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Chairman & Festival Director, IDSFFK: Vice Chairperson & Artistic Director: Bina Paul Secretary & Executive Director: Mahesh Panju Treasurer: Zulfikar A Deputy Director (Festival): H Shaji Deputy Director (Programmes): N P Sajeesh Programme Manager (Finance): Radha Krishnan M Programme Manager (Festival): Suseelan Programme Manager (Programmes): Vimal Kumar V P Librarian (Technical Coordinator): Gopeekrishna S Online Media: Riyaz Ahamed Programme Assistants: Saiyed Farooq Z, Geethanjali C, Sreevidhya J, Revathy L Festival Cell: Sivakumar P S, Velayudhan Nair K, Mary Ninan, Padmakumar P R, Shyamlal S S, Harikumar K, Venukuttan Nair K, Ravikumar K, Jayakumari D, Sandhya B, Naveen Nath G S, K, Jaya L, Sasikala G, Arun R, Sahadevan R, Vijaya Mohan B, Lizy M, Omana J, Naveen L Filmmakers Liaison: Bandhu Prasad Aleyamma Guest Relations: Arjun A, Jayesh L R, Shelly J, M Rameez Media Relations: I & PRD, Government of Kerala Projectionists: John Kurian, Nishanth S T, Abhilash Software: Eventival, CDit Website Support : CDit Festival Design: B Priyaranjanlal Signature Film: Shameer Babu Festival Book Chief Editor: Mahesh Panju (Secretary, KSCA) Editor: H Shaji (Deputy Director, KSCA) Editorial Team: N P Sajeesh, Usha V T Word Processing & Page Setting: B Sivaprasad Academy is grateful to various film journals, festival publications, Film Festival websites from which we have borrowed materials 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. Printed at: Akshara Offset, Thiruvananthapuram Published by: Kerala State Chalachitra Academy Lotus Villa, Sasthamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, , Tel: +91 471 2310323 MESSAGE

I am happy to note that the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala organised by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy is achieving a landmark this year as it completes a decade. Over the years, the Festival has been able to charm the practitioners of cinema who are focussed on documentaries and short films. The documentaries and short films have emerged the favourite channel of expression for the new generation who loves experimentation with technology and ideas. The wide variety of content offered by the festival has made it the favourite among filmmakers and moviegoers alike. I hope the festival will continue to be a space for dialogue and reflection offering more avenues for the cultural and political aspirations of the society. I wish you all an engaging and fruitful festival time at IDSFFK-2017.

Pinarayi Vijayan Hon'ble Chief Minister of Kerala MESSAGE

The International Documentary and Short Film Festival organised by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy under the Department of Cultural Affairs has turned out to be the most prominent one in India in its tenth edition. Apart from providing a venue for the young talents across the country, it offers space for exchange of ideas and politics. The films in fact showcase the thought process of the youth. About 200 movies which reflect the world around us intensely are screened at the five-day-long festival. These movies which narrate the endurance and survival of the people around the world are expected to offer film lovers comprehensive insight into the contemporary world. I would like to congratulate all the filmmakers who chose to express their creative ideas in a crispy medium. I wish that all the participants of the IDSFFK are presented with a rich fare of meaningful cinema. I also wish all the success to the organisers who work behind the scenes.

A.K.Balan Hon'ble Minister for Welfare of SC, ST & BC, Law, Culture & Parliamentary Affairs WELCOME NOTE

The energetic existence of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival (IDSFFK) during the past decade is the testament to the unflinching commitment of the Kerala State Chalachithra Academy to promote the medium of documentaries and short films. The pioneering festival has turned out to be much sought after by budding and established talents alike. The IDSFFK has been able to offer vignettes that reflect the human conditions across the globe. It is heartening to note that more and more people are venturing into the medium which has been experiencing radical transformations. World over, the medium is lapped up by youngsters and oldies who loves to experiment with the art form giving the creative expression newer dimensions. Documentaries have acquired added charm and significance in the era of digital and social media. The has been making some major strides defying conventional definitions of fiction and non-fiction. The IDSFFK has acquired added significance amidst the attempts to stifle voices of dissent. We pledge that the Festival will strive to provide a democratic space for challenging established notions and raising questions. We welcome filmmakers and delegates to the Festival of togetherness.

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

Right from the days of Edison and Lumiere, the division of the theatrical film and the was apparent. In fact, in the early days of cinema, documentary was more prominent than the fiction film. When Robert Flaherty made the in 1922, it was an all time popular hit. Looking back at the history of this genre, one can find that it has evolved over the years through various innovations and styles and has withstood the test of time. This legitimacy is what gives us the strength to undertake the IDSFFK every year. Along with the developments abroad, we in India have also moved away from the Films Division style of documentary film to more inventive methods and styles. Apart from the camera looking at the world outside, it is also increasingly turning inward, looking at one’s immediate surroundings. Very often, filmmakers examine remote cultures and life styles; some ruminate on our environment and yet others deal with contemporary social issues and so on. There is a celebration of plurality and diversity here so characteristic of our country itself. There is an abundance of images to choose from whether it be from Maestro, Competition, Focus, Curated package, Vienna shorts and other sections. In fact, the event can be rightfully termed an image festival as there is no more celluloid film in this digital age! I welcome you all to five days of image feast.

Mahesh Panju Secretary & Executive Director, IDSFFK A NOTE ON PROGRAMMING

While the Documentary & Short Film Festival is slowly growing up, we look around and are bewildered by the changes that are happening so rapidly. Films have jumped out of the boundaries of the screen…now available on mobile phones, in art galleries over multiple screens, in performances, on the television. It’s as if cinema is breaking all boundaries. This is extremely interesting,at a time where in real life boundaries are getting more and more defined. We ask how does a festival respond to this dynamic exciting challenge that all these new forms are throwing up? How does a festival continue to remain relevant? The conversation begins with our two filmmakers in Focus: Mai Masri and Vipin . Neither of their work can be boxed as Fiction or Non Fiction…harsh realities mingle in the imagination to make powerful visual statements. Soundphiles, an aural experience, migrants from our diaspora using the camera to tell their own stories, some films of , straight out of the oven award winners from the Vienna Short Film Festival, International Documentaries challenging the status quo. There is much in store for the viewer. We have the most interesting Documentary and Short Fiction from within our country, made by both the young discovering the media and the older who are telling important stories. These stories borne out of real life experiences cannot be quelled, and IDSFFK, is the platform that we provide. A moment of not only of seeing each other’s work but also of sharing experiences and making real friends. We also have one of India’s finest cinematographers Ranjan Palit, present to share his experiences and mentor budding camerapersons. The Festival days become a capsule of Diversity and camaraderie…we welcome you all to the sharing of experiences in these strange times.

Bina Paul Vice Chairperson & Artistic Director, IDSFFK About us

Activities International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK International Short & Documentary Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) A new initiative of the Academy was kick Kerala State Chalachitra started in 2008. It aims to catalyse a vibrant Academy: Growing from short and documentary film movement. Strength to Strength National Film Festivals (NFFK) In a pioneering initiative, the Government of Film Festivals in Collaboration with other Kerala set up Kerala State Chalachitra Academy countries and States (Motion Picture Academy of the Kerala State) Visual Appreciation Camps for Children in August 1998. The first of its kind in the Each year, the Academy organises visual country, the Academy is an effort to counter appreciation camps for children during the gross commoditization of the film medium summer holidays. and a rightful recognition of the contribution The camps aim to equip the children with of cinema to the cultural enlightenment of basic understanding and appreciation of the society. It is guided by the motto that films. Cinema should contribute to the complete development of human being, both as an Teachers’ Workshop on Film Appreciation individual and as a social being. The teacher empowerment programme promoted by the Academy addresses the The Academy today has become a major player critical issue of imparting cinema education in the cultural landscape of Kerala reaching to Teachers recognizing that they will catalyse students, teachers, and ordinary people the downward spread of film education. through various initiatives designed to carry the message of cinema as not only a means Film Appreciation Courses of entertainment but of serious academic Conducted in association with Local bodies reflection and a tool to preserve and document and organizations is regular feature. the history of society. The Academy has conducted over 25 such Core objectives of the Academy include camps all over the State. being a link between the Government and CD-ROMS the , the conducting of Film History of Cinema: a CD ROM on Festivals all over the State, the preservation 75 years of the History of . and propagation of Malayalam Cinema, to Understanding Cinema intervene in film education, to document the As part of its objective of building a critical History of Malayalam Cinema, the honouring awareness of cinema a CDROM on the of persons and films that contribute to the understanding and history of the film has aesthetics of Malayalam cinema. been made. Touring Talkies for Malayalam cinema The Academy has been conducting Touring aimed at promoting films with artistic value and Talkies programme aimed at taking meaningful encouraging artists/technicians. cinema to the student community and In recognition of Television as a popular and remote, rural areas of the State. Educational important medium the Academy has instituted the institutions, libraries and voluntary Annual State TV Awards J.C Daniel Award instituted organizations are arranging screenings apart in the name of the founding father of Malayalam from organizations affiliated to FFSI. cinema is awarded each year to an individual for an outstanding contribution to Malayalam Academy Collection cinema. DVDs of well known but almost lost Malayalam films are being produced in a multi language Publications format. Every year the Academy publishes books on various aspects of cinema and personalities Seminars and Exhibitions associated with film. Organising seminars and exhibitions on cinema tops the agenda of the Academy. An Exhibition Welfare Activities on Women in Malayalam Cinema has traveled The welfare activities undertaken by the Academy through the State, highlighting the contribution includes pension and medical assistance for Cine of women to Malayalam Cinema. This Artists. exhibition has brought into focus an almost Monthly Journal unwritten history. The Academy intends to bring out monthly film Film Library and Archives journal soon. It will be a comprehensive journal Academy Film Library has fairly comprehensive covering all aspects of cinema. collection of world classics in various formats. International Film Study and Research A well equipped library and reading room Centre & Digital Archives facility open to the public functions in the The Academy has started the construction of Academy office. International Film Study & Research Centre & Home Theatre Digital Archives at KINFRA Film, Video & IT Park, Film Viewing Facility at Academy Premises Kazhakuttom, Thiruvananthapuram. The Centre, A home theatre for film viewing is open to the once completed, will house library for research, public at a nominal fee. mini theatres, conference hall, dormitory, office, Promotion and collaboration guest room and cafeteria. with Film Societies The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy with a The Academy has contributed to strengthen dedicated team is growing from strength to the film societies by providing grants to those strength. 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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Film &Television Institute (SRFTI) Kerala State Film Development Corporation (KSFDC) Jay Bajaj Barbara Lorey Eventival Team Qube DHL Express DTDC CONTENTS

About us 8 Acknowledgements 10 Opening Films 12 Jury Fiction 14 Jury Non Fiction 15 Idsffk Awards 16 Selection Committee Members 16 Competition Long Documentary 17 Competition Short Documentary 23 Competition Short Fiction 32 Competition 45 Competition Campus 53 Master Class: Andrew Vial On Documentary Filmmaking 60 Focus Long Documentary 61 Focus Short Documentary 64 Focus Short Fiction 72 International Fiction 88 International Non-Fiction 96 Maestro Wim Wenders 107 Filmmaker In Focus: Mai Masri 112 Filmmaker In Focus: Vipin Vijay 117 Vienna Shorts 122 Master Class: Ranjan Palit on 126 Curated Programmes Soundphiles 127 Animation From Latin America 130 Migrant Bodies 134 Tribute John Berger 137 Tribute Chalam Bennurakar 140 Programmes 146 Contact 148 Ksca E C & G C Members 153 Index 155 OPENING FILM

Life Animated USA/2016/ English/91’

Direction Roger Ross Williams Production Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman Screenplay Roger Ross Williams, David Teague Camera Tom Bergmann Sound John Osborne

A chatty, energetic little boy disappears into autism at the age of three. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world. Beautiful give form to Owen’s fruitful dialogue with the Disney oeuvre as he imagines himself heroically facing adversity in a tribe of sidekicks. With an arsenal of narratives at his disposal, Owen rises to meet the challenges of adulthood in this moving coming-of-age tale.

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Roger Ross Williams is the first African American director to win an Academy Award for his debut film Music by Prudence. His next film God Loves Uganda was shortlisted for Academy Award. Life, Animated won the prestigious U.S. Documentary Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival. Williams serves on the Alumni advisory board of the Sundance Institute and the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. OPENING FILM

Sakhisona India/2017/Bengali/ 26’ Direction, Screenplay Prantik Basu Production Bhupendra Kainthola/FTII Camera Mehul Bhanti Editing Aguolie Kire Music Dawn Vincent, Manbhum Sramjivi Chhau Dance Group

Sokhisona elopes with her lover in search of a home away from home. They end up in an abandoned village by the woods. One day, when she goes to the woods to collect twigs, a tree reveals to her the mysteries of the forest. Illusions prevail in the form of spirits and shamans who have been transforming humans into animals for ages. Meanwhile, in an excavation site, stories that have been buried for too long spring back to life...

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Prantik Basu studied Film Directing at the Film and Television Institute of India. His films have been screened at various festivals including International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Rome Film Festival, International Film Festival of India and Experimenta India. His film Ek, Do (2011) was awarded the Indian Jury Prize at MIFF. Films: (all short) Short Life (2007), Late Vizolie Solizuo (2008), D2K2 (2009), Ek Do (2011), Makara (2013), Wind Castle (2014), Sakhisona (2016). JURY FICTION

Ritu Sarin Ritu Sarin is an Indian film director and producer based in Dharamshala, India. Ritu Sarin did her MFA in Film and Video from California College of the Arts (CCA). While at CCA, Sarin made a number of experimental films, including Hercules and The Mind Gap. Sarin and her husband, Tenzing Sonam, have been making films since their student days in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early Eighties. Since then they have shared a career that has spanned several documentaries, video installations and one dramatic . Sarin was a founding member of the Bay Area Friends of Tibet in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the earliest Tibet support groups in the US. She is also one of the founders of Dharamshala International Film Festival.

Lijo Jose Pellissery Son of late theatre-movie actor Jose Pellissery, is a leading figure among the young brigade of Malayalam filmmakers. With a theatre-film family background, Lijo started his career by making short films and was one of the finalists of the PIX Short Film Festival 2007. He directed his first feature in 2010. Amen, his one of the most successful Malayalam movies released on 2013 was path-breaking in terms of its narrative style and treatment. His latest project was Angamaly Diaries, a cloaked within a plot that revolves around the locale of Angamaly, in district, Kerala, India.

Carla Losch Carla Maria Losch, programmer and festival coordinator at VIS Vienna Shorts where she also counsels the curating process, heads the film education section and the Artist-in- Residence programme. Carla has been working with the Oscar qualifying short film and animation festival (formerly VIS Vienna Independent Shorts) since 2011 in different positions, beginning with head of hospitality. From 2008 until 2015 she studied philosophy, Scandinavian studies and film theory in Vienna and Helsinki; since 2015 she holds a diploma degree in film and media studies. She worked as an assistant director in theatre, production manager and coordinator for film projects and programmed the international short film competition at /slash Film Festival in Vienna. Besides the main festival, she organises and realises film education workshops for young people and is actively involved in the newly founded Vienna Shorts Agency that focuses on innovative formats for short film. In 2017 she contributed the kids and youth programme to Kyiv International Short Film Festival. JURY NON FICTION

Andrew Vial Andrew Vial is a highly regarded filmmaker/producer who has won many international awards. He has been member of Jury in Bratislava (Slovak Republic), Kish (Iran), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Indigenous (Nepal), (India) and Latvia. He has been a film educator at National Film School (UK), University of Technology (Australia), North Sydney TAFE Film and TV School (NSW). He is the Board member of the travelling Asia Pacific Film Festival for the past 12 years. Andrew Vial is Advisor to many countries and Governments on film and culture policies.

Rajula Shah Rajula Shah has completed her Diploma in Film Direction from Film and Television Institute of India apart from Masters in Literature. She is an independent filmmaker, producing and directing short and feature-length documentaries, social communication videos, etc. Her films include Sabad Nirantar (2007) and Beyond The Wheel (2005). Sabad Nirantar was awarded the Horizonte Prize at Dokfest 2008, Munich. Rajula also publishes poetry and short stories in various journals. Her poetry collection Parchhainki Khidki Se was awarded the Navlekhan Puraskar by Bharatiya Jyanpeeth in 2004. She also translates literary work and writes on cinema. She has translated Ila R. Bhatt’s We Are Poor But So Many into , and also poems by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad for the magazine Tanaav.

Vipin Vijay Vipin Vijay, award winning Indian screenwriter and Film Director graduated from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. In 2003, he received the Charles Wallace Arts Award for research at the (BFI), London. His films have won short Tiger Award – Rotterdam, Best Film – Signs Du Nuit, Paris, , India (twice), Grand Jury Award MIFF, Golden pearl HIFF, Kodak award, Kerala State Film & TV Award (thrice), Puraskaram, IDPA Award (thrice), Incredible India Award-IFFI, National Awards (thrice), Hassankutty Award-IFFK 2010. Apart from widely shown in film festivals like Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Oberhausen, São Paulo, Nantes, Montreal, Japan, Vladivostok and art museums like Serpentine Gallery, London, Ullens Centre for Contemporary art (UGCA) Beijing, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, two of his works have been acquired for permanent archives at the United States Library of Congress. The prestigious Oberhausen International Film Festival, 2015 honoured him with a PROFILE, showcasing his works. IDSFFK AWARDS

• Best Long Documentary (40mnts and above) Rs. 1,000,00 and Certificate of Merit

• Best Short Documentary (under 40mnts) Rs. 50,000 and Certificate of Merit

• Best Short Fiction (under 40mnts) Rs. 50,000 and Certificate of Merit

• Second Best Short Fiction (under 40mnts) Rs. 25,000 and Certificate of Merit

• Best Animation Film (30mnts and below) Rs. 25,000 and Certificate of Merit

• Best Campus Short Fiction Produced within Kerala Rs. 20,000 and Certificate of Merit

• Award for the Best Documentary cinematographer Donated by eminent cinematographer Mr Navroze Contractor Cash prize of Rs.15, 000 and a certificate SELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS

SHORT FICTION Janardhanan (CHAIRMAN) Prasanan Deepu

LONG DOCUMENTARY Neelan (CHAIRMAN) Leenus Kannoth Ajayan Angamaly

INTERNATIONAL Bhawani Cheerath K G Jayan Bijumohan

SHORT DOCUMENTARY Manilal (CHAIRMAN) Prabhakaran Beena. K. A

ANIMATION A. S. Sajith (CHAIRMAN) P. Radhakrishnan Shameer Babu COMPETITION LONG DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION LONG DOCUMENTARY

Atul 1984,When the Sun didn't Rise India/ 2017/52’ 1984, Jis din Suraj Ugya nahi India/ 2017/ Punjabi, Hindi/57’

Direction Kamal Swaroop Production, Direction, Screenplay, Production Teenaa Kaur Commissioning Editor Rajiv Mehrotra Camera Tanweer Ahmed Editing Suvir Nath,Teenaa Camera Riju Das Editing Renu Savant Kaur Music Yogendra Sodha Location Sound Ved Chandra Madesia Gautam Nair Atul Dodiya’s oeuvre spans the vastness of the Every evening, women from the Widows Colony, history of art and an in depth understanding New bond and share their memories. The and exploration of themes in India’s freedom colony is a rehabilitated space of Sikh widows movement. While an artist of great intellectual who lost their men and family members in the standing, Dodiya’s works also come together genocide of 1984 following the assassination from an inner wellspring of memory associations, of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The film uses images and personal responses to the world personal voice over that interweaves the past around him. This film follows his paintings and with the present. Archival footage is used to the elements in them to construct a story of the depict the socio-political context that lead to the artist’s life, to understand the artist behind the genocide. Women live bravely still fighting for paintings and his concerns. justice. kaImenI C´y³ Ne¨n{XIebnse {it²b\m-b FÃm kmbmÓ§fnepw H¯pIqSn X§fpsS AXp tZmZnbbpsS IemtemIs¯ A\mhcWw HmÀaIÄ ]¦psh¡p¶ \ypUÂlnbnse hn[hm sN¿p¶ tUmIypsaâdn. kzmX{´ykac-apt¶ähpambn tImf\nbnÂ\n¶pÅ kv{XoIsf¡pdn¨pÅXmWv _Ôs¸« {]tab§fpsS AhXcWhpw Iem- Cu tUmIypsa³ddn. 1984 CµncmKmÔn Ncn{X¯neqsSbpÅ bm{XbpsaÃmw DÄs¸«XmWv h[¯n\ptijw \S¶ knJv hwilXybn tZmZnbbpsS IemtemIw. X\n¡p NpäpapÅ `À¯m¡·mscbpw IpSpw_mwK§sfbpw \ãs¸« temI--t¯mSpÅ hyàn]camb {]XnIcW§fmWv knJv h\nXIsf ]p\c[nhkn¸n¨ncn¡p¶ At±l¯ns³d Nn{X§Ä. IemkrãnIÄ¡p ]n¶nse tImf\nbmWv AXv. hwilXybnte¡p \bn¨ [njWmimenbmb IemImcs\bpw At±l¯ns³d kmaqlnI cm{ãob]Ým¯ew ImWn¡m³ Bi¦Isfbpw a\Ênem¡m³ tZmZnbbpsS BÀss¡hv Zriy§Ä D]tbmKn¨n«pïv. Nn{X§sf ]n´pScpIbmWv Cu tUmIypsaâdn.

Kamal Swaroop is a National Award and Teenaa Kaur is an independent Director/Producer and Award winning film, television and radio director Screenplay writer with a wide range of experience in and screenwriter. He assisted Richard Attenborough documentary – Social Justice to Environment. in the filming of Gandhi. He has since made both Credits include National Geographic, Fox History, documentary and feature films. Famously banned, , PSBT India and Ministry of I&B, Om-Dar-Ba-Dar (1988) is his master work. Government of India. 18 10TH IDSFFK COMPETITION LONG DOCUMENTARY

In Praise of that Angel Face Nostalgia for the Future Zikr us Parivash Ka India/2017/Hindi, English/54’ India/2016/Hindi, , Bengali, English/64’

Direction, Screenplay Nirmal Chander Dandriyal Direction Avijit Mukul Kishore, Rohan Shivkumar Production Sangeet Natak Akademi Camera Screenplay Rohan Shivkumar Production Films Ranjan Palit Editing Reena Mohan, Nirmal Chander Division India Camera & Editing Avijit Mukul Kishore Dandriyal Sound Sound Gissy Michael

One of the last legendary courtesans of India, This is a film on Indian modernity, the citizen and was a well-known singer of ghazal, the architecture of the home. It looks at distinct dadra and thumri genres of Hindustani classical imaginations of homes and bodies across four music. Rendering them in her inimitable style, examples of buildings made over the period of she ensured that ghazal singing received due a century. The film explores these spaces and respect and came to be called Queen of the the bodies that were imagined to inhabit them Ghazal, reaching unparalleled heights in a world through the evocation of the cinematic and aural that threatened to marginalize courtesans. The collective memory of a nation reinventing itself. film weaves together the accounts of those who The film is therefore shot on multiple formats – remember her with unflinching fondness and 16mm film and video, in both colour and B/W. warmth in spite of the passage of years. C´ybnse Ahkm\ KWnIamcn Hcmfmbncp¶ C´y³ B[p\nIX, ]uc³, hoSns³d hmkvXphnZy _oKw AJvXÀ Adnbs¸Sp¶ KmbnIbmbncp¶p. F¶nhsb¡pdn¨pÅ tUmIypsa³ddnbmWv CXv. lnµpØm\n kwKoX¯nse KkÂ, Zm{Z, Xpwcn Hcp \qämïv Imebfhn\nSbn \nÀan¡s¸« XpS§nb C\§Ä AhÀ at\mlcambn sI«nS§fpsS \mev DZmlcW§fneqsS hoSns\bpw ]mSpambncp¶p. Kk Be]n¡p¶ X\n¡v AXn A[nhkn¡p¶ icoc§sfbpw kw_Ôn¨ AÀln¡p¶ _lpam\w In«p¶psh¶v AhÀ hyXykvX `mh\Isf hniIe\w sN¿p¶p Cu Dd¸m¡nbncp¶p. KWnIamsc ]mÀizhXvIcn¨ncp¶ Nn{Xw. kzbw Agn¨p]Wnbp¶ Hcp cm{ã¯ns³d Hcp temI¯v _oKw AJvXÀ Kk cmÚn F¶p k©nXkvarXnbneqsSbmWv CS§sfbpw hnfn¡s¸«p. Ct¸mgpw Ahsc BZcthmsSbpw DSepIsfbpw kw_Ôn¨v Cu kn\na At\zjWw _lpam\t¯msSbpw HmÀ¡p¶hcpsS \S¯p¶Xv. hnhcW§fneqsSbmWv Cu Nn{Xw k©cn¡p¶Xv.

Nirmal Chander Dandriyal is a national award winning Avijit Mukul Kishore is a documentary director, filmmaker who has conducted workshops on cinematographer and curator. His films include Snapshots documentary filmmaking and has served on juries at from a Family Album, Vertical City, To Let the World In. film festivals. His films include the following: Sab Lila Rohan Shivkumar's work spans architectural and interior Hai (2011), We The Change (2012), The Face Behind design, to urban research. He is co-editor of the publication The Mask (2014). on a research and art collaboration – Project Cinema City. 10TH IDSFFK 19 COMPETITION LONG DOCUMENTARY

Of Love & Artistry Soz | A Ballad of Maladies India/2017/Rajasthani, Hindi/45’ India/85’

Direction & Screenplay Suruchi Sharma Production Direction Tushar Madhav & Sarvnik Kaur Production Jane Himmeth Singh Camera Arnold Fernandes, Rajiv Mehrotra Screenplay Sarvnik Kaur Camera Ashok , Mehul Bhanti, Suruchi Sharma Tushar Madhav & Nagaraj Rathinam Editing Tushar Editing Ruth Lobo Sound Shoaib Maneri, Madhav Sound Hemant Rao Swaroopnath Bhatras The film explores the lifestyle and life stories of Of folk, rock and hip-hop, the film is a portrait different folk artistes from Rajasthan. It narrates of different cultural practitioners whose work memories and anecdotes associated with John engages with the political upheavals and its Da, the man who helped them exhibit their world social costs in contemporary Kashmir. The film is of music on various national and international a glance into the collective memory of a people platforms and go beyond the boundaries of their and the expressions of its history to understand regional performing space. the emerging voices of resistance and their resonance in Kashmir. In a journey through the metamorphoses of Kashmir’s traditional art practices into its contemporary arts of resistance, the film unfolds a transformed cultural fabric of cmPØm\nse hnhn[ \mtSmSnIemImc·mcpsS the valley. PohnXcoXnIÄ ]IÀ¯p¶ Nn{Xw. kaImenI Iivaocnse cm{ãob kwLÀj§sf {]mtZinIthZnIfpsS AXncpIÄ¡¸pd¯v tZiob {]Xn]mZ\ hnjbam¡p¶ hnhn[ kmwk-vImcnI A´ÀtZiob thZnIfn \mtSmSnIem{]IS\§Ä {]hÀ¯IcpsS IemhnjvImc§fneqsS IS¶p \S¯m³ Ahsc klmbn¨ tPm¬ Zm F¶ t]mhp¶p Cu Nn{Xw. \mtSmSn Iemcq]§fpw hyànsb¡pdn¨pÅ HmÀaIfpw kw`hIYIfpw tdm¡pw ln]vtlm]v kwKoXhpw CXn IS¶p- tNÀ¶XmWv Cu Nn{X¯ns³d BJym\w. hcp¶p. temI¯nse Gähpw ssk\nIhXv-Icn¡s¸« taJebnse {]Xntcm[ iЧsfbpw AhbpsS {]Xn[z\nIsfbpw a\Ênem¡m³ IivaoÀ P\XbpsS k©nXkvarXnbnte¡pw AXns³d Ncn{XmhnjvImc§fnte¡pw F¯nt\m¡p¶p.

