 / 2018/ Telugu Direction Arjun Chavah Direction Putul Mahmood Editing Amitabh Editing Anand Gautam Chakraborty DoP Prabhdeep Singh Sound Design Arkadeep Karmakar

Burrakatha is an oral performative form from the Three Sisters, Shikha, Rupashi and , were Telangana and Andhra regions of India. Emerging forcibly admitted by their family to the Lumbini amidst the Indian anti-colonial movement and the Park Mental Hospital in Calcutta.The film is about struggle against feudal oppression, Burrakatha the sisters' madness, their longing for familial was conceived as a dissent aiding medium. The love and their tremendous grace and dignity in the form eventually died out. The film uses Burrakatha face of its denial. to fill in pieces in the narrative on Telangana’s and contemplates the plight of a folk medium, once used for dissent. B{Ôbnsebpw sXep¦m\bnsebpw Hcp IY]d¨n inJ, cq]mjn, koa F¶o ktlmZcnamsc IpSpw_mw- Iemcq]amWv _pdIY. 1940Ifn DbÀ¶ph¶ Cu K§Ä \nÀ_Ôn¨v sIm¡¯bnse epw_n\n ]mÀ- Iemcq]w A¶s¯ C´ybnse tImf\n hncp² ap ¡v am\knI tcmKmip]{Xnbn {]thin¸n¨p. Cu t¶ä-¯nsâbpw P·nhncp² kac¯nsâbpw kzm[o\ ktlmZcnamcpsS {`m´pw AhÀ A\p`hn¡p¶ ^eambn {]Xntj[s¯ klmbn¡p¶ am[yaambn. IpSpw_kv-t\lhpw AhÀ¡nSbn \ne\n¡p¶ kzmX{´ym\´cw Cu Iemcq]w kmaqlnI hnjb at\mlcamb _lpam\hpw BZchpw Cu Ne¨n{Xw §fpw ssIImcyw sN¿m³ XpS§nsb¦nepw ]n¶oSv Bhnjv-Icn¡p¶p. ]qÀWambpw CÃmXmbn. Hcn¡Â {]Xntj[ambn D]tbmKn¨ Cu Iemcq]w Ct¸mÄ Hcp t^m¡v am[yaambn D]tbmKn¡pIbmWv Cu kn\nabnÂ.

Arjun Chavah is a filmmaker, cinematographer and Putul Mahmood is a filmmaker, teaching at SRFTI. She photographer from . He did his masters in has produced Bengali feature film Cosmic Sex. Her Media & Cultural Studies from School of Media and notable works include the short fiction films You Who Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai. Resonating Burra - Never Arrived and The Window; the documentaries I The Story of Burrakatha (2018) is his debut feature Shoot You, Man of Silence - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, film. Atasi and Three Sisters; the nonfiction TV series Raag Rang and Renditions.

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We Have Not Come Here to Die India / 110:00 / 2018 / Telugu, Tamil, English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi

Direction Deepa Dhanraj Editing Jabeen Merchant DoP Navroze Contractor

The film is a take on the suicide of the Dalit student Rohit Vemula who commited suicide due to the persecution from his university. His suicide note galvanized student politics in India. The film tries to track this historic movement that is changing the conversation on caste in India.

C´ybnse Hcp kÀhIemim-ebnÂ, A[nIrXÀ Im«nb ]£]mXnXz¯nsâbpw PmXn lnµp tZiobX- bpsSbpw th«bmS Xm§m\m-ImsX Hcp ZfnXv Kth jI hnZymÀ°n, tcmlnXv shape BßlXy sNbvXp. shapebpsS BßlXym¡pdn¸v C´ybnse hnZymÀ- °n cm{ãob¯n\v ]pXnsbmcpWÀhv ]IÀ¶p. Hcp {] Øm\sa¶ \nebn C´ybnse PmXnhyhØsb ¡pdn¨pÅ ]pXpkwhmZ§Ä¡v CsX§-s\ hgnXpd¶p sh¶v Adnbm³ {ian¡pIbmWv Cu Nn{Xw.

Deepa Dhanraj is a significant filmmaker whose works include many series of films on education and health as well as award winning documentaries. Enough of this Silence, The Advocate, Nari Adalat, 'Itta Hejje Mundakka Thegiya Bediri Hindakka', a series of 12 films for elected women in Gram Panchayats, The Legacy of Malthus, Something like a War, Kya Hua Iss

Shehar Ko and Sudesha, are a few of her films. 12TH IDSFFK 59 SHORT DOCUMENTARY FOCUS

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Aage: Chai for Director, In the Search of Justice Pan for Crew India / 26:53 / 2019/ Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati India / 19:47 / 2018/ Malayalam Direction & Editing Nagnath Kharat DoP Akshay Direction Harold Antony Paulson Waghmode Editing & Sound Design Yogesh Jadhav DoP Raman Unni Editing Aritra Majumdar Co- Producer Ujwala Mote Music Charan Jadhav Sound Design Sanju Augustine Art Direction Samadhan Mane Animation Jerin James Joe

In the majoritarian retrograde imagination in Over the last two decades, Perumbavoor has India, Dalits are considered the occupants of transformed into an interestingly plural space, lowest strata of the society. Aage: In The Search seeing migrant labourers from different parts of of Justice revolves around Nitin Aage Kharda’s the country. With time the interactions between murder, a 17 year old Dalit youth who lost his life the migrants and the locals have evolved along to the act of honour killing, and the judiciary’s affectionate terms, to the extent that it has at failure to mete out justice to the culprits. times concluded in marriages. Chai for Director, Pan for Crew revolves around one such couple and ]n´ncn¸³ Nn´mKXn iàamb C´ybn Zen-Xsc the crew’s interaction with them. IW¡m¡p¶Xv kaql¯nse Gähpw Xmsg¯- Ignª cïv ZimЧfmbn s]cp¼mhqÀ Hcp _lp- «nepÅhcmbmWv. BsK: C³ Z kÀ¨v Hm^v PÌnkv ] kzcXbpsS \mSmWv. cmPy¯nsâ hnhn[ `mK§fn dbp¶Xv \nXn³ BsKbpsS IYbmWv. am\wIm¡Â \n¶pÅ sXmgnemfnIsf Iïm AXv a\ÊnemIpw. sIme]mXI¯n\v Ccbmb ]Xnt\gpImc³ ZenX\m- {]tZihmknIfpw A\ykwØm\ sXmgnemfnIfpw Wv BsK. F¶m BsKbv¡v \oXn \ÂIp¶Xnepw X½nepÅ kw`mjW§fn \n¶pt]mepw AXv \ap¡v IpähmfnIÄ¡v in£ \ÂIp¶Xnepw \oXn\ymb a\knemIpw. Ct¸mÄ ChÀ X½nepÅ hnhml§Ä hyhØ ]cmPbs¸«p. \S¡p¶ ImehpamWv. Cu Nn{Xw C¯c¯nepÅ Z¼XnIfpw {Iqhpw X½nepÅ kw`mjWamWv.

Nagnath Kharat is a poet and Independent filmmaker. Harold Antony Paulson is a final year direction and His first short film Day after Day has won awards in screenwriting student of K.R. Narayanan National festivals all over the world. Institute of Visual science and arts. His filmography includes May (2018), Kuzhimandhi (2017), Big Bang Theory (2016), Gomorrah (2015) and Motta (2013). 12TH IDSFFK

61 Daughter of Nepal Jangarh Singh : India / 34:15 / 2018/ English, Nepali Legacy of a Painter India / 24:58 / 2018/ English Direction & Editing Surbhi Dewan Direction Nutan Manmohan DoP Ram Babu Gupta DoP Saptarshi Roy Composing Shikhar Prasad Editing Masood Altamash Music Sudheer Rikari Animation Gayane Bagdasaryan Co-Producer Vishwa Maurya

Daughter of Nepal is a poetic look at a rarely Jangarh Singh Shyam was a genius artist, seen side of a revolutionary movement. It is the belonging to the Gond pradhan tribe of storytellers story of Manushi Yami Bhattarai, the unassuming from central India. Since his first appearance at daughter of two formidable political leaders of the Pompidou Museum in Paris - his work has Nepal. As her parents prepared to go underground created a big buzz across art galleries all over for the Peoples' War in the mid-1990, nine-year- the world. Jangarh experiments with different old Manushi was sent across the border to live mediums - from simple ink drawings to ambitious under an assumed identity. large scale murals on iconic buildings. tUm«À Hm^v t\¸mÄ Hcp hn¹h apt¶ä¯n kw`- PwKmUv knwKv iymw alm\mb Hcp IemImc³ Bbn- hn¡mhp¶ A]qÀh kw`h¯nsâ ImhymßI Imgv- cp¶p. at[y´ybnse IY]d¨nepImcmb tKmïv NbmWv. CXv am\pjn bman `«mcnbpsS IYbmWv. {][m³ tKm{X¯nÂs¸« Ct±l¯nsâ Nn{X§Ä t\¸m-fnse BZcWobcmb cïv cm{ãob¡mcpsS a temI¯nse ]e BÀ«v KmednIfnepw {]ZÀin¸n¨n- IfmWv am\pjn. sXm®qdpIfpsS a[y-¯n Ccphcpw «pïv. km[mcW ajnhc apX kvamcIaµnc§fnse Hfnhn t]mIm³ Xocpam\n¡p-t¼mÄ H¼Xv hbÊp h³InS NphÀNn{X§fn hsc hnhn[ am[ya§- Imcnbmbncp¶ am\pjnsb AXnÀ¯n¡-¸pd¯v fmWv At±lw Xsâ krãnIÄ¡mbn D]tbmKn¨ncp- AÚmXamb Hcp sFUânänbn Pohn¡m\b¨p. ¶Xv. Nn{XImcsâ PohnX¯neqsSbmWv Cu tUmIyp- saâdn k©cn¡p¶Xv.

Surbhi is an independent filmmaker. She recently co- Nutan Manmohan is a known documentary filmmaker produced, A Thin Wall, a feature length documentary and series director. Her children’s series Zara Hat Ke on personal narratives from the time of partition and got Best children’s programme award in the Pinnacle directed an award-winning short documentary Puppy TV awards of 1997. Her film A second Hand Life won Love. She is also a co-founder and creative producer the ‘Best Environment Film’ at Vatavaran 2005. Her at Painted Tree Pictures, a Delhi-based media film The Last Flight on vulture conservation got the production company. Her other films are Tales from a ‘Wild Wing OBE’ award in the UK. Walled City and Time Will Tell. 62 FOCUS SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Memoirs of Saira & Salim Metaphor India / 13:40 / 2018/ Hindi, Gujarati Roopakam India / 19:40 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction Eshwarya Grover Direction Prashob Divakaran DoP Naveen KV Sound Design Kunika Kharat Editing Vinu Wilfred Other Richa Yadav Sound Design Jishnu Thankappan

Memoirs of Saira & Salim follow Saira and Salim, Roopakam looks at the life of Poikayil Yohannan, who are revisiting the burned down house their the founder of the socio-religious movement family was forced to abandon during the 2002 Pratyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha and a communal riots in India, which inevitably becomes representative and advocate of the Dalit cause in a walk down the memory lane for the two. the 19th century through to the 20th. It looks at how he resisted and opposed the oppressive conditions of his days to demand and forge an identity of social equality and dignity, for the sons of the soil. 2002se hÀ¤ob Iem]¯n I¯n\in¨ X§fpsS Cu tUmIypsaâdn s]mbvIbn tbml-¶msâ Pohn- IpSpw_ hoSv ImWms\¯p¶ kmdsbbpw kenans\ X¯neqsSbmWv IS¶pt]mIp¶Xv. {]Xy£ c£m bpamWv Nn{Xw ]n´pScp¶Xv. CcphÀ¡pw AXv ssZhk`sb¶ kmaqlnI-kmapZm-bnI apt¶ä¯n X§fpsS HmÀ½Ifnte¡pÅ aS§nt¸m¡mWv. sâ Øm]I\mWv At±lw. 19þ-mw \q-äm-ïnepw 20þ-mw \qämïnepapïmb ZenXv apt¶ä§-Ä¡v t\XrXzw \ÂIn. a®nsâ a¡Ä¡v Xsâ Ime¯v \ne\n- ¶ncp¶ kmaqlnI hnthN\¯ns\Xnscbmbncp¶p At±l¯nsâ t]mcm«w.

Eshwarya Grover is a post-graduate film student at Prashobh Divakaran is a final year direction and the National Institute of Design, India. She chanced screenwriting student of the K R Narayanan National upon films while studying architecture and believes Institute of Visual Science & Arts, Kottayam, Kerala. film is a powerful medium to capture the essence and emotion of a space. 12TH IDSFFK

63 Nambi the Scientist One Mustard Seed India / 30:23 / 2018/ English India / 33:05 / 2018/ English

Direction Prajesh Sen G DoP Lebison Gopi Direction Aparna Sanyal Editing Pooja Iyengar Editing Athul Vijay Music Joshwa VJ DoP Vilayat Ali, Arghadeep Barua Other Ramakrishna PC Composing Manas Baruah Other Ralph Fernandes, Moumita Ghosh

Nambi The Scientist is a documentary film on the The film contemplates the contentious nature of life of former ISRO scientist S Nambi Narayanan. human relationship with the idea of dying and why The film revolves around the allegations of his it seems almost impossible for humans to come involvement in the espionage case and his to terms with the idea of death and temporality of experience of that troubling episode. life.

ap³ sFFkvBÀH imkv{XÚ³ \¼n \mcmbW-- acWsa¶ Bibt¯mSv Ieln¡p¶ a\pjy_Ô- s\¡pdn¨pÅ Nn{Xw. Nmct¡kn DÄs¸«Xns\bpw §-sf¡pdn¨mWv Cu tUmIypsaâdn. acWs¯bpw A-Xn\ptijw A\p`hnt¡ïnh¶ ISp¯ thZ\ PohnX¯nsâ \izcXsbbpw AwKoIcn¡m\mIm¯ bpsS \mfpIsfbpw Ipdn¨pÅ At±l¯nsâ A\p- a\pjykz`mhs¯ CXv ]cntim[n¡p¶p. `h-§fmWv Cu tUmIypsaâdn.

Prajesh Sen G is an Indian filmmaker and writer. Aparna Sanyal is a director and producer based He made his directorial debut with Captain (2018), in Delhi. She won the Rajat Kamal in 2012 and the starring and Anu Sithara. He is currently Charles Wallace India Trust research grant in 2015. working as a Co- Director in the movie Rocketry: The Her previous films include Tedhi Lakeer, A Drop of Nambi Effect, which is based on the life of prominent Sunshine, Shovana and The Monks who won the scientist Nambi Narayanan. Grammy.

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Pallom - An Ark of Life Rhythm of a Village Pallom Oru Jeevabhayam India / 20:07 / 2018/ Malayalam India / 28:24 / 2019/ Malayalam

Direction & DoP Jayesh Padichal Direction Arun M S Editing Amjath Ashraf DoP Aju Ajay Sekhar DoP Vishnu Anil Kumar Sound Design Manasa L Editing Manoj K Animation Sethulakshmi Muralidharan

Pallom is a unique water ecosystem in the midland Chendamangalam is a village in of laterite hills of Northern Kerala. It is a natural Kerala famous for its centuries-old weaving tradition. sanctuary for thousands of life-forms and acts as Although the government & weavers have been trying a water bowl for nearby villages. This documentary to preserve this tradition, due to low income-inflow discusses how Pallom helped Kasargod, the weavers have been migrating to other occupations, northern most district of Kerala, to overcome the which could lead to the extinction of this tradition, biodiversity loses it incurred during the floods of unless addressed immediately. The film attempts to foreground the issue and the sense of immediacy 2018. around it. hS¡³ tIcf¯nse emätdäv Ip¶pIfnse Pe t{kmXkmWv ]Åw. kao]s¯ {Kma§fnse Bbnc-¡- \qämïpIÄ ]g¡apÅ ssI¯dns\bv¯v sImïv W¡n\v a\pjycpw PohnIfpw B{ibn¡p¶ Poh- {]ikvXamb FdWmIpfw PnÃbnse Hcp {KmaamWv kt¦XamWv CXv. 2018se alm{]fb¯n \ãamb tNµawKew. XpÑamb hcpam\w aqew s\bv¯pImcn ssPsshhn[ys¯ ImkÀtKmUv PnÃbv¡v XncnsI ]n- ]ecpw aäv sXmgnepIÄ Isï¯p¶ kmlNcy¯n Sn¡m³ CsX§s\ klmbn¡p¶psh¶v Cu Nn{Xw kÀ¡mcpw s\bv¯pImcpw Cu ]c¼cmKX hyhkm- ]dbp¶p. bs¯ kwc£n¡m³ {ian¡pIbmWv. s\bv¯v taJ-e bnse {]iv-\§fpw AXnte¡v ASnb´c {i² thï Xnsâ BhiyIXIfpamWv Cu Nn{Xw ]dbp¶Xv.

Jayesh Padichal is an aspiring filmmaker and Arun M S is a final year student pursuing screenplay documentary director from Payyanur, Kerala. writing & direction at K R Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, Kerala. 12TH IDSFFK

65 Seethakali Ships Outside My Window India / 39:10 / 2019/ Malayalam India, Germany / 27:41 / 2018/ English, Malayalam

Direction T N Shajimon Direction Rebana Liz John DoP Satheesh Balakrishna Sound Design Marek Forreiter Editing Anithin Aniyan Other Jule Katinka Cramer

Seethakali follows the history of Seethakali, Ships Outside my Window is an exploration of the a type of Dravidian folk dance that existed in filmmaker's father's life as a seafarer under harsh Desinganadu, around three and a half decades global conditions , his voyage into the liminal ago, the region now known as Kollam. The songs of spaces created by mental illness and the affective which were written and composed on the premises struggle of a family, especially the mother, caught of Kamba Ramayana & Adhyatma Ramayanam in its crosshairs. At its heart the film is a reflection and performed by people from Dalit communities, on the nature of memory, the personal and the mainly Vedar and Pulayar communities. universal. Ct¸mgs¯ sImÃw PnÃbmb tZinwK\mSn aq¶c HmÀ½IfpsSbpw kzImcy PohnX¯nsâbpw ]Ým- ]Xnämïv ap¼v \ne\n¶ncp¶ koXIfnsb¡pdn¨pÅ ¯e¯nemWv Cu Nn{Xw Hcp¡nbncn¡p¶Xv. kwhn[m- tUmIypsaâdn. A²ymß cmambWs¯bpw I¼ bnI-bpsS ]nXmhn\pïmbncp¶ ISÂt¸Snsb¡pdn- cmambWs¯bpw Bkv]Zam¡n X¿mdm¡nb Km\- ¨mWv ]dbp¶Xv. AXv AhcpsS IpSpw_s¯ {] §Ä ZenXv hn`mK¡mcmb thScpw ]pebcpamWv tXy-In¨pw A½sb F{Xam{Xw _m[n¨psh¶v Nn{Xw AhXcn¸n¡p¶Xv. hniZo-Icn¡p¶p.

T.N Shajimon is a script writer, director and Rebana John is an Indian artist-filmmaker who grew playwright. He received the Best Script Writer award in up in Mumbai, India. She is currently enrolled in a the Kerala State Television Awards of 2016 for the film Post graduate programme in Film/Media Art at the Uriyattom. Kunsthochschule für Medien/ Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany, where she is refining her documentary practice while reframing existing approaches and formats.

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Still I Rise Telltales of the Hills India / 35:18 / 2018/ Hindi, English India / 16:59 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction Dheeshma P DoP Chon Beni Shitiri Direction Georgy Abraham DoP Sangeet S Editing Shaheen Ibrahim Other Harini Rajasekar Editing Akash Sound Design Dhanesh Animation Abhijith Saji, Amaljith Saji

In the winding lanes near Charminar, in the heart of The reality of Munnar is known to have changed Hyderabad’s Old City, lies an elaborate trafficking drastically after the introduction of plantation racket. Young Muslim girls, as young as 12, are culture. The colonizers are known to have cleared married off for money in sham ceremonies to everything native to that environment, including foreign Sheikhs. Still I Rise tells the tale of two such the early inhabitants called Muduvans, to build women who are caught in this massive nexus that up a resource-finance empire. Telltales of the Hills has left one too many in dire straits but manages to looks at how these wheels of exploitation put in survive it, to live life on their own terms. place by the colonizers have managed to survive sslZcm_mZnse ]gb \Kc¯nsâ lrZb`mKamb beyond them, to continue till date. NmÀan\mdn hym]n¨pInS¡p¶ a\pjy¡S¯v kwL- §Ä. 12 hbÊmIpt¼mtg¡pw hntZi sjbvJpamÀ¡v ]cnØnXnbnte¡v ¹mtâj³ kwkv-Imcw AhXcn- hnhmlw Ign¡m\mbn hn¡s¸Sp¶ apÉnw ¸n-¨tXmsS aq¶mdnsâ bmYmÀ°yw amdnt¸mbn. s]¬Ip«nIÄ. a\pjy¡S¯n\nSbn ]nSn¡s¸« Hcp km¼¯nI km{amPyw sI«ns¸Sp¡p¶Xn\mbn C¯c¯nepÅ cïv kv{XoIÄ Ct¸mÄ F§s\ AhnSps¯ a\pjycmb apXphm³amscbpÄ-s¸sS- Pohn¡p¶psh¶pw AhÀ kmlNcy§sf F§s\ bpÅ B ]mcnØnXnI kmlNcy§sf amän- XcWw sN¿p¶psh¶pamWv Nn{Xw ]dbp¶Xv. adn¨p. A[n\nthi¡mÀ Cu NqjWw \S¯nbsX§ s\bmsW¶v Nn{Xw ]cntim[n¡pIbmWv.

Dheeshma Puzhakkal is a debutant documentary Georgy Abraham hails from Niranam, Kerala. Currently filmmaker hailing from the city of Kochi in Kerala. he is pursuing a Diploma in screenwriting & direction She completed her Master's degree in Mass at KR Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science & Communication from the University of Hyderabad, Arts, Kottayam, Kerala. during the course of which she conceptualized and directed Still I Rise. 12TH IDSFFK

67 The Cyclone The Obscured Profile Chuzhali India / 22:33 / 2019/ Malayalam India / 19:13 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction Prahas Nair DoP Krishna Veni Direction& DoP Raman Unni Editing Muhammed Editing Yugesh Bhoskar T J Sound Design L Manasa Animation Arjun Sivaji Sound Design Anukrishna MR Other Vishnu Kannan

Chuzhali looks at the aftermath of cyclone Okhi An experimental film contemplating journeys, that devastated the south west coast of India in their nature and meaning. 2017.

2017 C´ybpsS sX¡p]Snªmd³ Xoc§fn bm{XIsf¡pdn¨pw AhbpsS kz`mhs¯bpw AÀ°- BªSn¨p \mi\ãw hcp¯nb HmJn Npgen¡män- s¯bpw Ipdn¨pw At\jn¡p¶ ]co£WmßI Nn- s\¡pdn¨pÅ Nn{Xw. Npgen¡män\v tijapÅ Xoc- {Xw. §fnse PohnXamWv Cu tUmIypsaâdn hnhcn- ¡p¶Xv.

Prahas Nair is a film student from K R Narayanan Raman Unni is an aspiring independent filmmaker National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, and cinematographer. His other works are Kottayam, Kerala specializing in direction and Thadiyanum Mudiyanum, On the Way, May, Chai for screenplay writing. Director Pan for Crew, Kuzhimandhi, Big Bang Theory and Bullseye.

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The Phoenix State The Unsung India / 28:37 / 2019/ English India / 270:10 / 2019/

Direction & DoP Gilbert George Gilbert Direction & Animation Music Anand Nambiar Editing Linto Thomas DoP Rahul Accot, Gokul Pillai Sound Design Editing Sarah Thomas Other Mahesh Karunakaran

The Phoenix State looks at how the people of The Unsung tells the tale of Halakki Vokkaliga, a Kerala survived the hardships and challenges the fast-dying tribe of Karnataka known for their rich flood of 2018, and its aftermath, presented them oral and performative culture. The film looks at with. how the tribe is negotiating their existence and way of life in the face of rapid modernization while struggling to be instated as a Scheduled Tribe, to be heard by the State Government.

2018se alm{]fbs¯ tIcf¯nse P\§Ä F§- k¼¶amb hmNnI, Zriy Iem]mc¼cy¯m {] s\ AXnPohns¨¶pw {]fb¯nsâ _m¡n]{X§fpw kn²sa¦nepw, thK¯n CÃmXmbns¡mïncn¡p¶ hnhcn¡p¶ Nn{Xw. lf¡n shm¡enK F¶ IÀWmSI¯nse tKm{X- hn`mKs¯¡pdn¨v. ChcpsS PohnXcoXnbpw kw- Øm\ kÀ¡mcn\v ChtcmSpÅ kao]\hpsaÃmw tUmIypsaâdnbn hnhcn¡p¶p.

Gilbert George is a Kochi based content writer and Sarah Thomas is the Founder and Executive Producer cinematographer. His short film Prakriti was the of one of the leading ad film production houses in second runner up in Manorama Online's Campus India, STOM Productions. Sarah began her career Short Film Festival Season 5. as a writer and documentary filmmaker. She wrote the script for a documentary Autumn of Life, while in college. The film won the National Students' Film Awards. 12TH IDSFFK

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Akki Behind the Moon India / 15:00 / 2018/ Marathi Bishad Bindu India / 23:00 / 2018/ Bengali

Direction Ramana Dumpala Editing Omkar Pardeshi Direction& Art Direction Samrat Chakraborty DoP DoP Shiva Kumar Rasole Kotagiri Art Direction Ashes Mukherjee Editing Amit Debnath Sound Srinivas Rao Tamarala Music Ankush Boradkar Design Anup Mukherjee Music Debojyoti Mishra Sound Design Shatabdi Roy

Unfolding on the eve of Ganesh Chathurthi, Akki Bishad Bindu revolves around the life of an artist follows school-going Akansh’s pursuit of a small- who earns his livelihood by engraving miniature time desire and the cost he has to pay for it. images of mosques and temples on grindstones. Set in a small town, the film asks many poignant questions about the contemporary day Indian reality through the artist’s experience of making an error. kv-IqÄ hnZymÀ°nbmb AIm³jnsâ Ipd¨pImeam- IÃn ]ÅnIfpsSbpw A¼e§fpsSbpw sNdpcq]- bpÅ B{Klhpw Ah³ AXn\v sImSpt¡ïn hcp- §Ä sIm¯nbpïm¡n hnäv D]Poh\w \S¯p¶ Hcp ¶ hnebpamWv Hcp KtWi NXpÀ°n Znhk sshIp- IemImcsâ PohnXs¯ Npän¸änbmWv Cu Nn{Xw t¶c¯nsâ ]Ým¯e¯n A¡n ]dbp¶Xv. \o-§p¶Xv. IemImc\v kw`hn¡p¶ Hcp sXäneqsS kaImenI C´y³ bmYmÀ°ys¯¡pdn¨pÅ Xo{h- amb tNmZy§fmWv Hcp sNdnb \Kcs¯ tI{µoIcn¨v Hcp¡nbncn¡p¶ Cu Nn{Xw tNmZn¡p¶Xv.

Rama Dumpala is an aspiring filmmaker from Samrat Chakraborty is from a small town in the Polavarum in Srikulam district of Andhra Pradesh. Nadia district of West Bengal, India. He has worked as an assistant director with many award winning filmmakers on national and international projects. He has produced, scripted and directed short fiction, documentaries and ad-films. Songs of Oblivion is another film he made in 2012. 12TH IDSFFK

71 Brother Crossing Bhau India / 08:22 / 2018 India / 14:59 / 2019/ Hindi

Direction Venky AV DoP Ravi Ranjan Direction Aswin Bos DoP Hestin Jose Editing Kumar Gaurav Music Sooraj Bishnoi Editing Pranav Raj Animation Jerome Thoppil Sound Design Abhijeet Sapre Music Lijo Jose Sound Design Dhanush Nayanar

When a formidable Mafia boss asks his right- Choices are considered freedom-manifest. hand henchman to kill a disabled child in his Crossing explores the reality behind this care, the henchman finds himself in a tough spot. perception through the portrayal of certain Bhau looks at how the henchman works out this choices to examine whether choices are actually conundrum. made willingly or otherwise.

Xsâ hewssIbmb A\pNct\mSv Hcp am-^nb kzmX{´y¯nsâ hnfw_c]{XnIbmWv sXcsª- Xeh³ AbmfpsS kwc£WbnepÅ imcocnI- Sp¡-epIÄ. Cu ImgvN¸mSnsâ ]n¶nse bmYmÀ- tijn¡pdhpÅ Ip«nsb sImes¸Sp¯m³ Bhiy- °yw hyàam¡pIbmWv t{ImknwKv. Nne sXcsª- s¸Sp¶tXmsS AbmÄ KXntISnemIp¶p. Cu ZpÀ- Sp¡epIÄ ]cntim[n¨m icn¡pw AXv Cã{] LS kmlNcy¯n B A\pNc³ F§s\ {] ImcamtWm AÃmsXbmtWmsb¶v a\ÊnemIpw. hÀ¯n¡p¶psh¶mWv Nn{Xw ]dbp¶Xv.

Venky AV is a filmmaker who has conceived and Aswin Bos is an independent filmmaker. His first directed seven short films, a TV series and many TV short film Penchant was screened at many prestigious promos, commercials and music videos. His short venues. films have won him honours at many film festivals. He holds a certificate in screenplay writing from Whistling Woods International Screen Writing Programme, 2017.

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Drifter If I have to Go India / 13:13 / 2019/ Bengali India / 13:49 / 2018/ Assamese

Direction& DoP Gaurav Boruah, Prajnyan Goswami Direction Samya Mondal DoP Pushpak Sarathi Editing Uddipta Bhattacharyya Composing Tarali Sanyal Editing Banhi Sekha Sarkar Sarma Sound Design Debajit Gayan Music Santanu Sound Design Somnath Bag Baruah, John Fernandez Other Dhiru Kalita, Rukmajit Baruah, Nayan Bhuyan, Hemen Talukdar, Jintu Bordoloi, Ripunjay Sharma

Drifter tells the tale of a girl, from a middle class When Biju goes against his parents’ will to get family, who wants to have a life of her own, while married, a secret gets exposed - an identity that her parents wants her to get married to a boy of is considered borderline taboo and repugnant in their choice. his society. If I Have to go looks at how society receives this revelation and Biju’s experience of it.

XtâXmb PohnXw thWsa¶v IcpXp¶ Hcp a[y- _nPp Xsâ amXm]nXm¡sf FXnÀ¯v hnhmlw hÀK IpSpw_¯nse s]¬Ip«nbpsS IY. F-¶m Ign¡m³ t]mbt¸mÄ Hcp clkyw shfns¸Sp¶p. AhfpsS amXm]nXm¡Ä¡v AhÀ B{Kln¡p- AXnÀ¯nbnse hne¡pt]msetbm kaql¯n\v ¶bmsfs¡mïv hnhmlw Ign¸n¡Wsa¶mWv. A{]nbambXv t]msetbm DÅ Hcp hyànXzw. _nPp A\p`hn¨ B shfns¸S kaqlw F§s\ kzoI cn¡p¶psh¶mWv Cu Nn{Xw ]dbp¶Xv.

Samya Mondal is a student of direction at the Gaurav is a photographer and a filmmaker based in Roopkala Kendro (a film institute under the Guwahati, Assam. His filmography includes - Annexan, Government of West Bengal). Drifter was made as a The message of beauty, Irreparable and If I have to go. part of his course study as a dialogue exercise. Prajnyan is a photographer and film maker from Jorhat, Assam. His photographs have been accepted in the Scottish International Salon of photography in 2018. His filmography includes - Annexan, The message of beauty, Irreparable and If I have to go. 12TH IDSFFK 73 Kunjaappi Line of Duty India / 27:39 / 2019 India / 12:55 / 2019/ Hindi, English

Direction Vishal Viswanathan DoP Thaai Prasaath Direction Mayank Malhotra DoP Yash Khanna Editing Anand Bodh Music Arjun V Akshaya Editing Anand Subaya, Shruti Bora Sound Design Sound Design Jeevan Scaria Eapen Sudeepta Sadhukhan Music Anurag Shanker Other Pronita Pal, Ninad Kulkarni

Kunjappi, a silent short, takes us on a journey Based on a true story, Line of Duty is about a young about Kunjappi’s life. It asks pertinent questions recruit in the Indian army, posted in a remote about what happens to our being when our bunker, being asked to forego all his principles existence becomes a mere imitation. and humanity.

Ipªm¸nbpsS PohnX¯neqsSbpÅ k©mcamWv sse³ Hm^v Uyq«n Hcp kw`hIYsb ASnØm\ Cu \nÈÐ {lkzNn{Xw. \½psS \ne\n¸v shdpw am¡nbpÅXmWv. C´y³ ssk\y¯n Hcp Ip{Km- hymPamsW¶v hcpt¼mÄ Ipªm¸n¡v F´v kw`hn- a¯n \nban¡s¸Sp¶ Hcp sNdp¸¡mc\v AhnsS- ¡p¶psh¶ {]kàamb tNmZyw Dbcp¶p. ¯pt¼mÄ Xsâ kn²m´§fpw a\pjyXzhpw ad- t¡ïn hcp¶p.

Vishal Viswanathan is an aspiring director and writer. Mayank Malhotra is a filmmaker with a degree in Kunjappi is his second short. direction from New York Film Academy, LA. After graduating from film school, he started his career in India as an assistant director on big budget features like Dil Dhadakne Do, Rock On 2, Daddy and Gold.

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Malota Men at My Door India / 15:55 / 2018 India / 16:55 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction Krishan Hooda DoP Shelly Sharma Direction Vinay Krishnan DoP Georgy Joseph Editing Sanjay Ingle Sound Design Rameez K Editing Kiran Das Music Mujeeb Majeed Zubair Sound Design Shefin Mayan Art Direction Shamjith Ravi

Malota tells the simple tale of Gulab, who like any Men at my door is about a painter, her lover and other children of his age is full of mischief and a stranger in a hillside cottage and a series of innocence at the same time. unusual events that ensue.

Kpem_nsâ IYbmWv atem«. FÃm Ip«nIsfbpw Ip¶n³ sNcphnse Hcp tImt«Pn Xmakn¡p¶ Hcp t]mse hnIrXnbpw \njv-If¦Xbpw \ndªXmWv Nn{XImcnbpsSbpw AhfpsS {]WbnXmhnsâbpw Hcp A-hsâ _meyhpw. F¶mÂ.. A]cnNnXsâbpw AhnsSbpïmIp¶ Nne kw`h- §fpsSbpw IY.

Krishnan Hooda is an independent filmmaker. He Vinay Krishnan is a Fine Arts graduate who is currently has directed a feature film Rebellious Flower, which doing ad films for several brands. Men at my door is won Best Director Jury Award at Salento International his debut short. film Festival, Italy. His short film, The Last Audition was also released under the anthology of short films Shuraat Ka Interval in 2014 by PVR theatrically across India. 12TH IDSFFK

75 Mousetrap Mr. Das Chuhedaani India / 26:38 / 2018/ English India / 30:00 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction Ravi Shankar Kaushik DoP Kulshresth Direction& Editing Ravali Thummalachetty Dhingra Editing Imran Philmi Music Advait Nemlekar DoP Anand Sundaresha Music Pavan M Sound Design Saumit Deshmukh Other Rashi Sound Design Von R Aggarwal

Chuhedaani is about Meena, a young village girl Mr Das tells the tale of a widower battling married to an abusive house-caretaker. It is about depression and loneliness after his daughter her attempts to come to terms with her miserable leaves the country for higher education. life, to which fate adds its own twist.

hjf\mb Hcp hoSpkq£n¸pImcs\ hnhmlw Xsâ aIÄ D]cn]T\¯n\mbn hntZit¯¡v t]m-- Ignt¡ïnh¶ ao\ F¶ {KmaoW s]¬Ip«nsb- Ip¶tXmsS Hcp hn`mcy³ A\p`hn¡p¶ hnjmZ- ¡pdn¨v. Xsâ ZpcnX PohnXhpambn H¯nW§n- tcmKhpw GIm´XbpamWv anÌÀ Zmkn ]dbp¶Xv. t¸mIm³ AhÄ {ian¡pt¼mÄ A{]Xo£nXambn Hcp amäw kw`hn¡p¶p.

Born in Rewari, India, Ravi Shankar Kaushik is a Ravali Thummalachetty is a filmmaker and actor self-taught filmmaker who has honed his skills by currently based out of Los Angeles, California and participating and winning numerous filmmaking a native of Bangalore, India. She has written and competitions while also working fulltime as an IT directed two shorts - Urmih and Mr. Das. She's Engineer. currently pursuing her MFA in Filmmaking from USC School of Cinematic Arts.

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Out of Focus Pakhi Eight India / 29:46 / 2019 Pakhi8 India / 11:37 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction Atanu Biswas DoP Ratnaajit Ray Direction Jinto Thekkiniyath DoP R R Vishnu Editing Jishnu Sen Music Siddhartha Ray Editing Ekalyavyan Sound Design Amit Kumar Dutta Sound Design Richard K George Art Direction Sourav Samanta Music A L Nishadh Nishadh

Out of Focus, a silent short set in Shantiniketan, Pakhi 8 zooms in on a mother and her two is about a painter-photographer who lives with a daughters turning to prostitution to make their cat and a plant in a single room. One day he clicks ends meet, in a country that cares only about the a photo, producing an image that baffles him and international - economic race it is involved in. his sensibilities.

im´n\ntIX\nse Häapdnbn Xsâ ]q¨bpw Hcp A´mcm{ã km¼¯nI taJebnse IpXn¸ns\- sNSnbpw am{Xambn Pohn¡p¶ Nn{XImc\pw t^mt«m ¡pdn¨v am{Xw Nn´n¡p¶ Hcp cmPy¯v X§fpsS {Km^dpamb Hcmsf¡pdn¨pÅ \nÈÐ {lkz-Nn{Xw. hni¸Iäm³ thiymhr¯n¡ndt§ïn hcp¶ Hcp Hcn¡Â AbmÄ ]IÀ¯p¶ Hcp Nn{Xw Abmsfbpw A½bpsSbpw cïv s]¬a¡fpsSbpw IY. AbmfpsS sshImcnIXsbbpw kwthZ\tijnsb- bpw AÔmfn¸n¡p¶Xmbncp¶p.

Atanu Biswas is an independent filmmaker and a Jinto Thekkiniyath is currently working as an assistant photojournalist by profession. director to director Anil Radhakrishna Menon. 12TH IDSFFK

77 Pamphlet Pipanya India / 30:00 / 2018/ Marathi India / 26:05 / 2018/ Marathi

Direction Shekhar Rankhambe Direction Shubham Ghatge, Yuvaraj Jadhav DoP & Editing Priyashanker Ghosh Editing Parag Kharnare DoP Guruaj Bakshi, Akshay Sound Design Mandar Kamalapurkar Ingle Sound Design Anurag Jadhao Art Direction Mansingh Chandravanshi, Ranjan Kumar Other Sudarshan Sawant, Utsav Ghosh

Pamphlet tells the tale of a 12 year old child who Pipanya revolves around a traditional folk develops an irrational fear that cripples his being artist who plays the folk instrument pipani - an and energy. instrument of the woodwind family. The film looks at the state of folk music and its practitioners in the state of Maharashtra, in an age of competitive and evolved aesthetics’.

bpànclnXamb Hcp `bw cq]s¸« Hcp ]{´ïp- kpjnchmZy§fpsS Iq«¯nse ]n]m\n F¶ hm- Imcsâ IY. B `bw Ahsâ \ne\nÂ]ns\bpw tZym]IcWw D]tbmKn¡p¶ almcm{ãbnse \mS³ Icp¯ns\bpw ZpÀ_eam¡p¶p. IemImcs\¡pdn¨pÅ IY. Cu kwKoX Iebpw IemImc·mcpw amÕcyIme¯v F§s\ t]mIp¶p- sh¶mWv Nn{Xw ]cntim[n¡p¶Xv.

Shekhar Rankhambe started his career as an actor Shubham Ghatage is currently a student at FTII, Pune. in theatre. Then he started assisting other directors Pipanya is his debut short film. He has directed this and has assisted six feature films. He has written and film along with his co-director, Yuvraj Jadhav. directed five short films and received many awards. His filmography includes Kunasathi Kunitari, Dhonda, Muk and Punjabi Dress.

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Pola Quarter India / 19:16 / 2018/ Marathi India / 15:00 / 2018/ Marathi

Direction Kamal Waghdhare DoP Harshvardhan Direction Navjyot Bandiwadekar DoP Yash Khanna Waghdhare Sound Design Bigyna Dahal Editing Ashish Mhatre, Apurva Motiwale- Sahai Editing Tejaswi Meshram Composing Vivian Richard Sound Design Anmol Bhave Art Direction Prashant Rane Other Sandeep Kale

Set on the auspicious harvest day of Pola- Quarter looks at Ashwini’s life, a middle aged celebrating the toil of bulls, Pola tells the tale of Indian woman, who comes home on a Diwali day six year old Shyam, his father and their bulls. after being diagnosed an addict.

Dghp-Im-f-I-fp-sS A-²zm-\-¯n-\m-bn k-aÀ-¸n-¨n-cn-¡p-¶ Xm³ elcn¡SnabmsW¶v Xncn¨dnªtijw Hcp hn-f-sh-Sp-¸p-Õ-h-¯n-sâ ]-Ým-¯-e-¯nÂ, B-dp h-b- Zo]mhen¡v ho«nse¯p¶ Aizn\nsb¶ C´y³ a[y- Êp-Im-c\m-b iym-an-s\bpw Ah-sâ A-Ñ-s\bpw A-h- hbkv-IbpsS PohnXw. cp-sS Im-f-I-sfbpw Ip-dn-¨p-Å I-Y-]-d-bp¶p.

Kamal Waghdhare is a known theatre activist in Navjyot Bandiwadekar is a filmmaker, director and Vidarbha region. He is actively engaged with Hindi writer currently based in Mumbai. He has worked and Marathi theatre in various capacities and is a on several short films, web spots, commercials and recipient of the Smita Patil award for his contribution documentaries. He graduated from the San Francisco to theatre. Pola is his debut short film as a director. school of digital filmmaking. 12TH IDSFFK

79 Talk Tear India / 23:47 / 2018/ Hindi India / 25:58 / 2018

Direction Sumit Singh Sandhu DoP Vineet Malhotra Direction Jenifer Areng Datta DoP Shreya Dev Dube Editing Sandeep Kurup Composing Agnee Band Music and Sound Design Itek Bhutani Music Raja Deb Sound Design Rajneesh Editing Prithviraj Dasgupta Monga Art Direction Niranjan Sahu Other Payal Ghose, Harsh Kumar, Mohan Kannan

Talk, a short drama, deals with the importance of Nina's memory is put to test when she finds an communication in an interpersonal relationship. entry in her diary that she doesn't remember It touches upon a serious issue that is affecting writing. couples around the world at an alarming rate.

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Sumit Singh Sandhu is from Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Jenifer Areng Datta was born in Meghalaya and raised Talk is his debut venture as a director. in Calcutta and Bombay. After graduation she went on to pursue a degree in filmmaking, specialising in writing & direction from FX School, Mumbai. She has written, directed and edited three independent short films - Little Things, Thank you for Watching and Tear.

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Thaar That Man in the Picture India / 18:29 / 2019/ Hindi India / 18:47 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction Anand Khatana DoP Piyush Sharma Editing Direction Gaurav Sharma DoP Arun Kumar Pandey Rizwana Malik, Nauman Sarwat Azam Co-Producer Editing Madhav Sethi, Gaurav Shah Sound Design Ravinder Dahiya , Ajay Dahiya, Ritesh Jangid, Tej Jeetu Singh Music Ketan Pedgaonkar Art Direction Pratap Tanwar Sound Design Prateek Gandhi, Ajit Singh Chawda Music Prateek Gandhi Other Pradeep Shraddha Vasugavade, Prashant Ray Gaur, Rahul Sinha, Tapasvi Ahuja

Thaar tells the tale of two unconventionally That Man In The Picture explores an everyday intertwined lives finding their place in the world, man’s dilemma as he by chance ends up being the while being followed by an unsettling shadow. sole witness to a ghastly crime. The film explores his perspective and tussle with guilt, as he evades being identified and called to testify.

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Anand Khatana is currently working as an Assistant Gaurav Sharma hails from Ambala, Haryana. That Man Director in the Mumbai film industry. He has assisted in the Picture is his first film. on films like Gulaab Gang and Bittoo Boss. 12TH IDSFFK

81 The Demon The Intern Doitto India / 14:16 / 2019/ English India / 27:48 / 2018/ Bengali, English

Direction & Art Direction Tathagata Ghosh Direction Gaurav Kuri Sound Design Sandip Sarkar DoP Tuhin Saha Editing Rajdeep Mukherjee DoP Srijan Biswas Editing Subho Biswas Sound Design Aneesh Basu Other Satadru Chakraborty, Debojyoti Das

Doitto, set in West Bengal, tells the tale of a serial Brimming with disillusionment, The Intern killer, who preys on two-three month old babies, questions the identity of a nun who entertains and a homicide unit’s senior detective Pablo desire. As she undergoes an awakening, it Bose, who is on the trail. becomes a difficult situation.

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Tathagata Ghosh completed his post-graduation Gaurav Kuri is a student filmmaker from Shillong, from Vancouver ilm School in Writing for Film and Meghalaya. Television. He has directed numerous commercials, music videos and written screenplays for several projects. His filmography includes Riemann and The Goldfish who swam out of the Fishbowl.

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The Other Lens The Saleswoman India / 13:48 / 2018/ Hindi Posharini India / 26:21 / 2018/ Bengali

Direction Rian Baruah DoP Aditya Patel Direction Sreecheta Das DoP Prabhdeep Singh Editing Gaurang Chaturvedi Editing Aniruddha Chakraborty Music and Sound Design Hirdeep Rajkhowa

The Other lens tells the tale of Nitin, a carefree Driven by circumstances to take to hawking in photography student out on a photography the local trains, Gauri comes off on her own project with his friend, who gets into a troubling after overcoming many challenges, jealousy situation while playing pranks. from peers and her own hesitation and lack of confidence.

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Rian Baruah is an actor, writer and director. He Sreecheta Das just completed the direction and started his career as a theatre artist in Mumbai before screenplay writing course from the Satyajit Ray Film stepping into film-making. He worked as an actor, and Television Institute, Kolkata. Posharini is her final assistant director and co-writer in several projects dissertation film. Her filmography includes Dolachal before making his own short film. This is his first short (2015), Sankrail Superstars (2016), Rihaai (2017), Idol film as a director and writer. Hands (2017), Posharini (2018) and Her-story (2018). 12TH IDSFFK

83 The Shaila (s) The Talking Plow India/ 14’/ 2019/ Hindi, English Shabdhikunna Kalappa India / 14:00 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction & Screenplay Neha R T Direction & Screenplay DoP Satya Rai Nagpaul Production Dr.Sureshkumar Muttath Cast Kaneez Surka, Suman Patel, Manka Kaur Cinematography Nikhil S Praveen Other Saji Kottayam Co-Producer C J Mathew

The class boundaries between a wannabe south A short film based on Ponkunnam Varkey's short Bombay socialite and her maid are put to test story, of the same title, Shabdikkunna Kalappa when the socialite attempts to host the ultimate (the talking plow) narrates a heart-warming tale tea party. about a farmer and his ox Kannan, who he treats as kin.

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Neha R T is a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Jayaraj is an Indian director working predominantly in Mumbai. Her first short film Erased was screened at the Malayalam film Industry. He is a 7 time recipient international film festivals and won awards including of National Film Award and several State Film Awards. the Jury prize at Sehsüchte, International Student film His notable films include Desadanam, , festival, Germany in 2009. Karunam, Shantham, Daivanamathil, Vellapokkathil, Ottaal, Veeram, Bhayanakam and Roudram. He has won awards at Berlin, Karlovy Vary, IFFI and IFFK. He won Netpac and FIPRESCI Awards as well. 84 FOCUS SHORT FICTION

The Unsaid Ticket Katran India / 15:00 / 2018 India / 14:24 / 2018/ Hindi

Direction Prem Singh DoP Arkodeb Mukherjee Direction& Editing Abhik Das DoP Tonmay Sarkar Sound Design Savita Nambrath Sound Design & Music Sauparna Manna

Katran is the story of an elderly couple who decide Ticket tells the tale of a lower middle class man to part ways after 36 years of married life, but in who is in search of his ticket to making-it in the the end they realize that in some obscure corners socio-economic scenario of an urban Indian of their hearts, there exists a little something for setting. each other, which brings them together.

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Prem Singh is a writer and director based in Mumbai, Abhik Das is an independent filmmaker, screenwriter India. After finishing his studies Animation & VFX, and cinematographer from Kolkata, India. he started his career as an animator in 2010. He entered the film scene around seven years back as an Animator, VFX specialist and then Assistant Director. Now he is directing films. 12TH IDSFFK

85 Unfamiliar Vitha Aparichit India / 15:45 / 2018/ Marathi India / 19:30 / 2018/ Hindi, English

Direction Rahat Jain DoP Anurag Solanki Direction Avishkar Bharadwaj Editing Vardhan Dhaimodkar DoP Harshvardhan Singh Sound Design Preyas Music Nilesh Patange Sound Design Nilesh Jatwa Parker Editing Vaibhav Soni Art Direction Deep Vyas

Aparachit set on a particularly rainy evening tells Vitha, based on a true story, tells the tale of the tale of a young woman, who is trying to get theatre personality Vithabai Narayangoankar, who some urgent office work done at home, getting goes into labour mid performance and returns to interrupted by an old stranger seeking shelter. her piece on audience’s demand after delivering the baby backstage, all by herself.

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Rahat Jain has been working in the Mumbai film Avishkar Bharadwaj is an acclaimed Indian film industry since June 2016, after having graduated from director, writer and actor of multiple short films. He the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. is an alumnus of Whistling Woods International Film School.

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87 NON-FICTION A Diary on Blindness After the Deluge, India / 50:40 / 2019/ Malayalam Closer to the Heart Pralaya Shesham Hridhayapaksham Direction, Screenplay & Production Sajeed India / 33:05 / 2019/ Malayalam Naduthody DoP Banniesh M Editing & Animation Sajid PC Music Ashwin Vijay Other Deepthi Direction & Screenplay M Venukumar Narayanan, Midhun M, Nidhin P Production T V Subhash IAS, Director ,I&PRD, Salin mankuzhy Editing Shyam Sambasivan

A Diary on Blindness revolves around Haroon The deluge Kerala experienced in the August of Kareem, a visually challenged school boy, 2018 was beyond anything the state had ever seen who finds his vocation in the development of before. Hundreds lost their lives, the environment applications that could help reinstate a sense and economy crumbled down. Pralaya Shesham of normalcy in the routine life of the visually Hridhayapaksham looks back at the event and its impaired. aftermath.