Suruchi Sharmais an independent filmmaker based Tushar Madhavhas has worked on numerous in . independent documentary films. He has taught filmmaking at several universities besides filming and editing. Sarvnik Kaur has been working as a screenwriter. Besides writing for films she has authored a book titled Where arrows meet. 20 10TH IDSFFK COMPETITION LONG DOCUMENTARY

The Books We Made The Thinking Body India/2016/ India/2016/English/ 81’

Direction Anupama Chandra, Uma Tanuku Direction, Screenplay Kadambari Shivaya Production Rajiv Mehrotra Camera Desmond Roberts Production Manish Desai Camera Shaji N Karun Sound Asheesh Pandya Editing Plaban Kumar Bagchi, Kadambari Shivaya Sound

The film is inspired by the work of Dance is the state of being that transcends Butalia and Ritu Menon, who co-founded the one's physical self, delving deep into states of first feminist publishing house in India: Kali for resonating minds in a spectrum of timelessness, Women. The film is about the joy and pain of of time-past, time-present and time-future. surviving in two non-lucrative professions: that of The Thinking Body interprets the mind of the writing for small, discerning audiences, and that character it portrays through spiritual layers. of publishing, translating and promoting work Indian classical dance forms provide a perfect barely known outside its own linguistic region. vehicle for interactions of varied emotions and It looks back on thirty years in publishing and rasas in perfect harmony, irrespective of time, focusses on the feminist politics and friendships space and gender. that make this survival possible. Imfn t^mÀ hna³ F¶ C´ybnse BZy \r¯¯n BßobXe§fneqsS Nn{XoI-cn¡s¸Sp¶ s^an\nÌv {]km[\ kwcw`¯n\p XpS¡an« IYm]m{X¯ns³d a\Êns\ hymJym-\n¡pIbmWv DÀhin `q«menbbpsSbpw dnXp tat\ms³dbpw Cu Nn{Xw. `uXnI-kzXz¯n\v AXoX-amb Xe¯nte¡v {]hÀ¯\§fnÂ\n¶v {]tNmZnXambn \nÀan¨ Ibdnt¸mhp¶ A\p`hamWv \r-¯w ]IÀ¶p Nn{XamWnXv. sNdnb hmb\mkapl¯n\p \Â-Ip¶Xv. ImemXoXamb `qX-`mhnhÀ¯-am\§fpsS thïnbpÅ Fgp¯v, C´ybnse AXXv hÀW-cmPnbn ebn¡p¶ am\knImhØbpsS `mjmtaJeIÄ¡p ]pd¯v Adnbs¸Sm¯ Bg§fn-te¡mWv \r¯w \À¯Insb ]pkvXI§Ä hnhÀ¯\wsNbvXv {]kn²oIcn¡pI sImïpt]mhp¶Xv. Imew, Øew, enwKw F¶o em`IcaÃm¯ sXmgnepIfn F¶nh¡v AXoXambn hnhn[ hnImc§fpsSbpw GÀs¸Sp¶Xns³d thZ\bpw B\µhpw ck§fpsSbpw kzct¨À¨bpÅ ]mckv]cy¯n\p- Im«n¯cp¶p Cu Nn{Xw. XIp¶ am[yaamWv C´y³ Ivfmkn¡Â \r¯w.

Anupama Chandra has been working as an editor. She Kadambari Shivaya is currently based in Mumbai is teaching cinema in various universities. This film is where she ardently follows and practises her passion her directorial debut. Uma Tanuku was the Director of for Odissi. the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival for 2015. Both are alumni of FTII, , , India.

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Theatre of the Earth With the River Flowing India/2017/52’ India/2016/Bengali/63’

Direction & Camera Oinam Doren Production Films Direction, Screenplay & Camera Torsha Banerjee Division Editing Subhadipta Biswas Sound Jimbo Production Manish Desai Sound Anindit Roy Ningombam Music Kalakshetra Music Deb Editing Aritra Ganguly

Centred on the unique life of theatre practitioner With the River Flowing is a black comedy, a live Kanhailal and his actress wife Sabitri, the film recording of taboos and social dictum mixed with draws on the relentless miseries of their life male anxiety, protectiveness, moral policing and and the socio-political traumas of the Manipur his imposed holiness on feminine ideals. society, their plays evoke the resilient spirit of the human soul. Theatre of the Earth tells the extraordinary journey the couple made from poverty, rejection, controversy to subsequent honour; with the Indian theatre world heralding them as one of the country’s finest theatre icons.

Zmcn{Zy¯nÂ\n¶pw AhKW\bnÂ\n¶pw Idp¯ ^enX¯neqsSbmWv Cu kÀhmZcWobamb ]Zhnbn F¯nt¨À¶ tUmIypsa³ddnbpsS BJym\w. kmaqlnIamb Iss\-emÂ, `mcy km_n{Xn F¶o aWn¸qcn \mSI hne¡pIÄ, enwK]camb BNmcacymZIÄ, {]hÀ¯IcpsS PohnX¯nte¡p shfn¨w hoip¶p kZmNmc t]menknwKv F¶nh aq¶p kv{XoIfpsS Cu tUmIypsa³ddn. C´y³ \mSIthZnbnse aq¶p bm{XIfneqsS AhXcn¸n¡pIbmWv Bcm[y_nw_§fmbn amdp¶ Xe¯nte¡pÅ Cu Nn{Xw. Akm[mcWbm{XbpsS Nn{XoIcW¯neqsS Ac§nepw bYmÀY PohnX¯nepapÅ a\pjykl\§Ä¡pÅ {]WmaamhpIbmWv Cu Nn{Xw.

The films of Oinam Doren have been screened in a Torsha Banerjee has the following films to her number of international film festivals and won three credit:Tender is the Sight, Adhara, Theatre-wallah, national awards in India. He researched on Angami Sound of Time, Beauty, Our Stories, and Ekdin tribe folk music. He has produced two music albums. Fatimah. Doren has also served as a jury for International Film Festival of India. 22 10TH IDSFFK COMPETITION SHORT documentary COMPETITION SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Early Evening Guardians of the Grain Teesra Pahar India/ 2017/English/23’ India/ 2016/Hindi, English /28’

Direction & Screenplay Anubha Jain Producer NID Direction, Production Cinematographers Rohit Srivastava, & Screenplay GS Unnikrishnan Nair Shridhar Sudhir, Anubha Jain Camera Anvas C S, Mathew John Editing Anu George

The narrative explores the possible perceptions The documentary narrates the unique story that are cultural and individual around the idea of Kurichya tribal community of Wayanad. of a woman remaining single beyond a certain Conservation and farming of indigenous rice age. The question of identity and environmental varieties are part and parcel of the daily life of context with Ahmadabad as the backdrop is Kurichya tribe. Traditional Kurichya joint families posed alongside. live in a single house complex and rice is essential to feed the big families. Various types of rice are essential for diverse rituals and for the worship of their deities and ancestors. Kurichya presents a model for biodiversity conservation.

{]mbtadnbn«pw AhnhmlnXbmbn XpScp¶Xv hb\m«nse IpdnNy tKm{Xkaql¯ns³d PohnX- \njn²amb ImcyamtWm? hnhmltamNnXbmhp¶Xv amWv Cu Nn{Xw ]IÀ¯p¶Xv. Xt±ioamb hne¡s¸« ImcyamtWm? A§s\bpÅhsf s\Âhn¯n\§fpsS Irjnbpw kwc£Whpw F§s\bmWv NpäpapÅhÀ ImWp¶Xv? Ipdn-NycpsS ssZ\wZn\ PohnX¯ns³d `mKamWv. kaqlw F§s\bmWv AhfpsS kzXzs¯ ]c¼-cmKX IpdnNy Iq«pIpSpw_§Ä Häho«nemWv ASbmfs¸Sp¯p¶Xv? Ahsf kw_Ôn¨nSt¯mfw IgnbpI. Cu henb IpSpw_s¯ Xoänt¸mäm³ AhfpS kzXzw F´mWv? AhfpsS PohnX¯n Acn AXymhiyamWv. hnhn-[X-cw B-cm-[-\- GIm´Xbptïm? Ahsf§s\bmWv _Ô§sf IÄ¡pw hnhn[ BNmc§Ä¡pw ]eXc¯nepÅ ImWp¶Xv.? Al½Zm_mZns³d ]Ým¯e¯n Acn C\§Ä BhiyamWv. ssPhsshhn[y kv{XoIfpsS AhØ hnhcn¡pIbmWv Cu kwc£W¯ns³d Hcp amXrIbmWv tUmIypsa³ddn. Cu tKm{Xkaqlw apt¶m«psh¡p¶Xv.

Anubha Jain is currently pursuing her Masters in G S Unnikrishnan Nair won 7 national and 8 state Design Film & Video Communication from National awards for science popularization including National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad. Her other works Science Communication Award of DST,Government include A Broken Chord, a short fiction film, two ads of India twice, Bronze Beaver Award of VigyanPrasar and a PSA. National Science Film Festival twice and NCERT Best film award. 24 10TH IDSFFK COMPETITION SHORT DOCUMENTARY

I’m Jeeja Is it too much to ask India/English/2016/26' India/ 2017/English, Tamil/30’

Direction Swati Chakraborty Direction, Screenplay & Production Leena Production Rajiv Mehrotra Camera & Music Ladly Manimekalai Camera Dhanesh Raveendranath Mukhopadhaya Editing Tanmoy Chakraborty Editing Thangaraj Palanivel Music Grooveplanet K Sound Biswajit Maity, Tapan Bhattacharya Sound Design TapasNayak

A first person narrative of Jeeja Ghosh, an The film follows the journey of two friends effective and responsible leader and disability looking for a rental apartment in . It tells rights activist living with cerebral palsy. She the obstacles and social stigma they encounter hogged limelight when she took on an airline in not just looking for a home but being single company which de-boarded her while she was on and the fact that they are transgender women. In her way to attend a conference on disability. addition to the search for a house we will meet the two women in their everyday dealings with an outmost prejudiced society where there are very few emotionally bright spots with which they can recharge their energy. skdn{_ ]mÂkn _m[n¨ PoPm tLmjv kz´w sNss¶bn hmSIhoSv At\zjn¨p \S¯p¶ PohnXw ]dbpIbmWv Cu tUmIypsa³ddnbnÂ. bm{Xbn `n¶enwK hn`mK¯nÂs]« kvssaÂ, `n¶tijnbpÅhcpsS AhImi§Ä¡p thïn ¥mUn F¶o kplr¯p¡Ä t\cnSp¶ {]Xn_ s]mcpXp¶ PoP Xs³d A\p`h§Ä hnhcn¡p¶p. Ô§fpw A]am\§fpw A\mhcWw sN¿pIbmWv Cu tUmIypsa³ddn. hoSn\pthïnbpÅ sXc¨nen\p ]pdsa kaqlhpambpÅ ssZ\wZn\ CSs]SepIfnepw ChÀ t\cnSp¶ hne¡pIÄ Nn{Xw shfn¨¯psImïphcp¶p. kvssaen\pw ¥mUn¡pw X§fpS \ãamb Dt·jw hosïSp¡m\pXIp¶ {]Imiam\amb A]qÀhw Nne CS§fpw Nn{Xw Im«n¯cp¶p.

Swati Chakraborty heads Department of Information Leena Manimekalai is a multiple award winning Communication Technology at Indian Institute of Cerebral filmmaker and a poet. Her films include Palsy. She has won international ABLENET Award for Goddesses(2009), Sengadal(2011), Pennadi/My developing low-cost indigenous technology for AAC. Mirror is the Door(2012), Ballad of Resistance(2013), She has worked as a script writer and assistant director White Van Stories(2013) for several films commissioned by MHRD, FD, PRI, etc. 10TH IDSFFK 25 COMPETITION SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Kumbh Our Grandparents’ Home India/2017/Marathi/30’ India/2017/Bengali and English/40’

Direction Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Production Mahdi Direction, Screenplay & Production Supriyo Sen Fleifel, Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Camera Rangarajan Camera Mrinmoy Mondal Editing Suvadipta Biswas Ramabadran Editing Monisha Baldawa Sound Tom Sound Pintu Ghosh / ArijitMitra Music Kanishka Jasen and Mohandas V S Sarkar

“A dream came to me from who knows where As 16 young scholars from India and Bangladesh having slept as two I awake as one / the other record the memories of the third generation wasn't there”. Partition refugees of 1947, two granddaughters Two young men on a blind date start their journey embark on a journey to find their roots and outside the city. Unknowingly they become a to understand the complexities of identity, part of maze of a pilgrimage of sadhus. They look nationality and ‘home’. The journeys reveal around, they observe, they smile, they doubt, how multiple generations of survivors perceive they whisper. They are lost, they are found. identity, nationality and the concept of ‘home’ in a complex way. t\cs¯ ]ckv]cw Iïn«nÃm¯ cïp hn`P\¯ns³d CcIfpsS ap¶mwXeapdbpsS bphm¡Ä \Kc¯n\p ]pdt¯¡v bm{X iÐ§Ä tcJs¸Sp¯p¶Xn\v C´ybnsebpw Xncn¡p¶p. AdnbmsX AhÀ k¶ymknamcpsS _w¥mtZinsebpw 16 bphm¡Ä Hcp XoÀ°mS\¯ns³d `mKamhp¶p. AhÀ Npäpw t{]mPÎn ]s¦Sp¡p¶p. AtX kabw 1947 t\m¡pIbpw \nco£n¡pIbpw ]p©ncn¡pIbpw ap¯Ñ\pw ap¯Ènbpw hn«pt]mb hoSv tXSn kwibn¡pIbpw ]ndp]ndp¡pIbpw sN¿p¶p. cïp cmPy§fnsebpw cïv t]c¡p«nIÄ bm{X B ZpÀLShgnIfn AhÀ¡v X§sfhnsSbmWv XpS§pIbmWv. Cu sshImcnIbm{XbneqsS F¶v Xncn¨dnbm\mhmsX t]mhpIbpw HSphn tZiobX, kzXzw, hoSv F¶nhbpsS k¦oÀWXIÄ Iïs¯pIbpwsN¿p¶p. hn`P\¯ns³d CcIfpsS hnhn[ XeapdIÄ F§s\ ImWp¶psh¶v Im«n¯cpIbmWv Cu Nn{Xw.

Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni has made eight short films Supriyo Sen has won 36 international awards for his and four feature films. His short films are a regular at films in festivals like Berlinale, Karlovy Vary, Krakow, many of the key international film festivals including Bilbao, Hamburg, Uppsala, Abu Dhabi, IFFI and MIFF. Clermont Ferrand, Rotterdam and Oberhausen. His He has won three National Awards including Swarna short film Three of Us was premiered in Berlinale Film Kamal for the best Documentary for Hope Dies Last in Festival. War. 26 10TH IDSFFK COMPETITION SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Raghu Rai: Salute the Motherland Hearing through the Eyes Vande Mataram India/ 2016/ English/29’ India/2016/Hindi, English, Gujarati/27’

Direction Suvendu Chatterjee Screenplay Suvendu Direction, Screenplay, Camera & Editing Shridhar Chatterjee, Subhajit Das Bhaumik Production Sudhir Production Arun Gupta Manish Desai Camera Barun DeJoardar, Sutan d' Kite Editing Sumit Ghosh Music Irena Havlova,Vojtech Havel Sound AyanBhattacharya The film is a journey through the inner and outer The filmstrives to take a brief and historical world of the legendary Indian photographer look at the idea of the Nation and Nationalism . The film takes us through an in modern India, and juxtapose it with its intertwined passage of photographs, personal manifestations in contemporary society. It deals narratives and worldly views that combine in the with questions such as to the origin of the idea of process of the making of a Maestro and his life a Nation, how that idea came to take the form of so far. ‘India’, and then the idea of nationalism that was born out of it. It analyses the journey of that idea all the way to contemporary India.

{]ikvX C´y³ t^mt«m{Km^À cLp B[p\nI C´ybnse tZiw, tZiobX F¶o dmbnbpsS B´cnIhpw _mlyhpamb k¦Â]\§sf Ncn{X]cambn t\m¡n¡mWpIbpw temI¯neqsSbpÅ bm{XbmWv Cu Nn{Xw. kaImenI kaql¯nse AhbpsS C´y³ PohnXbmYmÀYy§Ä Iymadbn ] {]tbmK§fpambn tNÀ¯psh¨v ]cntim[n¡pIbpw IÀ¯nb alm\mb B \nÝe Ombm{KmlIs³d sN¿p¶p Cu Nn{Xw. C´y F¶ cm{ã¯ns³d PohnX¯nte¡v shfn¨w hoip¶ Cu cq]oIcW¯nÂ\n¶v tZiobX F§s\ cq] tUmIypsa³ddn At±l¯ns³d hyàn]camb s¸«psh¶pw kaImenI C´ybnte¡v B hnhcW§fneqsSbpw t^mt«mIfneqsSbpw ]qÀ- k¦Â]\w F§s\ k©cn¨psh¶pw hniIe\w ¯nbmhp¶p. sN¿p¶p Cu tUmIypsa³ddn.

Suvendu Chatterjee is documentary filmmaker, Shridhar is Film and Video Communication student photographer and curator. Won National Award for the at National Institute of Design. He tries to find a film Making the Face in 2009. contemporary context to his films, and is currently trying to find a balance between the obvious and the abstract in cinema. He has directed short fiction and non-fiction films. 10TH IDSFFK 27 COMPETITION SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Search Singalila in the Himalaya Thedal India/2016/English/19’ India/ 2017/ Tamil/19’

Direction, Screenplay, Camera, Direction George Thengummoottil Screenplay Binoy Editing & Production Monachan R Valson Production DhanrajGurung Camera & Editing Music NarenBalakumar Sound A George Thengummoottil Music Benchamin Tissot, Adithi Sivaraman, Aman John

The film is about the journey of two women, The film is the story of a young Keratoconus one in search of self-rediscovery and one patient finding his way in life on a trek through driven by unparalleled love that fails to find the Himalayas. The remedial for his eyes turns voice in a patriarchal society. From a young out to be the beautiful mountains and valleys age, the conflicts within and around, that lead in the hills. The film maps a 14-day-long trek the character Sudha, a woman born in a man’s along the border of India and Nepal, known as body, separate her from family. Her mother is the Singalila Ridge from where the team enjoys initially taken aback and is unable to deal with panoramic views of Mount Kangchenjunga and her daughter’sidentity, slowly understands her Mount Everest.On the 13thday, the team reaches perspective and accepts her as she is. a remote village on the border. cïv kv{XoIfpsS bm{Xsb¡pdn¨pÅ Nn{Xw. I®ns³d IrjvWaWnsb _m[n¡p¶ kzbw Iïs¯p¶Xn\p thïnbpÅ bm{XbnemWv sIcmtämtImWkv F¶ AkpJapÅ bphmhv HcmÄ. kam\XIfnÃm¯ {]Wb¯m {]tNmZn- lnamebbm{X¡v Cd§n¯ncn¡p¶p. at\mlcamb Xambn bm{X \S¯p¶ asämcp kv{Xosbbpw ]ÀhX§fpw XmgvhcIfpw \ndª lnameb¯ns³d \mw ImWp¶p. ]pcpjm[n]Xy kapl¯n \nÈÐ-- ImgvNbmWv Xs³d t\{XtcmK¯n\pÅ bm¡s¸«hfmWv AhÄ. ]pcpjicoc¯n ]ndhn- D¯aHuj[sa¶v Ah³ Xncn¨dnbp¶p. sImï s]®mWv tI{µIYm]m{Xamb kp[. sNdp C´yþt\¸mÄ AXnÀ¯nbnse knwKmenb {]mbw apX Xt¶mSp Xs¶bpw NpäpapÅhcpambpw ]ÀhXinJc¯n\p IpdpsI 14 Znhkw \oïp kwLÀj¯nembncp¶p AhÄ. BZyw Ahsf \n¡p¶ ImÂ\Sbm{X \S¯pIbmWv bphmhv. DÄs¡mÅm³ aSn¨ncp¶ A½ ]Xnsb AhÄ Im©³PwKbpsSbpw FhdÌv sImSpapSnbpsSbpw F´mtWm AtX cq]¯n kzoIcn¡p¶p. kuµcyw Ah³ DÄs¸Sp¶ kwLw BkzZn¡p¶p.

Monachan R from Kerala is a Final Year BAVisual George Thengummoottil is an Indian documentary Design student in Don Bosco College of Art and film editor and explorer. He has worked in the Design, Chennai specialising in Film.His other works making of several wildlife documentaries for National are Cube me and Remnant. Geographic and BBC, while working at Felis Creations . He runs his documentary post production studio in Bangalore. 28 10TH IDSFFK COMPETITION SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Survey Number Zero The Itinerants India/ 2016/Gujarati//32’ Dar-B-Dar India/2016/English, Hindi/24’

Direction & Screenplay Priya Thuvassery Production Direction Akash Basumatari, Arpita Katiyar, Radhika Manish Desai Camera Nathalie Heydel Music Bindu Agarwal, Rajendra Jadhav, Saurabh Kumar and Malini Editing Reena Mohan, PriyaThuvassery Sound Sujata Sarkar Amala Popuri, Maryam Yasmin, Shanet Shijo

Survey Number Zero is an The documentary film explores the stories of which covers the story of the salt workers. the street hawkers in a market at Lallubhai Compound, Mumbai. The challenges that are faced in dealing with everyday realities by the hawkers, is the central theme around which the film revolves. In doing so, the film also introduces the space of the market as the central character of the film, which grew out of the rehabilitated population from the informal settlements of the city.

KpPdm¯nse I¨nse D¸p sXmgnemfnIfmb aq¶p apwss_bnse eÃp`mbv tIm¼uïnse kv{XoIfpsS PohnXw ]IÀ¯p¶p Cu Nn{Xw. amÀ¡än hgnhmWn`¡mÀ t\cnSp¶ shÃphnfnIsf¡pdn¨pÅXmWv Cu Nn{Xw. amÀ¡äns³d CSw ChnsS tI{µIYm ]m{Xamhp¶p. \Kc¯nse \nbam\pkrXaÃm¯ A[nhmktI{µ§fnÂ\n¶pw ]p\c[nhkn¸n¡s¸«hcnÂ\n¶v cq]s¸«XmWv Cu N´.

Priya Thuvassery is an alumnus of the AJK Mass Akash Basumatari, Arpita Katiyar, Radhika Agarwal, Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, Rajendra Jadhav, Saurabh Kumar and Sujata Sarkar Delhi. She has fundraised, directed and edited are alumni of School of Media and Cultural Studies, documentaries. Her work has won national and Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The film is part of international awards and has been screened widely. their MA programme (2014-2016).

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The Journey To Her The Poet who Stormed Ember Avalilekkulla Dooram into his Libretto India/ 2016/Malayalam/28’ Ishalil Kanal Thottiya Kavi India/ 2016/Malayalam/31’ Direction & Screenplay Abhijith Pulparambath Direction & Screenplay Farook Abdul Rahiman Production Shobhila Andathodath Camera Robin Production Secretary, PRD Camera M J B R Editing AmalJith Music Ajithkumar A S Sound Radhakrishnan Editing Bijithbala Sound Ganesh Midhun Marar Music Gafur Malappuram

The Journey To Her depicts the life of a The story begins when 70-year-old Kunjali who transgender family. The hurdles, issues and the is a hard core fan of the poet wakes up from relationships of the family are narrated to the his prayer mat hearing the Salam (salute) as a audience. revelation from the sky. Thereon Kunjali is on a journey guided by the poet’s voice. The voice reveals and discusses with Kunjali the poet’s birth, childhood, youth and his writings.

Hcp `n¶enwK IpSpw_¯ns³d PohnXamWv almIhn tambn³Ip«n sshZycpsS PohnX Ncn{X "Ahfnte¡pÅ Zqcw' Nn{XoIcn¡p¶Xv. AhcpsS ZriymJym\amWnXv. IhnbpsS ISp¯ Bcm[I\mb {]iv\§Ä, {]Xn_Ô§Ä, IpSpw_hpambpÅ Fgp]XpImc³ Ipªmen BImi¯nÂ\n¶pÅ _豈 F¶nh CXn BJym\w sN¿s¸Sp¶p. "kemw' F¶ Aicocn tI«v \nk-vImc¸mbbn \n¶v Fgpt¶Â¡p¶nS¯mWv Nn{Xw XpS§p¶Xv. IhnbpsS iЯm \bn¡s¸Sp¶ bm{XbnemWv ]n¶oSv Ipªmen. IhnbpsS P·w, _meyImew, buh\w, Fgp¯v F¶nhsb¡pdn¨pÅ HmÀaIÄ B iÐw Ipªmenbpambn ]¦psh¡p¶p.

P Abhijith is a senior newsphotographer at Farook Abdul Rahiman is the winner of Best Debut daily. He has been following transgender Director for the film Kaliyachan (2012). He produced lives for the past decade. He has conducted photo and directed a number of television films. His film exhibitions across Kerala. He was the director of the won the State Television Film award in 2000. photo-documentary TRANS (2015).

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Wheel To Reel - A Dream Journey India/ 2017/English/12’

Direction & Screenplay Dr Siju Vijayan Production P K Valsala Vijayan Camera Naveen Chaliyath Editing Naveen P Vijayan Music & Sound Vishnu Menon K

Cinema was always in his dreams. The genetic disorder Spinal Muscular Atrophy was gradually eating his muscles, the cinema lover while conquering his difficulties on a wheel chair sets out fulfilling his dreams. It’s the extraordinary journey of a cinema lover, moreover it is the success story of a determined mind.

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The works of Dr. Siju Vijayan include Novu which got IDSFFK 2015 selection, Headline, Lighting up Lives, Naranathubhranthan, and an awareness advertisement film on Palliative Care.