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Sajeed Neduthody is a journalist turned filmmaker. M Venukumar is a writer and documentary director He has been scripting and directing documentaries from Kerala. He has bagged many Kerala state and video programmes since 2005. His filmography awards for the documentaries Jeevana Kalayude includes A Garden of Herbs and Dreams, Out of the Pulluva Geetham, Nadatham Jeevante Agni and Kanal Shadows, Vembanad Lake- the vanishing beauty, Jeevitham. Mangroves: Nature’s Hardy Foot Soldiers and A Diary on Blindness

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Goodness Won't Ever Green Line Fail! The Humane side of India / 146:05 / 2019/ Malayalam Kerala Floods Tholkkilla Nanmakal Direction, Screenplay & Production Ebin Raj India / 20:48 / 2018/ Malayalam Maliakal DoP Benny Poomthompu, Robin Joseph, Direction & Screenplay Anish Radhakrishnan Ebin Raj Maliakal, Jins Nellikunnel Editing Jins Production Mathrubhumi News Channel Editing Nellikunnel, Ebin Raj Maliakal Sound Design Sooraj Anoop David DoP Camera Team Kochi Shankar, Jins Nellikunnel

Tholkilla Nanmakal sees individuals from Green Line is a documentary on certain various sections of the society and lines of work personalities’ efforts and sacrifices to make recounting their experience and involvement with Kerala an organ donor state. The film unravels relief initiatives during the floods in Kerala. itself through multiple subject positions on the matter.

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Anish R is a seasoned programme producer and Ebin Raj Maliakal is an independent filmmaker director with 11 years of experience in TV journalism. from Kerala. His other known works are Novel Life, Maduram Nintey Jeevitham and Lokamay Yathara. He has won a Kerala state award and an Academy Fellowship. 12TH IDSFFK

89 Memory Beings Portrait of a Ormajeevikal Long March Ems India / 25:00 / 2018/ Malayalam India / 48:43 / 2019/ Malayalam Direction, Screenplay & Editing Sudha Padmaja Direction B Jayachandran Francis Production Rajiv Mehrotra Production B. Jayachandran For EMS Academy, DoP Appu Prabhakar Vilappilsala Bhaskaran Nair Editing Minu Abubaker Sound Design Dawn Vincent

Ormajeevikal is a visual study of the committed This documentary looks at the life story aural culture in the town of Kozhikode situated in of the celebrated communist leader EMS northern Kerala. A culture that appears to be truly Namboothiripad, the first ever democratically plural, especially in the ways it exhibits explicit elected communist chief minister in the history of influences from other styles. politics.

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Sudha Padmaja Francis is a filmmaker currently living B Jayachandran is an Indian photo journalist and in Kerala, India. She completed her first short film reporter. He was the Picture Editor in Chief of Malayala in Malayalam titled Eye Test in August 2017, which Manorama Newspaper and has directed and scripted was her graduation dissertation film. Eye Test won many documentary films. His films include Drishya the National Award for Best Cinematography in 2017 Sringam, - A Saga of benevolence and together with other awards and was screened in many Kailash Manas Sarovara Yatra. international film festivals.

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Six Feet Under The Great Silence India / 35:00 / 2019/ Malayalam India / 39:58 / 2019/ Malayalam

Direction & Screenplay Sanu Kummil Direction & Screenplay Dr K B Selvamony Production Nashmi Faziludeen DoP Sebin Kadakkal Production Lesli Plazid Editing Amaljith A Sound Design Midhun Editing Jayachandran Krishna Krishna Co-Producer Sudhakaran O K

Six Feet Under revolves around the life and The Great Silence tells the tale of 10 year-old hardships of the landless populations, most of cancer patient Shadia, who was kind enough to them belonging to Dalit communities. break open her piggybank, to contribute her hard earned savings to the relief fund for flood victims.

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Sanu Kummil is an independent documentary Dr K B Selvamony is an assistant professor in the filmmaker from Kerala. After his Idsffk award winning department of Malayalam at University College, documentary, The Mind Matter of a Chai wala, Six Feet Thiruvananthapuram. Under is his second docu-outing. 12TH IDSFFK

91 The Wall of Faith Vishwasathinte Mathilukal India/ 16: 40/ 2019

Direction Chidambara Palaniappan Screenplay Inmates of Prisons and Correctional Services Cheemeni Production Prisons and Correctional Services Kerala DoP Shan Editing Bineesh Sebastian Sound Design Richard George Music Joffy Chirayath

Vishwasathinte Mathilukal is a short documentary around the concept of an Open Prison and its functioning, while zooming in on the specifics of Open Prison and Correctional Home Cheemeni.

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Chidambara Palaniappan is an ad film maker, screenwriter and director with an MSc in Visual Communication from Cochin University. He was Line Producer to RK Swamy BBDO, Kerala and has assisted directors like B Unnikrishnan, Mahesh Sharma, VK Prakash and K G George.

92 MALAYALAM NON COMPETITION FICTION Adam Bulls Eye India / 14:44 / 2019 India / 04:59 / 2019

Direction Rahul Ramachandran Direction & Screenplay Sanu Issac DoP Raman Unni Production Tex Tensing Screenplay Vivek Raj Rajan Production Sanu Issac, Alex Lonappan Editing DoP Anoop V Shylaja Editing Prakash Rana Muhammed T J Sound Design L Manasa Music PS Jayahari Other Sreejith Kalai Arasu, Co- Producer Alex Lonappan Ratheesh , SKD Kannan Other Sanjeev Achu

A short contemplating apocalypse and beyond. Bulls Eye revolves around a hen and a cock falling in love. The film examines how their life mirrors certain instances observable in human lives.

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Rahul Ramachandran is a film director and writer Sanu Isaac is a debutant director. known for his feature Jeem Boom Bhaa. He has also made a short film titled Chin Sin Si starring Disney James. Adam is his latest short film. 12TH IDSFFK

93 Conscience 3 Black Cycle India / 19:24 / 2018/ Malayalam India / 13:46 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction & Screenplay Vishnulal Sudha DoP & Direction & Screenplay Arun M S DoP Sangeeth Unni Production Vidhya Vijayan, Vineeth S, Sudha V Production K. R. Narayanan National Institute of Editing Sibin Chandran Music Ratheesh Krishnan Visual Science and Arts Editing Amjath Ashraf Art Direction Sanoop V Other Ajeesh AS Sound Design Manasa L Other Sethulakshmi Muraleedharan, Georgy Abraham

Black is the third instalment in the Conscience Cycle tells the tale of a woman, a wife & mother series that deals with mental struggles and agony. of two college students, who wants to learn how Inspired by the story of Oedipus, Black showcases to drive. a curious case of incest seduction, in a whole new dimension.

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Vishnulal Sudha is an independent filmmaker who Arun MS is a final year student pursuing screenplay made his first short film Kannadakal in 2012. He writing & direction at the K R Narayanan National got his first breakthrough with the first instalment of Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, Kerala. Conscience series. After that with short film named 188 and second instalment of Conscience series, he garnered much attention at various festivals.

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Ihita Kallasakshi The Desire India / 30:00 / 2018/ Malayalam India / 11:00 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction Sanak Mohan Production Akshay Direction Deepak S Jay DoP Tobin Thomas Vanchiyath Akshai Vishak VD DoP Azad Roshan Production Aneesh Sasidharan Screenplay Arun Raj, Editing Adarsh V Surendran Music Bibin Ashok Deepa S Jay Editing Appu Bhattathiri Sound Design Aravind Chandrasekhar Co-Producer Art Direction Arun Venjaramood Vinu Peethambaran Other Deepak Kumar

This short film is about two police officers, a sex Kallasakshi, a whodunit story, is about a common worker and some strange incidents that happen burglar caught in the middle of a murder mystery over the course of a day. while on one of his routine outings.

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Sanak Mohan is an aspiring writer-director working as Deepak S Jay is an independent director who made a journalist. his directorial debut with 45 Seconds, which won several awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editor and Best Actor at short film festivals such as Short Film Fest, DFFK, SIMA, and many others. 12TH IDSFFK

95 Manasamadhanam Raghavan India / 22:51 / 2018/ Malayalam India / 17:56 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction & Screenplay Pravin Kumar Production Direction Rahul R Sarma Production Jomon Kechery K.R.Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science Jomon Screenplay Livin C.Lonakutty DoP Micheal & Arts DoP Naseem Azad Editing Unnikrishnan K Joseph Sound Design Mahesh MK Music Kevin Macleod, Chris Zabriskie,Pravin Kumar

A man, whose son doesn’t return home one day, Raghavan tells the tale of an ordinary man whose sifts through the secrets and lies he has been life undergoes major changes due to situational left behind with. The film is built on the idea that and societal reasons. ‘no man is an island’ and looks at how people negotiate the absence of their loved ones.

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Pravin Kumar hails from Mumbai, Maharashtra and Rahul R Sarma is an Assistant director in has been a student in the script writing and direction the Malayalam Film Industry (Argentina fans Department at K R Narayanan National Institute of Kattoorkkadavu), short-filmmaker and editor. He Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, Kerala. This is his studied Diploma In Visual Communication at Centre Final Year Diploma Film Project. for Media Studies, Thrissur.

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The Blue Pencil The Journey of Sita India / 18:40 / 2019/ Malayalam Seethayanam India / 19:43 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction Aarathy K R Direction & Screenplay Krishna Priya V Production & Screenplay Mahesh Chandran Production LV Prasad DoP Jemin Jom Ayyaneth DoP Vipin Chandran Sound Design Mahesh Chikku

When a bereaved man goes to a newspaper office The film depicts the emotional conflict of an to make a correction, he ends up having to deal ambitious working woman, mother of a teenage with certain regressive tendencies in a society that girl who endures sexual harassment from her claims to be progressive. The Blue Pencil attempts boss. The film shows how it affects the family, to address logical paradoxes in the reportage jeopardizing her relationship with her husband. culture of Malayalam print media. The film also examines the contrast of Sita's attitude when her daughter has to go through a similar situation. Seethayanam looks at the hntcm[m`mk§Ä \ndª aebmf A¨Sn am[ya- impact work place abuse has on the life of an cwK¯nsâ t\À¡mgvNbmWv »p s]³knÂ. Xncp¯v ambitious working woman. Bhiys¸«v ]{X Hm^oknse¯p¶ HcmÄ t\cnSp¶ sXmgnenS§fn kv{XoIÄ A\p`hn¡p¶ ssewKnI {]iv\§fmWv CXnhr¯w. ]ptcmKa\hmZnIsf¶v ] AXn{Ia§sf hyXykvXambn t\m¡n¡mWp¶ dbp¶hcpsSpsS t]mepw ISpw]nSp¯§sf hnNmc- Nn{Xw. Hm^okv ta[mhn tamiambn s]cpamdp¶- Wbv¡v hnt[bam¡p¶ Nn{Xw. tXmsS am\knImhØ XIcmdnemb koX AtX Ah- ØbneqsS IS¶pt]mIp¶ aIsf {]XnIcn¡m³ {]m- ]vXbm¡p¶p.

Arathy K R is a broadcast journalist and The Blue Krishna Priya V has a PG Diploma in film direction Pencil is her debut work. from LV Prasad Film and TV Academy, Chennai and has directed many short and documentary films. She is currently working as a freelance professional in advertising, photography and short film production. 12TH IDSFFK

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A Woman Torn In Half Anna La Femme Écartelée Ukraine/ 15’/ 2019/ Ukrainian Canada / 20:00 / 2019/ French, English

Direction, Production, Screenplay Direction, Screenplay & Production Dekel Berenson & Editing Marco Joubert DoP Volodymyr Ivanov Editing Yegor Troyanvsky

La Femme Écartelee is about Hélèn, who has Living in war-torn Eastern Ukraine Anna is an aging managed to tame her solitude but is affected as single mother who is desperate for a change. her belongings restlessly provoke recollections, Lured by a radio advertisement, she goes to party existing as reminders of an unintended past. It with a group of American men who are touring the looks at how time has not eased things or not country, searching for love. changed it, it seems like she is haunted and torn beyond mending. kz-´w G-Im-´X-sb sa-cp-¡n-sb-Sp-¡p-¶-Xn hn-P-bn-¨ bp-²w X-IÀ-¯ In-g-¡³ D-s{I-bn\n Po-hn-¡p-¶ {]m-- sle-s\¡p-dn-¨m-Wv Cu Nn{Xw. F-¶m I-cp-X-enÃm- b-ta-dn h-cp-¶-hfpw hn-[-hbm-b A-½-bpamb A-¶ ¯ H-cp `q-X-Im-e-¯n-sâ ]n-´p-S-c-em-bn \n-e-\nÂ-¡p-¶ H-cp am-äw B-{K-ln-¡p¶p. H-cp tdUntbm ]-c-ky-¯n kv-a-c-WI-sf \n-c´-cw {]-tIm-]n-¸n-¡p-¶ Pw-K-a-h-kv- {]-tem-`n-Xbm-b AhÄ {]W-bw tX-Sn cm-Py-¯v k-©- Xp-¡Ä A-h-cp-sS G-Im-´X-sb _m-[n-¡p-¶p. Im-ew cn-¨p sIm-ïn-cn-¡p-¶ H-cp A-ta-cn-¡³ ]p-cp-j kw-L- F-§-s\ Im-cy§-sf kz-Ø-am-¡n-bnà A-sÃ-¦n am- ¯n tN-cp-¶-Xn-\m-bn t]m-Ip-¶p. än-bnà F-¶v A-Xv ]cn-tim-[n-¡p-¶p.

Marco Joubert is a Canadian filmmaker from Montreal. Dekel Berenson is a director, producer and He is a director and director of photography, a screenwriter known for his films Ashmina, Anna and scriptwriter, editor, actor, producer and musician. The girl were doing nothing. Six of the films he directed, co-directed, co-created or shot have won eight awards, in addition to being nominated many times. 12TH IDSFFK

99 Cash Double Singapore / 11:45 / 2018/ Mandarin Badal Chinese, English Iran / 26:16 / 2018/ Farsi

Direction Wei Ting Tan Production Ying Ton Direction Ronak Jafari DoP Ching Shuan Neo Editing Tan Wei Ting, DoP Mohammed Rasouli Gladys Ng Composing Joel Nah Music Payam Azadi Sound Design Burtt See Art Direction Anthea Ng

Cash is bout four cashier ladies who stage a revolt At the edge of an eerie marsh in the middle of the by locking themselves inside the supermarket, mysterious mountains, all alone, Pegah finds herself late at night, in protest at the prospect of losing plunging to her death. All we know of her is that their jobs to a cashless system. As the night she is a young woman wearing a long red raincoat. unfolds and negotiations are made, the women Her abstract unreal identity is revealed when she who are friends share their anxieties of an coincidentally meets another woman, Matin. The uncertain future. look of the two women in the story challenges the matters of their false and true identities. H-cp ]-W-cln-X kw-hn-[m-\-¯n X-§-fp-sS sXm-gn \n-Kq-Vam-b ]À-h-X-§-fn-se cu-{Zam-b H-cp N-Xp-¸n-sâ \-ã-s¸-Sm-\p-Å km-l-N-cy-¯n-s\-Xn-sc {]-Xn-tj-[n- ap-¶n H-ä-bv-¡v F-¯n-s¸-Sp-¶ t]-K, a-c-W-¯n-te-¡v ¡p-¶-Xn-\mbn, cm-{Xn X§-sf kz-bw H-cp kq-¸À amÀ- kzbw B-gv¶p-t]m-Ip-¶-Xv A-\p-kv-a-cn-¡p¶p. H-cp Np- ¡-än-\I-¯v ]q-«n-bn«p-sIm-ïv {]-t£m-`w \-S-¯p-¶ h-¶ a-g-t¡m-«v [-cn-¨n-cn-¡p-¶ bp-h-Xn-bm-Wv F-¶v am- Iym-jyÀ-amcm-b \m-ev kv-{XoI-sf Ip-dn-¨m-Wv Iym-jv {X-am-Wv Ah-sf Ip-dn-¨v \-ap-¡-dn-bm-hp-¶ G-I -Im-cyw. ]-d-bp-¶Xv. cm{Xn Iq-Sp-X I-\-¡p-Ibpw A-\p-c-Rv-P-\ F-¶mÂ, amän³ F-¶ a-säm-cp kv-{Xo-sb B-I-kv-an-I- {i-a-§Ä Xp-S-cp-Ibpw sN-¿p-¶-Xn-\n-S-bnÂ, X-§-fp-sS am-bn I-ïp-ap-«p-¶-tXm-sS, A-h-fp-sS A-b-YmÀ-°hpw A-hy-àam-b `m-hn-sb¡p-dn-¨p-Å B-i-¦-IÄ kp-lr- A-aqÀ-¯-hp-am-b hy-ànXzw sh-fn-s¸-Sp¶p. I-Y-bn-se ¯p-¡fm-b kv{XoIÄ ]-¦p-hbv-¡p-¶p. c-ïv kv-{Xo-I-fp-sS Im-gv-N, A-h-cp-sS A-b-YmÀ-°hpw b-YmÀ-°-hpam-b hy-àn-Xz§-sf shÃp-hn-fn-¡p-¶p.

Wei Ting Tan is a debutant director who won many Ronak Jafari, at the age of 19, made a one-minute film accolades for Cash at various venues. which played in local festivals and brought her awards and recognitions. Since then she has made eight documentaries. Double is her fiction debut.

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Eyebrows Fork & Knife Egypt / 23:00 / 2018 / Arabic Shokah We Sekina Egypt / 15:00 / 2018/ Arabic

Direction Tamer Ashry Production Safei El Din Direction Adam Abd ElGhaffar Production Amr Mahmoud, Moustafa Salah, Haitham Dabbour Koura, Safei El din Mahmoud, Hani Osama DoP Mohamed Abdel Raouf Editing Randa Mahmoud DoP Omar Abou Doma Art Direction Karim Yousry Sound Design Ahmed Adnan Music Ashraf Elziftawy Music Ahmad Elsawy Sound Design Ahmad Elsawy Art Direction Mark Wagh Other Raghda Helal Other Fares Kerim, Yasmeen Mokhtar

Eyebrows is about two burqa clad women, Shokah We Sekina revolves around a drawn out Aiesha and Sally, in a shopping mall and certain dinner date between two individuals, immersed realizations that Aiesha comes into during her in a long conversation about a variety of things, time there. revealing a rather unsettling truth towards the end.

H-cp tjm-¸nw-Kv am-fn-ep-Å _pÀ-J [-cn-¨ A-bn-j, km- hnhn-[ hn-j-b§-sf Ip-dn-¨v ZoÀ-L-kw-`m-j-W-§-fn en F-¶o c-ïv kv-{XoI-sf Ip-dn-¨pw A-hn-sS sNe-h-gn- ap-gp-In-s¡m-ïv c-ïv hy-àn-IÄ X-½n- A-\m-h-iy-am- ¡p-¶ k-ab-¯v A-bn-j-bv-¡v D-ïm-hp-¶ Nn-e Xn-cn-¨- bn \o-fp-¶ H-cp A-¯m-g-¯n-s\ Np-än-¸-än-bm-Wv Nn{Xw dn-hpI-sf Ip-dn-¨p-am-Wv Nn{Xw ]-d-bp-¶-Xv. hn-I-kn-¡p-¶Xv. F-¶mÂ, H-Sp-hn Xn-I¨pw A-kz-Ø- P-\-I-am-b H-cp kXyw sh-fn-s¸-Sp-¶p.

Tamer Ashry is a director, producer, and script- Adam Abd ElGhaffar is an Egyptian upcoming artist writer. His work has been screened at numerous with a background in advertising and graphic design. international festivals and featured on PBS, BBC, He writes and designs from his own Cairo-based and Al-Jazeera. He has also directed work for Emmy studio catering to clients across the Middle East. and Oscar-winning filmmakers Gini Reticker (Trials of Adam Design, which he founded in 2014 is branding Spring), and Thomas Lennon (Sacred). firm that specializes in poster design. Till date, Adam has exhibited in Cairo, Tunis and Beirut. 12TH IDSFFK

101 On the Border Our Love China/ 15’/ 2018/ Chinese, Korean Nuestro Amor Spain, Chile / 15:00 / 2018/ Spanish

Direction Shujun Wei Screenplay Gao Linyang, Direction Mario Fernández Alonso Xiaoxi Muhua & Shujun Wei Production Jiaqi Liu, Zuo Wenjuan Music George Neal DoP Jinhang Wang Editing Chen Shi Kong

In a border village, a Chinese teenager of Korean Nuestro Amor looks at two parents waiting in a roots aspires to join South Korea. He tries by all room while an exorcism is being administered on means to realize his dream. their daughter.

H-cp A-XnÀ-¯n {Km-a-¯nÂ, sIm-dn-b³ th-cp-I-fp-Å H-cp X-§-fp-sS ]p-{Xn-sb ZpÀ-a-{´-hm-Z-¯n-\v hn-t[-b-bm-¡p- ssN-\o-kv bp-hm-hv Z£n-W sIm-dn-b³ ]-u-c-\m-hm³ t¼mÄ H-cp ap-dn-bn Im-¯n-cn-¡p-¶ am-Xm-]n-Xm-¡-sf- B-{K-ln-¡p¶p. X-sâ kz-]v-\w km-£m-Xv-I-cn-¡m³ bm-Wv Cu Nn{Xw \n-co-£n-¡p-¶Xv. kÀ-h-ti-jn-bp-ap-]-tbm-Kn-¨v A-bmÄ {i-an-¡p-¶p.

Shujun Wei is a director and actor known for On the Mario Fernandez Alonso is an aspiring filmmaker and border, If you are serious and Duck Neck. screenwriter.

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Pesticides Rosenwohl Pesticidas Spain / 19:57 / 2018/ Spanish Spain / 07:00 / 2018

Direction, Editing & Screenplay Jaume Quiles Direction & DoP Miguel Llorens Production A Camara Limon DoP Alberto Gutierrez Production The Fly Hunters Music Amadeo Moscardo

Pesticidas is a short about post-emergence Rosenwohl revolves around August, a railroad herbicides and its use-impact etc. employee, his routine of life and an unusual day that happens to him.

I-f-\m-in-\n-I-fp-sS B-hnÀ-`m-h-w, A-h- D-]-tbm-Kn-¡p- H-cp Xo-h-ïn¸m-X Po-h-\-¡m-c\m-b Hm-K-kv-än-s\bpw t¼mÄ D-ïm-Ip-¶ {]-Xym-Lm-X-§Ä ap-X-em-b-h-sb A-t±-l-¯n-sâ ssZ-\wZn-\ Po-hn-X-s¯bpw A-t±-l-w Ip-dn-¨p-Å {lkz-Nn-{Xw. t\-cn-Sp-¶ H-cp A-km-[m-c-W Zn-h-k-s¯-bpw Np-än-¸-än- bp-Å- Nn{Xw.

Jaume Quiles is a director and screenwriter known for Miguel Llorens is a cinematographer and director his films Chiripajas, Paradis and Organico. from Spain. 12TH IDSFFK

103 Rubber Dolphin Sailors of the Forest Dolfin Megumi Marinai Di Foresta Israel / 28:34 / 2018/ Hebrew Italy / 16:33 / 2019

Direction, Screenplay & Production Ori Aharon Direction Stefano Tammaro DoP David Rudoy Sound Design Rotem Dror Art Direction Hagai Galimidi

Dolfin Megumi is a gay love story set in a one Marinai Di Foresta, based on a true story, tells the bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv in Israel that tale of a gang of kidnappers who also happen to contemplates love. be living the life of shepherds in the mountains of Sardinia, Italy.

C-{km-tb-en-se sS A-ho-hn-ep-Å H-ä-ap-dn A-¸mÀ-«p- H-cp b-YmÀ-° kw-`h-s¯ B-kv-]-Z-am-¡n-bp-Å Cu saân kw-`-hn-¡p-¶ ]pcp-j kz-hÀ-¤ {]-W-b-I-Y. Nn{Xw, X-«n-s¡m-ïp t]m-I \-S-¯p-¶ H-cp kw-L- {]-Wb-s¯¡p-dn-¨p-Å ]-cym-tem-N-\. ¯n-sâ I-Y-bmWv. A-tXka-bw ChÀ C-ä-en-bn-se kÀ-Un-\-bn-se a-e-\n-c-I-fn B-«n-S-b·mcp-sS Po-hn- Xhpw \-bn-¡p-¶p.

Ori Aharon is a filmmaker and actor from Tel Aviv Stefano Tammaro after graduating from the Cinecittà known for his films like The fall of Zipporah, Sweet Academy of Cinema and Television began his work Sixty and Rubber Dolphin. as an assistant operator and machine operator for cinematographers as Blasco Giurato and Nino Celeste. Sailors of the Forest is his debut venture.

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Sine Cide Skin No one believes me but the police are USA / 21:00 / 2018/ English chasing the wrong man Iran/ 9’/ 2018/ English Direction, Production, Screenplay Direction Guy Nattiv Screenplay Guy Nattiv, Sharon & Editing Ata Mojabi Cast Janet Leigh, Maymon Production Guy Nattiv, Jaime Ray Newman, Anthony Perkins Tim Harms, Andrew Carlberg Music Brian Mcomber DoP Drew Daniels Editing Yuval Orr

More Hitchcock with multiple Psycho images. Skin takes off in a small supermarket in a blue collar town, when a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy from across the checkout aisle. This same innocuous moment sees two gangs going into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

A-t\-Iw sskt¡m Zr-iy-§-tfm-sS hoïpw ln-¨v-t¡m- H-cp \o-e-t¡m-fÀ ]-«-W-¯n-se sN-dpIn-S kq-¸À amÀ-¡- ¡v. än \n-¶m-Wv kv-In³ B-cw-`n-¡p-¶Xv. a-dp-hi¯p-Å C-S-\m-gn tdm-Un \n¶p-sIm-ïp ]-¯p-h-bÊp-Im-c\m-b H-cp sh-Å-¡m-c³Ip-«n-sb t\m-¡n H-cp I-dp-¯ a-\p- jy³ ]p-©n-cn-¡p¶p. Cu \n-jv-I-f-¦ \n-an-j-¯n X-s¶ c-ïv kw-L-§Ä \n-jv-¡-cp-Wam-b t]m--cm-«-- ¯n ap-gp-Ip-I-bpw sR-«n-¸n-¡p-¶ {]-Xym-Lm-X-¯n A-Xv A-h-km-\n-¡p-Ibpw sN-¿p-¶p.

Ata Mojabi is an Iranian director, screenwriter, film Guy Nattiv has completed two feature films and three consultant and educator. His other films are Dial O for acclaimed shorts. His films, Mabul, Strangers & Offside Oh, B for Blue, and D for Death, Swear By The Night, (co-written & co-directed with Erez Tadmor) have received The Hole, Comma The Mouth-Shot and The Man Who over 20 awards at international film festivals including Wasn’t Here. The Crystal Bear at Berlin and Best Short at Sundance. His debut film, Strangers (co-written & co-directed with Erez Tadmor), participated in the 2008 official competition at

Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca and many others. 12TH IDSFFK 105 The Camel Boy The Drip L'enfant Chameau Shekkeh France / 15:13 / 2018/ Persian Iran / 15:00 / 2019

Direction Chabname Zariab Direction & Screenplay Marjan Hashemi Cast Mariam Boubani, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini

Somewhere in the desert, a little boy is plunged While getting ready to go to a party Mehri and by force into an intimidating and completely Kamal have a small argument. Mehri who has foreign new world - the world of camel racing. Will developed a condition recently cannot hold in her the distant hope of seeing his mother again give urine and Kamal is worried that his car would get him the strength to overcome his fears and find dirty on the way. Shekkeh is about what follows. his place in this hostile environment?

a-cp-`q-an-bn H-cn-S¯v, ]qÀ-W-ambpw A-\yhpw `-b-s¸- H-cp ]mÀ-«n-¡v t]m-Im³ X-¿m-dm-hp-¶-Xn-\n-S-bn I-- Sp-¯p¶-Xpam-b H-cp ]pXnb tem-I-¯n-te-¡v H-cp amepw sa-lvdnbpw X-½n sNdn-sbm-cp XÀ-¡-ap-ïm- B¬-Ip-«n \nÀ-_-Ô-]qÀ-hw ap¡-s¸-Sp-¶pþ H-«-I ]-´-- hp¶p. k-ao-]-Ime-¯v ap-{X-wap«Â \n-b-{´n-¡m³ b-§-fpsS temIw. Ah-sâ `b-s¯ a-dn-I-S-¡m\pw km-[n-¡m-¯ H-c-h-Ø sa-lvdn-¡v D-ïm-hp-I-bpw bm- i-{Xp-]qÀ-Wam-b Cu A-´-co-£-¯n H-cp Øm-\w {Xm-at²y X-sâ ImÀ hr-¯n-tI-Sm-hp-sa-¶v I-am I-sï-¯m-\p-ap-Å i-àn A½-sb H-cn-¡Â Iq-Sn Im- B-i-¦m-Ip-e-\m-hp-Ibpw sN-¿p¶p. Xp-SÀ-¶v D-ïm- Wm-\p-Å hn-Zq-c-{]-Xo-£ Ah-\v \ÂIptam? hp-¶ kw-`-h-hn-Im-k-§-fm-Wv Cu Nn{Xw.

Chabname Zariab is a French-Afghani filmmaker. She Marjan Hashemi is a filmmaker settled in Tehran. is known for the shorts Je Passe (2009) and When You The Drip is her second short, after Monochromatic, Hear the Bells (2015), which won the Best First Film at which won the best short film award at WOW festival the Clermont-Ferrand ISFF. in Dubai.

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The Girls Are Alright The Memory of Water Malaysia / 14:30 / 2019 / 25’/ 2018/ Chinese, English

Direction Gwai Lou Direction & Screenplay Mary Stephen Production Teresa Kwong, Amos Why

The Girls Are Alright is about Ani, who receives a Melanie, a Canada-based filmmaker returns to strange proposition on a dating app that she has her birthplace Hong Kong and gets entangled in a just registered herself onto. Her best friend is the romantic fantasy. The film describes the diaspora first person she talks to. experience in terms of an original “molecule” that cannot be erased after generations of dilution.

A-\n A-t¸mÄ c-Pn-kv-äÀ sNbv-X H-cp tU-änw-Kv B-¸n Im-\-U- B-Øm-\-am-bp-Å N-e¨n-{X-Im-cn X-sâ P·Ø- \n-¶pw hn-Nn-{Xam-b H-cp A-`yÀ-°-\ e-`n-¡p-¶p. A-Xn-- eamb tlm-t¦m-Mn a-S-§n-sb-¯p-Ibpw {]-W-bm-Xp- s\ Ip-dn-¨v X-sâ G-ä-hp-a-Sp-¯ kp-lr¯n-t\m-Sm-Wv cam-b H-cp a-t\m-cm-Py-¯n Ip-Sp-§p-Ibpw sN-¿p¶p. A-hÄ BZyw kw-km-cn-¡p-¶-Xv. X-e-ap-d-IÄ¡-p ti-jhpw H-cp b-YmÀ° "X³-am-{Xsb' Xp-S-¨p-\o-¡m-\m-hnà F-¶ bm-YmÀ-°y-¯n \n¶p- sIm-ïv {]-hm-kn-I-fp-sS A-\p-`-h-§Ä hn-i-Zo-I-cn-¡p- I-bm-Wv Nn-{Xw.

Gwai Lou is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter. Mary Stephen has collaborated with French New Wave director Eric Rohmer for more than 25 years as his film editor and co-composer. Mary has been working with fiction and documentary filmmakers and producers from across the globe editing, producing and consulting as script and editing advisor. She was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature) by the French Minister of Culture in April 2017. 12TH IDSFFK 107 The Room The Woman La Chambre behind the Window France, Algeria / 17:30 / 2019/ French Iran/ 14’/ 2018/ Persian, English Direction & Screenplay Latifa Said Direction, Screenplay & Editing Kouroush Shirali Production Latifa Said, Joa Antunes DoP Alisina Azari Music Mohammad Zaman Sani DoP Yannig Duomolin Editing Auriele Noury

La Chambre is about Anne, who gets to know her The film follows a woman who is being followed father, who was an Algerian emigrant she never as she is leaving from her workplace and her knew, posthumously through the objects in his curiosity to know who her follower is. room, to realize that he always loved her.

]n-Xm-hn-sâ a-c-W-ti-jw A-t±-l-¯n-sâ ap-dn-bn tPmenØe¯p\n¶v ]pd¯nd§p¶ Hcp kv{Xosb ]n- \n-¶pw e-`n-¨ h-kv-Xp-¡-fn-eq-sS X-sâ ]n-Xm-hv H-cp ´pScp¶ Iymad. AhÀ Bsc¶dnbm\pÅ AhfpsS AÄ-Po-cn-b³ {]-hm-kn-bm-bn-cp-¶p F¶pw A-t±-lw BImw£. F¶pw X-s¶ kv-t\-ln-¨n-cp-¶p-sh¶pw Xn-cn-¨-dn-bp-¶ B-\n-s\¡p-dn-¨v.

Latifa Said worked ten years as a social worker and Kouroush Shirali is an Iranian filmmaker. Kouroush teacher. She took classes of professional photography Shirali’s other films are Look Fringe, Photo frame and worked for the press, notably for Télérama and on the wall, The last day of summer, Cookie, Paw & GéoAdo, and for some organisations like The League Groove and Dark and slippery surface. against Cancer and The City of Paris as well. Her screenplay of the short movie Jours Intranquilles won the first prize of the Sirar found at the International Film Festival of Aubagne. 108 NON-FICTION INTERNATIONAL 12TH IDSFFK

109 A Moon For My Father All That's Missing UK, Iran, Germany/ 85’/ 2019/ Persian, Iran / 74:27 / 2018/ Farsi, English English

Direction, Screenplay & Cast Mania Akbari & Direction Zeinab Tabrizi Douglas White DoP Mahshad Afshar, Paria Kamyab, Douglas White Editing Amin Maher, Babak Salek, Hoda Taheri

A courageous, raw and performative video work All That’s Missing is a documentary that narrates about the Iranian artist Mania Akbari’s first- the lives of two women, Mahnaz and Jamileh, who hand experiences with both breast cancer and have both been diagnosed with breast cancer – pregnancy. one dies after a long battle with the disease, the other fully recovers and engages in charity, raising awareness among cancer patients. Mahnaz, the deceased woman, narrates the movie, while she gets to know Jamile, the woman who survives. {_Ìv Im³kdns\bpw KÀ`[mcWs¯bpw Ipdn¨v kv-Xm-\À-_p-Z-am-sW-¶v Øn-co-I-cn-¡-s¸-« a-l-\m-kv, Cdm\nb³ IemImcn am\nb AIv_mcnbpsS A\p- Pao-e F-¶o c-ïv kv-{Xo-I-fp-sS Po-hn-Xw hn-h-cn-¡p¶ `h¯nsâ Zriykm£yw. tUm-Iyp-saâ-dn-þ tcm-K-¯n-s\-Xncmb ZoÀL t]m-cm-«¯n-- s\m-Sp-hn H-cmÄ a-cn-¡p-t¼mÄ, tcm-K-¯n \n¶pw ]qÀ-W-ambpw tam-Nn-Xbm-b a-tä-bmÄ AÀ-_p-Z-tcm-Kn- IÄ-¡n-S-bn A-h-t_m-[w D-bÀ-¯n-s¡mïv, `q-Xm- \p-I-¼ {]-hÀ-¯-\-§-fn ap-gp-Ip¶p. A-Xn-Po-hn-¨ kv-{Xobm-b P-aoe-sb Iq-Sp-X-e-dn-bp-¶ A-´cn-¨ sa-l- \m-km-Wv Nn-{X-¯n-sâ B-Jym-\w \nÀ-h-ln-¡p-¶-Xv.

Mania Akbari is an acclaimed artist and filmmaker. Zeinab Tabrizi was born in Tehran in 1986. She Her films were recently the subject of retrospectives graduated with an undergraduate degree from the at the BFI, London, the DFI, Denmark, Oldenburg University of Iranian Cinema. In 2008, her first semi- International Film Festival, Germany, Cyprus Film professional film was an experimental film called Festival and Nottingham Contemporary UK. Douglas Eight minutes more, which won the Honorary Award White is a sculptor, known for his use of found objects and materials. Exhibitions include Splendor Solis, Eden for women filmmakers. In 2010 she made her first Rock Gallery, St Barth, Song of the Roustabouts, Gabriel documentary film Streets Sultans, collaborating with Rolt, Amsterdam, New Skin for an Old Ceremony. Paliz Khoshdel. 110 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

Black Mother Black Sheep USA/ 77’/ 2019/ English UK / 29:00 / 2017/ English

Direction Khalik Allah Direction & Editing Ed Perkins Production Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn DoP Micheal Paleodimos

Black Mother is a story of women in Jamaica and Black Sheep takes us back to the 90’s, to relive a deals with the physical presence of women—and young boy’s relocation from London, to a private the social role of men’s desire for women’s bodies. estate run by a racist gang.

P-ssa-¡-bn-se kv-{Xo-I-fp-sS I-Y ]-d-bp-¶ »m-Iv a-ZÀ, H-cp hwio-b kw-L-¯n-sâ A-[o-\-X-bn-ep-Å kz-Im-cy kv-{Xo-I-fp-sS im-cocn-I km-¶n-[y-s¯¡p-dn-¨pw kv-{Xo- F-tÌ-än-te-¡v e-ï-\n \n¶pw H-cp sNdn-b Ip-«n ]-dn- i-co-c-§-fn-ep-Å ]p-cp-jm-k-àn-bp-sS km-aq-lnIam-b ¨p-\-S-s¸-Sp¶-Xv sh-fn-hm-¡p-¶-Xn-\m-bn »m-Iv jo-¸v ]-¦n-s\¡p-dn-¨pw A-t\z-jn-¡p-¶p. \½-sf sXm-®q-dp-I-fn-te-¡v a-S-¡n-s¡mïp-t]m-Ip-¶p.

Khalik Allah is a director, cinematographer and Ed Perkins is a Grierson award winning documentary producer known for films like Field Niggahs and Popa filmmaker. Ed has directed, filmed and edited for Wu: A 5% story. National Geographic, BBC, Channel 4, The New Yorker, Stateless Media, Vanity Fair, The Guardian and Focus Features. His first feature documentary is Garnet's Gold, won a Grierson Award for Best Newcomer, won Best International Documentary awards at Docville

and Jozi Film Festival. 12TH IDSFFK 111 Each And Every Moment End of Life De Chaque Instant USA/ 91’/ 2017/ English France / 105 / 2018/ French

Direction & DoP Nicolas Philbert Production Denis Direction John Bruce, Pawel Wojtasik Co-Production Freyd for Aechipel 33 Editing Nicolas Philbert, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Ian Hassett: HAOS Film Janus Baranek Sound Yolande Decarsin Associate Producers Daniela Alatorre, Maria Hatzakou, Lori Hanau

De Chaquee Instant is about those thousands An experimental film following five persons with of students- mostly female - who embark on a terminal conditions. journey packed with lectures, practical exercises and internships that will finally help them become nurses.

H-Sp-hn- t\-gv-km-hm³ Ah-sc k-lm-bn-¡p-¶ e-Iv-¨- Kp-cp-X-cm-h-Ø-bn-ep-Å A-©v t]-sc ]n-´p-S-cp-¶ H-cp dpIÄ, {]-tbmKn-I ]-cn-io-e-\-§Ä, C-tâ¬-jn-¸p-IÄ ]-co-£-Wm-ß-I Nn-{Xw. F-¶n-h-bn-eq-sS-bp-Å k-©m-c-¯n-\m-bn ]p-d-s¸-Sp-¶ Iq-Sp-Xepw s]¬-Ip-«n-If-S-§p-¶ B-bn-c-¡-W-¡n-\v hn--ZymÀ-°nI-sf Ip-dn-¨v.

Nicolas Philibert studied philosophy before he co- John Bruce has directed and produced many short directed, with Gérard Mordillat His Master's Voice, in films and theatre installations. His first film Apple 1978. He has since directed over ten films including To Juice was aired on PBS and Showtime, and was Be And To Have (2002), which was awarded the Prix revived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Paweł Louis-Delluc and was nominated for Best Film at the Wojtasik’s video installation Below Sea Level debuted at Mass Moca. Pigs won the grand prize at the Hong César Awards. In 2001, he directed To Be And To Have, Kong Film Festival, and was shown in Berlin and New which was screened at the 2002 Cannes Festival. York Festivals. His work Single Stream was exhibited at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. 112 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

Erased… Flow Ascent of the Invisible Chile/ 82’/ 2018/ Spanish, Hindi, Bengali Palestine / 70:00 / 2018/ Arabic Direction, Production, DoP & Direction & Screenplay Nicolas Molina Animation Ghassan Halwani Production Marcela Santibanez Editing Vartan Avakian

The film is a chilly elegy for those who disappeared Flow is a documentary that explores the in the Lebanese Civil war. It explores the grief of territorial and spiritual connection between two their loved ones to accentuate the intensity of the geographically opposing rivers, the Ganges in disappearances. India and Biobio in Chile. The film captures and registers the behaviour of the inhabitants along both streams, from the mountain range, as the flow advances until it reaches the coast. e-_-\o-kv B-`y-´-c-bp-²-¯n A-{]-Xy-£-cm-bh-sc `q-an-im-kv-{X-]-c-am-bn ssh-cp-²y-apÅ C-´y-bn-se Kw-K, Ip-dn-¨p-Å hn-em-]-Im-hy-amWv Cu Nn-{Xw. A-{]-Xy-£- Nn-en-bn-se _-tbm_tbm F-¶o \-Zn-IÄ X-½n-ep-Å s¸-S-ep-I-fp-sS Xo-{h-X Du-¶n-¸-d-bp-¶-Xn-\m-bn A-h-sc `q-{]-tZ-i, Bßo-b _-Ô§-sf¡p-dn-¨v A-t\z-jn-¡p¶ kv-t\-ln-¨n-cp-¶-h-cp-sS Zpx-Jw A-Xv ]cn-tim-[n-¡p-¶p. tUm-Iyp-saâ-dn-. H-gp-¡v k-ap-{Z-¯n F-¯p¶-Xv h-sc, a-e-\n-c-IÄ ap-X-ep-Å C-cp \-Zn-I-fp-sSbpw I-c-I-fn- A-[n-h-kn-¡p-¶-h-cp-sS kz-`m-h-k-hn-ti-j-X-IÄ Nn{Xw ]-IÀ-¯p-Ibpw tc-J-s¸-Sp-¯p-Ibpw sN-¿p-¶p.

Ghassan Halwani is a filmmaker from Beirut. After the Nicolas Molina is a director, screenwriter and short animation film Jibraltar, he was mainly involved cinematographer. in collaborations with Lebanese and Arab filmmakers, playwrights, contemporary artists, publishers, and musicians. Erased, Ascent of the Invisible is his second film and first feature. 12TH IDSFFK

113 Freedom Fields Graves Without A Name UK, Libya/ 97’/ 2019/ Arabic, English Les Tombeaux Sans Noms France, Cambodia / 115:00 / 2018/ French, Khmer

Direction Naziha Arebi Direction & Editing Rithy Panh Production Catherine Dussart DoP Rity Panh, Prum Mesar Sound Eric Tisserand, Vann Sereyrathanak, Julien Ngo Tong

An intimate look at post-revolution Libya through Les Tombeaux Sans Noms is a cinematic attempt the eyes of an aspiring all-female soccer team, to reach out to a path to peace. It reaches out whose struggle to gain mainstream acceptance beyond the story of a country to that which is mirrors the broader challenges facing women in universal. contemporary Libyan society.

k-a-Imen-I en-_n-b³ k-aq-l-¯nÂ, kv-{Xo-IÄ t\-cn- k-am-[m-\-¯n-te-¡p-Å ]m-X-bn-se-¯m-\p-Å N-e-¨n-{X- Sp-¶ h-enb shÃp-hn-fn-IÄ {]-Xn-^-en-¸n-¡p-¶-Xn-\mbn, ]-cam-b H-cp {i-aw. H-cp cm-Py-¯n-sâ I-Y-bv-¡p-]-cn-bm- ap-Jy[m-cm kzo-Imcy-X e-`n-¡p-¶-Xn-\m-bn t]m-cm-Sp-¶ bn kmÀ-h-euInI hn-j-b-am-bn A-Xv h-f-cp-¶p. kv-{Xo-IÄ am-{X-ap-Å h-fÀ-¶p-h-cp-¶ H-cp ^pUv-t_mÄ So-an-sâ I-®n-eq-sS hn-¹-hm\-´-c en-_nb-sb B-g- ¯n t\m-¡n-¡m-Wp-¶p.

Naziha Arebi is a Libyan actress and director known Cambodian director Rithy Panh started his career for Freedom Fields, Half-moon and Granny’s flags. by directing documentaries. His first documentary feature film, Site II was awarded "Grand Prix du Documentaire" at the Festival of Amiens. His works include The Land of the Wandering Souls, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Paper Cannot Wrap up Embers. His 2013 documentary The Missing Picture was screened in the Uncertain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the top prize. 114 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

House of Glass In a Foreign Country Portugal/ 23’/ 2018/ Portuguese Portugal/ 25’/ 2018

Direction, Editing & Screenplay Felipe Martins Direction& Editing Karen Ackerman& Miguel Seabra DoP Raoul Sousa, Miguel Sevivas Lopes Production Terrateme Filmes Sound Design Marco Conceicao Screenplay Herberto Helder DoP Paulo Menezes

Carlos occupies an abandoned glass pavilion A film based loosely on a text by Herberto Helder. on a busy city street. We follow him in his daily interactions with the people around him and the lonely moments in the privacy of his transparent home. An honest, close view of survival on the edge of society.

\-K-c-¯n-se Xn-c-t¡dn-b H-cp sX-cp-hn ¥m-kn XoÀ- sl-À-_Àt«m slÂ-U-dp-sS Hcp te-J\-s¯ B-[m-c- ¯ D-t]-£n-¡-s¸-« H-cp Iq-Sm-c-¯n ImÀ-tem-kv Xm-a- am¡n-b Nn-{Xw. k-am-¡p-¶p. Np-äp-ap-Å B-fp-I-fp-am-bp-Å A-t±-l-¯n- sâ ssZ-\wZn-\ C-S-s]-S-ep-Ifpw kp-Xm-cyam-b ho-«n-se A-t±-l-¯n-sâ kz-Im-cy-\n-an-j-§fpw \-½Ä ]n-´p-S- cp¶p. k-aq-l-¯n-sâ A-Xn-cp-I-fn-se A-Xn-Po-h-\-¯n- sâ k-Xy-k-Ôhpw kq-£v-a-hpam-b Im-gv-N.

Filipe Martins is film director, professor at the School Miguel Seabra Lopes has worked in film,TV and of Media Arts and Design (ESMAD, Porto, Portugal) advertising. His work was exhibited in festivals like and researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Locarno and Rotterdam and awarded at IndieLisboa, University of Porto, in the Research Group Aesthetics, DocLisboa, Tabor and Recife Window. Karen Akerman Policy and Knowledge. His filmography includes worked as editor in over 40 films (features and shorts). films in the genres of fiction, documentary and video She was awarded the Grand Brazilian Film Award - Best dance, selected and awarded in several international Editing for Fiction and Best Documentary Editing; ABC film festivals. award for Best Editing Fiction. She made five short films. 12TH IDSFFK 115 Last Men in Aleppo Letter to Theo Denmark, Syria/ 83’/ 2017/ Arabic Belgium, Greece/ 70’/ 2019/ French, Greek, Persian

Direction & Screenplay Feras Fayyad Production Direction & Screenplay Elodie Lelu Kareem Abed, Soren Steen Jespreson, Stefan Kloos Production Lota Production Music Kartsan Fundal DoP Mujahed Abou Al Joud, Editing Philipe Boucq DoP Tristan Galand Fadi Al Hajabi, Henrik Ipsen, Thaer Mohammad Editing Michel Bauer, Steen Johannesen

This is a documentary film following members of A letter of love and admiration from French the volunteer group White Helmets, who offer aid filmmaker Élodie Lélu to her friend and close to the wounded during the Syrian civil war. collaborator Théo Angelopoulos, the most significant director in Greek art film history. A documentary that tells of both the Greek and the refugee crisis, interweaving excerpts from the Greek director’s films with documentary footage of the bleak reality in present-day Greece. kn-dn-b³ B-`y-´-c-bp-²-¯n ]-cn-t¡-ä-hÀ-¡v k-lm- {Ko-¡v kw-hn-[m-b-I\m-b Xntbm B-©-tem -]u-tem-kn-\v bw \Â-Ip-¶ ssh-äv slÂ-sa-äv-kv F-¶ k-¶-² kw- A-t±-l-¯n-sâ A-Sp-¯ kp-lr¯pw k-l-{]-hÀ-¯-I- L-S-\-bp-sS Aw-K§-sf ]n-´p-S-cp¶ tUm-Iyp-saâ-dn-. bpam-b {^-©v N-e-¨n-{X kw-hn[m-bnI F-tem-Un te-ep A-b-¨ kv-t\-lhpw B-Z-chpw I-eÀ-¶ H-cp I-¯m-WnXv. {Ko-kn-s\¡p-dn¨pw A-`-bmÀ-°n {]-Xn-k-Ôn-sb¡p- dn¨pw ]-d-bp-¶ Cu Nn{X-¯n {Ko-¡v kw-hn-[m-bI- sâ Nn-{X-§-fn \n-¶p-Å {]-k-à-am-b Zr-iy-§fpw tUm-Iyp-saâ-dn Zr-iy-§fpw Iq-«n-bn-W¡n, k-a-Imen-I {Ko-kn-sâ h-c-ï bm-YmÀ-°y§-sf hn-i-Zo-I-cn-¡p-¶p.