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1869 A Moment India/2016/Gujarati, Hindi/25’ India/2017/Hindi/41:15’

Direction, Screenplay Pranav Harihar Sharma Direction, Screenplay Rohit James Production Aayush Phadnis, Eshaan Phadnis Camera Pradeep Padma Kumar Music Siddharth Chopra & Sahil Mendiratta Editing Kashyap Dodeja Sound Alessio Costantino 1869 is set in a 19th century Victorian hospital in Mrinal is living in the suburbs of Mumbai and a small town in India during the British Raj. The undergoing a grind between his work and story revolves around three orphan children, who relationship with his girlfriend Saloni. They set about in search of a missing new-born. Little both are having issues with each other. Mamta did they know that they were on a quest to find a lives in a slum in one of the suburbs of the City. piece of history. She works at different houses as a maid. She is in love with this boy called Jeetu who paints houses for people. Mamta and Mrinal are faced by difficult choices to make on one particular day due to situations cropping up in their relationship and life in . {_n«njv `cWImes¯ C´ybnse Hcp sNdp apwss_ ]Ým¯e¯n Hcp¡nb Nn{Xw. kz´w ]«W¯nse hntÎmdnb³ Bip]{XnbnemWv IY sXmgnen\pw ImapInbmb ktem\nbpambpÅ \S¡p¶Xv. ImWmXmb Hcp \hPmX iniphns\ _Ô¯n\pw CSbn hoÀ¸pap«pIbmWv arWmÄ At\zjn¨nd§p¶ aq¶v A\mY¡p«nIsf Npän¸än F¶ sNdp¸¡mc³. Ignª cïp amkambn Nn{Xw ]ptcmKan¡p¶p. Ipªns\ Xncªnd§nb AhcpsS PohnXw kwLÀj`cnXamWv. aavX \Kc] AhÀ ]t£ Adnbp¶nÃ, X§Ä Xncbp¶Xv cnkcs¯ tNcnbn Xmakn¡p¶ s]¬Ip«nbmWv. Ncn{X¯ns³d HtcSv Xs¶bmsW¶v. hnhn[ hoSpIfn tPmensbSp¯mWv AhÄ D] Poh\w Ign¡p¶Xv. AhÄ¡v \Kcw XnI¨pw A] cnNnXamWv. {KmaoWamb \njv¡f¦X Ahfn Ct¸mgpw _m¡nbmWv. AhÄ Hcp sNdp¸¡mc\p- ambn {]Wb¯nemIp¶p.

Pranav Harihar Sharma has an MBA degree in marketing. He joined Rediffusion YR Mumbai and later DDB Mudra, Mumbai. Pranav turned into a film director only in 2015.He has directed 25 advertising films and three short films.1869 is Pranav’s second short film and is touted as India’s first period short film. 10TH IDSFFK 33 COMPETITION SHORT FICTION

Barren Spaces Circus India/2016/English/24’ India/2016/Tamil,English,Hindi/23’

Direction Gita Upmale Direction Gautam Arora

Barren Spaces follows a man whose family is Circus is a satirical observational comedy loosely split between houses and generations. Each of based on true events, Samarth is a boy from the family members has their own unchangeable Delhi working in one of the many IT firms on OMR ways and shared dynamics that lead their daily in Chennai. Leaving for airport on an urgent call lives. The mood, as a character on its own, travels from his mother, he has an episode with the across spaces. Police. What follows is a series of farcical events that leave Samarth questioning the ethical underpinnings of the citizens of India.

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Gita Upmale is a Latvian born artist and filmmaker. Gautam Arora is a young filmmaker and the Founder Graduate from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Director of Story Runners, a film production house in Technology, Bangalore. Her last film, Barren Spaces, Delhi. He received a specialization in film direction is the outcome of a year-long Professional Diploma and screenplay writing at L.V Prasad Film and TV Programme during which she explored the idea of Academy, Chennai. rhythm and emotion in Hindustani classical music and how it can translate into film. 34 10TH IDSFFK COMPETITION SHORT FICTION

Days of Autumn Grandfather Xorotor Aabelibur Aaba India/2016/Assamese/13’ India/2016/Hindi/22’

Direction Mukul Haloi Direction Amar Kaushik

An elderly couple lives a mundane life in a village Aaba (Grandfather) is set in a remote village of Assam. An atmosphere of absence pervades of Arunachal Pradesh in North East India. An their household. One morning, a young boy orphan girl staying with her grandparents comes comes to sell winter clothes and talks about his across the news of her grandfather being in home which is three states away. A pleasant the advanced stages of lung cancer and would breeze signals the subtle change of season probably survive just a few weeks. With not and hints towards a solitary time packed with much to do the grandfather spends rest of his memories of youth. days revisiting his personal possessions and digging his own grave. But then life has its own surprises...

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Mukul Haloi is from Nalbari, Assam. He is currently Born in Uttar Pradesh, India, Amar Kaushik grew up a final year student of film direction at Film and between Kanpur and Arunachal Pradesh. In 2016, Television Institute of India. His works revolve around Amar made his first short film Aaba based on a true the myriad spaces of memory and longing. story.

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In Between Last Day of Summer Madhyaantar India/2017/Malayalam/21’ India/2016Marathi/34’

Direction Sameer P Direction George Kora

Any two lines which do not meet are called Last Day of Summer is the portrait of an ageing parallel lines. But what if we remove that distance doctor and his son over roughly the course of a between them? Will the lines lose their identity? day, when the son returns home on his mother's Will the lines still be connected? Bhaskar and death anniversary. Ceremonies are performed Rita have been married for 40 years,staying away and memories are shared as it explores their from each other for most of the time because of strained relationship and how they struggle to fill the work commitments. But what happens when the awkward pauses, discover new family notes they actually start living together like a regular, and rediscover old ones. normal married couple.

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Sameer Patwardhan is an alumnus of National George Kora is a Chartered Accountant by education. Institute of Design, . He is currently He has scripted the upcoming Malayalam movie, pursuing his career as a film maker in Mumbai. titled Njandukalude Naattil Oridavela.

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Let some cloud float in Medium Aaye kuch abr India/2016/English,Hindi/24’ India/2016/Marathi, Hindi/28’

Direction Mayuresh Gotkhindikar Direction Vicky Barmecha Screenplay Suchita Ranglani, Vicky Barmecha Production Syed Sultan Ahmed Camera Pooja Gupte Editing Sanglap Bhowmik Sound Arka Ghosh Music Dhawal Tandon

A susceptible spinster on the verge of losing Sharda is a fifteen year old girl from a middle hope torments herself to find relationships with class family who, despite being a Hindi medium purity and innocence, eventually goes through student, has high ambitions in life. Her life turns metamorphosis of sorts in mid-1990's gradually upside down when she gets to be a part of high- liberating India. class English medium school. The film follows her, as she must learn to make new friends and cope with the changes that come with this new environment and learn that change is a part of life. a[yhbk-vIbmb AhnhmlnXbmWv CXnse lnµn aoUnbw k-vIqfnÂ\n¶pw Cw¥ojv aoUnbw tI{µIYm]m{Xw. kwip²hpw \njvIf¦hpamb k-vIqfnte¡p amdpIbmWv Hcp 15 hbÊpImcn. _豈 Iïs¯m\mIpsa¶ {]Xo£ \ãs]« Ahsf kw_Ôn¨nSt¯mfw Gsd {]m[m\yapÅ thZ\bnemWv AhÀ. 1990IfpsS a[y¯n ]Xnsb amäamWv AXv. ]pXnb Npäp]mSn AhÄ¡v ]pXnb ]ptcmKa\kz`mhw ssIhcn¨p XpS§nb C´ybn kulrZ§Ä Øm]n¡m³ Ignbptam? hyXykvX AhÀs¡mcp kz`mhcq]m´cw kw`hn¡p¶p. kmlNcy§fpambn s]mcp¯s¸tSïn hcnI F¶Xv PohnX¯n AXy´mt]£nXamsW¶ kXyw AhÄ¡v a\Ênem¡m\mIptam?

Mayuresh Gotkhindikar is an independent filmmaker Vicky Barmecha assisted for three based in Pune, India. Aaye Kuch Abr / Let some years and simultaneously wrote his first feature script clouds float in is his second short film. He is editor, ‘Naadaan’ which was a part of NFDC’s Screenwriters screenplay writer and director. His earlier film was a Lab 2014-15. He has directed two short films, Marathi fiction short, Priy (The Beloved). including ‘Medium’ for School Cinema.

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Mother Moving on Amma Meri India/2017/Hindi/15’ India/2017/Hindi/30’

Direction Tarun Jain Direction, Screenplay & Production Smrutika Panigrahi

Balram is a villager, doing his father's last Vikrant returns to the home he shared with his rituals. His father's death has burdened him girlfriend, Ayesha to pack up. Each one wants the with responsibility and debt. DEVKI , the other to take the first step towards an apology old mother's is ill and has failing eye sight. but with their egos stopping them from making The banker's reminder about the fixed deposit amends, the relationship takes a turn for the on his mother's name and persuading Balram worse. to become the sole nominee, seems most favourable. But he can only get this money only after his mother dies.

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Tarun Jain is a graduate from the University of Delhi. Smrutika Panigrahi has been working as an assistant His early career began with Barry Jones theatre group. director to Anurag Kashyap on films like Bombay Apart from assisting, researching, writing for other Velvet, Raman Raghav 2.0 and Madly. Worked with the professionals, he himself has produced and directed French writer/director Thomas Bidegain. two short films.

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Pashi Qissbah: India/2017/Hindi/30’ What is not a story? India/2016/English, Hindi/28’ Direction Siddharth Chauhan Direction Dev Gupta

A young school going boy learns about a skill A screenwriter with a dysfunctional marriage of trapping birds from his old grandmother and sets out to find the truth about a mythical place starts practising them. of storytellers where people are said to find Nirvana; the same place his father had left him and his mother for, never to return again.

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Siddharth Chauhan is an untrained independent Dev Gupta hails from Assam, currently based in filmmaker from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. His films Mumbai. He has worked as a writer and assistant have been screened across countries including director in a multilingual feature film III Smoking Sarajevo, England, the US, Belarus, Indonesia, New Barrels. QISSBAH - What is not a story? is his first Zealand, , and . professional short film.

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Sandhya Sebastian and Rose India/2017/No Dialogue/16’ India,Germany/2016/English/24’

Direction Mohit Modi Direction: Vasant Nath

A recently widowed man learns to deal with Sebastian, an ageing photographer, loses his solitude. After a lifetime of living together he now memory. The first proper recollection that comes tries to let her go; from his house and life. back to him is from a life that he had kept hidden from Rose, his wife of 30 years. Thereafter, his process of remembering disrupts their quiet retired life. The film is a close examination of marriage and partnership over a lifetime.

ASp¯ Ime¯v `mcy acn¨Xns\ XpSÀ¶v {]mbtadnt¡mïncn¡p¶ t^mt«m{Km^dmWv GIm´Xbpambn s]mcp¯s¸Sm³ {ian¡pIbmWv sk_mÌy³. At±l¯n\v HmÀa \ãs¸Sp¶p. HcmÄ. hfsc¡mew H¶n¨p Pohn¨Xn\p tijw `mcy tdmknÂ\n¶v ad¨psh¨ PohnX¯n Ct¸mÄ AbmÄ `mcybpsS HmÀaIsf ho«n \n¶pÅ HmÀaIfmWv ]n¶oSv Abmfnte¡v BZyw \n¶pw Xs³d PohnX¯n \n¶pw XncnsIbs¯p¶Xv. CXv AhcpsS im´ ]dªbbv¡m³ {ian¨psImïncn¡p¶p. ]qÀWambncp¶ hn{ia PohnXs¯ XInSwadn¡p¶p. `À¯mhns\ XncnsI In«Wsa¦n At±lw ad¨psh¨ HmÀaIfneqsS k©cn¡Wsa¶ kXyw tdmkv a\Ênem¡p¶p. hnhmlPohnXs¯bpw Zm¼Xy ]¦mfn¯s¯bpw kq£va]cntim[\¡v hnt[bam¡p¶ Nn{Xw.

Mohit Modi is a freelance filmmaker. He has made Vasant Nath worked as an assistant to director Deepa numerous short films in the past and has travelled to Mehta in WATER, and later as an assistant director IDSFFK in the past with his short film Ekant. to Bharatbala. Vasant has been an independent screenwriter and filmmaker since 2009.

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Sex with a monk and The Accordion other stories India/2016/Hindi/20’ India/2017/Bengali,English/31’

Direction Sounak Kar Direction Sandip Banerjee

A boy moved into Kolkata hoping that all his 'The reflection of an immigrant old man on the dreams will come true in the big city.The story distorted mirror called society, as his unfulfilled takes place over a single day when he meets two quest of finding his own self continues.' girls from the city.

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Sounak Karis a graduate in direction and screenplay Sandip Banerjee is passionate about painting and writing from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. poetry. His published work includes One Barrel Blood, He started making films in 2010. In 2013, he made his Last Sunday, Coffin Maker, Time. He works regularly as first feature length film in Bengali named This is not an maker and is associated with a funny. He joined SRFTI. reputed production house.

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The Caged Bird The Limit India/2016/Bengali/28’ Dayra India/2016/Hindi/24’

Direction Arijit Kundu Direction Sonia Saharan

The caged bird tells the story of a relation in Dayra (The Limit) is based on honour killing conflict. Trisha and Adrija are two moderately which still exists in society. Located in the village young girls who share a relationship and a home. of Haryana (India), the film revolves the 17 year- They drift apart only to come back and stay old daughter of a middle class family. 'caged'.

kwLÀj`cnXamb Hcp _Ô¯ns³d IY. kaql¯n C¶pw \S¶p t]mcp¶ Zpc`nam\ Xrjbpw A{ZnPbpw Hcp ho«n Xmakn¡p¶ cïp s¡meIÄ ASnØm\am¡n \nÀan¨ Nn{Xw. s]¬Ip«nIfmWv. AhÀ ]ckv]cw {]Wbn¡p¶p. lcnbm\bnse a[yhÀK IpSpw_¯nse AwKamb ]ncnbm³ {ian¡p¶psï¦nepw AIem³ ]Xnt\gpImcnbmWv tI{µ IYm]m{Xw. Ignbm¯hn[w _Ô\ØcmWv Ccphcpw. hnhml¯n\v ap¼v AhÄ KÀ`nWnbmbXv Adnbp¶ IpSpw_mwK§Ä sR«n¯cn¡p¶p. Aѳ BßlXy sN¿p¶p. HSphn kaql¯n\p ap¶n IpSpw_¯ns³d A`nam\w kwc£n¡m³ ktlmZc\v Ahsf sImtÃïnhcp¶p.

Arijit Kundu is a graduate from St. Xavier's College, Sonia Saharan is the graduate of State institute of Kolkata in Mass Communication and videography. He Film and TV, Rohtak. She graduated in 2016. She has did his MA in Film Studies from Jadavpur University, directed short films Khidki and Daayra (The Limit). Kolkata, .

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The School Bag Wayfarers India/2016/Urdu/15’ Kuda Choodunnavar India/2016/Malayalam/16’

Direction Dheerja Jindal Direction Ajaikumar Malappurathattil

In a small town of Peshawar, Pakistan, Farooq Wayfarers is an independent attempt of has a simple demand of a new school bag on his visualisation of PV Shajikumar's Malayalam birthday. But his mother, in spite of her love and story of the same title Kuda Choodunnavar. It affection seems to be unfazed by her child’s plea. looks into the timeless aspects of human- nature Unknown to Farooq, there is something waiting relationships, and also into the smallness of for him. human existence.

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Dheerja Jindal holds a Master’s degree in filmmaking. Ajaikumar Malappurathattil has been working as a Bank clerk. He has attended a film appreciation course conducted by MACTA. He is holder of Diploma in drawing and painting.

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Wedding Preparations Windows in the Country Khidkiyaan India,Bosnia&Herzegovina/2016/ India/2016/Hindi/25’ Bosnian/29’ Direction Mustaqeem Khan Direction Akash Sharma

In post-war Bosnia & Herzegovina, an old man An introverted professor and his writer wife move is a factory worker and leads a lonely life. He to a new house. As the days pass, the wife and now decides to embark on a journey to the the young daughter of their widower landlord countryside to meet the girl he had forgotten. living next door, become friends. Meanwhile, the professor helplessly feels attracted to the girl and notices that the girl too may have something to tell him.

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Akash Sharma is an independent film director Mustaqeem Khan studied at National Institute of and editor based in Kolkata,India. He has studied Design (NID) to pursue Masters in Film and Video filmmaking (MFA) in the Sarajevo Film Academy's Communication. He is currently working as an Filmfactory programme. independent filmmaker and screenwriter in Mumbai.

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Beyond Crimson Ties Doodle Story India/2016/No Dialogue/4’ India/2016/No Dialogue/3’

Direction Ankita Panda Production MIT Institute of Direction Mriganka Bhuyan Design Production MIT Institute of Design

This film is about a daughter, and her emotionally This music video doodle story is about a playful distant father. They do not communicate with imagination of a child. He creates a world around each other, yet, there exists a natural bond of him through doodling and drawing. This world affection that does not let them drift apart. In is the only place where he can let his emotional other words, “We are all like islands of the sea, and artistic abilities to take over the academic separate on the surface but connected in the responsibilities of his daily life. deep.”

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Ankita Panda is a fourth year, Undergrad Animation Mriganka Bhuyan completed his under-graduate film design student from the MIT Institute of Design, programme in animation design from the Maeer's MIT Pune, Maharashtra. Institute of Design, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

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Gomorrah Harvest India/2016/No Dialogue/2’ India/2016/No Dialogue/2’

Direction & Screenplay Harold Antony Paulson Direction, Screenplay Abhijith Production Production K R Narayanan National Institute of KR Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science Visual Science and Arts Animation Asha Rajan, and Arts Film Institute Camera Yadu Nair Editing Nirmal T S, Hari Narayanan, Abhijith Saji, Vinu Chanthu S P Animation Abhijith Saji Wilfred, Abhijith Shankar Camera Harishankar K D Editing Amjith Ashraf Music Leo Antony The present human exploitation leads to fall in habitat of animals, where the last existing lion witnesses the destruction of its survival . A scarecrow who is the only survivor on Earth is living on his memories.

`qanbn Zpc´§sf AXnPohn¨ a\pjys³d NqjWw arK§fpsS hmkØm\§Ä GI\mb Hcp t\m¡pIp¯n AXns³d \in¸n¡p¶p. Ahtijn¡p¶ Ahkm\s¯ HmÀaIfn Pohn¡pIbmWv. knwlw Xs³d AXnPoh\¯n\mbpÅ CSw XIÀ¡s¸Sp¶Xn\v ZrI-vkm£nbmhp¶p.

Harold Antony Paulson is currently studying Abhijith Shankar is an Animation Student at K R screenplay writing and direction at KRNarayanan Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Arts, , Kerala, India. Kottayam, Kerala, India.

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Homecoming of the In Pieces Goddess of Wealth India/2016/ No Dialogue/5’ aayi hai India/ Hindi/2016/6’ Direction, Animation Kaushik Mandal, Deepshikha Direction, Editing Swati Agarwal Production IDC Kapoor Screenplay Kaushik Mandal School of Design IIT Bombay Screenplay Swati Producer MIT Institute of Design MIT Institute of Agarwal, Ashutosh Parashar Music Uttam Bhat, Design Music Sagar Saha Prof. Sumant Rao Sound Sudeep Shrivasthava The film is a sneak peak into the lives of an A man labours away in his attic to put together old couple on the occasion of Diwali, the the pieces of an enormous puzzle, only to Indian festival of lights. Grandpa is spirited discover the final block of his masterpiece and mischievous and his wife is disciplined missing. He searches high and low, until, he and dutiful. Grandma has cleaned the house notices something behind the void left in its and adorned the veranda with ‘rangoli’ for the absence and finds himself strangely drawn into occasion of Diwali. What do you think would it. happen if grandpa happened to step over the rangoli?

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Swati Agarwal is an alumnus of IDC, School of Design, Kaushik Mandal and Deepshikha Kapoor are Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay. Animation designers from MIT Institute of Design, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

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Light Mother India/2017/No Dialogue/3’ Amma India/Telugu/ 2017/2’

Direction, Production Achuth Giri Direction Ambreesh , Soham Rakshit, Pranavasthitha Tandra, Udhayan RM, Raj Narayanan Screenplay Amma - Telugu Folk song Madhu priya Production Raj Narayanan, Udhayan RM Animation Amberesh Arya, Raj Narayanan, Soham Rakshit, Udhayan R M Editing Pranavasthitha Tandra A positive happy creature tries to give its light to those who do not have light, but he cannot give his light to a pessimist no matter how hard he The animation tries to capture the truth and a tries. mother’s pain as the narrator describes. We try to blend it with the child’s memories, pain and longing for its mother.

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Achuth Giri is a BA Animation and Graphic Designing Ambreesh Arya, Soham Rakshit, Pranavasthitha final year student Tandra, Udhayan RM, Raj Narayanan are all students of Department of Design, IIT . They did the animation as a part of the course, Moving Images under the guidance of Delwyn Jude Remedios.

10TH IDSFFK 49 COMPETITION ANIMATION

Romakuppayam Shave Off India/Malayalam/2016/8’ India/2016/No Dialogue/3’

Direction K P Muraleedharan Direction, Screenplay Arithra Majumdar Production Krnnivsa Film Institute Camera Joel Thomas, KrishnaveniB S Editing Jerin James Sound Karthikeyan S A Animation JishnuThankappan

The film is based on a short story by The film is about deforestation. The barber acted Madhavikutty. as a human being and the customer acted as Earth. It deals with over-population and human response to it.

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K P Muraleedharan – is a well known illustrator and Arithra Majumdar is studying editing at K R Narayanan animation film maker. His work titled Sacred Eggs was National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, adjudged the Best Animated film in IFFK 2010. He is completed BBM from Pune, Maharashtra, India. also the winner of the Kerala Sahitya Institute Award for illustration in the year 2011. Mathrubhoomi Weekly has published his graphic novel Thakara. 50 10TH IDSFFK COMPETITION ANIMATION

The Corporate culture The Fish Curry India/ 2016/English/3’ Maacher Jhol India/2017/Hindi/12’

Direction Udhayan R M, Raj Naryanan Direction Antariksh Verma Screenplay Abhishek Screenplay & Production Udhayan R M Verma Jayesh Bhosale Production Abhishek Animation Udhayan R M Sound Abhijith M Verma, Piyush Tewari, Piyush Priyadarshi Sikarwar Sound Shantanu Yennemadi Editing Antariksh Jain Animation Abhishekh Varma Story based on the dark side of the corporate life. A young man Lalit Ghosh, 28, decides to come- The way system is affecting a human behaviour is out to his parents. He is in love with a man, his depicted via this 2d film. room partner, Ashutosh Gautam. He plans his day by cooking his father’s favourite dish, the traditional fish curry and serves his father the delicious fish curry and confronts him with his sexuality over the dinner table.

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Udhayan R M and Raj Naryanan are students from Abhishek Verma is an independent animator and Department of Design, IIT Hyderabad. Film was done animation film maker. He is an alumnus of School of as a part of their classroom project. Design-IDC, IIT Bombay in 2014.

10TH IDSFFK 51 COMPETITION ANIMATION

The Lost Bot India/ 2017/ No Dialogue/8’

Direction, Screenplay, Animation Sam Newbegin Production Vishal Pulikottil, Rajiv Khatri Sound Prashant Andrews Editing Vishal Pulikottil Music Josh Leake, Priyanka Cherian

Set in the distant future where humans and robots co-exist, The Lost Bot is a heartwarming story about a goofy, little robot and his adventurous search for purpose

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Sam Newbegin grew up in a small town in . He studied at DePaul University, for a Master of Science in Cinema.

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Anu Arrow of Time India/2016/ Malayalam/7’ India/2016/Malayalam, English/12’

Direction, Screenplay, Editing Shahin M S Direction Screenplay Manoj C Haridas Production Rajan K R Camera Sanoj Mathew Sunny Production C K Haridasan, Pushpalatha Music Austin Babu Sound Richard George Camera Anandhu Chandrababu, Luke Jose Editing Jeev Thomas Varghese Music Arawind R Warrier Sound Shefin Mayan The film attempts to look at an existence beyond The story revolves around the inner emotions and identities and labels. It hopes to put the ethics silence of an old man named Michael. The film behind the manipulation of one’s identity on the portrays his arrow of time. table.

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Shahin M S is a second year BA English student in Manoj C Haridas is a Postgraduate in Physics, Cinema , Kerala, India. Anu is his debut film. and Television. He currently works as an Associate Director in Giantwheel Advertisement Films.

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Bleeding Hearts Duel India/ 2016/ English/3’ Dwandwam India/ 2017/ Malayalam/6’

Direction, Screenplay Harshit Pachauri Direction, Camera, Editing & Sound Bhavendu D L, Production K R Narayanan National Institute of Bijulal B L , Akram Musba Screenplay Bhavendu DL Visual Science and Arts Production LV Prasad Film & TV Academy Camera Noble Joseph Editing Muhammed T J Sound Juwel Ronald Animation Athul P Kumar Shikha and Isha are lovers. Shikha is a Bharthanatyam dancer. Isha is a writer. Shikha A woman approaches a priest for an issue that is a girl who keeps her emotions intact while has been disturbing her. Is it possible for a priest Isha wears hers on her sleeve. Giving in to family to interfere? pressure to get married Shikha decides to marry a gay man. This goes against the understanding between the couple.

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Harshit Pachauri is a final year student of Direction Bhavendu D L, Bijulal B L , Akram Musbaare and Script writing at K R Narayanan National Institute participants of Weekend Digital Filmmaking Course of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, Kerala. conducted by LV Prasad Film & TV Academy, Thiruvananthapuram.

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Exodus Fugue India/ 2016/ Malayalam/16’ India/2017/Malayalam/16’

Direction, Screenplay Vishnu K.V. Madhav Direction, Screenplay Joseph Varughese Production Vijayan Camera Arun Swaminathan Production Dr Muhammed Shaffi, Varughese KJ Editing, Sound Madhav Vishnu Music Vignesh Camera Nimish Editing Christy Sebastin Menon Animation Dinaraj Pallath Music & Sound Arun Varghese

Exodus is an attempt to trace man’s greed. Set A slow moving drama around the life of a lonely in the future, the film deals with the story of a girl Ashley and how her perspective about life young girl named Rose whose brain is replaced and relationships change as a stranger, Roy by a device -‘Artificial Intelligent Brain’ designed comes into her life. But only to find out that Roy according to the needs of the buyer.The story was the strangest thing that could ever happen narrates the life of an AIB child and how she to her. becomes the victim of a real and fictitious inhuman world. a\pjys³d AXymÀ¯n Ime¯n\\pkcn¨v F{Xt¯mfw hfcpsa¶v At\zjn¡m\pÅ {iaamWv `mhnbpsS ]Ým¯e¯nepÅ Cu GImIn\nbmb Bjven F¶ s]¬Ip«nbpsS Nn{Xw. Xs³d kzXzw Iïs¯m³ {ian¡p¶ IYbmWnXv. tdmbv F¶ A]cnNnX³ tdmkv F¶ s]¬Ip«nbpsS IYbmWv CXv. PohnX¯nte¡p IS¶phcpt¼mÄ a\pjy_ AhfpsS akvXnjvI¯ns³d Øm\¯v Ô§sfbpw PohnXs¯bpw kw_Ôn¨ AhfpsS BÀ«n^njy C³denP³kv s{_bn³ (F.sF._n) ImgvN¸mSpIÄ amdp¶p. ]t£ X\n¡v F¶ D]IcWamWpÅXv. D]t`màmhns³d t\cntSïnh¶ Gähpw hnNn{Xamb kw`hamWv A`ncpNnIÄ¡pw ap³KW\IÄ¡pa\pkcn¨mWv tdmbv F¶ hyàn F¶v AhÄ Xncn¨dnbp¶p. Hmtcm F.sF._nbpw Unssk³ sNbvXncn¡p¶Xv. a\pjyXzanÃm¯ \nÀZbtemI¯ns³d Ccbmbn AhÄ F§s\ amdp¶psh¶v Nn{Xw Im«n¯cp¶p.