Feras Fayyad has directed and edited several films, Elodie Lelu studied art history at the Sorbonne in both documentaries and fiction, and has received Paris and wrote her thesis on Greek filmmaker Theo particular recognition for his work on contemporary Angelopoulos. Lélu subsequently attended the INSAS Syrian issues and the political transformation of film school in Brussels. She has shot a number of TV the Arab world. His films include Behind the White documentaries about artists including Angelopoulos Color (2014) and My Escape (2016). He also recently and worked on his uncompleted, final film until his produced, co-wrote and edited the short-film winner death. Lettre à Théo is her first feature film. One Day in Aleppo (2017) directed by Ali Alibrahim. 116 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

Meeting Gorbachev Of Fathers & Sons USA / 90:00 / 2018/ Russian, Polish, Germany, Lebonan, USA, Syria, English, German Netherlands/ 99’/ 2018/ Arabic

Direction Werner Herzog, André Singer Direction & Screenplay Talal Derki Production Lucki Stipetic, Andre Singer Cast Osama, Ayman DoP Yuri Burak, Richard Blanshard

Shot in an interview-conversational format, Of Father and Sons is a documentary about a Meeting Gorbachev attempts to draw a humanizing radical jihadist family, militarization of children portrait of Mikhael Gorbachev, one of the most and the cyclic nature of violence that is all-too coveted figures in the history of Soviet Russia. disturbingly inevitable. The film provides us with grounded insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate. tkm-hnb-äv d-jy-bp-sS N-cn-{X-¯n-se G-ähpw {]-tem- H-cp Xo-{hhm-Z Pn-lm-Zn Ip-Spw-_-s¯bpw Ip-«nI-sf `\o-b hy-àn-Xz-§-fn H-¶m-bn-cp-¶ an-Jm-tb tKmÀ- km-bp-[-hÂ-¡-cn-¡p-¶-Xn-t\bpw H-gn-hm¡m-\m-hm-¯ _-t¨-hn-sâ a-\p-jy-Xz-]-cam-b ap-Jw hc-¨pIm-«m³ D-Zy A-{I-a-§-fp-sS Nm-{In-I kz-`m-hs¯bpw Ip-dn-¨pÅ -an-¡p-¶ Cu Nn{Xw A-`n-ap-J-kw-`m-j-Wþkwhm-Z cq-]- tUm-Iyp-saâ-dn-. H-cp C-Éman-I cm-Py-¯v h-f-cp-¶-Xn-sâ ¯n-em-Wv Nn-{Xo-I-cn-¨n-cn-¡p-¶-Xv. AÀ-°w F-´m-sW-¶-Xn-s\¡p--dn-¨v kw-`-h-Ø-e-¯p \n-¶p-Å DÄ-¡mgv-N Cu Nn-{Xw {]-Zm-\w sN-¿p-¶p.

Werner Herzog has produced, written and directed Talal Derki is a director, producer and screenwriter. more than 60 feature and documentary films, such as He worked as an assistant director for feature film Aguirre der Zorn Gottes, Nosfratu Phantom der Nacht, productions and was a director for different Arab Little Dieter needs to fly, Mein Liebster Fiend, Invincible, TV programs & TV films between 2009 and 2012. Grizzly man etc. André Singer is a documentary He worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and filmmaker and an anthropologist. He directed Thomson Reuters. His feature documentary Return Strangers Abroad series, Khyber, Night Will Fall, Where to Homs has won the Sundance Film Festival’s World the Wind Blew, and Witchcraft Among the Azande. Cinema Grand Jury Prize. 12TH IDSFFK 117 Prisoner of Society Sandoval’s Bullet Georgia/ 16’/ 2019/ Georgian Ecuador/ 17’/ 2019/ Spanish

Direction, DoP, Editing & Sound Rati Tsiteladze Direction, Production, DoP & Editing Jean Jacques Production Nino Varsimashvili, Rati Tsiteladze Martinod Sound Alex Lane Music Credo Chamber Choir of Kiev, Bogdan Plish

Prisoner of Society is an intimate journey into the In a rainforest in Ecuador, Isidro Varga and his world and mind of a young transgender woman, brother recollect the times when a bullet and a trapped between her personal desire for freedom broken bottle nearly ended his life. and traditional expectations of her parents that threatens their unity.

kz-X-{´y-¯n-\v th-ïn-bp-Å hy-àn-]-cam-b Xr-jv-W-bpw H-cp sh-Sn-bp-ïbpw s]m«n-b Ip-¸nbpw X-sâ Po-hn-Xw X-sâ am-Xm-]n-Xm-¡-fp-sS ]-c-¼-cm-K-X {]-Xo-£-Ifpw X-«n-sb-Sp-¡p-¶-Xn-sâ h-¡n-se¯n-b k-ab-s¯¡p-dn- X-§-fpsS sF-Iy-s¯ {]-Xn-k-Ôn-bn-em-¡p-¶-Xn Ip- ¨v C-kn-t{Zm hÀ-Kbpw A-t±-l-¯n-sâ k-tlm-Z-c\pw Sp-§n-t¸m-b H-cp {Sm³-kv-sPâÀ bp-h-Xn-bp-sS a-\-Ên-eq- C-IztUm-dn-se H-cp a-g-¡m-«n-en-cp¶v HmÀ-¡p-¶p. sSbpw tem-I-¯n-eq-sS-bp-ap-Å Km-Vam-b bm-{X.

Rati Tsiteladze has directed and produced several Jean-Jacques Martinod is a director, screenwriter and short films that won over 50 awards worldwide cinematographer from Guayaquil in Ecuador, known and screened at more than 300 festivals, including for his films Rota, Beast and El Diezmo. Melbourne IFF, Hong Kong IFF, Leeds IFF, Guanajuato IFF and Locarno FF. His recent work Prisoner of Society (2018) won numerous Oscar qualifying awards and it is the first Georgian short documentary nominated for European Film Academy Awards. 118 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

Talking About Adultery The Secret History of Czech Republic / 72:00 / 2019 Aviation Portugal/ 15’/ 2018/ Portuguese Direction, Production & Editing Bara Jichova Tyson Direction, Sound & DoP Joao Manso Sound Design Jun Mizumachi Composing Brian Editing Tomas Baltazar Music Pedro Salvadar Patrick Saia, Bazel

Talking About Adultery is a feature film essay The Secret History of Aviation is a poignant told through candid interviews about intimate reflection on that which rises and that which falls. relationships, combined with collage-making, archival and abstract film footage, and the director’s own love letters.

Km-V-_-Ô-§-sf Ip-dn-¨v Xp-d-¶ a-\-tÊm-sS-bp-Å A-`n- F-´m-Wv D-b-cp-Ibpw F-´m-Wv ho-gp-Ibpw sN-¿p¶-Xv ap-J-§-fn-eq-sS B-Jym-\w ]p-tcm-Kan-¡p-¶ Cu Nn-{X- F-¶-Xn-s\¡p-dn-¨p-Å Xo-{ham-b {]-Xn-^-e-\w. ¯nÂ, A-`n-ap-J§-sf sIm-fm-jp-Ifpw BÀ-ss¡hÂ, A-aqÀ-¯ Nn-{X Zr-iy§Ä, kw-hn-[m-bI-sâ X-s¶ {]-W-b te-J-\-§Ä F-¶n-h-bp-am-bn kw-tbm-Pn-¸n-¨n- cn-¡p-¶p.

Bara Jichova is Czech-born filmmaker, photographer João Manso is a filmmaker known for Bibliografia and artist. She collaborated with film directors Hal (2013), O Amor Acontece (2011) and The Nothing Hartley, Michael Almereyda, composers David Ciery, Factory (2017). He has directed and edited short films, Josephine Wiggs and artists John Holland, Karl Geary documentaries and music videos as well. and Amy Jenkins. Jichova was art director of the film Now, Forager and she edited and produced a feature film about Bauhaus architecture on a Cape Cod, Built on Narrow Land. 12TH IDSFFK 119 The Silence of Others What We Left Unfinihsed Spain / 96:00 / 2018/ Spanish Afghanistan, Qatar, USA/ 71’/2019/ Dari, English

Direction & Production Almudena Carracedo, Direction & Production Marian Ghani Robert Bahar DoP Almudena Carracedo Music Qasim Naqvi DoP Adam S Hogan Editing Kim Roberts, ACE & Ricardo Acosta, CE Editing Ian Olds Music Leo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman

The Silence of Others, a documentary that operates What We Left Unfinished tells the story of as an exercise in history and contemporary five unfinished fiction feature films from the activism, brings to the foreground state-stifled Communist era Afghanistan (1978-1991), and the trauma from Franco’s dictatorship in Spain. The people who went to crazy lengths to make them, film puts together multiple narratives of individual in a time when films were weapons, filmmakers and familial grief to populate a national narrative became targets, and the dreams of constantly of pain. shifting political regimes merged with the stories told onscreen. B-În-hn-k-¯n-sâ k-a-Im-en-I, N-cn-{X-]-Ým-¯-e-§Ä A-^v-Km-\n-Øm-\n-se I-½yq-Wn-Ìv `-c-W-Im-e-¯v (1978þ- ]cn-tim-[n-¡p-¶ H-cp {]-hÀ-¯-\-am-bn am-dp¶ Cu 1991) ]qÀ-¯n-bm-¡m-\mh-sX h-¶ A©v ap-gp\o-f tUmIypsaâdn, kv-s]-bn-\n {^m-t¦m-bp-sS G-Im-[n- IYmNn-{X-§-fp-sSbpw, N-e-¨n-{X-§Ä B-bp-[-§-fm-hp- ]-Xy-¯n-\v Io-gn \-S-¶ `-c-WIq-S A-Sn-¨-aÀ-¯-en-sâ Ibpw N-e-¨n-{X-Im-c·mÀ t\m-«-an-S-s¸-Sp-Ibpw sN-¿p-¶ ap-dn-hpI-sf {]-Xy-£-¯n-te-¡v sIm-ïp-h-cp¶p. th-Z-\- Ime-¯v A-h ]qÀ-¯n-bm-¡p-¶-Xn-\m-bn {`m-´-am-b Zq-c- bp-sS H-cp tZio-b B-Jym\-s¯ P-\-Io-b-am-¡p-¶ hy- §Ä bm-{XsN-bv-X hy-àn-I-fp-sSbpw A-{`-]m-fn-I-fn àn-K-Xhpw Ip-Spw-_-]-c-hpam-b \n-ch-[n th-Z-\-I-fp-sS ]-d-bp-¶ I-Y-I-fp-am-bn AØn-c-am-b cm-{ão-b `-c-W-Iq- B-Jym-\§-sf Nn{Xw kw-tbm-Pn-¸n-¡p-¶p. S§-sf Iq-«n-bn-W-¡p-¶-Xn-sâbpw I-Y-.

Almudena Carracedo is a Spanish director and Mariam Ghani is a visual artist, writer, teacher producer. She previously worked with Robert and filmmaker, and has produced or co-produced Bahar on her debut feature film, the Emmy-winning a number of short films and multiple-channel documentary Made in L.A, which she directed and installations, transmedia projects, live cinema events, produced. Robert Bahar is an American producer, exhibitions, conferences and discussions. What We writer, and director. He wrote and produced Made in Left Unfinished is her first feature-length film. L.A. His first directorial effort was the documentary Laid to Waste, which he also produced. 120 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

Your Face / 76:00 / 2018

Direction & Screenplay Tsai Ming Liang Production Claude Wang

A minimalistic exercise in contemplation via documentation, Your Face examines the character and detailing on faces. It tries to open up the presence of an intense landscape and stories on everyday looking human faces.

tc-J-s¸-Sp-¯-en-eq-sS A-h-temI-\w sN-¿m-\p-Å an-X- am-b {i-aw F-¶v hn-ti-jn-¸n-¡m-hp-¶ bp-hÀ t^-kv, ap-J-§-fn-se hn-i-Zmw-i-§fpw kz`m-h k-hn-ti-j-X- Ifpw ]cn-tim-[n-¡p¶p. ssZ-\w-Zn-\w Im-Wp-¶ a-\p-jy- ap-J-§-fn-se I-Y-I-fp-sSbpw Xo{h `q-{]-Ir-Xn-bp-sSbpw km-¶n[yw Xp-d-¶n-Sm³ {i-an-¡p-¶p.

Tsai Ming-liang is a Taiwanese filmmaker. He has written and directed ten feature films and has also directed many short films and television films. Tsai is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese cinema. His films have been acclaimed worldwide and have won numerous awards at film festivals. In 2015, he won Best Director at the

Taipei Film Awards for the short film No No Sleep. 12TH IDSFFK 121 MATION ANI

122 ANIMATION

09:09 F Amrita India / 05:04 / 2019/ Marathi India / 06:18 / 2018/ English

Direction, Screenplay & Editing Avinash Medhe Direction, Screenplay & Animation Swati Agarwal Production Swarup Deb Production Dr. Ajanta Sen, Prof. Ravi Poovaiah Music & Sound Design Roto Shah Music Uttam Bhat Sound Design Shantanu Yennemadi Animation Shyam Wanare

Set inside a busy local train, the film through Aestheticizing a true story procured from its characters reflect on the various societal Rajasthan’s Bishnoi community, Amrita attempts contemplations around occupation of public to converse to the intuitive sensibilities spaces, otherness and how various contexts- around matters of environmental concerns and situations see the interaction of these ideas being conservation. The film presents a stark account enacted in the everyday. of sensitive human co-existence, to advocate the necessity of a reflective co-existence with nature.

A[n\nthin¡s¸Sp¶ s]mXpCS§fn a\pjyÀ cmPØm\nse _njvtWmbn kapZmb¯nsâ PohnX- A\p`hn¡p¶ A]cXzs¯¡pdn¨pw \nXyPohnX- kml-Ncy¯n \n¶psaSp¯ Hcp kw`hIYbpsS ¯nse hnhn[ kµÀ`kmlNcy§fn CsX§s\ IemßImhnjvImcamb "AarX' ]Icm³ {ian¡p- A\p`hn¡p¶psh¶Xns\¡pdn¨papÅ kmaqlnI ¶Xv, ]mcnØnXnImht_m[hpw ]cnØnXn ]cn]me\ hnNn´\amWv Xnct¡dnb XohïnapdnbpsS ]Ým- hpw \ndªp\n¡p¶ DÄ¡mgvNIfmWv. kq£va- ¯e¯n Cu Nn{Xw, AXnse IYm]m{X§fneqsS kwthZnbpw sshImcnIhpamb a\pjy klPoh\- AhXcn¸n¡p¶Xv. ¯nsâ IY hnhcn¡p¶XneqsS a\pjyþ{]IrXn kl- Poh\¯nsâ BhiyIXbnte¡mWv Cu Nn{Xw hncÂNqïp¶Xv.

Avinash Medhe is a co-founder/ director at Girgit Swati Agarwal is an alumnus of IDC, School of Studios, an animation design studio. He has Design, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay. completed his post-graduation in Animation Film Design from National Institute of Design, India. He has directed numerous animation and live action short films, Animated TV Commercials, Promo films using traditional as well as experimental animation techniques. 12TH IDSFFK 123 Dark Dry Fly Iruttu Spain / 05:19 / 2018/ Spanish India / 04:04 / 2018

Direction, Screenplay & Animation Deepak Sivan Direction, Screenplay , Production Production Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute & Animation Rut Juan Music Raquel García Music & Sound Design Shubharun Sengupta Sound Design Joan Climent Art Direction & Animation Elvira Infante Animation Lorena Navarro, Julia Sevilla, Sergio Jaén, Rafael Carrasco

Through the eyes of a little boy locked up in a dark Dry Fly follows Margarito, a thirsty fly, on his risky room and the ray of light that keeps him company, journey to quench his thirst on a hot day. Iruttu is a simplistic exploration of nuances in a world of man-made binaries.

Ccp«papdnbn ]q«nbnSs¸s«mcp _me³. Hcp {]Imi- amÀKcnt¯m F¶ ZmlmÀ¯\mb Cu¨ HcpjvW- IncWw am{XamWh\v XpW. Ahsâ ImgvNbneqsS Zn\¯n Zmlw ian¸n¡m\mbn \S¯p¶ kmlknI ]ptcmKan¡p¶ Cu Nn{Xw a\pjykrãamb t`ZI k©mc¯nsâ A\pbm{X. ]\Isf¡pdn¨pÅ efnXamb At\zjWamWv.

Deepak Sivan is currently pursuing his diploma in Rut Juan graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic Animation Cinema at Satyajit Ray Film and Television University of Valencia. Currently she is working as an Institute, Kolkata. animator.

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Inside Patchwork Akam Spain / 08:00 / 2018/ Spanish India / 03:41 / 2018/ Malayalam

Direction & Screenplay Remya Rajeev Direction, Screenplay, Production, DoP, Editing & Sound Design Dhiman Karmakar Production Animation María Manero Music Nani García Sound Satyajit Ray Film And Television Institute Editing Design John Grothier Animation Laura Ávila, Gala Anandhu K Rameshan Other Sreemanti Dutta Fiz, Blanca Monzonís, María Pulido, Andrea Cercós Sharma, Debraj Sarkar, Rishik Bharath

Kathakali is something Mathu has been hearing Patchwork is about Loly, who is in dire need of a about all through his childhood. One fine summer liver transplant. day, his mother finally takes him to the temple for a performance. But what he encounters there is beyond one’s comprehension.

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Remya Rajeev is a final year animation cinema Maria Manero is an independent artist, animator and student at the Satyajit Ray Film And Television filmmaker looking to evolve a vocabulary of her own. Institute, Kolkata. She hails from Trivandrum, Kerala. Akam was done as a part of a short-film project at the Institute and this is her first film. 12TH IDSFFK

125 Pockets The Cyclerickshaw India / 05:24 / 2018 India / 05:00 / 2018

Direction & Screenplay Vivek Prakash Direction, Screenplay & Production Saneesh Thomas Production Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Music Aloysious Ajay Sound Design Sourabh Saha, Shubharun Sengupta

Pockets tells the tale of man in a mall having a The Cycle rickshaw is about an ageing widow, her hard time picking up something that has fallen son and the monotonous life they live. out of his hand, as the countless pockets on his clothes are filled with all the new things he has bought.

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Vivek Prakash is from Delhi, India. He is currently, Saneesh Thomas is an artist, animator and an pursuing post-graduation in animation cinema from aspiring filmmaker. Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, India since 2016. In addition, he has also worked on a video art project in collaboration with Art Students from Delhi College of art, India.

126 ANIMATION

War for Keyboard Warriors China / 02:27 / 2019 Direction, Screenplay, Production & Editing LamCan-zhao Animation Huijian Qiu, Da Kuang Sound Design Wenhua Lai Co- Production Zhenhua Mai Editing Haokun Gou, Can-zhao Lam, Huijian Qiu

The keyboard warrior seeks to use the power imbued in his 'weapon' to effect death and destruction upon his foes. In essence, the keyboard allows the manifestation of his true warrior nature in a safe and removed environment, from which no real-life repercussions will emerge. kz´w hyànXzs¯ ad¨p]nSn¨v CâÀs\än tam- ihpw {]tIm]\]chpamb t]mÌpI-fn«v i{Xp¡sf XIÀ¡p¶ Iot_mÀUv tbm²m¡sf¡pdn¨v.

Lam Can-zhao is a young film auteur from Southern China. His cinematic directorial debut was at the age of 20 with The Dog, a low-budget independent film that brought this new director to the fore. In 2018, his second feature Animal World premiered at the 29th Carthage Film Festival and won the Best Asian Film at the Salamindanaw Asian Film Festival in Philippines. 12TH IDSFFK

127 VIDEO MUSIC

128 MUSIC VIDEO

Bombay Dibi Durga India / 03:59 / 2018/ Hindi India / 06:19 / 2018

Direction & Screenplay Krishna Kumar K U Production Directorate of Collegiate education Kerala education department Editing Premsai M Direction & Screenplay Niranjan Kumar Kujur DoP Gikku Jacob Peter Music Best Ashok Sound Production Nirmalaya Mukherjee DoP Stanley Design Praveen Iyer Animation Nikhil Anamika Mudda Editing Amit Ray Sound Design Manjul Peter Art Direction Ananthu Kakkaradan Toppo Music Srimanti Hembrom Other Deepak Leela Media

Explored through the eyes of a youngster travelling Dibi Durga is the story of every woman in rural in Mumbai, the song attempts to visualize the India, conveyed in the music video format. various faces of Mumbai that co-exists despite She cooks, cleans, and works in the fields- her apparent differences. It accounts for both the responsibilities seem never ending. high rise buildings as well as those houses that collapse into each other in the slums that are part of a thriving underbelly of the city. apwss_ \Kc¯nsâ {]Xy£amb hyXymk§Ä Hcp ZnZn ZpÀK {KmaoW C´ybnse Hmtcm kv{Xobp-sSbpw bphmhnsâ I®pIfneqsS Bhnjv-Icn¡pIbmWv Cu IYbmWv. AhÄ ]mNIw sN¿p¶Xpw ipNnbm- kwKoX Nn{Xw. DbÀ¶p hcp¶ _lp\ne sI«nS- ¡p¶Xpw IrjbnS§fn ]WnsbSp¡p¶Xpw Ah §fpw tNcnIfnse XIÀ¶ hoSpIfpamWv \Kc¯n- -fpsS D¯chmZnXz§Ä Ahkm\n¡m¯Xpw kwKoX sâ hyXymk§Ä a\knem¡m\mbn D]tbmKn¨ncn- hoUntbmbneqsS AhXcn¸n¡p¶p. ¡p¶Xv.

Krishna Kumar K U is an aspiring filmmaker currently Niranjan Kumar Kujur, from Jharkhand, has been working in advertisement production. making shorts and documentaries with indigenous tribes in Jharkhand and around. He is a graduate in direction and screenplay writing from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. His filmography includes Bonophool, Sadashrab, Edpa Kana, Mother, Khaika & Pahada. 12TH IDSFFK

129 Googling Gandhi Route Her Rebirth India / 02:18 / 2018/ English Marupiranthaal - Born to Live India / 06:05 / 2019/ Tamil

Direction Joshy Joseph Production Prashant Direction Adarsh N Krishna, Shani Hafees Pathrabe Other V Sukumaran, N Balu, Production & Screenplay Shani Hafees Music Yeldho K Rajeshwaran, Padma Rajeswaran, Jimmy Luke, John DoP Abi Reji Editing Premsai Mukundan Art M , A.C Thangarajan, A S Nava Jyothy, Direction Santhosh Pappanamcode Other Reyah J Fatima Hafees, Rexeena Musthafa

Googling Gandhi Route is about a student, in the Marupiranthaal is an exploration of the various era of globalization, navigating the entire route of shades that could exist in a woman’s life. It tries the Dandi March using Google, to the backdrop of to evolve a critique on the patriarchal society an aural-scape. that wants to tame and control a woman’s body and mind, by looking at various scenarios and instances in a woman’s everyday life in the society.

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Joshy Joseph assisted film maker Adoor Adarsh N Krishna is an aspiring filmmaker from Gopalakrishnan in Kathapurushan. He is the Director, Kerala. He has a diploma in multimedia and Films Division, Kolkata. He has scripted and directed animation. His other works are Olapepee, Sarangi, several short and feature-length documentaries. He Yaksham, Galeelayile Adhithi, Chilappol penkutty & has won five National Awards for his films and also for Kunjolum Unniyum. Shani Hafeez is a poet, writer and his writings on Cinema. He specializes in subjects on aspiring filmmaker currently working as the Managing the North East, including the feature film 'Imaginary Director of Ayurdha Naturals. She has co-produced a Line'. Malayalam music album called Pennal. 130 MUSIC VIDEO

Magizhchi by the Maravairi Casteless Collective India / 05:43 / 2019/ Telugu India / 04:40 / 2019/ Tamil Direction & Production Pa Direction & Screenplay Jithin Screenplay Tenma Tenma DoP Sathyan Sooryan Production Renuka Arun DoP Vinayak Gopal Music Tenma Art Direction T. Ramalingam Editing Christy Sebastian Editing Selva. RK Sound Design Sumesh Parameswar

Magizhchi is a Tamil word that could mean a variety Maravairi sees a Carnatic progressive rock of things, like happiness, joy, excitement, glee rendition of a classical Telugu song. The video etc. but it resists one single formal translation, featuring Queer Pride is a celebration of pluralism, implying inherent tolerance. This video celebrates diversity and inclusiveness. the spirit of this Tamil word.

kt´mjw, B\µw, Bthiw, BËmZw F¶o Hcp ¢mkn¡Â sXep¦v Km\¯nsâ IÀWmSnIv AÀ°§Ä kqNn¸n¡p¶ Xangv hm¡mWv aKngvNn. tdm¡v amäamWv adsshcn kqNn¸n¡p¶Xv. _lpkzc- AtXkabw kzm`mhnIamb klnjvWpXsb¶ AÀ- XbpsSbpw sshhn[y¯nsâbpw DÄs¡mÅen-sâ- °w CXn\nÃ. Cu hoUntbm Cu hm¡nsâ Bßm- bpw BtLmjamWv Cu Nn{Xw. hns\ BtLmjn¡p¶p.

Pa. Ranjith is an Indian filmmaker working in Tamil Jithin Lal started off assisting in ad and feature language films. He made his directorial debut with the films. He worked in Kunjiramayanam, as an assistant film Attakathi, before earning unanimously positive director and as an associate director in Ennu Ninte reviews for his second film, the political drama Moideen, Godha and Kalki. Jithin has directed several Madras. In 2016, he wrote and directed Kabali and in advertisements, music videos and documentaries. 2018, Kaala starring Rajnikanth, both rumoured to be His debut feature is all set to go into production next a part of a trilogy organized along Ambedkar’s famous year. words, “Educate, Agitate and Organize”. 12TH IDSFFK 131 132 MADHUSREE DUTTA is a filmmaker, curator and author. Her films have been screened widely, both nationally and internationally, in film festivals and art events, and taught as texts in academic and media & film institutions. She has received Filmfare award, three national awards, two IDPA awards, RAPA award and several citizens’ awards for her contribution in the field of cinema and cultural pedagogy. Madhusree has relinquished her national film awards in protest against State-sponsored cultural terrorism in 2015. Several retrospectives of her films have been held in various parts of the world – including MIFF (Mumbai International Film Festival Documentary, Short and Animation Films), 2018. She has been jury to several film festivals, including the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) in 2009 and Berlinale International Film Festival Short Jury in 2015. Madhusree’s interest in documentary goes beyond making films and into various renditions of documentary enquiries and practices involving multiple disciplines. She was the producer-curator of Project Cinema City: Research Art and Documentary Practices, an inter-disciplinary project to explore the interfaces between the cinema producing city and its cinema, 2008-2014. She is the author of dates. sites: Bombay / Mumbai, a graphic timeline of the public cultures in the 20th century city, 2012. She has MADHUSREE DUTTA co-edited three anthologies of essays: Project Cinema City, 2014; Sites and Practices: an exercise in cultural pedagogy, 2006; The Nation, The State and Indian Identity, 1996. She is the founder and was the executive director of Majlis, a centre for Multi-disciplinary art initiatives in Mumbai, 1998-2016. Madhusree has designed a number of pedagogical courses on multiculturalism both for social movements and academic institutions. She has also curated and coordinated many international art and cultural festivals, including several editions of World Social Forum. Since 2018 she has joined as Artistic Director of Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne, Germany.

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133 7 Islands and Metro I Live on Behrampada India/ 98’/ 2006/ English, Hindi India/ 46’/1993/ English, Hindi

Direction Madhushree Dutta Production Majilis Direction Madhushree Dutta Production Majilis DoP Avijit Mukul Kishore Editing Reena Mohan, DoP Moloy Roy Editing Sujata Narula Shaymal Karamkar Sound Anita Kushwaha, Sound Namita Nayak Bobby John, Gissy Micheal Music Arjun Sen

The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. The film is the tale of the city woven into a tapestry of fiction, cinémavérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. The narrative is structured around imaginary epistolatory debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. This documentary looks at the stereotyped and cast aside lives of the inhabitants of Behrampada, a slum colony in the western suburbs of Bombay, in the aftermath of the communal riots of 1992 {]hÀ¯\w \ne¨ anÃpIfpsSbpw \oïp]Scp¶ and 1993. Zcn{ZtNcnIfpsSbpw dnb FtÌäv IS¶m{IaW- ¯nsâbpw t_mws_. hyXykvX `mjIfpsS _lp- kzcXbneqsS Dcphs¸Sp¶ B \Kc¯nsâ km- am\yP\kwkvImcw. k¦Â]§fn am{Xw I\Iw hnfbp¶ HcnSw. IÂ]nXIYIfpw hkvXpXm Nn{XoIc- Whpw IemhkvXp¡fpw iÐhn\ymkhpw kmln- Xyhpw sImïv s\bvsXSps¯mcp Nn{XI¼f-amWv 1992þ93 Imebfhn \S¶ hÀKobIem]§fpsS Cu Ne¨n{Xw. CkvaXv NpKvXmbn, kmZ¯v lk³ A\´c^e§Ä, ]Snªmd³ t_mws_bnse tNcn- am³tXm F¶nhÀ km¦Â]nIamsbmcp I¯nS]mSn {]tZiamb s_lvdmw]mUbnse kmapZmbnI-ambn ]ckv]cw kwhZn¡p¶XneqsS cq]s¸Sp¶XmWv {]m´h¡cn¡s¸« tImf\nhmknIfpsS PohnX-] CXnsâ BJym\LS\. Ým¯e¯n At\zjn¡p¶ tUmIypsaâdn. 134 NEGOTIATING DISSIDENCE: MADHUSREE DUTTA Made In India Memories of Fear India/ 38’/ 2002/ English, Hindi India/ 57’/ 1995/ Hindi, English

Direction Madhushree Dutta Production Majilis Direction & Screenplay Madhushree Dutta DoP Avijit Mukul Kishore Editing Shyamal Karamkar Production Majilis DoP K U Mohanan Sound Vipin Bhati Music ArjunSen Editing Sujata Narula Music D Wood, Vikram Joglekar

A rural artist paints her autobiography, Bollywood movie icons' images get erased after the weekly run of the film, the national flag flutters on 150 kites, an installation artist paints pop icons on the rolling shutters of shops, religious icons jostle for attention with plastic flowers on the vendor's cart, metaphors of life cycle adorn the mud wall of a home, neighbourhood boys craft the tale of WTC and the sale of toy planes goes up. Symbols of nationalism become a fashionable commodity. Popular visual culture explodes into our consciousness.

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Scribbles on Akka India/ 58’/ 2000/ English

Direction Madhushree Dutta Production Majilis DoP Avijit Mukul Kishore, R V Ramani Editing P Resul Sound Shyamal Karamkar Music Illayara, Shanatanu Moitra

In this short film on the life and work of the 12th century saint-poet, Mahadevi Akka, her radical poems, written with the female body as a metaphor, have been composed and picturised in contemporary musical language. The film is a celebration of rebellion, femininity and legacy down nine hundred years.

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136 WORK

Contemporary American artist and filmmaker BILL MORRISON became famous for his feature footage movie Decasia (2002), a self-reflexive audiovisual symphony. His films have been concerned with the particular struggle between film and its material medium, the conflict between the image and matter which ruins the narrative of the original, twisted by the gnawing power of time, but which at the same time produces a paradoxical tale of ruins, born out of the double resistance of the filmic image and its material. His films typically source rare archival footage in which long-forgotten, and sometimes deteriorated, imagery is reframed as part of a collective mythology. A mythology he sets up through images that construct a complex allegory of survival, the cycle of creation and destruction, while provoking a contemplation of human mortality. Morrison's film and multimedia art has been screened at festivals, museums and concert halls worldwide, including the Sundance Film Festival, the Tate Modern, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. His work has been recognized with the Alpert Award, Creative Capital, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a mid-career retrospective at MoMA. His found footage opus Decasia (2002) was the first film of the 21st century to be selected to the Library of

BILL MORRISON'S Congress’ National Film Registry. The Great Flood (2013) was awarded the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award of 2014 for historical scholarship. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) HYPNOTIC PICTURES: PICTURES: HYPNOTIC won a Critics’ Choice Award for the most innovative documentary of the year, and was named the best documentary of 2017 by the Boston Society of Film Critics. The Guardian is known to have noted that Morrison’s films “make you feel the art, as opposed to the business, of cinema does have a future – even if it has to be found deep in the past”. 12TH IDSFFK A SELECTION OF

137 Decasia The Great Flood USA/ 70’/ 2003 USA/ 80’/ 2012/ English

Direction, Screenplay, Production Direction & Screenplay Bill Morrison & Editing Bill Morrison Music Bill Freisel, Iony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, Music Micheal Gordon Ron Miles

Decasia is a meditation on the human quest to The Mississippi river flood of 1927 was devastating, transcend physicality, constructed from decaying especially to what remained of the Mississippi archival footage, set to an original symphonic Delta’s sharecropper economy, so much so that score. it helped change the country’s demographics, fueling the northward migration of blacks that had already been underway. With just the occasional bit of text on the screen, the film conveys the destruction and the aftermath. 1927 anÊnÊn¸n \Znbnse alm{]fbw XIÀs¯- dnªXv anÊnÊn¸n sUÂäbn \ne\n¶ncp¶ ]m-« hyhØbne[njvTnXamb k¼ZvLS\sbbmWv. hS- ¡³ {]tZi§fnte¡pÅ Idp¯hÀK¡mcpsS IpSn- PoÀWmhØbnepÅ ]gb Ne¨n{XiIe§fn \n- tbä¯n\v CXv B¡w Iq«pIbpw cmPy¯nsâ P\ ¶v \nÀ½ns¨Sp¯ Cu Nn{Xw A\\yamb kwKoX- kwJym]camb hn\ymks¯ amänadn¡pIbpw sN- hn\ymk¯nsâ AI¼SntbmsS AXo{µnbXzs¯¡p- bvXp. {]fbw krãn¨ hn\mihpw AXnsâ A\´c- dn¨pÅ a\pjysâ PnÚmksb GIm{KXtbmsS ]n- ^e§fpamWv kmµÀ`nIambn Cu Nn{Xw NÀ¨sN- ´pScp¶p. ¿p¶Xv. 138 HYPNOTIC PICTURES: A SELECTION OF BILL MORRISON'S WORK The Miner’s Hymns UK/ 52’/ 2012/ English

Direction Bill Morrison Screenplay Bill Morrison, Johann Johannsson, David Metcalfe

The Miner’s Hymns looks into the ill-fated lives of the mining peasantry in North-East England. It is an elegiac testament to the lost industrial culture of the Durham coalfields.

hS¡pIng¡³ Cw¥ïnse UÀlmw I¡cn- ¸mS§fn \n¶pw t]mbvadª hyhkmb kwkvIm- cs¯ timI`cnXambn tcJs¸Sp¯p¶ Cu Nn{Xw AhnSs¯ J\ns¯mgnemfnIfpsS ZuÀ`mKyIcamb

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139 CARTE BLANCHE DOCUMENTAMADRID

DocumentaMadrid invites audiences on an eye- opening journey into some of the most diverse realities and aesthetic offerings from filmmakers from around the world. Creative freedom that characterizes the new film language and expression in the documentary genre, floods the city of Madrid in May to spark creation, critical viewing and a culture of citizen debate. DocumentaMadrid is a space that promotes and provides support to documentary filmmaking by awarding over €52,500 every year, to prize-winners across its three competitive sections. Since 2004, the festival has been bringing audiences together to converse with filmmakers from all over the world, including much esteemed guests such as Basilio Martín Patino, Frederick Wiseman, Luciano Emmer, Patricio Guzmán, Margarita Ledo, Helena Třeštíková, Rithy Panh, Laila Pakalnina, and Ross McElwee. We are happy to present two films from Spain that have been showcased at DocumentaMadrid. Andrea Guzman & David Varela (Festival Directors) https://www.documentamadrid.com/en DOCUMENTAMADRID

140 BLANCHE CARTE CARTE BLANCHE DOCUMENTAMADRID Donkeyote The Fourth Kingdom Germany, UK, Spain/ 86’/ 2017/ Spanish Spain/ 82’/ 2017/ English

Direction & Screenplay Chico Pereira Direction, DoP & Screenplay Adán Aliaga, Àlex Lora Production Ingmar Trost, Sonja Henrici Production Isa Felieu, Miguel Molina DoP Julian Shwanitz

The film follows Manolo and his donkey Gorrión, The Fourth Kingdom tells the tale of a redemption who are planning a journey to the West. center in NY for immigrants and underdogs where they pursue the American Dream.

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Chico Pereira (1979, Spain) grew up in Almadén Adán Aliaga (born in 1963 in Alacant, Alacant, and was educated in Film and Media at the Scottish ComunitatValenciana, Spain) is a director and Screen Academy in Edinburgh. After making several producer, known for My Grandmother's House (2005), short films he had his feature-length debut with his The Fourth Kingdom (2017) and El Cuarto Reino(2019). graduation project Pablo’s winter, about a retired Àlex Lora Cercós (born September 19, 1979), better mineworker. The documentary won several prizes at known as Alex Lora, is a Spanish film director. His IDFA and Leipzig DOK festival. His other works are The films have beenscreened at hundreds of film festivals Way to Macondo (2009, short), Disco (2011, short), and have received multiple awards and nominations Polaris (2012, short doc) and Pablo’s Winter (2012, around the world, most notably in the two official doc). sections of Sundance, the nomination to the Student Academy Awards, and at the Berlinale Talent Campus and at the Cannes Short Film Corner, the 3 nominations for the Gaudí Catalan Academy Awards, and the nomination and the prize at the New York Emmy Awards. 12TH IDSFFK 141 MEMORY

Many Eastern cultures have been characterised by a lack of recorded history and experience. Oral traditions carried memory. The last fifty years has seen a new, more dramatic recording of history... the visual. From small home Super 8 cameras to VHS to digital formats recordings have been both intimate and historical. To interpret the personal as political filmmakers look back at family history... visual recordings of childhood, weddings, funerals, interviews all become a Pandora’s box of creative exploration. Four films from different parts of the world where THE ARCHIVE AS filmmakers use personal archives to tell contemporary stories.

142 BINA PAUL, an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, has been working as a film editor for more than three decades. She has worked with many leading filmmakers in India and has won several State and National Awards. Some of the films she has edited are Amma Ariyan by John Abraham, by , Janmadinam by Suma Josson, Mitr, My Friend by Revathi, Dance like a Man by Pamela Rooks, In Othello by Roysten Abel, Daya, Munnariyippu and Carbon by Venu. Bina has been the Artistic Director of the International Film Festival of Kerala and the International Documentary and Short Film Festival. She has served on Juries at many festivals including Berlin, Durban, Locarno, Romania and Zanzibar. She is also an active member of the Women in Cinema Collective. 12TH IDSFFK

143 Events in a Cloud Chamber Madame India / 20:00 / 2016 Switzerland/ 94’/ 2018/ French

Direction& Sound Design Direction, DoP & Screenplay Stephane Riethauser Production Future East Films DoP KU Mohanan Cast Carolina Della Befa, Stephane Riethauser Editing Ashim Ahluwalia, Maryann Dzouza

Akbar Padamsee, one of the pioneers of modern Madame is about a grandmother and her grandson Indian paintings, made two abstract animation who are engaged in an intimate conversation, films accompanied by a soundscape in 1960s, exploring gender, sexuality and transmission of films that were far ahead of their times. The more identity. abstract of the two, Events in a Cloud Chamber, was lost after Padamsee lent out his only copy. Ashim Ahluwalia attempts to retrace the first steps in Indian experimental film with the help of Padamsee’s testimonials, archive footage and footage from the film that survived, Syzygy. P³UÀ, ssewKnIX XpS§nbhsb¡pdn¨v Hcp ap¯- B[p\nI C´y³ Nn{XIebpsS BNmcycnsemcmfmb Ènbpw sNdpaI\pw \S¯p¶ kulrZ kwhmZw. AIv_À ]Zwkn 1960 Ifn A\ntaj\pw iÐNn{X- Whpw D]tbmKn¨v A¡me¯v k¦Â]n¡mhp¶Xn- \¸p-dapÅ cïv AaqÀ¯ kn\naIÄ \nÀ½n¨n«pïv. CXn Gähpw AaqÀ¯amb "Châvkv C³ ¢uUv tNw_'dnsâ GI tIm¸n At±l¯n\v ssItamiw h¶p. ]ZwknbpsS Ipdn¸pIfnepw ZriytiJc¯nepw e`yamb kn\namZriy§fnepw \n¶v Cu Nn{Xs¯ hosïSp¡m\pÅ Bjnw AephmenbbpsS {iaw.

Ashim Ahluwalia is from Bombay, India. He studied Stephane Riethauser has been working as a teacher, film at Bard College in New York. His documentary on gay activist, photographer, editor, journalist, before the call centre industry, John &Jane (2005), received becoming a TV director. He is the author of A Visage a National award. In 2007 he was commissioned to Decouvert, a photography book about coming out, work on a film & architecture installation for the 10th numerous documentaries and reports for Swiss Radio Venice Biennale. his first fiction feature Television RTS and Le Temps Suspendu, a documentary premiered at Cannes to wide critical acclaim. His about Swiss painter Marius Borgeaud. Since 2009, he second feature Daddy also garnered much attention. lives and works as an independent filmmaker in Berlin. His other works are Prora and Garden of Stars. 144 THE ARCHIVE AS MEMORY Manu Silence is a Falling Body Belgium / 92:00 / 2018 Argentina / 72:00 / 2017

Direction& Screenplay Emmannuele Bonmariage, Manu Bonmariage Production Hanne Phlypo, Antoine Direction Agustina Comedi Production Juan Carlos Verrmeesch DoP Leo Lefevre, Joachim Philippe, Chris Maristany for El Calefon, Ana Maria Apontes, Matias Rensn Editing Luc Plantier Sound Bruno Schweis- Herrara Cordoba for El Calefon Cine DoP Agustina guth, Fabrice Osinski Sound Design Senjan Jansen Comedi, Benjamin Ellembergher , Ezequiel Salinas Sound Editing Bert Aert Original Music Sacha Toroop Editing Valeria RacioppiSound Design Guido Deniro

Manu Bonmarriage, a well-known documentary Silence Is A Falling Body sees the filmmaker filmmaker is on the verge of losing himself to making use of home videos to learn of her late Alzheimer’s. Manu looks at how an artist’s father’s true identity. daughter uses clippings from his films and family archival-footage to keep his mind grounded in the reality. a\p t_m¬amtcyPv F¶ hnJymX tUmIypsaâdn acWs¸« Xsâ ]nXmhnsâ bYmÀ° sFUânän Ne¨n{XImc³ AÂjntagvkv tcmKs¯¯pSÀ¶v ho«p-hoUntbmIÄ D]tbmKn¨v Isï¯p¶ Ne¨n{X- HmÀ½ \ãs¸«psImïncn¡p¶ AhØbnemWv. Iem- Imcnbmb aIÄ. Imcsâ aIÄ At±l¯nsâ Ne¨n{X§fpsSbpw Ip-Spw_hntij§fpsSbpw Zriy ^qt«PpIÄ D] tbmKn¨v F§s\bmWv At±ls¯ HmÀ½Ifnte¡pw bmYmÀ°y§fnte¡pw Xncn¨phnfn¡p¶sX¶v a\p ho£n¡p¶p.

Emmannuele Bonmariage is an actor, director and Agustina Comedi hailing from Argentina is a screenwriter making her directorial debut with Manu. screenwriter and director. In 2017, she premiered her first documentary feature Silence is a Falling Body at IDFA (Netherlands). Nowadays, she works as a teacher of the Audio-visual Workshop at the Popular Bachelor Raymundo Gleyzer, consulting on audio-visual projects and is writing her second feature film. 12TH IDSFFK

145 Films allow us to critically and creatively grapple with the world, form an opinion about life and express fears, dreams, thoughts and beliefs. This collection presents a diverse range of topics explored by filmmakers with relevance to their peers around the globe: friendship, identity, sexuality, traditions, immigration, home, religion, abuse, death etc. Through the medium of the documentary or the experimental film these young citizens become a part of an exercise in social exchange of ideas. They make themselves heard – creatively, critically, cinematically – using the cinematic medium to its fullest: personal but global, emotional yet VIETNAMESE SHORTS intellectual, grippingly visual and aural. Philip Cheah, Curator with thanks to Griffith University, Griffith Film School, Brisbane, Australia & all the filmmakers who

DOI MOI & BEYOND: DOI MOI & BEYOND: have generously shared their films.

146 DOI MOI & BEYOND: VIETNAMESE SHORTS At Water’s Edge Dedicated to Vietnam/ 17’/ 2011/ Vietnamese Grandpa Dieu Vietnam/ 23’/ 2015/ Vietnamese Direction Do Van Hoang Direction, DoP & Editing Hien Anh Nguyen

This banned documentary follows a young woman During the mid-1960s, Grandpa was an ambitious and a group of elderly men, who go swimming man who worked as a freelance interpreter at in the river around Long Bien Bridge, where the UN High Commission for Refugees, while swimming is actually prohibited. simultaneously working reallyhard on translating his favourite books. But he never really tried to publish any of his work.

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Do Van Hoang is an aspiring experimental filmmaker Hien Anh Nguyen is a third year student from Hai from Hanoi in Vietnam. He is part of Hanoi Doc Noi University of law. She has won two awards at the Lab, an underground group of cinephiles who are BupSenVang (Golden Lotus) short film festival, the constantly at work, making experimental cinema on best documentary audience choice and best first- the various shades of human life, in an unwelcoming hand documentary by the jury. environment. 12TH IDSFFK

147 Ephemera Sofa, Kitchen and Vietnam/ 24’/ 2017/ Vietnamese chitchats Vietnam/ 37’/ 2015/ Vietnamese Direction & Screenplay Ho Thanh Thao Direction, Production, DoP & Editing Do HA Thu

A young girl has a mysterious reason for being A documentary about a group of single middle suddenly intimate with a wanderer, who at first aged women living in the suburbs of Hanoi and disgusted her. a cocktail menu that they make and title “ Sofa, Kitchen and chitchats”.

Hcp s]¬Ip«n¡v Xm³ BZyw shdp¯ncp¶ Hcp lmt\mbv \Kc¯nsâ {]m´{]tZi¯v Xmakn¡p¶ \m-tSm-SntbmSv GtXm \nKqV ImcW¯m s]s«¶v a[yhbkvIcmb HcpIq«w kv{XoIsf¡pdn¨pÅ tUm- ASp¸apïmIp¶p. Iypsaâdn. AhÀ Hcp tImIvsSbn sa\p Dïm¡n AXn\v "tkm^, In¨³ B³Uv NnävNmävkv' F¶v t] cn«p.

Ho Thanh Thao is a Vietnamese director and Do Ha Thu is an aspiring Vietnamese experimental screenwriter known for his short films. filmmaker known for films like Could You Take a photo of us please and Sofa, Kitchen and chitchats.

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C S VENKITESWARAN

With the erasure of boundaries between traditional mediums, we find artists all over the world exploring fresh convergence and synergies between media, creating exciting spaces of art-imagination, art-making and art-experience. Graphics enter text, live performance perforate projections, music melds with images, sculptures begin to melt and dance, imagination becomes viral and virtual. In the process, the ideas about fiction and documentary too are changing, bringing forth a new body of work that is aesthetically daring, formally exciting and politically engaging.

Artists Cinema brings together a clutch of moving image works by some of the most eminent artists who explore and expand the boundaries of art experience working with various forms, genres, storytelling traditions, narrative modes, graphic strategies and animation techniques. These works narrate the world and our lives in all its fluid complexity and political turmoil. They grapple with identity and belonging, tradition and modernity, nativity and exile, voice and silence, noise and language, survival and celebration, protest and anger. They mediate and reflect, image and imagine, interrogate and narrate, the world we live in. Most films play with time in its various manifestations and experiences: as memory, nostalgia, history etc. and explore space and place in evocative ways, as belonging and exile, journeys - real and virtual, as endless vistas that extend endlessly and claustrophobic places that enclose and entrap.

Apart from such spatio-temporal explorations, in terms of forms and formats, these films employ complex yet very evocative layering of various audiovisual elements - sound, music, dialogue, voice over and texts with real, archival, graphic and animated images. From the viewers, these works provoke a certain kind of sraddha (both care and attention) and demand asraddha, a disavowal or resistance to the flow of images, narratives and information through various political, personal and social media that inundate us incessantly.

Free from the dictates of conventional narratives, beginning-middle-end structures, meaning-making compulsions and the market impositions about audience expectations, these image essays invite the viewers into exciting journeys into other realms of perception and experiences of the visual.

C S VENKITESWARAN is an Indian film critic, professor, documentary film maker and writer. He won the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 2009. His writings and reviews on film and media, in English and Malayalam have been published in journals and various media. His published works include a book on filmmaker K R Mohanan and an edited book on filmmaker with Lalit , A Door to Adoor. His book Malayala Cinema Padanangal won a Special Jury Mention in the State film awards in 2011. C S Venkiteswaran won the National Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film in 1995 together with M R Rajan for Pakarnattam – Ammannur, The Actor. This film won the Kerala State Award for the Best Documentary. He is the Artistic Director of the Signs film festival for short films and documentaries. He was a member of national film award jury for writing.

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SUDARSHAN SHETTY

Waiting for Others to Arrive / 10.00

Sudarshan Shetty (born 1961) is a contemporary Indian artist who has worked in painting, sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. He has exhibited widely in India and abroad. Sudarshan Shetty's oeuvre has been defined mostly by large sculptural installations and multi-media works. Experimenting with innumerable materials and medium his installations or assemblages use quotidian objects juxtaposed in an attempt to open up new possibilities of meaning. Eschewing straightforward devices of narrative and explicit symbolism and displaying a fascination for the mechanics of toys and mechanised objects, Shetty infuses domestic, essentially inert objects, with new life. The world of everyday contraptions, objects (especially those from middle class showcases, or shop-front show windows), continues to be reconfigured from moment to moment in his work. He often uses simple, repetitive, mechanical movements and sound in kinetic works that explore aspects of temporality. Shetty says, “The ploy is to attract the viewer and then to disenchant them with the mechanical movement.” These mechanical pieces together with scenes of domestic interiority are conceived to create places of amusement or what Shetty refers to as a ‘fairground spectacle’. Things form a gaggle of actors; their movements become acts in a play. “The idea is definitely to bring in the activity of a market place to the fore. This is also a ploy to bring a passer-by into this arena – to seduce with the familiar.”

GIGI SCARIA

Disclaimer / 9min / Single channel with sound / 2018 Panic City / 2.52 Let it Be / 4.35 No Parallel / 6.00 Political Realism / 03.35

Born 1973, Kothanalloor, Kerala; MFA (Painting), JamiaMillia University, New Delhi 1998; BFA (Painting), College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram 1995; Lives and works in Delhi For me social engagement is a constant dialogue; a dialogue in which you include voices of the “Other” constantly. The voice of the “Other “is not only the voice of the marginalized but also of our own critical self. That is how you encountered me. “In Panic city I made a shift from what I have done earlier. I used digital images of the old city’s bird’s eye view and Flash animation in it. For me Panic city deals with fast erosion of the old/modern city-scapes accelerated by the new world of corporates. 12TH IDSFFK

151 Definition of a video has been widely debated now. It came to exist as an art form in the mid-sixties or early seventies. Video had distinguished features when it was initially established as an art form. It fundamentally differed from the film because of the technological advantages, (suppose what you have recorded can be seen at the same time unlike the film) fluid structure (layers of images can be made easily) and could capture day to day events as a spectator. And it also allowed opening up a range of innovative and radical ways of expanding personal view points. Which means video makes the film more personal.”