Madhav Vishnu has completed MA Cinema and Vivek Joseph Varughese is currently doing his Television from SH School of Communication, Thevara, final year MBBS at Government Medical College, , Kerala. Thiruvananthapuram. He aspires to be a writer and filmmaker.

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May I Ask You Something? Rooms Oru Karyam Choikatte? India/ 2016/Malayalam/11’ India/ 2016/ Malayalam/14’

Direction, Screenplay Krishnadev Menon Direction, Screenplay Sangeet Unni Production Manu Ravi, Krishnadev Menon Camera Camera Manu Ravi Editing Renjith Sound Boney M Joy Music Nimal Vijayal

Oru Kaaryam Choikkatte? is a shortfilm about the The plot tags along a girl child where it's shown beliefs of the older generation and the genuine how much an egoistic relationship between her curiosity of new ones, sprinkled with a heavy parents seem to be affecting her, her interests dose of innocence. The story revolves around and how far it has got her confined to that space Ammu, a seven-year old smart and curious village girl from a well off middle class family in rural Kerala.

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Krishnadev is a student of Film Studies at the Cochin Sangeet Unni is currently a cinematography student in Media School in Ernakulam, Kerala. K R Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

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The Big Bang Theory The Germ India/2017/ Malayalam/3’ Keedanu India/2017/Malayalam/8’

Direction, Screenplay Harold Antony Paulson Direction, Camera & Editing Jayeshlal K, Production K R Narayanan National Institute of Linda Susan Mathew, Nazeer M Visual Science and Arts Screenplay Jayeshlal K Camera Ramanunni B S, Harold Anthony Paulson Production LV Prasad Film & TV Academy Editing Yogesh Bhoskar Sound Yadu R Nair We are in a corporate rat race searching for the A little girl is taken to a doctor for her obsessive treasure. Really what are we searching for? hand washing.

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Harold Antony Paulson is currently studying Jayeshlal K, Linda Susan Mathew and Nazeer M screenplay writing and direction at K R Narayanan are participants of Weekend Digital Filmmaking National Institute of Visual Science Arts, Kottayam, Course, conducted by LV Prasad Film & TV Academy, Kerala. Thiruvananthapuram.

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The Sea within Us Wake Up India/ 2016/ Malayalam/12’ India/ 2016/ English/14’

Direction & Screenplay Sreehari Dharman Director Achuth Giri, Gokul Binu Production K R Naryanan National Institute of Visual Production Aparna Giri Science and Arts Krnnnivs A Camera Arun Sekhar Editing Muhammed T J Sound Jacob Cheriyan

The short film is about modern day depression A movie buff experiments lucid dreaming and lack of empathy towards the one who is (controlling one's own dream)and gets stuck in a depressed. looping dream.

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Sreehari Dharman is a final year Direction & Script Achuth Giri is a final year BA Animation and Graphic Writing student of K R Narayanan National Institute Designer student and Gokul Binu is a final year of Visual Science and Arts. He holds a degree in student. Engineering.

10TH IDSFFK 59 MASTER CLASS Andrew Vial on Documentary Filmmaking

ANDREW VIAL Andrew Vial is a highly regarded filmmaker/producer who has won many international awards. He has been member of Jury in Bratislava (Slovak Republic), Kish (Iran), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Indigenous (Nepal), Jaipur (India) and Latvia. He has been a film educator at National Film School (UK), University of Technology (Australia), North Sydney TAFE Film and TV School (NSW). He is the Board member of the travelling Asia Pacific Film Festival for the past 12 years. Andrew Vial is Advisor to many countries and Governments on film and culture policies.

Date: 20th June Venue: Nila Theatre Time: 2:00 pm

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Earth Crusader Mother Bird India/ 2016/ English/55’ India/ 2016/ English, Malayalam/59’

Direction & Screenplay Shabnam Sukhdev Direction & Camera Babu Kambrath Production Manish Desai Camera Ashwin Shukla Production Deepakumari M Editing Lijo Thomas Editing Jabeen Merchant Sound Mohandas V P Sound Lijo Thomas, Babu Kambrath Music Venkatesh Shastri, Ravi Bhavani

Tucked away in the foothills of Dharamsala lives In the eastern crevices of Ezhimala of Kannur Didi Contractor, who lives life on her own terms. district in Kerala, there lies a small islet – Born in Germany and raised in USA, she adopted Tullisserry. All alone, here lives an old mother India as her home and has been working and – Thulissery Narayani. Every year on the onset experimenting with sustainability in building of winter thousands of migratory birds all over homes. She draws from traditional aesthetics the world come and roost in the coconut groves and local traditions and designs buildings using of Narayaniamma. This documentary explores mud and other natural materials. the love of this mother has for the birds, the importance of rural ecosystems and how a common rural spaceidentifies itself with the world through birds. a®pw aäv {]IrXnZ¯amb hkvXp¡fpap]tbmKn¨v tZimS\]£nIfpsS kwc£Ibmb XpfntÈcn sI«nS§Ä Dïm¡p¶ ZoZn tIm¬{SmÎdpsS \mcmbWnbpsS PohnXNn{Xw. I®qÀ PnÃbnse PohnXNn{Xw hcbv¡pIbmWv Cu tUmIypsa³ddn. GgnaebpsS Ing¡³ `mK¯v XpfntÈcn F¶ ]mc¼cy kuµcyimkv{Xhpw {]mtZinIamb sNdpZzo]n X\n¨p Xmakn¨ncp¶ \mcmbWnbpsS \nÀamW]mc¼cy§fpw ]n³]än sI«nS§Ä sX§n³tXm¸n FÃmhÀjhpw ioXIme¯ns³d cq]I¸\ sN¿p¶ AhÀ Xmakn¡p¶Xv XpS¡Ime¯v Bbnc¡W¡n\v tZimS\]£nIÄ [cwimebnemWv. PÀa\nbn P\n¨v Atacn¡bn h¶v tNt¡dpambncp¶p. hr²bmb Cu A½bpsS hfÀ¶v C´ysb hoSm¡nb ZoZn ]mÀ¸nS ]£nkvt\l¯ns³d ZriytcJ {KmaoWamb kpØncX¡mbn \S¯p¶ ]co£WmßIamb BhmkhyhØbpsS {]m[m\yw Du¶n¸dbp¶p. bXv\§sf ]cnNbs¸Sp¯p¶p Cu tUmIypsa³ddn.

Shabnam Sukhdev, an alumnus of the FTII, Pune, has Babu Kambrath is a wildlife photographer been making films and television programmes for &documentary director. His third documentary Behind over 15 years. Her first feature length documentary, the Mist won NFA 2013 and was selected in Indian The Last Adieu won her the national award in India Panorama 2014. He has served as Indian Panorama in 2014. It was on her filmmaker father, the late Jury 2014. His other films like Kaipad and Kaanam S Sukhdev who contributed significantly to the have won several accolades in film festivals. documentary movement in India. 62 10TH IDSFFK FOCUS LONG DOCUMENTARY

Only Sometimes a God Saeed Mirza - The Leftist Sufi India/ 2016/ English, Malayalam/53’ India/ 2016/Hindi, English/61’

Direction, Production & Screenplay Prateek Prajosh Direction Kireet Khurana, Padmakumar N Camera Chiranth Wodeyar, Auditya Venkatesh, Screenplay Kireet Khurana Production Tehzeeb Aditya Lokanatha Editing Aditya Lokanatha, Khurana Camera Padmakumar N Editing Santhosh Chiranth Wodeyar Music Prithvi Prajosh, Bhavish Gupta Music Neeraj Arya Sound Sumit Khanna Naik, Pradeep Gopal, Siddhanth Sundar The film is an exploration of an age-old (300 Saeed , one of the pioneers of years) ritual art form called Theyyam, performed India’s movement, teller of in southern India. This colourful art form is hard-hitting stories like Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro, unique due to the religious sanctity attached Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai and Mohan to it, in which a performer transforms himself Joshi Hazir Ho finally gets his own story told. A to ‘GOD' and claims to possess Godly powers story that draws from his emotions, struggles and while believers flock in large numbers to seek epiphanies. His indefatigable journey as a human blessings. In a land where caste-ism has a strong being and filmmaker is being explored through influence on traditional beliefs, this documentary his films and his eminent contemporaries, who is an attempt to find its relevance in today's share their experiences of collaborating with society. Saeed from the ‘70s through to the ‘90s. ap¶qdphÀjs¯ ]g¡apÅ A\pjvTm\Iebmb C´ybnse kam´c kn\nam {]Øm\¯ns³d sX¿s¯¡pdn¨pÅXmWv Cu tUmIypsa³ddn. Aac¡mcnsemcmfmb k¿nZv AJvXÀ anÀkbpsS ChnsS IemImc³ ssZhambn amdpIbmWv. PohnXNn{Xw. Fgp]XpIÄ apX sXm®qdpIÄ ImgvN¡mcmb hnizmknIÄ sX¿w IemImc\n hsc k¿nZv anÀk¡v H¸w klIcn¨p {]hÀ¯n¨ \n¶v A\pKlw tXSp¶p. ]mc¼cy hnizmk§fpsS kaImenIÀ A\p`h§Ä ]¦psh¡p¶p. ta PmXobX¡v iàamb kzm[o\apÅ {]tZi¯v ØntcmÂkmlnbmb Hcp Ne¨n{XImcs\ \manXn C¶s¯ kapl¯n sX¿¯n\ppÅ ImWp¶p. At±l¯ns³d Bßkac§fneqsSbpw {]m[m\yw At\zjn¡pIbmWv Cu Nn{Xw. sshImcnIm\p`h§fneqsSbpw k©cn¡pIbmWv Nn{Xw.

Prateek Prajosh, a Master’s in Business Kireet Khurana has won five national awards and Administration in media and entertainment, later three international awards. His credits include India’s studied film in Vancouver, Canada though dropped first live-action 3D Animation film Toonpurka Superhero out midway. Only Sometimes a God is his debut and feature film Laadli. N Padmakumar feature-length documentary. is one of India's most talented advertisement film makers and advertising professionals. 10TH IDSFFK 63 FOCUS SHORT DOCUMENTARY FOCUS SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Ants: A Tiny Creature Global Warning - India/2016/English/5’ Kashmir Chapter India/2016/English/27’

Direction Aditya Direction Jalal Ud Din Baba

The world is made up of many tiny creatures, Samad Khan, 76, whose father migrated from which are not always acknowledged by many. Pakistan to Kashmir in 1912 saw Kashmir climate Antsis a documentary film about the lives of ants. suitable for farming, settled amidst the glacial It diverts our attention from the larger beings to troposphere. Besides permanent citizenship these small insects and their life. It is said that and political rights he inherited large swaths of like sapiens ants are too live within societal barren land. He saw the rising sun flashes its first structures.The documentary is an attempt at rays on the plateau and dawning sun radiates exploring how ants live and share with the the land. He didnot waste time and made the common people the insights of its life. mark. However, today, he is at the crossroads of dismay. Not because of Kashmir Conflict but because of the changing climate. Ddp¼pIfpsS PohnXs¯¡pdn¨pÅXmWv Cu 1912 ]m¡nØm\nÂ\n¶v Iivaocnte¡v tUmIypsa³dn. \nch[n sNdp krãnIÄ sImïmWv IpSntbdnbXmWv 76Imc\mb kaZv Jms³d Cu temIw Dïm¡nbncn¡p¶Xv. ]et¸mgpw ]nXmhv. Iivaocns³d ImemhØ Irjn¡v \maXv Xncn¨dnbp¶nÃ. a\pjy³ Ignªm A\ptbmPyamsW¶v kaZv Jm³ Iïs¯n. kmaqlnI_Ô§fpïm¡p¶ Hcp Pohn Ddp¼mWv. cm{ãobmhImi§fpw Ønc]ucXzhpw henb Imcy§fnÂ\n¶v sNdpPohnIfnte¡v {i² ]mc¼cyambn In«nb `qkz¯pw CÃmXncp¶n«pw Xncn¡p¶p Cu kn\na. kabw ]mgm¡msX At±lw Irjn sNbvXp. Ct¸mÄ At±lw \ncmibnemWv. Iivaocnse kwLÀjaà ImcWw. amdp¶ ImemhØbmWv.

Aditya is a teenager of 17 years and has just given Jalal Ud Din Baba, hailing from Kashmir Valley, has a his 12th standard exams this year. He is an aspiring PG Diploma in TV Programming and Production.His filmmaker and has won several national awards in documentaries in the past one decade include Saving science film festivals. the Saviour, Shrouded Paradise, Pashtoons Beyond Taliban and Mountain of Humanity.

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Green Soil Himalayan Refugee India/2017/English, Hindi/3’ India,Nepal/2017/Urdu,English/27’

Direction Keerthi Raj B S Direction Nikhil Singh Rajput

The Indian city of Pune in Maharashtra generates The documentary film is based on the lives of 1700 tonnes of waste every day. But a family at asylum seeking Pakistani Ahmadis currently the heart of this city chose a different path. Green in Nepal. Ahmadis are a sect of Islam,which is Soil is an inspiring story about how the small deemed Non-Muslim by the Pakistan; severe family consumes waste around them. Green Soil punishment is inflicted on any Ahmadi found is also a story that has moved more than 300 posing as a Muslim. Nepal doesnot regard other households in the city to act. them as refugees despite them being accepted by UNHCR, leaving 350 asylum seekers in a limbo. They are waiting for a decade to get the government clearance for peaceful and dignified resettlement as per UNHCR policy. ]qs\bn {]XnZn\w 1700 S¬ amen\yw t\¸mfn A`bw tXSp¶ ]m¡nØm\n AlvaZnb Dïmhp¶pïv. ]t£ \Kca[y¯nse Hcp IpSpw_w hn`mK¡msc¡pdn¨pÅXmWv Cu Nn{Xw. thdn« Hcp hgn sXcsªSp¯p. Cu sNdpIpSpw_w ]m¡nØm\n `cWLS\ apÉnw CXchwiPcmbmWv X§Ä¡p NpäpapÅ amen\ys¯ F§s\ AlvaZnb hn`mK¡msc ImWp¶Xv. apÉnw CÃmXm¡p¶psh¶v Cu Nn{Xw ImWn¨pXcp¶p. Bbn \Sn¡p¶ AlvaZnb¡mÀ¡v ISp¯ X§fpsS ]mX ]n´pScm³ \Kc¯nse 300 Hmfw in£bmWv AhnsS \ÂIs¸Sp¶Xv. t\¸mÄ IpSpw_§sf ChÀ t{]cn¸n¨Xns³d Ahsc A`bmÀYnIfmbn ]cnKWn¡p¶nÃ. 350 {]tNmZ\mßIamb IY IqSnbmWnXv. A`bmÀYnIÄ {Xni¦p kzÀK¯nemWv.

Keerthi Raj is an undergraduate student at IISER, Nikhil Singh Rajput is an alumnus of Indian Institute Pune. For him, it all started with a small filmmaking of Technology Delhi. He later attended a Summer workshop in the summer of 2016. Since then the Programme at University of Southern California Film young scriptwriter, editor, and filmmaker has been School in 2009. He has been an Assistant Director in part of a number of documentary films. the Mumbai film industry ever since. This is his first film. 66 10TH IDSFFK FOCUS SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Khalasis of Malabar: The Men Meenakshipayattu – who Move Mountains Her Story of Sword India/2016/English/26’ India/2016/Malayalam/22’

Direction Jaya Jose Raj C. L Direction Biju Muthathi

There is a saying in Malayalam Othupidichal No discrimination between men and women malayum porum. This translates as team work existed in the field of Kalaripayattu, the ancient can move mountains. Anyone who has seen the martial art of Kerala. Like Thacholi Othenan, Khalasis of Malabar region in action will feel the Unniyarcha (warriors of folklore) also made ring of truth in this saying. Watching them at work history in the Vadakkan Pattukal with her is an amazing experience. The heavy objects sword. Many stories are in circulation of strong they handle could be a ship to be launched or a and heroic women of Kadathanaadu; some of huge girder weighing tonnes. The dexterity of the them written in golden scripts in history and Khalasis ensures that the work proceeds steadily many more which never made their way. There and smoothly. lies Meenakshipayattu the story of another Unniyarcha who carved history with her sword. H¯p]nSn¨m aebpw t]mcpw F¶ sNmÃpïv IS¯\mS³ IfcnbpsS ]mc¼cyw t]dp¶ aebmf¯nÂ. ae_mÀ taJebnse JemknIsf ao\m£n Kpcp¡fpsS PohnXIY. Ifcn¸bäns³d Iïn«pÅhÀ¡v Cu sNmÃv ]camÀYamsW¶v Imcy¯n ]ïp apXte BWpw s]®pw X½n a\Ênemhpw. AhÀ tPmen sN¿p¶Xv ]£]mXsam¶papïmbncp¶nÃ. Xt¨mfn t\m¡nbncn¡p¶Xv Xs¶ hnkvabIcamb HmtX\s\t¸mse D®nbmÀ¨bpw hmfpsImïv A\p`hamWv. `mcapÅ hkvXp¡sfÃmw Ncn{Xw Ipdn¨p. IS¯\ms« hoch\nXIsf¸än Akmam\yamb ssI¯g¡t¯msS AhÀ¡v \nch[n IYIfpïv. B ]mc¼cy¯ns³d FSp¯pbÀ¯m³ Ignbp¶p. Ct§¡®nbmb 76Imcn ao\m£nb½ hmįe¸psImïv FgpXnb Ncn{X¯ns³d ZriytcJ.

Jaya Jose Raj has scripted and directed 16 Biju Muthathi is a television journalist based in documentaries, 3 telefilms and 5 docu-fiction serials Kerala. He has made many documentaries which has as well as 9 Advertisement films. He has worked won many awards. Since 2010, he has been directing as Associate Director in the features I am Curious, Kerala Express a series in Kairali- Kaliyorukkam and as Assistant Director in the feature People Channel which is a weekly programme and has Notebook. won Kerala State Government awards. 10TH IDSFFK 67 FOCUS SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Saving the Wild – Wild Life Space B | Baul|Music Rescue and Rehabilitation |Philosophy | Fusion India/2017/Bengali/11’

Direction Rita Banerji Production Rajiv Mehrotra Direction Sreemoyee Bhattacharya & Camera Vijendra Sharma, Rohit Gusian Editing Rohit Abhik Chatterjee Gusian, Vijender Sharma, Sumit Sisodiya Music Arjun Sen

The Film understands wild life rescue and Baul is a folk tradition in West Bengal. As rehabilitation in one of the prime wild life Basudeb Das Baul puts it in his simple words: habitats of India – Kaziranga, Assam. The Centre “To be a Baul is To Stay in Excess Of Love”. for Wild Life Rehabilitation and Conservation Space Bendeavours to take a deeper peep into (CWRC) together with the Forest Department the Philosophy, Science and Music of the Baul has been rescuing animals for the past 12 tradition. years. Orphaned and stranded, many of these juvenile animals are successfully hand-raised and rehabilitated back in the wild, while rescued adults are treated and released as soon as possible. Bkmanse ImkncwK h\yPohn kt¦X¯nse _wKmfnse _mhp kwKoX¯ns³d h\yPohn kwc£Ws¯bpw ]p\c[nhmks¯bpw ZmÀi\nIX, imkv{Xw F¶nhsb¡pdn¨v kw_Ôn¨ ka{Kamb Nn{Xw ]IÀ¶p\ÂIp¶ Bg¯nepÅ DÄ¡mgvN ]IÀ¶p \ÂIp¶ Nn{Xw. tUmIypsa³ddn. Ignª 12 hÀjambn h\whIp¸pw kvt\l¯ns³d B[nIy¯n IgnbpI F¶XmWv sk³dÀ t^mÀ sshÂUv sse^v dnlm_nentäj³ Hcp _mhp Bbncn¡pI F¶Xns³d AÀYsa¶v B³dv I¬kÀthj\pw ]ebnS§fnepw _kptZ_v Zmkv _mhp ]dbp¶p. IpSp§nt¸mb arK§sf c£s¸Sp¯nhcp¶p. A\mYcmbnt¸mb IïmarKw, B\, ]pen, ISph, aq§ XpS§nbhbpsS Ip«nIsf hfÀ¯nb tijw ImSpIfnte¡v hn«bbv¡pIbmWv sN¿p¶Xv.

Rita Banerji is a conservation filmmaker, who made Sreemoyee Bhattacharya's works like Shadows, Veil several award winning films, including winner of the and All characters are Fictitious have won awards. Green Oscar at Wildscreen, UK. She founded The Abhik Chatterjee has projects to his credit which Green Hub – a youth and community based fellowship participated in several film festivals. Sreemoyee and for video documentation in the North East of India, for Abhik are running a production space Transmic Space work related to environment and indigenous knowledge. which produced 10 independent video contents. 68 10TH IDSFFK FOCUS SHORT DOCUMENTARY

The Last Queen of The Pangti Story India/2016/Malayalam/29’ India/2016/26’

Direction Sujesh Gangadharan Direction Sesino Yhoshu Screenplay & Research Sesino Yhoshu, Neithonuo Tungoe Production Rajiv Mehrotra Camera Sesino Yhoshu, Megotsolie Dolie Sound Neithonuo Tungoe Editing Neithonuo Tungoe Music Jonathan Lushai This is the life story of The Last Queen of The Pangti Story explores the transition of an Travancore – Lekshmi Bayi. entire village from one that slaughtered hundreds and thousands of Amur Falcons, the longest travelling raptors in the world, who fly from Siberia every fall to roost in Pangti, a small village in Nagaland, to becoming their most ardent preservationists.

XncphnXmwIqÀ cmPhwi¯nse Ahkm\ \mKem³dnse sNdp {Kmaamb ]wKvXnbnse cmÚnbmb tkXp e£van _mbnbpsS PohnXIY. tZimS\ ]£nkwc£Ws¯¡pdn¨pÅ Nn{Xw. ssk_ocnbbnÂ\n¶v icXvIme¯v tNt¡dm³ hcp¶ \qdpIW¡n\v sNdp]cp´pIsf ap¼v sIms¶mSp¡nb {Kmaw Ct¸mÄ AXns³d kwc£WtasäSp¯ncn¡pIbmWv.

Sujesh Gangadharan has directed shorts films and Sesino Yhoshu is a filmmaker from Nagaland who documentaries. specialised in Electronic Cinematography from FTII, followed by a Master's in Documentary from Royal Holloway, London. Her film Apfütsa was screened at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and The Rubin Museum, New York. 10TH IDSFFK 69 FOCUS SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Thread End Weathering Heights with India/2017/Malayalam/7’ Anna Mani India/2016/English/30’

Direction Umasankar Gouridasan Direction Dr J Thulaseedhara Kurup

Thread End is an inquiry into the making of the Anna Mani who was born in Kerala, was a widely acclaimed Balaramapuram handloom visionary scientist with boundless energy, weaving. The handloom weaving has a long popularly known as Miss Mani. Anna Mani played history and the film throws light on the lives of the most prominent role in laying the foundations the weavers. of self-reliance in weather instruments for India's Meteorology Department. We are obliged to tell the story of Miss Mani's phenomenal contributions toward building independent India through Meteorological Instrumentation, pioneering research in atmospheric Physics including solar radiation, ozone and wind energy {]ikvXamb _mecma]pcw ssI¯dn measurements. hkv{X§fpsS \nÀamWs¯¡pdn¨pÅ Nn{Xw. s\bv¯pImcpsS PohnX¯nte¡pw shfn¨w aebmfnbmb ImemhØm imkv{XÚ A¶ hoip¶p Cu Nn{Xw. amWnbpsS kw`mh\IÄ tcJs¸Sp¯p¶ Nn{Xw. C´y³ ImemhØ ]T\hIp¸n\v D]IcW§fpsS Imcy¯n kzbw]cym]vXX ssIhcn¡p¶Xn\v thï ASn¯d ]mInb imkv{XÚbmWv A¶ amWn.

Umasankar is a second year cinematography student Dr. J Thulaseedhara Kurup is an alumnus of NSD, at LV Prasad Film & TV Academy, Thiruvananthapuram. Delhi and a Fulbright Scholar. He has been actively involved in Television, Films and Theatre for the past 25 years as director, researcher and teacher.

70 10TH IDSFFK What happens to the heirs of the Earth? Bhoomiyude avakaasikalku enthu sambhavikkunnu? India/2016/Malayalam/24’ Direction Sudheer Parameswaran

What Happens to the Heirs of the Earth is a documentary film based on the man- made disasters to our mother planet and environment. The earth is becoming a dangerous place to inhabit due to severe environmental pollution and natural disasters only as a result of human activities and exploitation.The documentaryfilm has attempted tomap the various man-made disasters that occur including unauthorized invasions of wet lands and natural water.

`qan¡pw ]cnØnXn¡pw a\pjy³ G¸n¡p¶ Zpc´§sf hnaÀi\hnt[bam¡p¶ Nn{Xw. {]IrXnZ¯ Pet{kmXkpIsfbpw X®oÀ¯S§sfbpw A\[nIrX ssItbä¯neqsS \in¸n¡p¶Xv Zriy§fn tcJs¸Sp¯p¶ Cu tUmIypsa³ddn¡p ]n¶n Ggpamks¯ ]cn{iaapïv.

Sudheer Parameswaran is a recipient ofCultural Research Fellowship (Senior) from Govt. of India during 2013-2014. Kerala State Government award for the best criticism for Television programmes (2000). State Government award for the study for Malayalam Films (2001). 10TH IDSFFK 71 FOCUS SHORT FICTION FOCUS SHORT FICTION

A Night Abhimugham Oru Rathri India/2016/Malayalam/20’ India/2016/Malayalam/10’

Direction Anuj Ramachandran Direction B Govind Raj

A night at a lonely gas station. Something creepy Abhimugham is a psychological that is going to happen. portrays the life of a girl Abhi and the situations that happen in her life. Is there someone hunting behind her shadows or does Abhi have another face?

Hcp Häs¸-« s]-t{SmÄ ]¼mWv IYbpsS ]Ým¯ew. A`n F¶ s]¬Ip«nbpsS PohnX¯nse Nne B cm{Xnbn AhnsS hnNn{Xamb Ft´m H¶v kw`hKXnIÄ Nn{XoIcn¡p¶ sskt¡mfPn¡Â \S¡m³ t]mhpIbmWv. {XnÃÀ. AhfpsS \ngepIÄ¡p ]n¶n Bsc¦nepw th«bmSp¶ptïm? AtXm A`n¡v asämcp apJaptïm?

Anuj Ramachandran has five years’ experience B Govind Raj has directed 5 short films and has as Programme Producer in various Malayalam TV worked in 25 short films. He has also won many channels like Mazhavil , Surya TV, and awards for his previous short film Only For You.He has Safari TV. completed his Post Graduation Diploma in Screenplay writing and Direction.