Disclaimer addresses the political reality of contemporary India through a set of tricks performed by a magician. Cups and balls is a famous attraction for any magic show. In this case, the magician takes us for a ride where we witness the transformation from a poor rural reality to a material success story that finally leads to lynchings and scattered dead bodies on the streets. We as citizens willingly give away the realities we possess/address in the hands of magicians who wipe out our realities with their dirty tricks and make us believe we are entertained throughout the show.

VIPIN VIJAY

Small Scale Societies /27 Mins

Two living bodies have been installed and improvised within a museum space, scattered with archaeological artifacts, terracotta pots and shreds. The idea of archaeological imagination has been extended from the organized and tagged space of museum with the sense of linear historical time, to various evocative, yet less visited prehistoric sites in India – from the site of survival of human ancestors confronting the catastrophe of volcanic ash, deep down in the past in Andhra, painted rock shelters and megalithic sites of Chattisgarh, to excavation sites and Neolithic burial grounds in Kerala, where the interplay of life and death, dream and reality, embodied sense of the ground and hallucinatory perceptions in altered states of consciousness, seem to merge together. As a concept and working principle, the digital visual images have been treated here often as a thin surface of reality with an unknown abyss beneath, where supposedly a plethora of unseen images remain frozen into darkness. At times layers of images have been thrust together using multiple digital tools, to suggest a way of illuminating and digging through that invisibility of the frozen images, an ambivalent effort towards the notion of digital rock art. Credits: Vipin Vijay, Deb Kamal Ganguly

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AMAN WADHAN

Letter from Korlai / 22 mins “We’ve inherited hope – the gift of forgetting. You’ll see how we give birth among the ruins.” -WisławaSzymborska

On India's Konkan coast, in the village of Korlai, a sense of quaintness pervades its Portuguese heritage, the Creole, the faces, and the fort. The filmmaker had visited this place once, as did his friend, of whom nothing is ever said. Years later, an assignment brings the filmmaker back to Korlai. Memories come rushing back but what compels his wayward excursion this time is the elemental and the immemorial wherein his solitude finds refuge. In the time of yellow grass, with steps receding and prayers unanswered, a desire for oblivion forks the search for images of exile and belonging. This experience surfaces through grainy 16mm images and an elegiac voice-over, which retrace a sense of remembrance, loss, perception, and time intersecting with an inner self and with history. A letter for Korlai also becomes a letter to a dear departed; and in reading this letter, in seeking a new way of inhabiting the world, a vision of Korlai emerges that is both attentive and phantasmagoric, a series of possible angles and tributaries that the viewer and traveller might possibly take.

Direction &production: Aman Wadhan DoP: Niraj Samad Editing: Nachiket Waikar Sound: Bhanu Dhande Production company: Film and Television Institute of India

PARVATHI NAIR

An Ocean in Every Kitchen Bubble/3.08 Mins By the Mouth of the River/ 12.49 Mins An Ocean in Every Kitchen Freeze Boil /6.00 Mins Order /3.30 Mins

Parvathi’s oeuvre has been called a philosophy of space and ways of inhabiting the spaces in which we live, often using science as a viewing prism. Parvathi uses the moving image as an extension of her drawing hand, and the camera becomes an inscriptive tool in such cinematic explorations, as the trilogy Of Time and Space. Water as a continuing engagement is a through-thread in many of the films such as Freeze Boil and Bubble which are part of the An Ocean in Every Kitchen series, or Haunted by Waters and By 12TH IDSFFK

153 the Mouth of the River. Parvathi explores different aspects of this mysterious life-affirming substance that is created when stars are born. Nature needs to be treated as a stakeholder in her own right, in the age of the anthropocene, and the videos give voice to her many aspects– the poetics of water, its essence as the stuff of life, its magical transmutability, and its threatened status in today’s world. The work captures moving pictures through focussed and minimalist – but not reductive – detail, and how relationships between part and the whole are negotiated through the observation of such particulars. The Mouth of the River draws from the grim realities of the site, the more whimsical narratives of the object, as well as the interventions of man, time and nature. By the Mouth of the River was first presented along with the large- scale ground drawing or kolam that I created out of garbage, called Invite/Refuse, a part of Indo-German public art project called the Damned Art Project.

MURALI CHEEROTH

The Pledge / Duration: 3.30 minutes An Old Story / 2009 / 2.39

Murali Cheeroth received BFA and MFA in painting from Santiniketan. He has exhibited in various significant shows across the globe in the last two decades of his art practice. His visual language refers deeply to a variety of sources in the cultural sphere and contains within it a conversation on the history of representation in visual media – including literature, fine art, cinema and architecture. His current practice envelopes painting, performance and video art, exploring themes of urbanism and intersections of the global and the local. He lives and works in Bangalore, India. Through my work , I am trying to explore and understand the meaning of social pledge, through my memoire of childhood experiences. The idea of pledge has been developed through my conscious participation in political activities, for long. Idea develops over a long period of time, before it finds a political activity and humanitarian thoughts, so to speak. A sacred unity, desire to engage the notion of the modern multicultural nation. Current political situation since leads the threads to do the reality check, understanding and how nation offer common man to take the fake pledge, which infected everyone. No single object remains unaffected. Meaning: A thing that is given as security for the fulfillment of contract or the payment of debit and is liable to forfeiture in the event of a failure.

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SAHEJ RAHAL

Forerunner / 12.03 Saras / 1.45 Katabasis / 06.08 The Antebellum Ritual / 05.58 Barricada / 28.44

Sahej Rahal’s installations, films and performances are part of a constructed mythology that he creates by drawing upon sources ranging from local legends to science fiction. By bringing these into dialogue with each other, Rahal creates scenarios where indeterminate beings emerge into the everyday as if from the cracks in our civilization. Sahej Rahel’s artworks revel in masculine fantasy, while also mocking its affectations. The solitary characters he essays seem to have emerged from Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces refracted through. Barricadia begins in the year 2017 – with a group of protesters huddled inside a parabolic structure, learning and rehearsing songs together. Singing an ubiquitous CND campaign refrain, they rebuke the UK, USA, Israel, India, Pakistan, China and Russia for their failure to commit to global nuclear disarmament, repeating together in fugue: “Where were you? Where were you? Why weren’t you there?” The song has no audience except for the participants of the group, who are clearly not the intended target of the questioning. The group begin to produce vocal harmonies that gently fall apart before joining together again, each individual now confidently knowing their part. This cloistered preparation of song is an important part of their resistance – not simply a production of propaganda for the cause but a process of creating affect, community and conviviality. This is resistance. Beginning with this strange scene, this exhibition explores how we encounter resistance, protest and the end of the world in culture, to question what might be blinding us to reality. Elsewhere, the tropes of apocalypse appear in their droves – proud monuments consumed by the soil, ruined buildings, darkness and decay, a ghostly ship leaving a shadowy harbour, a fenced neighbourhood, a strange procession, a forest refuge, caped figures and water rushing in. These tropes are so well-worn that we forget they also represent reality. Rahal’s work explores this apocalypse-aesthetic as a blinker for action - the end of the world is so abstract now that we can only continue to watch it unfold. 12TH IDSFFK

155 SUMEDH RAJENDRAN

Half Return / 2016 / 15.46

Born in 1972 Sumedh graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, and the Delhi College of Art. He lives and works in New Delhi. A man comes back to his battered homeland — undertaking a journey through a stretch of railroad between nowhere and nowhere. He is haunted by a sense of estrangement caused by an inbetween space his mind occupies. A space that confines him between dregs of drudgery caused by forced migration and a minefield of stained memories that turn his sleep into nightmares. Alone and alienated he sees no resolution in the landscape that are remnants of a history of destruction. A war that he had no role to play in has however, left an unending effect on his life. Traversing through the grey, poke-marked landscapes, the film seeks the meaning of identity and exodus. The quest is universal and not bound by space or time. The human struggle against mortality, a journey in search of meaning, to redefine survival amidst the debris of memories and to merge with remembered landscapes. The train for him has left the station taking with it only the soulless body that he is reduced to, like the soleless footwear that he is wearing, waiting for a never-to-surface cobbler to fix it. The film is a soliloquy about the conflict that the man is confronting as he travels through the length of his ‘land’.

RIYAS KOMU

Last Wall / 2014 / 12.48 My Grave / 2010 / 12.48

Riyas Komu was born in 1971 in Kerala, and moved to Mumbai in 1992 to study literature. Dropping out during his final year, Komu eventually obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fine Art from the Sir J. J. School of Art in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Since his graduation, Komu has been constantly asserting and pushing himself with a strong body of work. He is the founder member of Kochi Muziris Biennale.

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MITHU SEN

I’ve Only One Language And That’s Not Mine / 2014 / 42.00

Mithu Sen is a an earth based (New Delhi, India) artist/poet who studied painting at Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santi Niketan, India and Glasgow School of Art, UK. Mithu Senplays. She messes. She creates. Her practice revolves around creating situations of impossible possibility. She lets strangeness and strangers in, radically, hospitably. In doing this she questions the boundaries of hospitality; identifies them, embodies them, inhabits them- and then refutes and ignores them. Taking them apart from within. Mithu Sen dislikes the word “medium.” Sen’s practice centres her constant need to be expressive in limitless ways; in ways that are counter to limits; that deny them. Her work involves the use of blank space- her detailed drawings highlight the otherwise unseen, and parody or dismiss what our eyes are used to catching. Sen has accessories/tools that extend and include her body-mind. She draws, creates videos, and sculptures. Her practice converses and responds; and is therefore constantly adapting itself; it shape-shifts from one medium to another. People are sparked to reflect on several realms and layers of thinking and questioning in her work, including: (Untaboo) sexuality, (Unmonolith) identity, Radical hospitality (guest-host- hospitality-tolerance), Counter capitalism, and lingual anarchy. Her journey critiques subtle hierarchical codes and hegemony; Mithu’s work lives in the spaces between when Humanity becomes minority (sexual, political, regional, emotional, lingual and so on). The usage of (uncodified) subconscious language as a form of resistance against the dominating languages, has led Sen to create an abstract body of gibberish text that claims repressed emotional voices and a potential moment of lingual anarchy. Her work also engages with the idea of radical hospitality with an aim to generate a concurrent dialogue between the guest and the host. It approaches to deconstruct the institutional space and question/ redefine the imposed etiquettes on hospitality. She has held solo exhibitions at GalerieKrinzinger, Vienna, Austria; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan USA; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium; Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris; Gallery Steph, Singapore; Louis Vuitton Espace, Taipei; Albion Gallery, London; Suzie Q project, Zurich; Krinzinger Project, Vienna; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Berlin; Bose Pacia Gallery, New York; Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai; Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai; Machintosh Gallery, Glasgow and the British Council, New Delhi. 12TH IDSFFK

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THE NOTION OF ‘RESISTANCE’ AND THE MOVING IMAGE The Moon, the Man and the Motion

प्रतियोगः प्रतियत्नः प्रत्यवस्था। प्रतिकार। प्रतिरोधम।

It is the Moon that to my mind becomes the first agent of ‘resistance’ (Sanskrit has more than one equivalent to the English word, so does Ma- layalam). And it is the prefix that brings in the transformation. Prati- as a prefix to roots and their derivative nouns would generally mean ‘in-resistance’. My moon-in-resistance embeds fiction which is more fact than the fact; and my reference is to the 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon by Georges Melies. It is more existential than political and perhaps more political now than ever before. Generically, everything is political, even lullaby is political and my curatorial imagination would go beyond the obvious agitprop, to explore the intrinsic, artistic and filmosophic realms. Before both Melies and the Lumieres, it was Thomas Alva Edison whose basic inventions in sound recording and motion pictures embedded the laws of physics – of resistance at their core and I think it is this prefix that helps imbue life into ‘motion’ which impregnates itself with rhythm or laya through artistic vision. In his Notebooks (Volume 1: The Thinking Eye), Paul Klee tentatively quotes Ingres, “Ingres is said to have created an artistic order out of rest; I should like to create an order from feeling and, going still further, from motion.” Here the two phenomena of ‘rest’ and ‘motion’ become cru- cial within our own filmosophical thought, e.g. as a realistic and plural metaphysical system, Jainism believes that the universe is composed of two kinds of substance or dravya: jiva (alive) and ajiva (not alive). Among five kinds of ajiva dravya, it has (a) ether, the fulcrum of motion (dharmas- tikaya) and (b) another ether or the fulcrum of rest (adharmastikaya).1My curatorial imagination would think that every work of art inhabits within it the soul of resistance, a kind of ः (yoga as an abstract meditation or incantation). Amidst such irresistible pratidhvani echo) would be comprehended a presentation of thoughts and films right from the so-called ‘Primitives’ (Early Cinema) to ‘Pioneers’ to the most recent, sig- nifying the notion of resistance, whether it is temporal, spatial, spiritual or causal, in both film and video art, including animation. Films (largely Indian) of varying lengths and periods: documentaries, short films both live and animation - Amrit Gangar

1Permanence & Change: Jaina View of Time, Amrit Gangar, wwThe Speaking Tree, , 15 May 1999. 12TH IDSFFK

159 CURATORIAL INTRODUCTION: AMRIT GANGAR CURATORIAL FILM: HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURES IS THE HISTORY OF RESISTANCE: 1890s TO 2019 BY AMRIT GANGAR

Not necessarily political (but then again what is not political?) the way politicality is normally understood, the emotion or the elan of resistance that embeds the prefix of प्रति is an eternal phenomenon. It has travelled a long journey through cosmos and the universe through Om and Ohm, through Thought and Art! The Thesis-Antithesis, both in time and space, is a complex movement ahead; it could be passive or active, violent or non-violent, sensual or a-sensual! How has the moving image perceived or conceived it right from its mechanical- magical, real-fantastic emergence – through Analogue and the Digital Age? Here is an attempt to deal with the difficult. Saba Hasan, a video artist Dominique Dubosc, film and video artist The saba bandagi shah project, 2019, video, Saba Hasan, 06.50 mins This short film was shot during the artist Saba Hasan's visit to Kashmir and is part of the Bandagi Shah Project named after Saba's sufi ancestor who came to India in the 15th century. The Urdu poem Dua- Prayer by Faiz Ahmed Faiz is recited in it by the celebrated poet Zehra Nigah. The artist has employed images of water as she does in her paintings, photography and poems to reflect upon the human condition and voice the messages of hope and peace. Burnt Book 6, 2015, video, Saba Hasan, 02.02 mins Saba Hasan has had a long relationship with text, books, words, burning and textures made from organic materials like handmade paper, fabric, sand, clay, wood. She began to impute meanings into her abstract paintings using burnt text from books, letters or even by burning just the surface itself since 2002. In the last fifteen years this aspect of burning has also changed in its implications, depending upon the artist's intent or experiment with materials. With the sixth book she burnt, her documentation led to this short powerful video which reveals all kinds of possibilities. New of the Day, 1975, 16mm, Dominique Dubosc, 11 mins In the 1960s, a few American radical filmmakers founded NEWSREEL to resist and challenge mainstream news by offering an alternative vision of social and political current events. In this venture, Jonas Mekas’ contribution was attuned to his cinema. His News of the Day captures and presents those unique, fugitive moments that make us feel alive: a girl dreaming at her window, a man crossing the street in the rain, being with friends and having a good time. 160 CINEM-A OF RESISTANCE

Celebrations, 1991-2000, 16mm, Dominique Dubosc, 38 mins This is a journal on Dominique Dubosc’s trip to New York in March 1991. He had planned to go there with his wife months before, in order to meet the poet and filmmaker Jonas Mekas. But then the Gulf War had broken out like a nightmare from which he could not seem to wake up from. He got to New York in a state of real depression. But something happened on his way to the city. Maybe it was those drops of water dripping down the windshield of the taxi as they crossed the Triboro Bridge. Anyhow, he was suddenly brought back to life and he decided to ‘celebrate’ everything he saw as a way of mourning the forgotten dead of the unseen war. That is how he joined up with Mekas who had always opposed the likening of ‘real life’ to the lifeless and truth-less images of the media. Robert Cahen, film maker, video artist Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth Ranbir Kaleka, painter, video artist Bill Viola, video artist Hong Kong Song, 1989, video, Robert Cahen, 21 mins Inspired by an Espaces Nouveaux project, with the support of the Centre National de la Cinematographie, Hong Kong Song is the portrait of a city modelled by sounds. Ambient noises – banished by classical movies but ennobled by European ‘art films’ – constitute the basic matter of the work. They occur simultaneously with the images, mingling with them, enveloping and being enveloped by them. Sound like time, no longer follows conventions of linearity – it appropriate space, and is continuously present. As Murray Schafer put it “a new sound phenomenon, introduced by the Industrial Revolution and greatly extended by the Electric Revolution”. Sweet Unease, Ranbir Kaleka, Video documentation, 18 mins For the past 20 long years, the eminent painter-video artist Ranbir Kaleka’s Man has been threading his needle as if through the eye of time. Twenty years ago in 1999, Kaleka with his work Man Threading Needle, began his explorations into India’s video art, maturing the moving image with life and his temporal / memorial profundity. He invoked spaces and painted images turning his video-eye into the needle’s as if. He installed time on the loom of life to envelope her with a skin that keeps sensuously renewing like the serpent’s – in both attachment and detachment! In curatorial and presentation practice, Kaleka’s video works together with his paintings would need different spaces and projection conditions for experiential ambiances but we are grateful to him for agreeing to share with us short excerpts from his videos documenting his art over time. These glimpses would familiarize young minds in Kerala with Ranbir Kaleka’s art towards a future holistic experience. At the moment let’s celebrate the 20th birthday of Man Threading Needle dynamically since 1999. – Curator The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000, Bill Viola, video, 02.00 mins The Quintet of the Astonished shows the unfolding expressions of

five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of 12TH IDSFFK

161 their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece, artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic potential within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement. Five Obstructions, Mumbai section [Obstruction # 2], 2002-2003, Jorgen Leth, Lars von Trier, 30 mins Conceived as a documentary but becoming experimental on the way, by incorporating experimental sections, Five Obstructions is an unusual Danish film on which I had the privilege to work on, in its Mumbai section, right from its initiation to completion. The basic premise behind the film was that von Trier sets up a challenge for his friend and mentor Jorgen Leth, a renowned filmmaker himself. Lars von Trier’s favourite film is Leth’s The Perfect Human (1967) and von Trier gives Leth the task of remaking The Perfect Human five times over, each time with a different ‘obstruction’ (or obstacle); it results in an interesting inner-outer game of ‘resistance’. – Curator Norman McLaren, Film maker, Animator Phil Mulloy, Painter, Film maker, Animator Lines: Vertical, 1960, Animation, Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart, 05.50 mins Lines: Horizontal, 1962, Animation, Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart, 05.51 mins Mozaic, 1965, Animation, Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart, 05.27 Originally shot on 35mm, by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart these are experiments resisting pure design. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colours, in response to music specially composed for the films. Lines Vertical is accompanied by composer Maurice Blackburn on the electric piano, and Lines Horizontal by American folk musician Pete Seeger on wind and string instruments. Mosaic, on the other hand, is a picture of unusual movement, colour and sound, created in an unusual way. It is an example of ‘op’ art in film, a play on the retina of the eye. Basis of the film is a single tiny square that divides, eventually forming a colourful mosaic to the animator’s musical orchestration. Scottish-born Canadian artist-animator Norman McLaren (1914- 1987) harnessed technology to create great art of animation, austere and grace. In his quest, he appears to have persistently resisted temptations of the market, money and fame. The Intolerance, Trilogy, 1999-2004, Animation, Phil Mulloy Intolerance I: 11.04 Intolerance II: The Invasion, 14 mins Intolerance III: Final Solution, 24 mins British animator of Irish ancestry, Phil Mulloy (b. 1948) studied both painting and filmmaking. He worked as a screenwriter and director of live-action films until the late 1980s before becoming an animator. His animations have been described as ‘satirical grotesque’. Intolerance I - A strange object is found in the furthest reaches of space. When decoded and understood, the consequences of this discovery ring in a new danger for mankind: Zogs! 162 CINEM-A OF RESISTANCE

Intolerance II - The Invasion: Dwight may be earth’s only hope as only he knows who the real Zogs are. And who would have thought an astronaut taking some time out to smell a pair of women’s knickers could expose the earth to so much danger. Intolerance III - The Final Solution: A stunning twist! Do the Zogs really exist? We leap two thousand years into the future for the final showdown. Sanskriti Chattopadhyay, film maker Vipin Vijay, film maker Reality without a Name, 2019, video, Sanskriti Chattopadhyay, 20 mins In the backdrop of Sufism, the vales of Khuldabad nurture a community having a parallel imaginative reality and cultural inheritance. Over centuries, saints to shahenshahs to simpletons have come here to spend their final days. Now these demised consciousnesses have become a part of the living, encapsulating the space through its people – this is where the film takes us. Dovetailed narratives and lives create a pathway into an experience that challenges most of our Western causal-logic, philosophically. We may only stand before this mesh, this charismatic existence where the conversation and intervention of the divine and the mundane is an event of the regular, awe-struck and amazed. Anthropocene Relooked, 2019, video, Vipin Vijay, 54 mins The conceptual and existential problems that the Anthropocene poses are exactly those that have forever been at the heart of humanistic inquiry: What does life mean in the face of death? A video essay on one of the subcontinent’s low lying islands, Ghoramara, which is quickly disappearing due to erosion and rise in the sea level – in the process also documenting the disappearance of its grassroots imaginaries.

Amrit Gangar, Curator

Mumbai-based curator, historian and theorist, Amrit Gangar has been engaged with his theory of Cinema Prayoga for over a decade. Over these years, he has presented it at various venues in India and abroad like the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Tate Modern in London, the Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen, Santiniketan in India etc. He writes both in English and Gujarati. His books on cinema have been presented with awards by the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, Gandhi Nagar. The Cinematographers’ Combine has felicitated him for his curatorial work and writing on cinema. For his work and involvement in the film society movement in India the Federation International des Cine-Clubs (FICC) honoured him in Berlin in the year 1989. Amrit Gangar was Consultant Curator for the Mumbai-based the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) under Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, . 12TH IDSFFK

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164 SPECIAL SCREENINGS Bird of Dusk Sukhantyam UK, India, Spain/ 92’/ 2018/ Bengali, English India/ 20’/ 2019/ Malayalam

Direction Sangeeta Datta DoP Subhajit Prasad, Direction & Screenplay Adoor Gopalakrishnan Chief Souvid Datta Editing Subhajit Prasad Assistant Meera Sound Mixing N. Harikumar Music Music Souvik Datta BijibalEditing B. Ajithkumar Image M.J.Radhakrishnan Production Adoor Gopalakrishnan Productions Production Co-ordination Gameplan Sports Pvt. Ltd. Cast Padmapriya, , Alencier, Indrans, Sudhir Karamana, Aadityan, Alex Vallikunnam Inspiration A Play by Jagathy N.K.Achary

Bird of Dusk is a beautifully narrated biographical Sukhantyam reflects upon isolation and film on the Bengali aesthete . loneliness experienced by people of all groups, and the emotional fragility that prompts them to contemplate suicide.

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Sangeeta Datta is a writer, director and musician. Her Adoor Gopalakrishnan is a master filmmaker. award winning films are The Way I See It (documentary Pioneer of film society movement in Kerala, his films 2003) The Wife’s Letter (short film, 2007) Life Goes On brought national and international acclaim. His (feature 2010). She has been associate director with oeuvre comprises 12 feature films and 30 Shorts and Rituparno Ghosh on Chokher Bali, Raincoat, Antarmahal, documentaries. Notable amongst the non-feature The Last Lear and Jeebansmriti. In UK she has written and films are those on Kerala’s performing arts. He is directed the award winning musical The Dying Song and the recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award, Padma was the associate director of acclaimed film Brick Lane. Vibhushan and J. C. Daniel Award. 12TH IDSFFK 165 The Dispossessed Canada, Switzerland/ 83’/ 2017/ English, French, Chichewa, Hindi

Direction Mathieu Roy Screenplay Richard Brouilette & Benoit Aquin DoP Mathieu Roy, Benoit Aquin

An impressionist journey that sheds light on the daily strife of the world’s hungry farming class. In this era of industrialized agriculture, across the globe, people who produce food are paid less than almost any other profession. Part cinema-vérité, part essay, this film examines the mechanisms through which farmers are falling into a somber cycle of despair, debt and dispossession. hni¸nt\mSv aÃnSp¶ temI IÀjIkaql¯nsâ \nXyPohnX{]iv\§fnte¡v shfn¨w hoip¶ Hcp Cw{]j\nÌv bm{X. temIsa§pw Irjn hyhkmb hXvI-cn¡s¸« C¶s¯ kmlNcy¯nÂ, `£Wkm- [-\§Ä DXv]mZn¸n¡p¶ Irjn¡mc\v e`n-¡p-¶Xv atäsXmcp sXmgn taJesbbpw At]£n¨v Ipdª IqenbmWv. hkvXpXm Nn{XoIcWhpw hni-Ie-\hpw CSIecp¶ Cu Nn{Xw, sImSnb \ncmibnte¡pw ISs¡Wnbnte¡pw IpSnsbmgn¡ente-¡pw F§s\ bmWv IÀjIÀ XÅnhnSs¸Sp¶sX¶v At\z-jn¡p¶p.