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Appooppanthaadi Belamukhi Floating Milkweeds India/2016/No Dialogue/15’ India/2016/Malayalam/26’

Direction Sivaprasad K.V Direction Ujjwal Chandra

Appooppanthaadi (floating milkweeds), a sweet A flower seller goes out to work, but his mind is reminiscent tale of 'loss' begins with a gang back at the nursery, where his sick wife is battling of friends meeting upon a Maundy Thursday with her life. He returns early only to find that his to booze on "memories" (a fictional liquor wife has duly done her duties. He tends to her brand). As they go on with boozing and playing and helplessly waits for the night to end. cards,they stumble upon an old memory,which sets them on a journey across the land.

Hcp ]äw kplr¯p¡fneqsS \ãs¸« Imes¯ Hcp ]q¡¨hS¡mc³ I¨hS¯n\mbn HmÀan¸n¡p¶ lrZyamb IYbmWv A¸q¸³XmSn. ]pds¸s«¦nepw tcmKnbmb `mcysb Ipdn¨mbncp¶p Hcp s]klm hymgmgvN H¯pIqSp¶ kplr¯p¡Ä AbmfpsS Nn´IÄ. XncnsIbs¯nb AbmÄ 'sa½dokv' F¶ aZyw Ign¡p¶p. aZy]m\hpw ImWp¶Xv kz´w ISaIsfÃmw IrXyambn No«pIfnbpambn kabw sNehgn¡p¶ AhcpsS \nÀhln¨ `mcysb BWv. \nÊlmb\mb DÃmkw s]s«¶v Hcp ]gb HmÀabn DS¡pIbpw AbmÄ `mcysb ip{iqjn¨psImïv cm{Xn AXhsc Hcp bm{X¡v t{]cn¸n¡pIbpwsN¿p¶p. Ahkm\n¡m\mbn Im¯p\n¶p. B bm{Xbpw AXn\nSbn \S¡p¶ kw`hhnImk§fpamWv Nn{X¯ns³d DÅS¡w. KrlmXpcXsb iàambn BhnjvIcn¡p¶ Cu Nn{Xw.

Sivaprasad KV is an aspirant filmmaker who has Ujjwal Chandra was born in Mokama, a small town completed his Bachelors from Kerala Varma College, near Patna in 1981. She graduated from Film and Thrissur. He has worked as Assistant Director under Television Institute of India, Pune with a diploma in Arun Kumar Aravind, a notable director in Malayalam Film Editing in 2008. Since then she has been editing cinema. films professionally.

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Blindness Blurred Lines India/2017/Bengali/16’ India/2017/Hindi/11 min

Direction Shirsha Tanay Ghosh Direction Juhi Rajwani & Vedansh Shrivastava

A woman goes to meet an old magician to buy 24 year Apoorva is tangled in a mess of his book of magic. While checking the pages and relationships when she has a life altering going through the book, the girl finds out that epiphany about her best friend. a magic named “Blindness” has no secret trick behind it as the other magics do. Being quite surprised, she asks the magician about this.

PmehnZysb¡pdn¨pÅ Hcp ]pkvXIw hm§m\mbn Xsâ BßmÀ° kplr¯ns\¡pdn¨p a\Ênemb Hcp am{´nIs\ kao]n¡p¶ kv{XobmWv Cu sR«n¡p¶ kXyw aqew _Ô§fpsS Nn{X¯nse tI{µIYm]m{Xw. B ]pkvXI¯n sI«p]mSpIÄ¡nSbn IpSp§nt¸mhp¶ A]qÀh AhÄ ImWp¶ ss»³Uv\kv F¶ hnZybn aäp F¶ Ccp]¯n\mepImcnbpsS IY. hnZyIsft¸mse clky§Ä H¶panà F¶v AhÄ a\Ênem¡p¶p. AXn AZv`pXw tXm¶nb AhÄ aPojyt\mSv tNmZn¡pt¼mÄ AbmÄ ]dbp¶p amPn¡n clkysam¶panà F¶v. aPojy\v AÔcm¡m³ ]äp¶ Bcpambpw Ifn¡mhp¶ IfnbmWv AsX¶pw AbmÄ ]dbp¶p.

Shirsha Tanay Ghosh has a Diploma in multimedia Juhi and Vedansh Shrivastava are alumni of Symbiosis and animation from Jadavpur University in 2013. institute of Media and Communication. Both have Blindness(2017) is his debut film as a filmmaker. written and directed shorts as part of college projects previously and this is their first collaboration as Directors.

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Breath Chance/Coincidence/ Shvaasa Connection/Sanyog India/2017/No Dialogue/11’ India/2016/Hindi/19’

Direction Vishnu K Thilak Direction Aly Rana

The inevitable change brought about in a Late night at a chawl in central Mumbai, a couple’s life, recollection and hopes, by the prostitute finds the courage to leave her sterile sudden death of their only daughter, Asha. and meaningless life. A hostage girl escapes her kidnappers, causing a shootout between some gangsters. And a paralysed war veteran tries to walk after years of a sedentary lifestyle, all happening next door to each other in a single uninterrupted shot.

X§fpsS GI aIÄ Bibv¡v kw`hn¨ apwss_ \Kc¯ns³d lrZb`mKs¯ sI«nS¯n AhnNmcnX acW¯n Z¼XnIÄ¡v kw`hn¡p¶ \n¶v Hcp ssewKnIs¯mgnemfn cm{Xnbn Xs³d A\nhmcyamb amä¯ns³d IY. {]Xo£bpsSbpw AÀ°iq\yamb PohnXw Dt]£n¡ms\mcp§¶p. HmÀaIfpsSbpw Zn\§fneqsS Hcp bm{X. _µnbm¡s¸« Hcp s]¬Ip«n Xs¶ X«ns¡mïp t]mIp¶hcnÂ\n¶pw c£s¸Sp¶p. CXv cïp KpïIÄ X½n shSnsh¸n\v ImcWamhp¶p. CtXkabw icocw XfÀ¶ ap³ssk\nI³ hÀj§Ä¡p tijw \S¡m³ {ian¡p¶p. ASp¯Sp¯ CS§fn \S¡p¶ Cu kw`h§Ä CSapdnbm¯ Hä tjm«n Nn{XoIcn¨ncn¡p¶p.

Vishnu K Thilak has completed diploma in film The filmography of Aly Rana includes Moksha (2015), direction from Chetana Media Institute, Thrissur, Batua (2015), Suyog (2014), Knot (2014), Eent (2012) Kerala.This is his first independent short film. and Moksha The Butterfly Effect (2012).

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Complain Conversation India/2017/Hindi/4’ India/2016/Marathi/22’

Direction Harshik Suraiya Screenplay & Production Direction Harshal Wadkar Anupama Sirsalewala Camera Vinit Bhatt Editing Chintan Pandav Music Vikrant Rajan

There’s more to a family than meets the A young girl walks into a local lodge with her eye. Discover the disquieting truth behind a boyfriend to experience her first love making seemingly normal mother-daughter relationship. moment, as Conversation begin, secrets of her But that’s not all, wait till you hear what the personal life begin to unfold. father has to say about it.

AÑs³d CSs]S aqew Hc½bpsSbpw aIfpsSbpw BZyambn ssewKnI _Ô¯nteÀs¸Sp¶ _Ô¯nepïmhp¶ at\mlcamb hgn¯ncnhns³d A\p`qXn Adnbm\mbn ImapI\psam¯v \mS³ IY. temUvPnes¯pIbmWv Hcp s]¬Ip«n. AhÄ X½nepÅ kw`mjW§Ä ]ptcmKan¡pt¼mÄ AhfpsS hyànPohnXw ]Xnsb shfnhmIp¶p.

Harshik Suraiya is an Indian Art Director, Graphic Harshal Wadkar has completed FA course from Film Designer, Writer and Director. He has worked for and Television Institute of India and the NFAI in clients like HUL, Coca Cola, CNBC, History Channel, 2009. He has been involved in making Short Films, L’Oreal, Jet Airways. Documentary films and assisting feature films since 2009.

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Deep Sea Drop Aazh Kadal India/2016/No dialogue/2’ India/2016/English/Tamil/15’

Direction: Stanzin Raghu Direction Aparna M G

Aazh Kadal (Deep Sea), is about an inexplicable Today, we live in a world, constantly alarming connection between two persons that seemingly us on the issue of water scarcity. When water unravels over an alluring night. emerged on earth, all the creatures lived happily until the arrival of man. Man destroyed all those dense forests for their existence and led to drought, which they tried to solve with a “water van’. It led to unwanted competitions and fights. The solution of an ATW (Any Time Water) machine which being a mechanical device, cannot be always. cïp hyànIÄ X½nepÅ hniZoIcW§Ä¡v C¶s¯ temIw PeZuÀe`ys¯ Ipdn¨v AXoXamb _Ô¯ns³d IYbmWv Bg¡SÂ. ap¶dnbn¸p \ÂIp¶pïv. `qanbn Pew hiyamb kuµcyw \ndª Hcp cm{Xnbn B BhnÀ`hn¨t¸mÄ FÃm PohPme§fpw _Ô¯ns³d NpcpfpIÄ AgnbpIbmWv. kt´mjn¨p. ]t£ B kt´mjw a\pjys³d BKa\w hsc am{Xta \oïp\n¶pÅp. a\pjy³ Ahs³d kzmÀYX¡mbn ImSpIÄ \in¸n¨t¸mÄ AXv hcĨ¡v hgnsh¨p. B {]iv\w ]cnlcn¡m\mbn "hm«À hm³' sImïph¶p. ]t£ AXv hgnsh¨Xv A\mhiyamb aÕc§Ä¡pw ]ckv]c lnwk¡pambncp¶p.

Stanzin Raghu has worked in several independent Aparna M G is a visual communication post graduate productions in New York, including music videos, and rank holder presently working as media faculty commercials, experimental films and network television and anchor. programming. He has written/directed/ produced six short films, four feature-documentary films and one Feature film(Ayynoorum Ayynthum - 500 & 5). 78 10TH IDSFFK FOCUS SHORT FICTION

Fyllo Grace Villa India/2017/Malayalam/20 min India/2016/Malayalam/14’

Direction Jithin Kumbukattu Direction Binoy Raveendran

The forest has always been an enigma for those A bafflingly priced house and a stubborn owner, who have been incapable to realize what nature in wait of a unique buyer. Think twice before you is. It is just like a mother who remains as a puzzle say yes to her price. for her children who cannot understand her. The selfish hedonists who are attracted towards the worldly luxuries exploit the cool shades of the wildness just for superficial intoxications. But ultimately the forest will react; often in strange and horrible ways, because it has to survive. Its defense is for the whole world, including human beings. {]IrXn F´msW¶p a\Ênem¡m³ A¼c¸n¡p¶ hnebn«v hnÂ]\¡v sh¨ncn¡p¶ Ignbm¯hÀ¡v ImSv F¶pw Hcp Hcp hoSpw ]nSnhmin¡mcnbmb Hcp ho«pSaØbpw IS¦YbmWv. euInIamb BUw_c§fn hoSv hm§m\pÅ Hcmsf Im¯ncn¡pIbmWv. AhÄ BIrãcmb kzmÀYaXnIfmWv D]cn¹hamb ]dbp¶ hne Dd¸n¡p¶Xn\p ap¼v cïp h«w kpJt`mK§Ä¡pthïn h\yXbpsS XWepIÄ Nn´nt¡ïXpïv. \in¸n¡p¶Xv. ]t£ FÃmän\psamSp¡w hnNn{Xhpw `bm\Ihpamb coXnbn ImSv AXns³d AXnPoh\¯n\mbn {]XnIcn¡pw.

Jithin Kumbukattu completed the diploma course in Binoy Raveendran holds a Diploma in Engineering. Animation and Visual effects at KELTRON, . He In 2016 he became a part of Inquilabz, a production worked as a trainee in visual effects in the Gemini house by a bunch of persons passionate about film Color Lab, Chennai. and completed his first directorial, Grace Villa.

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In The Orb of Night Inside the Compartment – Mangiyoranthi Velichathil Arakalkkakathu India/2016/Malayalam/19’ India/2017/Malayalam/23’

Direction Bibin Paul Samuel Direction Santhosh Karthikeyan

Father Xaviour is called out for help to a haunted The film is an independent adaptation of Eugene house in an isolated island. The place was O'Neill's play 'Before Breakfast'. It is a depiction believed to be haunted by paranormal activities of half an hour of an early morning of a couple, at the house.As a result the residents of the allowing the viewers to go along with their own house - a Mother and her young daughter suffer judgments and viewpoints. from many deadly diseases and accidents. The priest is a man who thinks practically and does not believe in such stories. On his arrival to the isle the mystery is revealed.

Häs¸« Hcp Zzo]nse t{]X_m[bpsï¶p IcpXs¸Sp¶ Hcp ho«n B ho«pImsc bpPn³ Hm\oens³d "_nt^mÀ t{_Iv^mÌv' F¶ klmbn¡m\mbn F¯pIbmWv ^mZÀ tkhyÀ. B \mSI¯ns³d kzX{´ A\pI¸\amWv Cu Øew ap³]v {_mÒWsc AS¡w sN¿m\mbn Nn{Xw. `mcys¡m¸w Xmakn¡p¶ Hcp IhnbpsS D]tbmKn¨Xmbncp¶p. AXn\m AhnsS hkXnbn Act§dp¶ kw`h¯ns³d AtX Aam\pjnI iànIÄ hnlcn¡p¶psh¶v kabssZÀLy¯nepÅ BhnjvImcw. BfpIÄ hnizkn¡p¶p. AXns³d {][m\ ImcWw B ho«nse A½bpw aIfpw ]e A]IS§fpw tcmK§fpw t\cntSïnh¶p F¶XmWv. ^mZÀ tkhyÀ `qXt{]X§fn hnizkn¡p¶ BfÃ. B sNdpZzo]nte¡pÅ AbmfpsS hchv AhnSs¯ clky§fpsS Ipcp¡gn¡p¶p.

Bibin Paul Samuel is a graduate in film making Santosh Karthikeyan has an MPhil and works as from St.Joseph's College of Communication. He has theatre director and playwright. He has 22 years worked as Film Editor in films like 101 Chodyangal, of experience as an amateur theatre director and Namboothiri Yuvavu@43 and Oru murai Vanth playwright. Parthaya.

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Listen to your child Magnet Kuttikalkaayi Kaathorkkam Chumbak India/2016/English,Malayalam/3’ India/2017/Hindi/10’

Direction K Ampady Direction Prabhakar 'Meena Bhaskar' Pant

The film depicts the conflict endured by a 12 year Faced with difficult choices, people sometimes old girl, between her hopes of a having a blissful act in an unpredictable and a bizarre way to find family, a loving dad and mom, caring home and the right solution. the real life despair of having none! It is a pointer towards every parent and highlights the necessity for listening to every child.

B\µIcamb IpSpw_hpw amXm]nXm¡fpw Hcp XncsªSp¡Â ZpjvIcamhpt¼mÄ IrXyamb \sÃmcp hoSpsaÃmw B{Kln¡p¶,F¶m ]cnlmcw ImWp¶Xn\mbn BfpIÄ ]et¸mgpw CsXm¶pw Xs¶ CÃm¯ \ncmibmb 12ImcnbpsS A{]Xo£nXhpw AXnhnNn{Xhpamb coXnbn am\knI kwLÀj§fpsS IY. X§fpsS {]hÀ¯n¡p¶p. a¡fpsS hm¡pIÄ¡p ImtXmÀt¡ïXns³d BhiyIXsb¡pdn¨v Hmtcm AÑ\½amÀ¡papÅ Hcp HmÀas¸Sp¯emWv Cu Nn{Xw.

K Ampady, presently the Director – Information and In 2013, Prabhakar ‘Meena Bhaskar’ Pant, made Public Relations Department, Government of Kerala a short film titled Lunch with My Friend’s Wife. In has written the script for Ayaal (2013,Malayalam October 2014, he began writing a unique plot for feature film). a feature film My Client’s Wife. Chumbak is part of Cannes Court Metrage 2017.

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No Space Noise-Ruido India/2017/No Dialogue/2’ India/2016/Malayalam/5’

Direction, Screenplay, Editing & Direction Lakshmi Camera Shaji N Jaleel

A sarcastic take on the unavailability of even the A beautiful visualization of noise pollution. On most basic necessities of life, to those living in her way to school the honking of vehicles, busy the lower most tiers of society. roads etc makes her close her ears and run to school. Then prevails a silence. She opens her ears after reaching the farm in her school where she is invited by the melodious nature's beautiful voice.

Hcp km[mcW¡mcs³d PohnX¯nse Hcp iÐ aen\oIcWs¯ Ipdn¨pÅ at\mlcamb kw`h¯neqsS P\m[n]Xyw F¶ hm¡ns³d ZriymhnjvImcw. hnZymeb¯nte¡pÅ AÀ°iq\yXsb A\mhcWw sN¿p¶ Nn{Xw. bm{Xmat[y hml\§fpsS tlm¬iÐhpw Xnct¡dnb hoYnbpw Hcp s]¬Ip«nsb hÃmsX Atemkcs¸Sp¯p¶p. AhÄ sNhns]m¯nbmWv k-vIqfnte¡v HmSp¶Xv. AhÄ F¯nt¨À¶Xv k-vIqfnse Irjnt¯m«¯nemWv. AhnsS Ahsf hcthäXv {ipXna[pcamb {]IrXnbpsS kpµciÐamWv.

Shaji N. Jaleel is a film enthusiast, who has been a Lakshmi Lal is one of the best students of professional photographer for 16 years. Marynilayam Senior secondary School and extraordinary talented. This short film produced as part of 18 short films produced by the school called Nurturing Nature.

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Obituary Patliputra Express Niryaatharaayi India/2017/Hindi/12’ India/2017/No Dialogue/3’

Direction Shuhaib Hameed Direction Raj Rishi More

An old man reads only the obituary page of a An ex-serviceman, on a train journey to meet his local daily in search of the demise news of his dying son, finds solace in the company of a young lost love. After his strenuous daily reads, he is musician travelling without ticket. relieved that his love is still alive as he couldnot find her obituary news. This is the driving energy of his life-that his lost love is still alive. One day the old man's obituary news appears in a local daily read by an old woman.

Hcp hr²³ Øncambn ]{X¯n hmbn¡mdpÅXv ]«mf¯nÂ\n¶v hncan¨ HcmÄ acW¡nS¡bn Ncat¸Pv am{XamWv. Xs³d \ã{]Wbn\nbpsS InS¡p¶ aIs\ ImWm\pÅ s{Sbn³ acWhmÀ¯bptïm F¶dnbp¶Xn\mWv B bm{XbnemWv. Sn¡änÃmsX bm{X sN¿p¶ bph Xnc¨nÂ. F¶m A§s\sbmcp hmÀ¯ kwKoXÚ\pambpïmb kulrZw At±l¯n\v ImWm¯Xn\m AbmÄ kt´mjn¡p¶p. Bizmkamhp¶p. {]nbXa Ct¸mgpw Pohn¨ncn¡p¶p F¶ {]Xo£bmWv Abmsf Pohn¡m³ t{]cn¸n¡p¶Xv. Hcp Znhkw B kv{Xo Ncat¡mf¯n B hr²s³d acWhmÀ¯ hmbn¡p¶p. B kv{Xobpw hÀj§fmbn hmbn¡mdpÅXv Ncat¸Pv am{Xambncp¶p.

Shuhaib Hameed is from Changanacherry, Kerala. Raj started working as an assistant director to Ritesh A tax practitioner by profession. Batra in The Lunchbox. His first feature film script, Pirate, was part of Drishyam Sundance Screenwriter's Lab. Patliputra Express is officially selected for New York Indian Film Festival 2017 and Imagine India Film Festival Madrid, 2017. 10TH IDSFFK 83 FOCUS SHORT FICTION

Phoolpakhru Pu India/2016/Marathi/14’ India/2016/Malayalam/15 min

Direction Nisheeta Keni Direction J Bibin Joseph

The coming of age of a middle aged woman. A man experiences utmost freedom inside a A sexually repressed woman discovers her toilet. There, he is naked. Free of all the worldly sexuality after her husband’s death in the nurture affairs, it is there, where he comes into direct of nature. It is the experiential journey of a contact with his real(actual) self. Through the woman’s sexuality. short film Pu, the viewer is made to ponder upon one's identity, nudity, and freedom – the three stark realities of an individual's life.

a[yhbÊnes¯nb Hcp kv{XobpsS amä¯ns³d ipNnapdnbn HcmÄ ]qÀWkzmX{´yw IY. ssewKnIm{Kl§sf ASn¨aÀ¯n A\p`hn¡p¶p. AhnsS AbmÄ \Kv\\mWv. Ignªncp¶ Hcp kv{Xo `À¯mhns³d acWtijw _mlyNn´Ifn \ns¶mgnªv kz´w kzXzt¯mSv Xs³d ssewKnIX Iïs¯pIbmWv. kv{Xo AbmÄ kwhZn¡p¶Xv AhnsS sh¨mWv. ssewKnIXbpsS A\p`h bm{XbmWv Cu Nn{Xw. C{Xbpw kzmX{´yw A\p`hn¡p¶ HcnS¯v AhfpsS ssewKnIamb hntamN\¯nt\¡mfp]cn AIs¸Sp¶Xnt\¡mfpw ZpjvIcamb asämcp AXns³d A\p`qXnsb¸änbmWv Nn{Xw ]dbp¶Xv. ImcyanÃ. \Kv\X, hyànXzw, kzmX{´yw F¶o hyXykvX§fmb PohnX bmYmÀYy§fmWv kwhn[mbI³ Xpd¶pIm«p¶Xv.

Nisheeta Keni is a writer and director primarily of J Bibin Joseph is an independent film maker from short films. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in film Kerala. An engineering graduate, Pu, his first venture making, specialising in Direction from Whistling is a crowd funded film. Woods International.

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Shades Snake and Ladder India/2017/Bengali/9’ Paambum Koneem India/2016/Malayalam/15’

Direction Prasun Chatterjee Production Sabita & Direction Mohamed Sohal Pradip Chatterjee Camera Sudipta Majumder Editing Sujay Datta Ray Sound Suman Dey

To man a woman is primarily an object of desire. Paambum Koneem (Snake and Ladder) tells a When a male worker looks intensely at a female story with unusual coincidences happening on a worker's bare legs at a departmental store, we night drive of Aravind on the way home. There are feel disturbed by his unhealthy curiosity. The instances in every one's life at some point of time store is soon going to close and it is getting dark. where you will have to make choices at the verge What is he really upto? of critical problems and these choices might look right but could be dangerously fatal! The movie showcases the after effects of the same with a sad truth that your choices will haunt you forever! kv{Xosb¶m ]pcpj\v {]mYanIambn t`mKhkvXp Achnµv F¶ sNdp¸¡mc\v ho«nte¡pÅ am{XamWv. Hcp I¨hS Øm]\¯nse h\nXm cm{Xnbm{Xbn t\cntSïn h¶ Akm[mcWamb Poh\¡mcnbpsS \Kv\amb ImepIfnte¡p BIkvanIXIfpsS IYbmWv ]m¼pw tImWow. Xpdn¨pt\m¡p¶ ]pcpjPoh\¡mcs³d PohnX¯nse ]e \nÀWmbIamb kµÀ`§fnepw A\mtcmKyIcamb PnÚmk \½fn AkzØ- HcmÄ¡v NneXv XncsªSpt¡ïn hcpw. F¶m Xbpïm¡pw. {]hr¯n kab¯ns\mSphn Cu XncsªSp¡epIÄ ]et¸mgpw A]ISIcambn Øm]\w ASbv¡m³ t]mhpIbmWv. t\cw amdmw. A§s\bpÅ Hcp Ahkc¯ns³d Ccp«n¯pS§n. AbmÄ F´mWv sN¿m³ sXcsªSp¸v Hcmsf PohnXImew apgph³ t]mhp¶Xv? ]n´pScp¶ IY.

Prasun Chatterjee Mohamed Sohal is an aspiring filmmaker by passion and marketer by profession.

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Tempo Paijana India/2017/Hindi/13’ Anklet India/2016/Hindi/1’

Direction Rohit Shukre Direction, Screenplay, Camera & Editing Rohin Raveendran Production Ippirival Productions Sound Gaurav Singh Rathore

Tempo is about a typically Mumbai nightmare Set in a chawl of the 'maximum city', Mumbai, – finding the perfect van to furniture Paijana is a one-minute duration short film. It from one suburban location to another.A man explores why a man and a woman hold their searches for a Tempo to shift his house. After a emotions in a room filled with desire and day's search he finds one Tempo owner/driver, passion. who agrees to shift his home.What happens next is what this short film is all about.

Krtlm]IcW§Ä asämcnSt¯¡v amäm\mbn apwss_ \Kc¯n \S¡p¶ kw`h¯ns³d Hcp sSt¼m hm³ Isï¯pI F¶Xv apwss_ an\näv ssZÀLyapÅ ZriymhnjvImcw. B{Kl§fpw \nhmknIfpsS t]Snkz]v\amWv. CXpkw_Ôn¨p BkànIfpw \ndª apdn¡pÅn F´n\mWv sSt¼m ss{UhdpambpÅ hnet]iepw XÀ¡hpw HcmWpw s]®pw X§fpsS hnImc§sf Iqä³ sI«nS§fn \n¶pw hen¸tadnb ho«p- AS¡nsh¡p¶Xv F¶v At\zjn¡p¶ Nn{Xw. km[\IÄ amäp¶Xnse _p²nap«pw AhÀ¡v Gsd {]iv\w krãn¡p¶p. Nn{X¯n HcmÄ ho«p km[\§Ä amäm\mbn Hcp sSt¼mbpsS klmbw At\zjn¡p¶p. Hcp ]I \oï Xnc¨nens\m- Sphn km[\§Ä amäm³ Xbmdmb sSt¼m ss{Uhsd Isï¯p¶p.

Rohit Shukre is a writer-director who has written many Rohin Raveendran Nair is a young filmmaker based in television shows in India. Tempo is his first short film. Mumbai. Specialized in cinematography from the Film He has studied film-making from New Zealand Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). Rohin has shot Academy, Auckland, New Zealand. seven short films, four short documentaries and a feature-length documentary, Martyrs of Marriage.

86 10TH IDSFFK The Break up India/2016/Tamil/17’

Direction Aadhitya Anbu

At a coffee shop during broad day light there are three friends planning a vacation, one guy engrossed in his book, two guys on an official meeting, one guy video chatting with his girlfriend and a couple with relationship issues. What happens when one of them invades into the other person's life? CHAOS!

Hcp tIm^o tjm¸nencp¶v Ah[n¡mew sNehgn¡p¶Xns\¸än ]²XnbnSpIbmWv aq¶p kplr¯p¡Ä. asämcmÄ Xs³d ]pkvXI¯n {i²mephmWv. thsd cïp t]À HutZymKnI aoän§nepw. ImapInbpambn hoUntbm NmänemWv C\nsbmcmÄ. Hcp ImapI\pw ImapInbpw X§Ä¡nSbnse {]iv\§Ä ]cnlcn¡m³ {ian¡p¶p. ChcnsemcmÄ asämcp hyànbpsS {]iv\¯n CSs]Sm³ XpS§nbm F´mhpw kw`hn¡pI? FÃmw XmdpamdmIpw!