Mathieu Roy is a Montreal-based filmmaker, working in both documentary and fiction. In 2003, after acquiring his degree in Political Science and graduating from two film schools, the Montreal’s National Film Institute and the New York Film Academy, Mathieu was hired as Martin Scorsese’s personal assistant for the filming of The Aviator. He has received various international prizes for his documentaries. 166 HOMAGE 12TH IDSFFK

167 VARDA AGNES PLAYFUL VISIONARY PLAYFUL

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AGNES VARDA, often called the ‘grandmother of the New Wave’, was born Arlette Varda. When Faces Places she was 18, Arlette legally changed her name to Agnès. She studied literature and psychology France/ 94’/ 2017/ French at the Sorbonne in Paris, art history at the École du Louvre, and photography at night school. She then worked as a stage photographer for Jean Direction & Screenplay J R, Agnes Varda Production Vilar’s Avignon festival and his Théâtre National Rosalie Varda DoP Robert De Anglais, Calire Duguet, Populaire in Paris. Julia Fabry, Nichola Guicheteu, Romain Le Bonniec, Varda was a pioneer whose films diverged from Raphel Minnesota, Velentin Vignet Editing Maxim the male-centric vision of the French New Wave. Pozzi-Garcia, Agnes Varda Music Mathieu Chedid Her first feature, La Pointe Courte, was followed by the iconic 1961 film, Cléo de 5 à 7 – showing a woman’s point of view over the course of a day as she waits to find out about the life-changing result of a medical test. Cleo consolidated Varda’s position as the leading feminist of the French New Wave, and was followed by One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, which focused on two women’s contrasting experience of the feminist movement. Varda’s documentary work was pronouncedly and visibly political, including her two shorts about the Black Panthers in the late 60s.

Varda’s peripatetic career, switching between Faces Places is a documentary film following features and documentaries (and often combining director Agnes Varda’s and photographer- both) continued: her 1985 feature Vagabond, muralist JR’s journey through rural France and the starring Sandrine Bonnaire, was an unexpected development of an unlikely friendship. commercial success in France and won the Golden Lion at Venice, as well as a César for best actress for Bonnaire. In 1991 Varda released Jacquot de Nantes, a moving docu-memoir about her husband, the director Jacques Demy, best known for films such as Lola and The Umbrellas kwhn[mbI³ Bákv hmÀsZbpw t^mt«m{Km^dpw of Cherbourg, who had died a year earlier. She ayqden-Ìpamb sPBdpw {^m³knse {Kmam´c- then began to concentrate on a distinctive form of §fneqsS \-S-¯p¶ bm{Xbpw AXn\nSbnepïm-Ip¶ highly personalized documentary essay, in which Akw`hyamb Iq«psI«pamWv Cu tUmIypsaâdn. the subject matter often acted as a metaphor for sP BÀ F¶Xv IÅt¸cmWv. {^©v t^mt«m{Km- the artistic process. The later films The Gleaners ^dpw IemImc\pamb AbmfpsS sFUânän hy-à aÃ. t^mt«m{Km^dm-sW¶v AbmÄ kzbw AhImi- and I, The Beaches of Agnès and Faces Places s¸SpIbpw hen-b »m¡v Bâv sshäv t^mt«mIÄ s]m- all won Varda increasing acclaim. A recipient XpØe§fn Øm]n¡pIbpw, NpaÀ-Nn{XIem-Im of innumerable awards and honors, Varda is a c\msW¶ [mcW Dïm¡nsbSp¡pIbpw sN-¿p¶p. world renowned and iconic auteur known to have constantly been engaged with the felt human world and its realities. Richard Brody the film scholar is known to have rightly noted that Varda’s films were always marked by a passionate blending of personal JR is the pseudonym of a French photographer and experience, political insight and activism, an artist whose identity is unconfirmed. Describing ardent vision for landscape, an intense curiosity himself as a photograffeur, he flyposts large black- about the lives of others, and frank confrontations and-white photographic images in public locations, with intimacy, romance, and love. in a manner similar to the appropriation of the built environment by the graffiti artist.

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JOCELYNE SAAB was reporter, photographer, scriptwriter, producer, director, artist and founder of the Cultural Resistance International Film Festival of Lebanon all rolled into one. She is recognised as one of the pioneers of Lebanese cinema and "one of the country's most daring filmmakers". Saab’s poetic vision, and her intimate interactions with the displaced, the exiled, and the voiceless, mark her films as uniquely her own. Saab was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. Her first job was hosting a pop music programme on the national Lebanese radio station called Marsipulami got blue eyes. She then became a JOCELYNE television newsreader. Once the Lebanese Civil War broke out, Saab started exploring the medium of documentaries. This

JOCELYNE marked her turn towards a more personal and essayistic mode of filmmaking as her country was torn apart by conflict. Her epic, impressionistic trilogy of documentaries about Beirut that followed captures a city at once wounded, mournful, and bristling with life and energy. Beirut, Never Again, Letter from Beirut, Beirut My City. She is well-known for fiction films Dunia, Kiss Me Not on the Eyes (2005) and What is Going On (2010). In later years, Saab has been making art. Her first installation, the 22-screen Strange Games and Bridges, using material from her work on war, was shown at the National Museum, Singapore, in 2007. The same year, she showed photographs at the Dubai Art Fair. As Nicole Brenez rightly noted, Jocelyne Saab has placed her entire artistic career at the service of the deprived and disadvantaged – from displaced peoples to exiled fighters, cities at war and a Fourth World without a voice. “Her work is grounded in historic violence, and in an awareness of the actions and images required to document, reflect on and counteract it.”

Jocelyne Saab (30 April 1948 – 7 January 2019) HISTORY'S WITNESS HISTORY'S 12TH IDSFFK

HISTORY'S WITNESS HISTORY'S 171 Beirut, My City A letter from Beirut France/ 35’/ 1982/ French France/ 48’/ 1978/ French

Direction Jocelyne Saab Commentary Roger Assaf Direction Jocelyne Saab Commentary Etel Adnan DoP Hassan Naamani Editing Philippe Gosselet and Jocelyne Saab DoP Olivier Guenneau Sound Production Jocelyne Saab Copyrights Nessim Mohamed Awad Editing Philippe Gosselet Ricardou Production Jocelyne Saab Copyrights Nessim Ricardou

Beirut My City returns Jocelyne Saab and her Dreamlike, melancholy, and cautiously hopeful, collaborator, the playwright and director Roger this epistolary film findsJocelyne Saab returning Assaf, to the shell of her former home following to a Beirut that has irrevocably changed, where Israel’s 1982 invasion, finding small glimmers she wanders the streets, rides buses, chats with of hope in the chaos of refugee camps and the refugees and peacekeepers, and reflects on the rubble of decimated neighborhoods. war’s toll during a brief moment of peace.

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173 Waning Moons Meena Premji: Ekalochana Janmam Nooryaab Nakhat Dhanasekar Mohan M Neelan Premji [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Waterbodies Motherhood Resonating Burra - The Story of Krishand RK Kirti Kirti Burrakatha [email protected] [email protected] Arjun Chavah [email protected] Nooreh Competition Short Fiction Ashish Pandey Three Sisters A Monsoon Date [email protected] Putul Mahmood Tanuja Chandra [email protected] [email protected] o'kabira Shyamkant Dhanorkar We Have Not Come Here to Die A Star-Studded Sky [email protected] Deepa Dhanraj Aasif Moyal [email protected] [email protected] Patharosa Hariharasudhan K Calycopteris floribunda [email protected] Focus Short Documentary Girish Macreri The Disguise Aage: In the search of Justice [email protected] Sandeep A. Varma Nagnath Kharat [email protected] [email protected] Doobie Keith Gomes The Fence Chai for Director, Pan for Crew [email protected] Sreehari Dharman Harold Antony Paulson [email protected] haroldantonypaulson@gmail. Dying Wind in Her Hair com Shazia Iqbal Wig [email protected] Atanu Mukherjee Daughter of Nepal [email protected] Surbhi Dewan Flight of Freedom [email protected] Aarti Bagdi [email protected] Focus Long Documentary Jangarh Singh Shyam:Legacy of Baba Farid : Poet of the Soul a Painter I, Reborn Meera Dewan Nutan Manmohan Manoj A Michigan [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Insidious Indifference CzechMate - In Search of Jiri Memoirs of Saira & Salim Seemonta Halder Menzel Eshwarya Grover [email protected] Shivendra Singh [email protected] Dungarpur Leaping Towards Acceptance [email protected] Nitish Patankar Metaphor nitishpatankar.2009@gmail. Kaifiyat Prashob Divakaran com Elroy Pinto [email protected] [email protected] Lightwala Geyser Nambi the Scientist Nikhil Patil Koothu Prajeshsen G [email protected] Sandhya Kumar [email protected] [email protected] Look At the Sky One Mustard Seed Ashok Veilou Line of Control Aparna Sanyal [email protected] Raja Shabir Khan aparna@ [email protected] mixedmediaproductions.com

174 Pallom - An Ark of Life [email protected] Pipanya Jayesh Padichal Shubham Ghatge, [email protected] Crossing Yuvaraj Jadhav Aswin Bos [email protected], Rhythm of a Village [email protected] [email protected] Arun M S [email protected] Drifter Pola Samya Mondal Kamal Waghdhare Seethakali [email protected] [email protected] T N Shajimon Thottumkara [email protected] If I have to go Quarter Gaurav Boruah, Prajnyan Navjyot Bandiwadekar Ships outside My Window Goswami [email protected] Rebana Liz John [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] Talk Sumit Singh Sandhu Still I Rise Kunjaappi [email protected] Dheeshma P Vishal Viswanathan dheeshmapuzhakkal@gmail. [email protected] Tear com Jenifer Areng Datta Line of Duty [email protected] Telltales of the Hills Mayank Malhotra Georgy Abraham mayank21malhotra@gmail. Thaar [email protected] com Anand Khatana [email protected] The Cyclone Malota PRAHAS NAIR Krishan Hooda That Man in the Picture [email protected] [email protected] Gaurav Sharma [email protected] The Obscured Profile Men at my door Raman Unni Vinay Krishnan The Demon ramanunni.ramanunni@gmail. [email protected] Tathagata Ghosh com [email protected] Mousetrap The Phoenix State Ravi Shankar Kaushik The Intern Gilbert George [email protected] Gaurav kuri [email protected] [email protected] Mr. Das The Unsung Ravali Thummalachetty The Other Lens Sarah Thomas [email protected] Rian Baruah [email protected] [email protected] Out of Focus Focus Short Fiction Atanu Biswas The Saleswoman [email protected] Sreecheta Das Akki [email protected] Ramana Dumpala Pakhi Eight [email protected] Jinto Thekkiniyath The Talking Plow jintothekkiniyath86@gmail. Jayaraj Jayaraj Behind the Moon com [email protected] Samrat Chakraborty [email protected] Pamphlet Shekhar Rankhambe The Unsaid Brother rankhambeshekhar@gmail. Prem Singh Venky AV com [email protected] 12TH IDSFFK

175 Ticket filmmakerchidambaram@gmail. Dhaya Abhik Das com Noufal Nazeer , Ameer Suhail [email protected] [email protected], [email protected] Unfamiliar Malayalam Short Fiction Rahat Jain Koel [email protected] Adam Fazil Razaka Rahul Ramachandran mridulsthaiparambil121@ Vitha [email protected] gmail.com Avishkar Bharadwaj [email protected] Bulls Eye Locker Sanu Issac Selvaraj R [email protected] [email protected] Malayalam Long Documentary Conscience 3 Black Oorali Band A Diary on Blindness Vishnulal Sudha Arjun PS Sajeed Naduthody [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cycle Prathichaya Green Line Arun MS Gayathri Sasiprakash Ebin Raj Maliakal [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] IHITA Purath Portrait of a Long March EMS Sanak Mohan Vinayak Suthan B. Jayachandran Bhaskaran [email protected] [email protected] Nair [email protected] Kallasakshi The Weaving Dreams Deepak S Jay Naveen C Wilson [email protected] [email protected] Malayalam Short Documentary Manasamadhanam After the Deluge Closer to the HeartPravin Kumar Animation M Venukumar [email protected] [email protected] 09:09 F Raghavan Avinash Medhe Goodness won't ever fail! The Rahul R Sarma avinash.medhe@girgitstudios. humane side of kerala floods [email protected] com Anish Radhakrishnan [email protected] The Blue Pencil Amrita Aarathy K R Swati Agarwal Memory Beings [email protected] [email protected] Sudha Padmaja Francis [email protected] The Journey of Sita DARK Six Feet Under Krishnapriya V Deepak Sivan Sanu Kummil [email protected] [email protected] sanukummil.madhyamam@gmail. com Campus Films Dry Fly Rut Juan The Great Silence A Small Desire [email protected] Dr KB Selvamony Kunnelkalayil Satyajith Gopikrishna Berthalo [email protected] Inside [email protected] Remya Rajeev Aham [email protected] The Wall of Faith Sooraj S Chidambara Palaniyappan [email protected] 176 Patchwork Made in India The Archive as Memory María Manero Madhushree Dutta [email protected] [email protected] Events in a Cloud Chamber Ashim Ahluwalia Pockets Memories of Fear [email protected] Vivek Prakash Madhushree Dutta [email protected] [email protected] Madame Stephane Riethauser The Cyclerickshaw Scribbles on Akka [email protected] SaneeshThomas Thomas Madhushree Dutta [email protected] [email protected] Manu Emmannuele Bonmariage War For Keyboard Warriors [email protected] Can-zhao Lam Homage [email protected] Silence is a Falling Body Faces Places Augustina Comedi Agnes Varda [email protected] Music Video [email protected]

Bom bay Beirut My City Artists’ Cinema Krishna kumar Ku Jocelyne Saab [email protected] [email protected] Waiting for Others to Arrive Sudarshan Shetty Dibi Durga Letter From Beirut Niranjan Kumar Kujur Jocelyne Saab [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Disclaimer Googling Gandhi Route Gigi Scaria Joshy Jospeh Bill Morrison Retrospective [email protected] [email protected] Decasia Panic City Her rebirth Bill Morrison Gigi Scaria Adarsh N Krishna, Shani [email protected] [email protected] Hafees [email protected], The Miners' Hymns Let it Be [email protected] Bill Morrison Gigi Scaria [email protected] [email protected] Magizhchi Ranjith Pa The Great Flood No Parallel neelamsocialmedia@gmail. Bill Morrison Gigi Scaria com [email protected] [email protected]

Maravairi Political Realism Jithin Lal Gigi Scaria [email protected] Carte Blanche Madrid [email protected]

Madhushree Dutta – LTA Donkeyote Small-scale Societies Chico Pereira Vipin Vijay 7 Islands and a Metro [email protected] [email protected] Madhushree Dutta [email protected] Letter from Korlai The Fourth Kingdom Aman Wadhan I Live in Behrampada Adan Aliaga, Alex Lora [email protected] Madhushree Dutta [email protected] [email protected] 12TH IDSFFK 177 An Ocean in Every Kitchen : [email protected] All That's Missing Bubble ZeinabTabrizi Parvathi Nair I’ve Only One Language And [email protected], [email protected] That’s Not Mine [email protected] Mithu Sen By the Mouth of the River [email protected] Anna Parvathi Nair Dekel Berenson [email protected] [email protected]

An Ocean in Every Kitchen : Country Focus – Vietnam Black Mother Freeze Boil Khalik Allah Parvathi Nair Ephemera [email protected] [email protected] Ho Thanh Thao hothanhthao2106@gmail. Black Sheep Order com Ed Perkins Parvathi Nair charlie.phillips@ [email protected] Could you take a photo of us theguardian.com, info.uk@ please lightboxent.com The Pledge Do Ha Thu Murali Cheeroth [email protected] Ca$h [email protected] Wei Ting Tan Sofa, kitchen and chitchats [email protected] An Old Story Do Ha Thu Murali Cheeroth [email protected] Double [email protected] Ronak Jafari Dedicated to Grandpa Dieu festival.maaafilms@gmail. Forerunner Nguyen Hien Anh com, garineh@venerafilms. Sahej Rahel [email protected] com [email protected] At Water’s Edge Each and Every Moment Saras Do Van Hoang Nicolas Philbert Sahej Rahel [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] End of Life Katabasis John Bruce, Pawel Wojtasik Sahej Rahel Special Screenings [email protected] [email protected] Bird of Dusk Erased… Ascent Of The The Antebellum Ritual Sangeeta Dutta Invisible Sahej Rahel [email protected] Ghassan Halwani [email protected] [email protected], info@ Sukhantyam mecfilm.de Barricada Adoor Gopalakrishnan Sahej Rahel [email protected] Eyebrows [email protected] Tamer Ashry The Dispossessed [email protected] Half Return Mathieu Roy Flow Sumedh Rajendran [email protected] Nicolas Molina [email protected] [email protected]

Last Wall International Films Fork & Knife Riyaz Komu Adam Abd El Ghaffar [email protected] A Woman Torn In Half [email protected] Marco Joubert My Grave [email protected] Riyaz Komu

178 Freedom Fields Our Love The Room Naziha Arebi Mario Fernández Alonso Latifa Said [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Graves without a Name Pesticides The Secret History of Aviation Rithy Panh Jaume Quiles Jaou Mansao [email protected] [email protected] [email protected], [email protected] House of Glass Rosenwohl Filipe Martins Miguel Llorens The Silence of Others [email protected], [email protected] Almudena Carracedo, Robert [email protected] Bahar Rubber Dolphin [email protected] In a Foreign Country Ori Aharon Karen Akerman and Miguel [email protected] The Woman behind the Window Seabra Lopes Kooroosh Shirali [email protected], Sailors of the Forest [email protected], [email protected] Stefano Tammaro [email protected] [email protected] Last Men in Aleppo What We Left Unfinished Feras Fayyad Sandoval's Bullet Mariam Ghani [email protected], fayyadfiras@ Jean-Jacques Martinod [email protected] gmail.com, fayyadferas@gmail. [email protected] com Your Face Selfie Tsai Ming Liang Letter to Theo Agostino Ferrente [email protected] Élodie Lélu [email protected] [email protected], info@ iotaproduction.com Skin Guy Nattiv Meeting Gorbachev [email protected] Werner Herzog, André Singer Talking About Adultery [email protected] Bara Jichova Tyson [email protected] Sine Cide or No One Believes me but the police are chasing the The Camel Boy wrong man Chabname Zariab Ata Mojabi [email protected] [email protected], [email protected] The Drip Of Fathers & Sons Marjan Hashemi Talal Derki festival.maaafilms@gmail. [email protected], com, garineh@venerafilms. [email protected] com, [email protected]

On the Border The Girls Are Alright Wei Shujun Gwai Lou [email protected] [email protected]

Prisoner of Society The Memory of Water Rati Tsetildaze Mary Stephen [email protected] [email protected] 12TH IDSFFK

179 KSCA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS

Sri. Kamal Chairman Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

Smt. Bina Paul Vice-Chairperson Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

Sri. Mahesh Panju Secretary Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

Sri. Santhosh Jacob K Treasurer Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

Sri. Manoj Joshi, IAS Principal Secretary, Finance Department

Smt. George, IAS Secretary, Department of Cultural Affairs

Sri.

180 KSCA GENERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS

Sri. Resul Pookutty Smt. Smt. Sajitha Madathil Sri. V K Joseph Sri. Neelan Sri. G P Ramachandran Sri. Sunny Joseph Smt. Deedi Damodaran Sri. Pradeep Chokli Sri. Madhu Janardhanan Director, I & PRD Dr S IAS, Registrar, C-DIT Smt. Deepa D Nair, MD, KSFDC Sri. Baiju Chandran, Programme Head, Doordarshan, Thiruvananthapuram 12TH IDSFFK

181 INDEX Calycopteris Floribunda 39 Cash 100 Chai Darbari 27 09:09 F 123 Chai for Director, Pan for Crew 61 7 Islands and Metro 134 Colors of Narol 27 A Diary on Blindness 88 Conscience 3 Black 94 A Journey of Passion 18 Coral Woman 19 A Letter from Beirut 172 Crossing 72 A Monsoon Date 38 Cycle 94 A Moon For My Father 110 Czechmate - In Search of Jirí Menzel A Place to Live 18 55 A Small Desire 49 Dark 124 A Star-Studded Sky 38 Daughter of Nepal 62 A Woman Torn In Half 99 Decasia 138 Aage: In the Search of Justice 61 Dedicated to Grandpa Dieu 147 Achoubi in Love 25 Dhaya 50 Adam 93 Dibi Durga 129 After the Deluge, Closer to the Donkeyote 141 Heart 88 Doobie 39 Aham 49 Double 100 Akki 71 Drifter 73 All That's Missing 110 Dry Fly 124 Amrita 123 Dying Wind in her Hair 40 An Island of Illusion 25 Each And Every Moment 112 Anna 99 Elephants Do Remember 28 At Water’s Edge 147 End of Life 112 Baba Farid: Poet of the Soul 55 Ephemera 148 Before it Vanishes 26 Erased… Ascent of the Invisible 113 Behind the Moon 71 Events in a Cloud Chamber 144 Beirut, My City 172 Exhibit – A 28 Bird of Dusk 165 Eyebrows 101 Black Mother 111 Faces Places 169 Black Sheep 111 Flight of Freedom 40 Bombay 129 Flow 113 Brother 72 Fork & Knife 101 Bulls Eye 93 Freedom Fields 114 By My Side 26 Goodness Won't Ever Fail! The

182 Humane side of Kerala Floods 89 Manasamadhanam 96 Googling Gandhi Route 130 Manu 145 Graves Without A Name 114 Maravairi 131 Green Line 89 Meena 43 Her Rebirth 130 Meeting Gorbachev 117 House of Glass 115 Memoirs of Saira & Salim 63 I Live on Behrampada 134 Memories of Fear 135 I, Reborn 41 Memory Beings 90 If I have to Go 73 Men at My Door 75 If She Built a Country 19 Metaphor 63 Ihita 95 Motherhood 44 In a Foreign Country 115 Moti Bagh 20 Inside 125 Mousetrap 76 Insidious Indifference 41 Mr. Das 76 Janani's Juliet 20 Nambi the Scientist 64 Jangarh Singh Shyam: Legacy of a Nodir Kul Nai 30 Painter 62 Nooreh 44 Kaifiyat 56 Of Fathers & Sons 117 Kallasakshi 95 O'kabira 45 Koel 50 On the Border 102 Koothu 56 One Mustard Seed 64 Kunjaappi 74 Oorali Band 51 Last Men in Aleppo 116 Our Love 102 Leaping Towards Acceptance 42 Out of Focus 77 Letter to Theo 116 Pakhi Eight 77 Lightwala Geyser 42 Pallom - An Ark of Life 65 Line of Control 57 Pamphlet 78 Line of Duty 74 Patchwork 125 Locker 51 Patharosa 45 Longra 29 Peacock Plume 21 Look at the Sky 43 Pesticides 103 Madame 144 Pipanya 78 Made In India 135 Piraña 30 Magizhchi by the Casteless Pixelling Memory 31 Collective 131 Pockets 126 Maida 29 Pola 79 Malota 75 Portrait of a Long March Ems 90 12TH IDSFFK

183 Prathichaya 52 The Drip 106 Premji: Ekalochana Janmam 57 The Fence 46 Prisoner of Society 118 The Fourth Kingdom 141 Purath 52 The Girls Are Alright 107 Quarter 79 The Great Flood 139 Raghavan 96 The Great Silence 91 Reason 21 The Intern 82 Rediscovering Jajam 31 The Journey of Sita 97 Resonating Burra - The Story of The Memory of Water 107 Burrakatha 58 The Miner’s Hymns 138 Rhythm of a Village 65 The Obscured Profile 68 River Story 32 The Other Lens 83 Rooting for Roona 32 The Phoenix State 69 Rosenwohl 103 The Room 108 Rubber Dolphin 104 The Saleswoman 83 Sailors of the Forest 104 The Sea Laughs at the Mountain 34 Sandoval’s Bullet 118 The Secret History of Aviation 119 Scorched 33 The Shaila (s) 84 Scribbles on Akka 136 The Silence of Others 120 Seethakali 66 The Talking Plow 84 Ships Outside My Window 66 The Unsaid 85 Silence is a Falling Body 145 The Unsung 69 Sine Cide 105 The Wall of Faith 92 Six Feet Under 91 The Weaving Dreams 53 Skin 105 The Woman behind the Window 108 Small-Scale Societies 33 Three Sisters 58 Sofa, Kitchen and chitchats 148 Ticket 85 Somewhere Nowhere 34 Tides of Life 22 Still I Rise 67 Traces: Stories 35 Sukhantyam 165 Unfamiliar 86 Talk 80 Village in the Sky 35 Talking About Adultery 119 Vitha 86 Tear 80 Waning Moons 36 Telltales of the Hills 67 War for Keyboard Warriors 127 Thaar 81 Waste Band 23 That Man in the Picture 81 Waterbodies 36 The Blue Pencil 97 We Have Not Come Here to Die 59 The Camel Boy 106 What We Left Unfinihsed 120 The Cyclerickshaw 126 Wig 46 The Cyclone 68 Your Face 121 The Death of Us 22 The Demon 82 The Disguise 46 The Dispossessed 166

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