Aadhitya Anbu has directed one short film and one independent film.

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A Secret Heart Aridai UK/2016/English/16:30’ /2017/Spanish/8’

Direction, Screenplay Cary Sawhney Production Direction, Screenplay Igor Luna Parag Sankhe, Archie Stewart Editing Daniel Davies Editing Paula Garcia Cantalejo Sound Jordan Tewkesbury

A broken-hearted young man falls for a I wouldn't have expected that you were tailor- mysterious young woman with a deadly secret. made to my bathtub. Ade is a 23 year-old Londoner who after breaking up with his girlfriend, bumps into a worldly young woman who seems shocked to meet him. Captivated by her beauty he asks her name, she responds ‘Phyllis’. After hearing from his best friend that Phyllis is probably a nurse that works in the local hospice. Ade is soon drawn by Phyllis on a strange journey where death and love collide. ImapInbpambn ]ncnªXns³d ZpxJ¯n Ignbp¶ Fs³d _m¯v Sºn\p thïn {]tXyIw FbvUv F¶ eï³Imc³ agbpÅ Hcp cm{Xnbn Xbmdm¡s¸«Xmhpw \o F¶v Rms\mcn¡epw AhnNmcnXambn Hcp bphXnsb Iïpap«p¶p. {]Xo£n¨nÃ. Ahs\ Iït¸mÄ AhÄ¡pïmb sR«Â FbvUns\ A¼c¸n¡p¶p. ^nenkv F¶ t] cpÅ AhÄ \gvkmsW¶v Ah³ a\Ênem¡p¶p. Ahsf ImWm³ NnInÂkmtI{µ¯n t]mb FbvUv Xm³ hnNmcn¨Xpt]mepÅ s]®Ã ^nenkv F¶v Xncn¨dnbp¶p. F¶m AS¡m³ Ignbm¯ BIÀjWw Ahs\ acWhpw {]Wbhpw X½n tNcp¶ HcnS¯p sImïs¯n¡p¶p.

Cary Rajinder Sawhney's graduation short Looking For Igor Luna is from Madrid. He started writing You was screened at international festivals. Khaana screenplays which were influenced by a poetic air. won Future Filmmaker Award Palm Springs Short With a decade of experience as an actor and work of Film Festival and Best Short at New York Indian Film several years in direction and production of theatre Festival and screened at 19 film festivals. plays, Aridai is his debut film as director.

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Ashamed Brave Bunch Verguenza / 2015/Polish/ 29’ Spain/ 2017/Spanish/12’

Direction, Screenplay Miguel Casanova Production Direction Tomasz Stankiewicz Screenplay Tomasz Javier Lloveria Editing Eva Martos Stankiewicz, Monika Kowaleczko Szumowska Production Monika Kowaleczko Szumowska, Zofia Pręgowska Camera Robert Gajzler Editing Karol Mch Music Krzysztof A Janczak Sound Robert Kubik Two friends. A dress for their university The film narrates the story of a heroic and tragic graduation, which is just around the corner. One 63-day struggle to liberate Warsaw from Nazi of them has something to say. She's bursting to German occupation during World War II from a say it. perspective of children. A group of children run through the streets of modern-day Warsaw. One of them spies a discarded journal and they are transported back to August 1944. As the children enter the Warsaw Rising Museum, the exhibits soon step out of the past. The uprising through children’s eyes relates tender accounts of those who witnessed the uprising as children. cïp kplr¯p¡Ä. kabaSp¯pIgnª cïmw temI almbp² Ime¯v hmÀtkm \Kcs¯ kÀhIemime _ncpZ[mcW¯n\v [cnt¡ï \mkn A[n\nthi¯nÂ\n¶v tamNn¸n¡m\pÅ thjw. AhcnsemcmÄ¡v Ft´m ]dbm\pïv. 63 Znhks¯ {ia§Ä Ip«nIfpsS ImgvN¸mSn AhÄ AXv ]dbm³ thïn hoÀ¸pap«pIbmWv. AhXcn¸n¡p¶p. Dt]£n¡s¸« {]kn²oIcWw hmbn¡p¶ Hcp ]äw Ip«nIÄ sN¶s¯p¶Xv Ncn{Xapd§p¶ Ime¯nemWv. hmÀtkm aypknb¯n Ibdp¶ AhcpsS ap¶neqsS bp²¯ns³d ImgvNIÄ IS¶pt]mIp¶p. Ip«nIfpsS BImw£bpw amPn¡Â dnbenkhpw IqSn¡ecp¶ IY `qXImehpw hÀ¯am\hpw CSIeÀ¯n Nn{XoIcn¨ncn¡p¶p.

Casanova studied screenwriting at the Cinema and Tomasz Stankiewicz’s documentary debut Brave Audiovisual School of Catalonia. He has written Bunch has received Best Short Documentary Award short films En la azotea and De Vuelta (Back Again, at 18th Olympia Film Festival and the Annie Dodds 2015). His new short film as a writer and director is Award Special Mention at the Imperial War Museum Milkshake Express. Short Film Festival in London. Tomasz is DOP and editor of multi-awarded documentary Invisible. 90 10TH IDSFFK INTERNATIONAL FICTION

Colombi Haloperidol Italy/2016/20’ Spain/2016/Spanish/13’

Direction, Screenplay Luca Ferri Production Andrea Direction, Screenplay & Production Jose Manuel Zanoli Camera Pietro de Tilla, Giulia Vallicelli, Carrasco Andrea zanoli Editing Stefano Testa

A couple of lovers spends together a century Do you believe in eternal life? of life, while trends, objects and films decline towards the horror. They will be obsessed with the octagonal knobs of coffee pots and anonymous design all of their life. Aging and slowly losing their strength, but never their clarity of mind, they will prefer excluding the outer world, darkening and shuttering their house and withdrawing into themselves, browsing through old encyclopaedia about extinct animals. hfsc¡meambn kvt\ln¨pIgnbp¶ `mcybpw \n§Ä A\izcamb PohnX¯n `À¯mhpw. {]mbtadp¶Xn\\pkcn¨v AhcpsS hnizkn¡p¶ptïm? iàn £bn¡p¶p.]t£ AhcpsS DuÀÖhpw Nn´bnse hyàXbpw ambq¶nÃ, AhÀ hoSns³d hmXneSbv¡pIbpw ]pdwtemIs¯ AhKWn¡pIbpwsN¿p¶p. kzbw DÄhenbp¶ B Z¼XnIÄ ]gb hnÚm\tImi§fn hwi\miw t\cnSp¶ PohnIsf¡pdn¨pÅ hnhcW§Ä hmbn¨v Imew Ign¡pIbmWv.

Luca Ferri has been dedicating to writing, Jose Manuel Carrasco is the director and scriptwriter photography and direction of films. His first feature of the short films Comedia anonima, Padamwhich film abacuc (2015) was presented at Torino Film was nominated at the 2008 Goya Awards, Consulta Festival and Mar del Plata Festival de Cine. In 2016 his 16, Pulsiones, Sexo Explicito, (re)construccion, film Colombi was in competition at the 73rd Sinecdoque. Una historia de Amour Fou and festival in the Orizzonti section. Haloperidol won numerous awards. 10TH IDSFFK 91 INTERNATIONAL FICTION

Leaving Lifter Dem Dem! Russia/2016/Russian/12’ Senegal/2017/Wolof/26’

Direction Pape Bouname Lopy, Christophe Rolin, Direction, Production Fedor Selkin Marc Recchia Screenplay Collectif Cine Banlieue Screenplay Julia Shunto Camera Alexander Mazur Daka Production Mans Films Production Marion Hansel Camera Christophe Rolin Editing Marc Recchia Music Cheikh Tidiane Koite Sound Mike Butcher On a regular fishing day, Matar discovers a Alexey is a novice sportsman. He is arranging mysterious bag on a beach of . Inside he a course of powerlifting trainings for his finds a passport of a Belgian man with African grandfather, who is going to marry shortly. origins. He starts to imagine to look like him.Days Despite of the advanced age, the bride is are going by, the appearance of Matar is changing dreaming of all the wedding traditions. One and he becomes more and more enigmatic to of them is that groom must carry her across a his wife Nafi. On his way he crosses N’Zibou a bridge. crazy wise man who measures the clouds. He questions Matar about his identity. One day, Matar disappears.

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Pape Bouname Lopy, Marc Recchia & Christophe Fedor Selkin has acted in The Russian Ark and The Sun Rolin together made the short film DEM DEM. Pape directed by Alexander Sokurov, Ugly Swans directed Bouname Lopy is also the director of The weapon. by KLopushansky, Latitute 52 directed by Mailisi. Marc Recchia and Christophe Rolin are used to making He has produced 40 different projects and wrote 20 very low budget films. They previously made Sleepless scripts to advertising and presentation films. He has Djigit, a documentary filmed in Kyrgyzstan. directed short fiction Sprint to the past and Lifter. 92 10TH IDSFFK INTERNATIONAL FICTION

Little Sammuel Night of Brass Spain /2017/ Spanish/ 12’ Nacht van de Fanfare Netherlands/2016/ Dutch/15’

Direction, Screenplay Hermanos Rico Direction Anna van Keimpema Screenplay Amarins Production Alex Hafner Editing Juan Gautier Romkema Production Noortje Wilschut, Floor Onrust Camera Lonneke Worm Editing Tim Wijbenga Sound Michiel de Boer

Sammuel Dubrovnik, a member of the elite A couple in the desolate north is fighting a silent explosives quad, recounts anecdotes of his life war. When a brass band unexpectedly knocks on while giving an interview for a local TV station. their front door, they become unwilling witnesses Given the actual state of vigilance and terror, one of the silent war becoming very loud. realizes that anyone can be observing everything at any given time.

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Carmen Rico is currently teaching a quantum-acting Anna van Keimpema made two youth films Yim & Yoyo technique she created called Emotional Branching. and Commando Maria that screened successfully Her plays have received many prizes as well as her at various international film festivals including audiovisual creations Ricardo, Dismantled Pieces Oberhausen Short Film Festival and Chicago (2004) and Deadly Alliance (2002), for which she has International Children’s Film Festival. won over 50 festival prizes as writer/director. 10TH IDSFFK 93 INTERNATIONAL FICTION

The Silence of the sky Son of Kali Iraq /2017/No Dialogue/2’ Singapore/2016/16:58’

Direction, Production Jubrail Abubaker Rahman Direction, Screenplay Amit Agarwal Production Jalan Camera Vikash Editing Priya Chakraborty Music Avijit Kundu

The humankind's dream for freedom is the Fleeing genocide against Hindus in Bangladesh, theme of the film. Nothing can stop Dreams and Probir reaches India in the middle of a major Freedom. Hindu festival. An evening of intense religious euphoria follows and Probir feels he is like a child in a religious Disneyland. He is being accompanied by his childhood Muslim friend Anuar, who is enjoying festival in his own hedonistic way. But Mother Goddess has other plans for him. kzmX{´y¯n\mbpÅ a\pjycminbpsS _w¥mtZin lnµp¡Ä¡v FXncmb kz]v\s¯¡pdn¨pÅXmWv Cu Nn{Xw. hwilXybnÂ\n¶v c£s¸«v s{]m_oÀ F¶ kz]v\s¯bpw kzmX{´ys¯bpw H¶n\pw bphmhv C´ybnse {][m\ lnµp DÕh¯n\v XSªpsh¡m-\m-hn-söv Cu Nn{Xw ]dbp¶p. F¯p¶p. Ah\p Iq«mbn apkvenw kplr¯mb A³hdpw DÕh¯n ]s¦Sp¡p¶p. ]t£ Imfn Ah\mbn Hcp¡nbXv asämcp ]²Xnbmbncp¶p.

Iraqi filmmaker Jubrail Abubaker started his career as Amit Agarwal from Kolkata assisted Mr Girish an assistant cameraman. He worked in 40 short films Kasaravalli, Kurmawatara. He was Associate Director as an assistant camera person and 13 films as camera to Mr Kasaravalli in a documentary on Adoor. His first person. Later he made four short films which were short film Ek Khaas Aadmi (A Special Man) premiered screened at many international film festivals. on NDTV Prime Channel. His feature film script A Long Tunnel was selected for the NFDC Directors lab. 94 10TH IDSFFK INTERNATIONAL FICTION

Veni, Vidi, Fugi - I came, Waiting for Hassana I saw, I fled /2017/Hausa/10’ Veni,Vidi,Fugi - Am venit,am vazut, am fugit Romania/Romanian/2016/31’ Direction Ifunanya Maduka Production Ifunanya Direction Robert Eugen Popa Production Robert Maduka, Uzodinma Iweala Camera Victor Okhai Eugen Popa, Timothy M Brice, Dan Ciobica, Editing Jennifer Tiexiera Music Saul Simon Pete Meech, Viorel Sergovici MacWilliams Sound Jon Greasley

The film’s period is set during the harshest years Jessica tells the story of her friendship with of Ceausescu's dictatorship. K, a charismatic, Hassana, in Chibok. Reconstructions recount the but idle 12th grade student on the brink of being horrific night that Boko broke into their expelled after a conflict with the Latin teacher, school and kidnapped 276 girls. has to solve a historical local enigma. Why was most famous Roman poet Ovid exiled 2000 years ago from Rome to the desolate and remote shores of the Black Sea coast? Only hitch is that K is the worst Latin student since the times of Roman colonisation. And there is one-way out: asking Ovid. hfsc NpdpNpdp¡pÅ Hcp ]{´ïmw ¢mkv t_mt¡m ldw F¶ `oIckwLS\ 276 hnZymÀ°nbmWv "sI'. emän³ ]Tn¸n¡p¶ s]¬Ip«nIsf X«ns¡mïpt]mb k-vIqfnse So¨dpambpïmb {]iv\w ImcWw tImtfPnÂ\n¶pw Ip«nbmWv lkm\. B `oIc cm{Xnsb lkm\ ]pd¯m¡s¸Spw F¶ AhØbnemWv Ah³. HmÀs¯Sp¡p¶p. AsXmgnhm¡m³ Ah\p Hcp hgntbbpÅp. {]ikvX tdma³Ihnbmb HhnUv F´n\p cïmbncw hÀj§Ä¡p ap¼v Icn¦S Xoct¯¡v \mSp IS¯s¸«p F¶v Iïs¯Ww. F¶m tdmw Iï Gähpw tamiw hnZymÀ°nbmb sI CsX§s\ Iïs¯pw? AXv HmhnUnt\mSp Xs¶ tNmZn¡Ww. AtX amÀKapÅq.

Robert Eugen Popa has written and directed two short Funa Maduka is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and films, Regresie and Veni Vidi Fugi. He has produced cinephile, with a focus on . Previously, Patience and Abandoned apart from the two shorts. Funa worked on the film, Half of a Yellow Sun, and on Building a Dream, a documentary about the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. Waiting for Hassana is her first film. 10TH IDSFFK 95 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

A Feeling Greater Than Love The Austrian Road Shu'our Akbar Min El Hob Die Osterreichische Strasse Lebanon/2017/Arabic/93’ /2016/Russian/38’

Direction Mary Jirmanus Saba Production Mary Direction Lana Berndl Camera Thibaut Delaroche, Jirmanus Saba & Lara Jirmanus Camera Karam Andrey Ohotenko Music Tulen Kairgazy, Daler Ghoussein, Mary Jirmanus Saba, Ziad Chahoud Nazarov Editing Kirk von Heflin Editing Louly Seif Sound Tareq Rantisi

A Feeling Greater Than Love returns to a moment The Austrian road, high in the Kazakh Altai, was in Lebanon where a social revolution might have built by the Austrian prisoners of the Great War. been – when two worker uprisings were cut short The Austrian road is a search for long time blown by civil war. Weaving scenes from Lebanon's away traces, a rough way in the past, throw militant cinema tradition, with present-day almost endless steppes, in the overpowering reality of Lebanese farmers and workers, and the Altai. A road full of secrets and lots of confusion, personal stories of the young women on the front narrow paths throw the experiences in the Soviet lines of those strikes, the film asks of the past Union to our time. how we might transform the present.

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Mary Jirmanus Saba is a filmmaker and geographer. Lana Berndl is a writer and director from Ukraine who Her work explores labour, agrarian and working lives in Vienna. Her films include Everlasting, The women’s movements in the Middle East and Latin Austrian road, Pain of Memory, Migrants lives and America, the militant images of both regions and their Kick the habit. usefulness for the present.

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Blaha Lujza square Born Together Blaha Lujza ter Bangladesh/2016/Bengali/72’ Hungary, France/2016/Hungarian/27’

Direction, Screenplay, Camera, Editing & Direction, Screenplay Shabnam Ferdous Production Production Blanc Antonin Ekattor Media Limited Camera Kamrul Ahsan Lenin, Sajibuddin Rajon Editing Sujan Mahmud, Khurshid Anam

The play continues at the heart of Blaha Lujza Born Together is a personal journey of square, yet the National Theatre of Hungary no Shabnam. It was 1972, the post liberation war of longer stands. There is an invisible barrier that Bangladesh, she was born at a hospital, and 12 separates the stone faces of the passers by the more babies were born there on that day. Later, whispers of those who wait, and the music from she came to know five of them were war babies. the deep end of the square. At the crossroads of She got obsessed with the idea and started a heavy past and a bitter present, the masks hold searching for her birth-mates. This search is not still and the pavement seems to disturb. only discovering the war children, but also an analysis and rediscovering of identity. She tried to explore their lives and tends to deal many queries. lwKdnbnse tZiob \mSIthZn Ct¸mÄ i_v\w F¶ kv{XobpsS IY. _w¥mtZiv \nehnenÃs¦nepw »ml eqbnk k-vIzbdns³d hntamN\ bp²¯n\p tijw 1972 12 lrZb`mK¯v Ct¸mgpw \mSIw XpScpIbmWv. Ipªp§Äs¡m¸w tlmfn ^manen Bip] `mht`ZanÃmsX AXphgn IS¶p t]mIp¶hscbpw {XnbnemWv i_v\w P\n¡p¶Xv. ]n¶oSv AhÄ a\ Im¯p\n¸n\nsS ]ndp]ndp¡p¶hscbpw knem¡p¶p, X\ns¡m¸w P\n¨hcn A©p t]À B NXzc¯ns³d Bg¯n \n¶pbcp¶ ]«mf¡mcpsS a¡fmb 'hmÀ t__okv' BsW¶v. kwKoX¯nÂ\n¶pw thÀXncn¡p¶ Hcp AhÀ Bscms¡bmsW¶v Iïp]nSn¡m³ AhÄ AZriyamb aXnepïv. Cd§n¯ncn¡p¶p. H¸w kz´w kzXzs¯bpw AhÄ tXSp¶p.

The films of Blanc Antonin includes The dream of a Shabnam Ferdousi made about 20 documentary films. ridiculous man (France, 2017, 28’), Blaha Lujza square She got the Best Shorts award for Bishkabbyo (The (Hungary-France, 2016, 26’), To all sons of our mother Poison Teller) in 2014 at Rainbow International Film (Belgium, 2016, 8’). Festival, London. Her film Born Together got the best documentary film award in women section, 2017 at Dhaka International Film Festival. 98 10TH IDSFFK INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

Covered with the blood of Dil Leyla Jesus Germany/2016/ Kurdish, German/71’ Nigeria, Italy/2015/English/70’

Direction, Screenplay & Direction Asli Ozarslan Production Sabrina Proske Production Tommaso Cotronei

For Richard, life is an unending cyclical journey At 26, a Kurdish-German woman is elected the to scratch out a living. Fetch water, take diesel youngest mayor in Turkey. She is elected mayor from the pipeline, try to sell it by the side of the of Cizre, a Kurdish capital city that lies in the war- road, go to school, study in the dorm, fetch water torn region at Turkey’s border with Syria and Iraq. again. If he wants to reach his goal – to get his It is here that Leyla was born, but after her father education and use it to break out of the vicious was killed by the Turkish military, she was sent at circle of his life – he can’t stop. The film director the age of 5 to live in Germany. After more than brings us closer to the life of poor Africans in the 20 years, she returns home. Her goal is to heal River Delta. and beautify the civil-war-torn city. dn¨mÀUn\v PohnXw Hcn¡epsamSp§m¯ h¼n¨ `qcn]£t¯msS 26mw hbÊn bm{XbmWv. shÅw tImcpI, ss]¸vsse\nÂ\n¶pw XpÀ¡nbnse Gähpw {]mbw Ipdª tabdmbn Uok FSp¡pI. tdmUcnIn sh¨p hn¡m³ XncsªSp¡s¸«ncn¡pIbmWv Hcp IpÀZnjv {ian¡pI, k-vIqfn t]mhpI, ]Tn¡pI AXphgn þPÀa³ bphXn. XpÀ¡nbpsS AXnÀ¯nbnepÅ, PohnX¯nse If¦nXamb hr¯¯nÂ\n¶v bp²¯n XIÀ¶ \Kc¯nemWv HutZymKnI c£ t\Sm³ AXp]tbmKn¡pI. B e£yw NpaXeIÄ. AtX \Kc¯nemWv sebvem ssIhcn¡Wsa¦n Ah\v Cu PohnXw XpSÀt¶ P\n¨Xv. bp²¯n Aѳ sImÃs¸«Xn\v tijw ]äp. ss\PÀ \ZnbpsS Xpcp¯nse Zcn{Zcmb A©mw hbÊn PÀa\nbnte¡v t]mtIïn B{^n¡¡mcpsS PohnX¯nte¡v kwhn[mbI³ h¶p AhÄ¡v. Ccp]Xp hÀj§Ä¡ptijw \s½ hen¨Sp¸n¡p¶p. AhÄ Xncn¨p h¶ncn¡p¶Xv P\n¨ \Kcs¯ bp²¯ns³d apdnhpIfn \n¶v tamNn¸n¡m\mWv.

The films of Tommaso Cotronei include: The Run away Asli Oezarslan has directed INSEL 36, which played in (2017), Covered with the Blood of Jesus (2015), Rio several international film festivals. She was recipient (2012), The Difference (2012), Scuola di in 2014 of the German Honorarium and in 2015 of the Uomini (2011), Tierra (2010), Le Unghie Le Lacrime Honorarium of the German Academy of Arts in film La Rosa (2009), Preparativi di Fuga (2008), Ritrarsi , and media arts. (2007), Lavoratori (2005). 10TH IDSFFK 99 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

Happily Ever After Egypt/2016/Arabic/71’ USA/France/Belgium/ Switzerland/2016/93’

Direction, Screenplay, Production Nada Riyadh, Direction Raul Peck Producers Remi Grellety, Raoul Ayman El Amir Camera Khalid Nadim, Ahmed Ismail, Peck, Hebert Peck Editing Alexandra Strauss Camera Mohamed El-Hadidi Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Turner Ross Animation Michel Blustein Sound Valerie Le Docte, David Gillain Music Alexei Aigui In the midst of the chaos of Egypt’s Arab Spring, Told entirely in the words of James Baldwin, filmmaker Nada Riyadh falls in love with Ayman. through both personal appearances and the text The initial euphoria makes way for doubt, anxiety of his final unfinished book project, I Am Not Your and blame – a metaphor for the disappointing Negro touches on the lives and assassinations trajectory of events in Egypt. When Ayman of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar decides to leave the country because of the Evers to bring powerful clarity to how the deteriorating social and political conditions, she image and reality of Blacks in America today is does everything she can to convince him to stay. fabricated and enforced. The escalating tension puts her commitment to remain in the country to the test.

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Nada Riyadh's short fiction Virtual was screened in Raoul Peck’s body of work includes films The Man various festivals. Her debut feature documentary film by the Shore; Lumumba; He directed and produced Happily ever after premiered at IDFA in 2016. Ayman Sometimes in April for HBO; Moloch Tropical; and his El Amir works as a script reader, editor and consultant latest film . His documentaries include for Torino Film Lab, Doha Film Institute, Robert Bosch Lumumba, Death of a Prophet; Desounen; Fatal Stiftung and Misr International Films. Assistance, etc. 100 10TH IDSFFK INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

India In a Day Money Puzzles 2016/India, UK/86’ UK/2016/English/51’

Direction Richie Mehta Editing Beverley Mills Direction Michael Chanan Production Jack Arbuthnott, Cassandra Sigsgaard

India In A Day is India’s largest crowd sourced Money Puzzles is about money and debt, documentary, the story of a single day, 10 austerity and solidarity, and alternative October 2015. The film is a unique document, economics. Filmed in 2015 in the UK, , capturing a remarkable range of characters and Spain, Belgium and , with contributors personal reflections on what it means to be alive ranging from children in the first to two erstwhile in India today, submitted by individuals from Ministers of Economy in the last, it questions across the country. the myriad forms of money in modern times, and the intimate link between money and debt. Alongside the crushing effects of austerity and the neoliberal agenda of finance capitalism which holds Europe in its grip, the film reports on P\§fnÂ\n¶v ]Ww kzcq]n¨v \nÀan¨ C´ybnse grassroots solidarity networks and ground-level Gähpw henb tUmIyqsa³ddn. 2015 HtÎm_À 10 anti-austerity initiatives which aim to construct F¶ Hä Znhk¯ns³d IYbmWnXv. C´ybn an alternative social economics. C¶p Pohn¨ncn¡p¶Xns³d AÀYsa´mWv F¶v At\zjn¡p¶ Cu tUmIypsa³ddnbn [\w, ISw, sNehp Npcp¡Â, _Z km¼¯nI cmPy¯ns³d hnhn[ `mK§fnÂ\n¶pÅ imkv{Xw F¶nhsb¸än {]Xn]mZn¡p¶ hyànIfpsS hnhcW§Ä DÄs¸Sp¯nbncn¡p¶p. tUmIypsa³ddn. bp sI, {Kokv, kvs]bn³, AÀP³do\ F¶nhnS§fn Nn{XoIcn¨ Cu Nn{Xw bqtdm¸ns³d km¼¯nI APï, ]W¯ns³d AkwJyw cq]§Ä, Bg§fn thtcmSnb irwJe XpS§nb Imcy§Ä NÀ¨sN¿p¶p.

Richie Mehta's first feature film, Amal won over 30 Michael Chanan is a seasoned documentarist, writer international awards, was nominated for 6 Genie and Professor of Film & Video at the University of awards. He directed I'll Follow You Down, a science- Roehampton, London. His films include Detroit Ruin fiction drama, and Siddharth, which premiered at of a City, The American Who Electrified Russia. In 2011 the Venice Festival. Siddharth was shortlisted for best he became the New Statesman’s first video blogger, foreign language film at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards. resulting in Chronicle of Protest. 10TH IDSFFK 101 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

Mostly Sunny One Ticket Please Canada/2016/English, Hindi/84’ Vienu bileti, ludzu Latvia/2016/English/65’

Direction Dilip Mehta Direction, Production Matiss Kaza Camera Aleksandrs Grebnevs, Noah Weisfogel Editing Gunta Ikere

Growing up in small-town Sarnia as the daughter A 78-year-old Indian woman in New York is the of strict Sikh parents, no one anticipated Sunny world’s most passionate theatre goer. Nicki Leone’s remarkable transformation into an adult Cochrane been going to at least one play every film star and Penthouse cover girl – not even day for more than 25 years. Always taking along Sunny herself. More astonishing still, Leone her large bags, Nicki is ready to fight for a free has reinvented herself in India as a mainstream seat at any show that’s worth her time. The reality TV star and actress beloved by elderly, culture-loving hustler has developed an millions of men and women, despite widespread array of ingenious means by which she acquires awareness of her spicy past. Mostly Sunny Partly free tickets to most New York theatres. Cloudy asks what makes Leone tick, and explores the birthplace of the Kama Sutra’s paradoxical relationship with sex. \yqtbmÀ¡n Xmakn¡p¶ 78 hbÊpÅ \n¡n sImlvtd³ F¶ C´y³ h\nX Hcp \mSIt{] IÀ¡i¡mcmb knJv amXm]nXm¡fpsS aIfmbn anbmWv. Ignª 25 hÀjambn AhÀ Znhkhpw Hcp P\n¨v t]m¬Xmcambn amdnb k®n entbmWns³d \mSIsa¦nepw ImWm³ t]mImdpïv. Xs³d henb ]cnhÀ¯\w XnI¨pw A{]Xo£nXambncp¶p. _mKpIÄ Ft¸mgpw sImïp\S¡mdpÅ \n¡n \oe¨n{X\mbnIbpsS `qXImeapïmbncp¶n«pw \à Hcp ]cn]mSn¡v koäv e`n¡m³ iWvT IqSm\pw C´ybn tImSn¡W¡n\v Bcm[IcpÅ dnbmenän XbmdmWv. \yqtbmÀ¡nse XnbädpIfn sSenhnj³ Xmcambpw t_mfnhpUv \SnbmbpsaÃmw \n¶v kuP\yambn Sn¡äv e`n¡m³ Nne kzbw Agn¨p]Wnbm³ k®n entbmWn\v Ignªp. amÀK§fpw kwk-vImcs¯ kvt\ln¡p¶ {]mbw k®n¡v e`n¨ koImcyXbpsS ImcW§sf¡pdn¨v sN¶ B kv{Xo Iïs¯nbn«pïv. At\zjn¡p¶ Nn{Xw.

Dilip Mehta's debut feature Cooking with Stella was Matiss Kaza is a Swedish filmmaker currently based premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in New York. One Ticket Please is his debut as director. in 2009. He made The Forgotten Woman (2008), a His films include Flames on the Soil (Latvia, fiction documentary about widows in contemporary India. It short), The Short Day (Latvia, documentary short),My was screened at numerous festivals and won critical Family Tree (Latvia, documentary), Month of the acclaim. Witches (Latvia, documentary). 102 10TH IDSFFK INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

Siberian Love Space with Memory Germany/2016/Russian/79’ Espacio con Memoria Spain/ 2016/Spanish/15’

Direction Olga Delane Production Frank Muller, Direction & Screenplay Luz Arnao, Berta Rico de Doppelplusultra Camera Olga Delane, Nikolai v. Torres Production Juan Vicente Blazquez Graevenitz Editing Philipp Gromov Camera Gorka Astigarraga

What does a woman need to be happy and A documentary produced by ECAM, a film school fulfilled? After 20 years of living in Berlin, the in Spain. director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian village, where she is confronted with traditional views of relationships, life and love. Siberian Love provides unrivalled insights into the (love) life of a Siberian village and seeks the truth around the universal value of traditional relationships. A freezing quest for love in rural Siberia.

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Olga Delane is a photographer, editor and director. . Her first documentary feature-length film Endstation Krasnokamensk – Ein Heimatbesuch (Final destination Krasnokamensk) ran successfully in many German art-house cinemas.

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The Letters The Revolution won’t be Las Letras Televised Mexico/2015/Spanish/77’ Senegal/2016/Wolof, French/110’

Direction Pablo Chavarria Gutierrez Production & Direction, Production Rama Thiaw Camera Amath Distribution Bengala Camera Diego Amando Moreno Niane Editing Axel Salvatori-Sinz, Rama Thiaw Garza Editing Israel Cárdenas, Pablo Chavarria Sound Yvan Broussegoutte, Xavier Thibault Gutierrez Sound Gerardo Villarreal Music Julio Torres (Sonosapiens) Music Keur Gui

Behind the dark, sensuous and almost In 2012, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade hallucinatory images, The Letters tells the grim began a highly controversial run for a third term, story about a school teacher and social activist, in violation of the nation’s constitution. Among who after a questionable trial was convicted the forces that rose up in protest was a peaceful for killing four police officers in a Mexican political movement, Y’en a Marre (literally “we’re province. The letters he wrote to his daughter fed up”), an alliance of hip-hop artists and from prison are a damning indictment against journalists. Rama Thiaw shadows rappers Thiat a corrupt system. The film that almost without and Kilifeu and their manager Gadiaga as they proper dialogues manages to be a sensory and crisscross Dakar to rock the youth vote. psychological portrait of both a place and a state of mind. saI-vknt¡mbn \mev t]meokv DtZymKØsc sk\K {]knU³dv Bb AÐpÅsb hmtZ 2012 sIm¶Xn\p hnNmcW¡v hnt[b\mb k-vIqÄ aq¶mw XhWbpw `cWm[nImcnbmhm³ {ian¨Xv A[ym]I\pw kmaqlnI {]hÀ¯I\pamb hnhmZambncp¶p. `cWLS\mhncp²amb Cu hyànsb¡pdn¨pÅ Nn{Xw. AbmÄ Pbnen sh¨v \S]Sns¡Xnsc cmPysa¼mSpw {]t£m`apbÀ¶p aIÄs¡gpXnb I¯pIÄ AgnaXnbn ap§nb Ahbn HcpIq«w am[ya {]hÀ¯Icpw hyhØnXns¡XnscbpÅ Ipä]{XamWv. IemImc·mcpw tNÀ¶v \S¯nb {]t£m`w thdn«v \n¶p.

Pablo Chavarria Gutierrez has directed feature films Rama Thiaw studied international economics and film Terrafeni, Tapetum Lucidum, The Rest of the World and in Paris. Rama Thiaw is a writer, director, and producer Alexfilm. His work has been shown in Distrital, Punto for the Senegalese film production company Boul de Vista, Archives, among others. His Fallé Images. She made in 2009. latest films are The Letters (2016) and Still the Earth Moves (2017). 104 10TH IDSFFK INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

The Streets Are Ours: Two Velvet Revolution Lives Cross in Karachi 2017/Cameroon, India, Philippines, UK, United States, Pakistan/ 2017/English, Urdu, Bangladesh/USA/57’ Hindi/ 17’ Direction & Executive Production Nupur Basu Direction Michelle Fiordaliso Production Nabeela Country Directors Illang Illang Quijano – Rasheed, Fawsia Mirsa Camera Anam Abbas, Tazeen Philippines; Deepika Sharma – India; Pochi Tamba Bari Editing Mina Fitzpatrick, Caitlin Dixon Nsoh and Sidonie Pongmoni – Cameroon; Eva Brownstein – USA/Bangladesh When Fawzia Mirza, an American actress meets In this exciting collaborative film – Velvet Sabeen Mahmud, a world renowned Pakistani Revolution – sixwomen directors take their lens activist and founder of a progressive cafe (T2F) up-close to Women Making News. In a world in Karachi, Mirza’s life changes forever. The ridden with conflict and dictatorial regimes film tells the story of Mahmud and Mirza’s lives where journalists are constantly under threat of intersecting in a transformational way and how both, state and non-state actors, what drives Mahmud’s message of peace, empathy and these women journalists to do their jobs?The self-expression lives on in Mirza and others, even documentary profiles women journalists who after her untimely death. The film contains the have paid a high price for speaking truth to penultimate interview with Sabeen Mahmud, power. conducted by writer/actress Fawzia Mirza three months before Mahmud was murdered. kXyw ]pd¯p sImïphcm\pÅ {ia§Ä¡v henb hne \ÂtIïn h¶ h\nXm am[ya{] Idm¨nbn Pohn¡p¶ k_o³ alvaqZv, hÀ¯IcpsS Iã¸mSpIsf ]pd¯psImïphcp¶ ^uknb anÀk F¶o cïp kv{XoIsf ]änbpÅ Nn{Xw. Bdp kv{Xo kwhn[mbIÀ tNÀs¶mcp¡nb tUmIyqsa³ddn. ap¼p \S¶n«nÃm¯ coXnbn tUmIypsa³ddnbmWnXv. ]mInØm\n sekv_nb³ BibapÅ Hcp \mSIw AhXcn¸n¡m³ ss[cy]qÀhw ap¶n«nd§pIbmWv ChÀ.

Michelle Fiordaliso is a writer/director/producer who Nupur Basu is an experienced print and television is the winner of a PEN Centre USA award for fiction. reporter and award winning documentary film maker. The short film Had Enough written by her in 2015 was She had stints with Indian Express, Doordarshan, shortlisted as part of the Colchester Film Festival. Ananda Bazaar Patrika and NDTV. Her documentaries In 2017 she was a semi-finalist in the Cinequest have been screened at major film festivals and BBC Screenwriting competition for Prime Cuts. apart from winning awards. 10TH IDSFFK 105 INTERNATIONAL NON-FICTION

War Memorial 2017/English/

Direction, Editing, Sound Steve Hawley

War Memorial is edited from Calling Blighty, a series of 60 moving 12minute British films made by WW2 soldiers sending messages home to their wives and families. The families of the men in the films are traced and the screenings in regional cinemas are recreated as they were 70 years ago. War Memorial is a different take on these strange and emotional films, which far from being reassuring, emphasises instead the men’s doubt and uncertainty, through the directorial decisions of the largely unknown army filmmakers. cïmwtemIalmbp²Ime¯v ]«mf¡mÀ ho«nepÅ `mcyamÀ¡pw IpSpw_mwK§Ä¡pw ImWm\mbn Ab¨ ktµiNn{X§sf¡pdn¨pÅ tUmIypsa³ddnbmWv CXv. {]mtZinI XnbädpIfnemWv Ch {]ZÀin¸n¡s¸«ncp¶Xv. {_n«ojv ssk\nI t£a UbcÎtdäv 12 an\näv ssZÀLyapÅ 400 kn\naIÄ \nÀan¨ncp¶p. 12 an\näv ssZÀLyapÅ 60 {_n«ojv Nn{X§fpsS ]c¼cbmb Imfn§v ss»ävenbn \n¶pw FUnäv sNbvXv \nÀan¨ tUmIypsaâdn B ]«mf¡mcpsS IpSpw_mwK§sf Xncªpt]mhp¶p.

Steve Hawley is Associate Dean of Research at Manchester School of Art. His innovative work includes Love Under MercuryandAmen ICA Cinema 2002. His video South Home Town was premiered at the New York Independent Film Festival.His archive film project Calling Blighty is the subject of a Channel 4 documentary. 106 10TH IDSFFK Maestro Wenders Wim

Wim Wenders (born 1945) is considered to be one of the most important figures in contemporary German film. In addition to his many prize-winning feature films, his work as a scriptwriter, director, producer, photographer and author also encompasses an abundance of innovative documentary films, international photo exhibitions and numerous monographs, film books and prose collections. He lives and works in Berlin, together with his wife Donata Wenders. After completing his debut feature out of University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich) THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK (1971) Wenders turned to shooting his trilogy, (1973), WRONG MOVE (1974) and (1975). His international breakthrough came with (1977). Wim Wenders has been honoured with countless awards at festivals around the world, including: the Golden Palm and the British Film Academy Award for PARIS, TEXAS (1984); the Director’s Prize in Cannes for (1987); the Golden Lion in Venice for THE STATE OF THINGS (1982); and the Silver Bear for (2000) at the Berlin International Film Festival. His documentary films BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1999), PINA (2011), and THE SALT OF THE EARTH (2014) have all been nominated for an Oscar. During the 2015 edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, Wenders was presented with the Honorary for his lifetime achievement. was part of the official programme of the Berlinale. Wenders’ photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the entire world since 1986. 10TH IDSFFK 107 Hcp Nn{XImcs³d ZriytcJIÄ

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108 10TH IDSFFK Maestro Wim Wenders

A Trick of Light Notebook on Cities and Clothes Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky Aufzeichnungen zu Kleidern und Stadten Germany/ German/ 1996/79’ West Germany, France/ 1989/English, Japanese, French/81’ Direction, Screenplay Wim Wenders Production Wim Wenders, Wolfgang Langsfeld, Veit Helmer Camera Direction Wim Wenders Production Wim Wenders, Jürgen Jurges, Andreas Giesecke Editing Peter Ulrich Felsberg Screenplay Wim Wenders Camera Przygodda Sound Heino Herrenbrück Robby Muller Editing Dominique Auvray Sound Jean- Paul Mugel Music Wim Wenders made this film together with Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion graduates of the University of Television and designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative Film Munich. It shows the beginnings of cinema process and ponders the relationship between in Berlin where the brothers Skladanowsky built cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age. a projector, the bioscope, at the same time as the Lumière brothers in France and Edison in America. Together they invented “moving images” in their very own, poetic, lovable and rather un-German way. The film begins a hundred years ago and ends in the year 1996, with Max Skladanowsky’s daughter Lucie who still remembers her father and the early days of cinema very well. The film was mainly shot on an old hand-crank camera from the 1920s. A silent movie in original slapstick style.

10TH IDSFFK 109 Maestro Wim Wenders

Pina Germany, France, UK/ 2010/German/100’ Chambre 666 West Germany, USA/ 1982/ English, French, German /50’ Direction, Screenplay Wim Wenders Production Gian-Piero Ringel, Erwin M. Schmidt, Wim Wenders Direction & Screenplay Wim Wenders Production Camera Helene Louvart, Jorg Widmer Music Thom Chris Sievernich Camera Agnes Godard Editing Sound Alexander Buck Editing Toni Froschhammer Chantal de Vismes Sound Jean-Paul Mugel Cast Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante, Pina Bausch, Rainer Behr During the 1982 , Wenders asks a number of film directors from around the Pina is a feature-length dance with the ensemble world to get, each one at a time, into a hotel of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, room, turn on the camera and sound recorder, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great and, in solitude, answer a simple question: German choreographer, who died in the summer “What is the future of cinema?” of 2009. He takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble and follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal – the place, which for 35 years was home.

110 10TH IDSFFK Tokyo Ga USA, Germany/1985/English/92’

Direction & Screenplay Wim Wenders Production Chris Sievernich, Wim Wenders Camera Edward Lachman Editing Solveig Dommartin, Jon Neuburger, Wim Wenders Music Laurent Petitgand Cast Chishu Ryu, Yuharu Atsuta, Herzog Werner, Chris Marker

Moved by the work of great director Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in his films.

10TH IDSFFK 111 Filmmaker in Focus Filmmaker Masri Mai

112 10TH IDSFFK eing a Palestinian filmmaker, Mai Masri’s works have always focused on Palestinians Bliving in Lebanese refugee camps. The Jordan born filmmaker has a degree in film production from University of California, Berkley and San Francisco State University. Soon after she finished her studies, Masri returned to Beirut to start making films. She started her film career by directing the documentary Under the Rubble together with her filmmaker husband Jean Chamoun in 1983. The film which was the harrowing attempt of the filmmaker to tell the real story behind the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon as it took place in Beirut, won the Special Jury Award at the Valencia Film Festival. In 1987 Mai Masri again collaborated with Chamoun to direct Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon. In this poignant documentary about courage, resistance and hope, Masri and Chamoun focused on the women who played a crucial role in fighting the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. The film won many awards. When Mai Masri returned to her hometown Nablus after 14 years, she discovered a new generation of Palestinian fighters: the children of the Intifada. Her film Children of Fire (1991) is a personal view into the lives of the children of the Palestinian uprising and captures their courageous story on film and paints a daring and intimate portrait. While Children of Shatila (1998) filmed two street children Farah and Issa who had to come to terms with the realities of growing up in a refugee camp, Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001) also focussed on a similar subject. This time it was about two teenage Palestinian girls, who managed to communicate with each other despite living miles apart in two different refugee camps. Shot in the aftermath of the liberation of south Lebanon from Israeli occupation and the beginning of the second Palestinian Intifada, the film went on to win 14 International Awards. In 2015 Masri directed her first feature film, 3000 Nights. Inspired by the true story of a young Palestinian mother who gave birth to her child in an Israeli prison, 3000 Nights is a story about resilience and the imagination in a genre that has rarely dealt with the experiences of women. Shot in a real prison in a cinéma-vérité style with handheld cameras, the film has a raw documentary edge that resonates with the reality it portrays. Premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, 3000 Nights was Jordan’s official entry for Oscar’s Best Foreign Film category that year. Mai Masri’s films are about ordinary people living in extraordinary times and how they manage to survive and hold onto humanity despite the devastating situations and hurdles in which they find themselves. The characters in her films bear a resemblance to her; they speak for her. They are not passive victims. Each of the women in her films is rebelling against one form of injustice or another. Her films echo the voices of those who are often dehumanized and dismissed as Palestinians without legitimate rights. Masri has directed, produced, photographed, and edited several award-winning films that have been shown all over the world at film festivals, art galleries, and on television channels. Her works include Under the Rubble (1983) Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon (1987), War Generation Beirut (1988), Children of Fire (1991), Hanan Ashrawi: A Woman of Her Time (1995), Children of Shatila (1998), Frontiers of Dreams and Fears(2001), Beirut Diaries (2006), 33 Days (2007) and 3000 Nights.

10TH IDSFFK 113 Filmmaker in Focus Mai Masri

3000 Nights 33 Days 3000 Layla 33 yaoum France, Lebanon/2015/Arabic, Hebrew/103’ Lebanon, Qatar/2007/Arabic/70'

Direction, Screenplay Mai Masri Camera Gilles Porte Direction, Production Mai Masri Camera Hussein Editing Michele Tyan Sound Editing Rana Eid Nassar, Mai Masri Music Rezina, Jan Garbarek, Editing Elias Chahine, Michele Tyan.

Iman, a young newly-wed Palestinian bride, is Filmed during the massive Israeli war on Lebanon arrested and incarcerated in a top-security Israeli in the summer of 2006, 33 DAYS chronicles prison where she gives birth to a baby boy. the daily lives of four young people working in As she struggles to survive and raise her child theatre, media and emergency relief. Through behind bars, she is torn between her instinct as their creativity and courage, the film narrates a mother and the difficult decisions she must some of the untold stories that forever marked make, finding through her relationship with the the lives of those who survived that critical other prisoners – both Palestinian and Israeli summer in Beirut. – the time and space to reflect, develop and mature as a young woman.

114 10TH IDSFFK Filmmaker in Focus Mai Masri

Beirut Diaries: Truth, Children of Shatila Lies & Videos Lebanon/1998/English/50’ Yaumiyat Beirut: haqa'eq wa akadheeb wa Lebanon /Arabic/ 2006 /79’ Direction Mai Masri Production Jean Khalil Chamoun Direction Mai Masri Production Jean Chamoun Camera Fouad Sleiman Editing Hussein Younes Camera Hussein Nassar Editing Farah Ahmed Fayed, Sound Salim El Saleh Michele Tyan Music Rayess Bek

Beirut Diaries follows the story of a group of Living in Beirut’s Palestinian Shatila refugee young Lebanese students who occupied Beirut’s camp, two streetwise children, Farah and Issa use city centre in the turbulent period following their imagination and creativity to come to terms the assassination of former Prime Minister with the realities of growing up in a refugee camp Rafik Hariri in 2005. Through the turbulent that has survived massacre, siege and starvation. experiences, dreams and tribulations of Nadine and her young friends, the film explores the role of young people and the crucial questions facing Lebanon at that decisive turning point in its history.

10TH IDSFFK 115 Filmmaker in Focus Mai Masri

Frontiers of Dreams and Fears Hlam al-manfa Palestine/2001/Arabic/56’

Direction, Production Mai Masri Camera Fouad Suleiman, Hussein Nassar, Jimmy Michel Editing Michele Tyan Music Anouar Brahem

Frontiers of Dreams and Fears focuses on two Palestinian teenage girls – Mona from Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon and Manar from Dheisha camp in Palestine. Living in refugee camps miles apart, the two girls manage to communicate with each other despite the overwhelming barriers separating them. Shot in 2000 in the aftermath of the liberation of south Lebanon from Israeli occupation and the beginning of the second Palestinian Intifada, the film explores the intense connections formed between young people whose insights about displacement and occupation defy their age.

116 10TH IDSFFK Filmmaker in Focus

Vipin Vijay Filmmaker in Focus Filmmaker Vijay Vipin

Vipin Vijay, award winning Indian screenwriter and Film Director graduated from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. In 2003, he received the Charles Wallace Arts Award for research at the British Film Institute (BFI), London. His films have won short Tiger Award – Rotterdam, Best Film – Signs Du Nuit, Paris, National Film awards, India (twice), Grand Jury Award MIFF, Golden pearl HIFF, Kodak award, Kerala State Film & TV Award (thrice), Padmarajan Puraskaram, IDPA Award (thrice), Incredible India Award-IFFI, John Abraham National Awards (thrice), Hassankutty Award-IFFK 2010. Apart from widely shown in film festivals like Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Oberhausen, São Paulo, Nantes, Montreal, Japan, Vladivostok and art museums like Serpentine Gallery, London, Ullens Centre for Contemporary art (UGCA) Beijing, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, two of his works have been acquired for permanent archives at the United States Library of Congress. He is a recipient of the Sanskriti Award for cultural achievement in filmmaking in India. The prestigious Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany 2015 honoured him with a PROFILE, showcasing his works.

10TH IDSFFK 117 It seems we need to carry the film ourselves, like the rock of Sisyphus. IMAGES THAT RE-ENCHANT THE WORLD – The Importance of being Vipin Vijay

C S Venkiteswaran

“Only the fantastic is likely to be true at the cosmic level’ - Teilhard de Chardin

‘Nobody will survive for eternity here / It is a matter of few days ahead and after’ sings the itinerant bard in Vipin Vijay’s Video game. But this video journey like all his other films, is not just about transience of things and life; it is also about survival, adaptation, transformation and transmogrification of images, objects and memories which are nothing but different states of being. Vipin Vijay’s films portray the eternal drama the never-ending interfaces between times, mythical and historic; technologies, new and old; ways of living, past and present. They are image- acts of remembering and re-membering, recording, memorizing and memorializing. Human presences, objects, spaces and images from the past and present jostle here in this video game of memory and record. All Vipin Vijay’s films traverse through liminal spaces and explore the various experiences that cut across and connect cinema and reality, memory and image, dream and experience, man and machine, fiction and documentary. The words of Teilhard de Chardin seem to resonate through his image-making practices that

118 10TH IDSFFK always pushes the boundaries of the people, objects, landscapes, texts, images sensible, the rational, the ‘realistic’ and the and sounds – resonate with Time. They seem ‘normal’. This exploration invites a uncanny to persist through time or are scarred by it. A and surreal combinations of sound and moment of reflection is enough for them to image, mind and body, objects and spaces, explode into the tumultuous multiplicity that movement and stillness, music and silence, they are. The marks, receptacles, memorials human and non-human etc. and ruins, (or esoteric signs and warnings?) In many ways, Vipin’s films are a of time in various forms appear in this world: reaffirmation of the original promise of ancient texts, legends, scrolls, rituals, rock cinema – to be captivated by the world, carvings, edicts, idols, images, occult texts and in this digital era, to re-enchant it. They etc form part of the warp to the woof of are attempts at recreating the elemental/ the human narrative that is played out in primal magic of cinema deriving out of the the foreground. In his own words, ‘ I try to visceral interface between camera and make a conscious attempt for a dialogue the physical world, exploration of time in between tradition and self through my works stasis and duration, linear and cosmic, by creating different tangents of conceptual which is rendered and explored through digressions. Through this process, I give the dimensions of space and objects. So it myself a chance to be looked upon, and I is a movement towards the inner and the sometimes fail. But that’s the only possible outer, into states of body and mind like the way out if we want to strive more in the realm menstruating and the , strange, expansive of “form”. spaces, idols – live and frozen in time, He is one filmmaker who is extremely in strange and sometimes forlorn spaces nostalgic about cinema and obsessively that gradually seem to encompass epic holds on to its primal charm. His digital sense potentials.. easily captures and resonates with magic What strikes one immediately in Vipin’s of cinema, as it effortlessly moves from the films would be his images that are most human to the post-human, from the mythical often spectral and always engaging the to the historical, from the esoteric to the viewer with a strange kind of presence that banal: ‘The concept of pure representation is intensified by duration – their persistence still seems a delusion. You still need to hold in time (historic and pre-historic) and also yourself, to create a real urge in yourself, to stretching the linear film-time within which see films and also to make films. Otherwise it unfolds. These images invite an intense you will lose the myth. One should allow kind of engagement, drawing us into its some time to build an organic relationship vortex, and often through juxtapositions of between oneself and the digital technology. various kinds – humans, landscapes, idols, I think we should look into our film-building machines, everyday and occult objects, method, generally, can we provide some object that acquire occult charge through space for some sort of “irresponsible light- the magic they are capable of invoking.. He heartedness” in the case of image-making or layers these images with sound and music, meaning-making?’ invocations and chants, texts and scrolls, These films offer just that, the irresponsible musings and commentaries – all of which freedom to roam through image-worlds converse together to create a sensorium of and world-images, to reflect upon surfaces sorts, which is also the original promise/ teeming with under-worlds, to concourse charm of cinema. with bodies celebrating and trembling at Another trajectory of thought that persists possibilities, to converse with mind-bodies in Vipin films is that of tradition in the and body-minds, mythical realities and reality deepest sense – everything around him – myths..

10TH IDSFFK 119 Filmmaker in Focus VIPIN VIJAY

Unmathabudham Jagath Hawamahal The Egotic World Palace of the Winds 2000/33’ 2004/58’ Direction & Screenplay Vipin Vijay Production Camera & Direction Vipin Vijay Screenplay Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Camera Tuhinabha Majumdar/Vipin Vijay Production Rajiv Milind Nagamulle Editing Pranom Dutta Mazumdar Mehrotra, PSBT Editing Debkamal Ganguly Sound Sound Sayan dev Mukherjee Subhadeep Sengupta A boy is entrapped inside an abode, inside a A video on the holy little box, the radio. hole in the earth that is actually located in an The visual layer of video is cracked open industrial belt. He escapes from this abode for through various modes of displacements and disjunctures, overlaps and reorientations, of three days of perfect freedom and goes back on visual and sonic objects to get into the fold the fourth. Now he finds himself above worldly of sound. A film about listening and related pleasures. He rejects the idea of liberation. He cognition that produces a spectrum of sound attains deep sleep and merges into the black and other auditory hallucinations through which hole he is in, bearing the sorrow of the future. the viewer may grapple with what radio is – a He sacrifices himself in an agitation within this liberating instrument that allows the space of industrial zone. yours to work in you.

Video Game Broken Glass, Torn Film 2006/30’ 2007/1’ Direction Vipin Vijay Screenplay Debkamal Ganguly, Direction Vipin Vijay Production Vipin Vijay for IFFK Vipin Vijay Production Rajiv Mehrotra, PSBT Camera Amlan Datta Editing Debkamal Ganguly Camera Vipin Vijay Editing Debkamal Ganguly Sound Subhadeep Sengupta Sound Debkamal Ganguly, Vipin Vijay A complex video journey on a motorcar that Signature film for the International Film Festival incorporates mythic themes of questing and of Kerala 2007 where through subversive image searching, for a promise of a different future politics a kind film history is been recounted. and yet also serves as a map of current cultural desires, dreams and fears. It evokes not only digital game space as an aspect of the real, but the pursuit of video within the understanding of a game, replete with strategies, movements, and counter-movements. 120 10TH IDSFFK Filmmaker in Focus VIPIN VIJAY

Poomaram Vishaparvam A Flowering Tree Venomous folds 2007/Malayalam/57’ 2012/Malayalam/30’

Direction, Screenplay, Camera & Sound Vipin Vijay Editing: Sujith Sahadev Production Rajiv Mehrotra, Direction, Screenplay, Camera, Editing & PSBT Art Direction Pratap R Models Atmaja, Kani, Sound Vipin Vijay Production Rajiv Mehrotra, PSBT Jose Raphel A new relational origin story that women's A traditional toxicologist, a convict, a herpetologist, menstrual rituals are the roots of human culture, a traditional healer – They ponder deep to get closer and that in human evolution women and men to the reality of things which are under layer upon have markedly different relationships to blood. layer of images. The video is an interpretation of Metaformic theory, postulated by Feminist Author Judy Grahn. Metaform, briefly, means an embodied or enacted idea with menstruation at its base.

Chitrasutram Bhoomiyil Chuvadurachu The Image Threads Feet upon the ground 2011/Malayalam/104’ 2014/175’ Direction & Screenplay Vipin Vijay Production Direction, Screenplay Vipin Vijay Production Unknown Films with support from Hubert Bals Film Fund, Rotterdam, Goteborg Film Fund, Goteborg, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Camera Sweden, and the Global Film Initiative, US Camera Reju Ambady Editing Debkamal Ganguly Sound Shahnad Jalal Editing Debkamal Ganguly Subhadeep Sengupta A computer teacher, his black-magician grandfather The creative self of the Master gets explored and a cyber-creature -a series of pre-destined through self-reflections, memories and rendezvous, both online and offline, over the conceptual interventions. Two strands of Adoor shreds of mnemonic time and space, at the Gopalakrishnan's artistic becoming over the cleavages of various parlours of subculture- finally decades: queries about socio-cultural reality and the narrative images of the computer screen are search for the significant cinematic form have drained off from the colour and the texture, the been braided and positioned again and again, to images collapse down to a mere pulsating pixel, sense that the questions of life and questions of potentially to start another cycle of the story once again. form ultimately got merged one into the other. 10TH IDSFFK 121 VIENNA SHORTS

CURATORS NOTE Started off as a student project (with all the advantages and disadvantages of the youthful enthusiasm), VIS Vienna Shorts grew to be Austria’s largest short film festival and its first Academy Qualifying Festival gathering at each edition more than 10,000 visitors. The festival features four competition sections, with films selected from more than 3,500 submissions and are separated into four sections: Fiction & Documentary (international narrative and documentary shorts), Animation Avantgarde (international innovative short animation films), the National Competition (current Austrian short film-making no matter the genre) and Screen sessions (international and national music videos). Apart from these, every year the festival chooses a special thematic Focus that deals through cinema with current political and social issues. This year, VIS Vienna Shorts invites its audiences to Trust Me – the sentence on which our most basic human interactions are based, our vital private relationships and our communal living, our entire inner and outer relations. Moreover, there are several special sections, each with a unique vision and approach: Spotlight (paying tribute to masters of short film), kijvis (film screenings and education programmes for children and teenagers), Midnight Movies (with erotic, trashy and scary films), Academy (a series of talks, panels, and networking events) and an Artists-in-Residence programme.

Carla Maria Losch, programmer and festival coordinator at VIS Vienna Shorts where she also counsels the curating process, heads the film education section and the Artist-in- Residence programme. Carla has been working with the Oscar qualifying short film and animation festival (formerly VIS Vienna Independent Shorts) since 2011 in different positions, beginning with head of hospitality. From 2008 until 2015 she studied philosophy, Scandinavian studies and film theory in Vienna and Helsinki; since 2015 she holds a diploma degree in film and media studies. She worked as an assistant director in theatre, production manager and coordinator for film projects and programmed the international short film competition at /slash Film Festival in Vienna. Besides the main festival, she organises and realises film education workshops for young people and is actively involved in the newly founded Vienna Shorts Agency that focuses on innovative formats for short film. In 2017 she contributed the kids and youth programme to Kyiv International Short Film Festival.

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A Brief History of Princess X Beer & Calippo France, UK/2016/ English/7’ Bier & Calippo Germany/2017/German/27’ Direction Gabriel Abrantes Direction Paul Ploberger Summer, an old camper and a sense of freedom. The sculptor and artist Brâncusi was Jojo wants to accompany her boyfriend Toni and commissioned to create a bust of Marie his band on tour. Her dad would allow it, if she Bonaparte, Napoleon’s great-niece. Instead, did well in school. Everything is ready and the he created a future-inspired, gilded bronze anticipation is great. Too bad that Jojo might be phallus. A Brief History of Princess X is also a pregnant, even though they “really used condoms story of early modernism, the emerging science a lot”. And even worse that her dad gets wind of it of psychoanalysis and the first studies of female and Toni has a crush on the drummer. sexuality. And at the same time a very fast-paced and entertaining caricature of the art scene. Bullet proof – Ventil Germany/2016/ No Dialogue/10’ Direction Florian Kindlinger, Peter Kutin Summer, an old camper and a sense of freedom. Jojo wants to accompany her boyfriend Toni and his band on tour. Her dad would allow it, if she did well in school. Everything is ready and the anticipation is great. Too bad that Jojo might be pregnant, even though they “really used condoms a lot”. And even worse that her dad gets wind of it and Toni has a crush on the drummer. And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool I'm Not from Here Japan/2016/Japanese/28’ Chile, Denmark, Italy, /2016/ Spanish/26’ Direction Nagahisa Makoto Direction Maite Alberdi, Giedre Zickyte

The to Nowhere passes through Memories and forgetfulness, alienation and Saitama, Akane and her friends are convinced of belonging. In the case of 88-year-old Josebe, a it. For 15 years they have been living in the city Basque suffering from dementia, who lives in a that nearly bores them to death. Not even the nursing home in Chile, these notions become 400 liberated goldfish in the pool of their high blurred. A sense of not belonging and questions school can change that. The only distraction about her roots, her home, define the entire is the trips with their bicycles and excessive movie. At the same time, it is a sensitive portrait karaoke sessions. of an incredibly strong woman. Laughing allowed.

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Casino First and Foremost Canada/2016/ No Dialogue/4’ In erster Linie Germany/2016/German/6’ Direction Steven Woloshen Direction Veronika Schubert Steven Woloshen has been working with film since the 1980s, primarily using the technique of Elusive shapes, reminiscent of geographical scratching or scribbling in the sense of abstract borders, pass by our eyes. These are imaginary “direct animation.” With Casino, Woloshen maps resulting from cloud formations engraved processes a personal loss: that of his father, who on more than 3,000 glass plates and recorded in enjoyed going to the casino. The artist avoids all time-lapse by Veronika Schubert. The soundtrack gravity and instead creates an airy homage full of is a collage of political platitudes and media colour and lively choreography of cards, roulette clichés regarding the refugees who arrived in wheels, and dice. Austria in the summer of 2015. A documentation of overburdening.

Everything Good luck, Orlo! United States/2017/English/11’ SreCno, Orlo! Hungary, Slovakia/2016/Slovenia/14’ Direction David O Reilly It’s like David OReilly’s cool image worlds were Direction Sara Kern made for computer games, even if his second game, Everything, also does not follow any conventions and instead asks gamers to be A baby is dead. Little Orlo has to watch his patient. The intentional imperfections in the parents overwhelmed with grief. The camera movements and characters alternating between remains very close to the young protagonist and micro- and macrocosm are charming and funny, his exploration of a world that, in his eyes, is still thus making the “machinima”—excerpted from enchanted and hard to understand. His desire to the game—a great movie and at the same time a return happiness to his family finally forces him beautiful reverence to the Eames classic, Powers take a shocking action. of Ten. 124 10TH IDSFFK C uraTED Programmes Vienna Shots

Im Wohnzimmer Orogenesis Germany/2015/German/2’ Spain/2016/No Dialogue/ 8’

Direction Alexander Gratzer Direction Boris Labbe Black-and-white photographs where one is not quite sure whether they show mountainous drawings about the drab landscapes or microscopic surfaces: digital monotony of everyday life. image distortions and morphing create oceans and disintegrating surfaces in this fascinating visual experiment; the images are continuously distorted and straightened out. A haunting sound accompanies the foreignness of the seemingly self-transforming matter and takes us into an unknown world.

The Rabbit Hunt Territory – The Blaze United States/2017/English/12’ France/2017/English/6’

Direction Patrick Bresnan Direction Guillaume Alric, Jonathan Alric

It’s the start of a normal day for a family in The tearful return of a young man to his family Florida: cornflakes for breakfast and slowly and friends in Algiers: The initial question of why packing for a trip. Suddenly we find ourselves he had to leave his home and what might have on the outskirts of burning sugar cane fields, happened to him quickly becomes secondary. watching the family catch the escaping hares. Big emotions in simple, well-structured shots of Speed, strength, and courage are required to everyday life coalesce with scenes of dancing catch the rabbits with bare hands. A film with and playing, and we are granted a look at the strong images and an eerie appeal, from which protagonist’s attempt at finding a way back into there is no escape. his former environment.

10TH IDSFFK 125 MASTER CLASS Ranjan Palit on Cinematography

RANJAN PALIT Cinematographer, filmmaker, musician, Ranjan Palit is a trained professional from the Film and Television Institute of India. He has been working as a documentary film-maker and cameraman for the past 30 years and has shot more than a hundred documentaries, on themes ranging from protest poetry to the Bhopal gas tragedy and the Kashmir unrest. As a director his very first film Voices from Baliapal (1990) that won golden conch. His fiction films as a cinematographer include Dreaming Lhasa, In Othello and Saat Khoon Maaf. As a filmmaker, he has made or co-directed a dozen films, including Forever Young, on the music of Bob Dylan; and In Camera: Diaries of a Documentary Cameraperson. A recipient of several national and international awards, Ranjan Palit returned three National Awards in 2015 in protest against the political climate in the country and the developments at FTII. His filmography includes 250 commercials, 10 short films, 110 documentaries, 12 documentaries. His debut feature film Lord of the Orphans is under production. He has done a lot of workshops at SRFTII, FTII, Sristhi, Whistling Woods, and conducted master classes in Busan, Helsinki, Yogjakarta, Berkeley, Austin and Teipei.

Date: 18th June Venue: Hotel Horizon Time: 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

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CURATOR'S NOTE IAWRT is a global organisation of professional women working in electronic and allied media with a mission to strengthen initiatives that ensure women's views and values are an integral part of programming and to advance the impact of women in media. The India chapter of the IAWRT was set up as a non-profit trust with a network of members across the country. The main activity of the chapter is to organise the annual IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival held every year around International Women's Day in New Delhi. It showcases works by women directors of Asian origin ranging from animation, non- fiction, short/feature fiction, experimental and student films. The festival was launched in 2005 and has grown in strength and popularity with film makers coming from all over the world to participate. Soundphiles was curated as part of the 2017 edition.

SAMINA MISHRA Samina Mishra is a documentary filmmaker, writer and teacher based in New Delhi, with a special interest in media for and about children, and in the ways that the arts can be included in education. She is currently teaching a Film Studies programme at Pathways World School Noida, collaborating on Torchlight, a web journal on libraries and bookish love, and conducting a film workshop for the NGO, Ankur Society for Alternatives in Education, to create a series of short films by young women from working class settlements titled Dilliwali.

IRAM GHUFRAN Iram Ghufran is a filmmaker and artist working in moving image, sound and text. Her work has been screened in several international art and cinematic contexts including the Berlin Film Festival, Experimenta India, and SAARC Film Festival. She has won National Award and award for best short film at IDSFFK. Iram has co-curated several editions of Soundphiles under the ambit of IAWRT’s Asian Women’s Film Festival. Iram is currently enrolled for a practice based PhD at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster.

10TH IDSFFK 127 C uraTED Programmes Soundphiles Soundphiles by IAWRT’s In A Sea of Other Voices Asian Women’s Film Festival 2016/Artists: Namrata Mehta & Prerna Curators Samina Mishra, Iram Ghufran Bishnoi (India)/03:19

Soundphiles is an experiment in the practice of As you lift your hands up for security check, listening. It emerged as a conversation between swipe your smart card across the turnstile, artists, filmmakers and radio practitioners. The walk down the stairs, or up the escalators and first edition of Soundphiles was curated for stand by for the train to come; as you mind the 10th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival in the gap, stand away from the doors, sit in a 2014. Since then it has been a regular feature of designated space, and refrain from eating, taking the festival and has travelled to other contexts photographs or talking to strangers, remember including the Dharamsala International Film to listen closely. Tongues touch the top of the Festival (2014), Transmissions 3 (2015) and palette to create sounds that become words that IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival Kathmandu become sentences, recorded and repeated – for (2017). you – to listen to, rely upon, act in accordance to and embody over time. In a Sea of other Voices, you will come to recognise the construction of instruction in one of Delhi’s most familiar soundscapes – the . It was created using interviews with Rini Simon Khanna and Shammi Narang, the voicers of the Delhi Metro, as part of Listen Up! Delhi, curated by Diana Bhoepae Antakshari Campbell Betancourt. 2017/Artists: Reshma Pritam, Tenzin Kunchok (India)/7’ Jeep Mein Beep Dil Mein Dhak 2017/Artist: Agents of Ishq (India)/7’ One of my earliest memories of hanging out with my newly found Tibetan friends, in the late ‘90s “He winked at me in the rear-view mirror and was a giant poster of Madhu Bala next to a tiny I was overcome with shyness.” Once Chandni altar with a picture of His Holiness the Dalai meets this jeep driver and their love story gathers Lama, benignly smiling down upon myfriends speed, it is heart-in-the-mouth romantic twists as they played antakshri. The first time this and turns and the speed breaker of respectability happened I was leftbemused. I listened hard cannot slow it down. A story of passionate trying to detect a hint of irony or a note of parody romance from Banda, UP. A podcast from the butthey sang in earnest, melodiously enunciating Agents of Ishq series Love Sex Aur India created all the ‘foreign’ Hindi words. Andtheir repertoire in collaboration with Khabar Lahariya. far exceeded mine. ‘Bhoepae Antakshri’ or Tibetans’ Antakshri, is a lyrical slice from an evening spent at a café, with a new set of young Kabariiiiaaaaa Tibetan friends, in the same place where I first 2014/Artist: Rashmi Kaleka (India)/06:32 heard my old Tibetan friends sing Hindi film songs all those years ago. Kabari Walla is India’s inherent voice that lends to the recycling of waste collected from door to door in every urban city.

Farz-I Muhal/ As If Neuro-ICU 2014/Artist: Nazli Deniz (Turkey)/04:47 2014/Artist: Sindhu Thirumalaisamy (India)/05:28 A woman has a dream every night. Then she thinks about her dream and tells us. Do Field recordings from a neuro-ICU are layered with childhood memories, family and growing up have voice-notes of the artist and of the patients’ family impact in her life? Is it a dream or real life or her members–about the act of recording one’s own subconscious? voice, of speaking with the hope of being heard. 128 10TH IDSFFK C uraTED Programmes Soundphiles Number Unreachable Swimming Pool 2015/Artist: Usha Rao (India)/5’ 2015/Artist: Madiha Aijaz (Pakistan)

A big plane with hundreds of travellers aboard Swimming Pool is a radio short which is a portrait went missing in the early hours of 5 March2014. It of a middle-aged swimming instructor who is disappeared leaving a host of speculations in its single, spirited and at ease with herself and her wake. In the long days that followed, the 10 digits body. Once a local swimming champion, she of a phone number were my only hope of contact tries to make a difference in the community of with a beloved friend who was on that flight, housewives in her own little way by teaching the sound of a ringing phone the only tangible them swimming at a small community pool. A trace that was suggestive of her. The piece loops glimpse into her story is also a glimpse into together the sounds that create a presence, and the middle-class neighbourhood of Gulshan in brings together a past and a hope of the future. Karachi - a melting pot of different ethnicities The phone plays the role of an emissary that and dialects. It is also an intimate portrayal of a attempts to put me in touch with her, who is now swimming instructor whose experience of ageing unreachable. and conformity eventually overshadows her passion for swimming as she falls prey to her own unrealized desires. Sonderfrooh 2016/Artist: Aruna Rao (India)/04:41 War from 1980 till today 2016/Artist: Shiva Sanjari (Iran)/04:36 How was language formed? How did meaning become? Where were the sounds and how did War between Iran and Iraq started suddenly they come together? This short piece attempts with an attack from Iraq in 1980.The Iraqi army a narration through words that already have intruded from the south of Iran, and the people in meaning, and through utterances and glitch the south were first affected by the war. They lost and noise. It is a journey from the known to the their homes and families in a very short time. The incomprehensible to the understandable. It is war went on for 8 years on a daily bases and after a playful poetry-like take on breaking sense, that, Iran was always on the news, expecting to creating distortions and disturbances and have another war with the US or Israel and that bringing sounds together to (perhaps) make made the lives of people stressful. They worried new sense. We face this constantly in language, about facing and repeating the same bitter as older words are pushed out of memory, and experience again, every moment until now. The new compositions of syllables start a rampage films narrates how we have lived these years, in colloquial spaces. As more people start with real war and the shadow of war and, in understanding, the stronger its territory becomes. fact, we may have slowly got used to it. We tried It’s kinda like a rad way o’ pushin one’s plume finding our peace somehow, even in war, with the inta the urban fray, nay? help of the mothers, who were strong enough to handle this most tragic time with their children, in war.

Threads As Yet Undone 2014/Artists: Ruchika Negi, Amit Mahanti (India)/5’

In Malegaon, you measure time through the beats of the loom. Rhythms push thread into cloth, a picture begins to form. Asynchronous, a flicker, snatches of a film you saw last Friday. The sheer whiteness of cloth blinds your eye. You hear the voice in your mind. You fix new thread in an empty spindle. How far could it wander? 10TH IDSFFK 129 Animation from Latin America

The animator, scriptwriter, painter and professor, Tomas Welss, is one of the specialists in the genre in Chile. His Animation filmography offers a critical view of human nature, with black humour and an original use of colour and Gestuallity. He has received several prizes and monographic cycles, retrospectives and exhibitions of his graphic work at festivals like Toulouse, Monterrey, Valdivia, Trieste, Alexandria, Geneva, Cartagena, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Guadalajara, Quito, etc.

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Bogota me Kafka Guida Colombia/2016/7’ Brazil/2015/11’ Direction Camilo Cogua, Ricardo Arce Direction, Animation & Voice Rosana Urbes Editing Julian Sanchez Sound Eloisa Arcila Production RR Animacao De Filmes, As a tribute to the Metamorphosis of Franz Belisa Proenca Kafka in the first centenary of its publication, Guida, a sweet lady who has been working as 25 Colombian entertainers were summoned by a courthouse archivist for 30 years, decides to the Bogotá Short Film Festival – BOGOSHORTS change her mundane routine when she sees a in its 13th edition and ASIFA Colombia to create newspaper ad about life drawing classes at a an animated version of the work to Bogota. In cultural centre. animation, the first frame of each sequence is the last drawing of the previous sequence; the animators did not know the previous sequence and the one that follows to the one that realized.

Fluxos La Casa Triste Brazil/2015/ 3’ The Sad House Mexico/2013/13’ Direction Diego Akel Direction, Screenplay, Animation Sofia Carrillo The Fluxos is an experimental work done in stop Camera Paola Chaurand Editing Uri Espinosa motion and clay motion. The director creates The story of a family told through objects found in organic and geometric shapes to suit the flow of junk shops and flea markets. his inspirations. Sofia Carrillo has worked in the areas of Animation and Art Direction. Her second work Out of Control, participated in national and international festivals such as Annecy, Sitges and Sundance. Her third work Prita Noire, was awarded the Silver Ariel Award for Best Animated Short Film (2012).

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La Noria Night 7’ Noche Chile/1997/12’ Direction & Screenplay Karla Castaneda Production Luis Tellez Camera Alejandro Cantu Animation Luis Direction Tomas Welss Tellez/Karla Castaneda Editing Carlos Bolado Sound Enrique Greiner

An encounter between a man and a woman in the In a small town, time stops for a parent who has impunity of the night. It allows everything that lost his son. light inhibits and contracts.

Manos Libres Chile/ 2000/ 15’ Paraiso Terrenal Earthly Paradise Direction Tomas Welss Chile /2010/17.40’

A solitary woman, although surrounded by her Direction, Screenplay, Animation Tomas Welss children, drives her car to an out-of-control Production Chilean Ministry of Culture, University of destination. the Americas of Santiago

An older man – a hunchback – walks through a gray city. While waiting for a bus, he notices a poster inviting him to a better world. And so begins the journey into a magical world, during which, the man will overcome several hurdles eventually arriving at an unknown place.

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Pasta Puntos Chile/2007/9’ Argentina/2013/9’ Direction Screenplay Tomas Welss Direction, Screenplay Patricia Gualpa Production Bruno Bettati, Cristobal Sobera Production Patricia Gualpa-Juan Pascual Sgro Animation Tomas Welss, Néstor Perez, Marcia Vera Animation Juan Pascual Sgro A man and a woman are sitting facing each other, Editing Juan Pascual Sgro and are eating pasta. Through the food they are able to express their love and disappointment. A series of animated interviews, whose main They become close and then distant, through theme is diversity, seeks to account for the validity playful interaction they share a unique language, and heterogeneity of the points of view. with sounds, effects and music. The waiter brings more pasta, but they are distracted, apparently they fail to recognize each other when they stop eating.

Prita Noire Verde que te Quiero Black Doll Chile/ 2003/ 21’ 2011/8.10’ Direction Tomas Welss Direction, Screenplay Sofia Carrillo The film deals with the metaphorical Production Alex Briseno/ Sofia Carrillo/ Carolina manifestations of human envy. Cardenas Camera Paola Chaurand Editing Uri Espinozade los Monteros Sound Odin Acosta

A creepy tale of two sisters bonded and bound by the ties that bind: co-dependence, separation, anxiety and routine.

10TH IDSFFK 133 of 20th century, many travelled to Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma etc; the I and II World Wars drew many youngsters left their homes to join the British army to fight the colonial master’s battles in distant lands. In Migrant Bodies, the 1970’s following the Gulf boom, thousands of young men went to the Middle East. In the HNative earts – 1990's, the IT revolution and the Y2K problem triggered another wave of migration, this time Malayalee to US and Europe. A diasporic community for long, Kerala had Stories from been a money order economy for decades, depending on the remittances of millions of the Gulf its young sons and daughters working all over the world. But, very few stories have been told CURATORS NOTE about them. While their remittances help to hold the much celebrated ‘Kerala Model’, their rom time immemorial people have moved narratives have seldom found a rightful place from one place to another due to natural or F either in the public domain or in its literature political calamities, or in search of better life and or arts. But for a few significant contributions opportunities. In recent times, international and by writers like , , intra-national movements of people for various Nirmala and some bloggers, the dreams reasons have increased multifold. But, despite and frustrations, anxieties and hopes of the its prevalence and long history, migration and migrant Malayalees have not been part of the migrant populations are still a very sensitive political imagination or development agenda political and economic issue all over the world, as back home. is evident from the recent political developments in US, Britain and Europe, where one can see the Migration, whether out of choice or necessity, spectre of migration haunting the powers-that-be. is a transformative experience. It brings one into contact with the Other - in whose land one We are left with a clutch of questions without has to seek a living, and find a space of one’s answers: Whom does land belong to? How long own. These films made by Gulf Malayalees does one have to stay in a place to make it one’s living and working in Kuwait explore and homeland? How many generations make a land express the dilemmas and struggles, a ‘native’ place? When capital and technology experiences and concerns of Malayalees moves freely and are made to accelerate across working there. national boundaries, why not labour? Has the desperate search for livelihood and survival ever All these films were made out of passion for respected boundaries? But, despite all these cinema and the inner urge to articulate what uneasy questions, political embargos and life- it means to be a migrant, the experiences of threatening risks, people have always moved in a body that is physically present in an alien search of better and peaceful lives from places of land, but has its heart and mind in one’s own distress to places of safety, from lands of poverty homeland, Kerala. Despite all the struggles to that of opportunities. and frustrations to make a living, these stories talk about human resilience and solidarity, The case of Kerala has been no different. There and of lives and dreams built around a journey have been waves of migration from Kerala to whose ultimate dream is to return to one’s different parts of the world. During the beginning homeland.

C S Venkiteswaran is a film critic and curator based in Thiruvananthapuram. He has published several books and articles in English and Malayalam and is a recipient of National and State award for film direction and criticism. He is also the Artistic Director of SiGNS documentary and short film festival organised by Federation of Film Societies of India.

134 10TH IDSFFK C uraTED Programmes Migration

Insan Ira 9 Mins 15 Mins

Direction Deepu Rajivan Direction Nimisha Rajesh Ira (Prey) is about the plight of migrants, The film is about a young man who leave their home to work from a Kerala village going to in an alien land, where they are Kuwait in search of a job and prone to all kinds of exploitation finding himself in the company and abuse. Here is a man who had of a Pakistani roommate in the spent almost all his youth in the dormitory along with others. It Gulf planning to return home and to is about his gradual realisation start a new life. But his dreams are that ‘there shouldn’t be any walls shattered by the news from home between human souls, which that his own son has been arrested should be like the open sky with for attacking a migrant worker.. no boundaries..’

Nasrin Life of Ajnabi 15 Mins 20 Mins

Direction Anshad Jamaludheen Direction Unnikrishnan Mattannur Nasrin is a middle-aged woman working as home nurse in the Gulf, where she works for a rich family. She This short film is about the coming has to look after her kid who is put to realisation of a youngster from in a day care home and send money Kerala, who has strong opinions to her aging parents back home in about 'we'and ‘they’. Living with Kerala. Its a story about the plight of migrants from énemy’ countries, migrant women who are forced to sell he gradually realises that human ‘care’ to take care of their own family pain and suffering, love and hope with them and back home. have no religion, nationality or language.. 10TH IDSFFK 135 C uraTED Programmes Migration

Journey Back Safar 16 Mins 9 Mins

Direction Sajeev Manthanam Direction Santhosh Purakkattiri Journey back is about two people – Life of any migrant worker toiling a migrant taxi worker and a girl who away from home hinges upon his or is leaving the country after a fight her dreams about the dear ones back with her father – making a journey home.. Safar is about a man who is together. For the girl, this meeting busily and happily preparing to go back leads him to a lost friend who gave home from the Gulf for the marriage of him life. For the other, it is about his daughter. He has lived and worked coming to know of the human side many years for this moment, and his of her own father, which is the hard friends arrange a warm farewell party side of a migrant’s life. for their bosom friend. But news from home, shatters his dreams..

IN CONVERSATION Venue: Nila Theatre Time: 2:00 pm • 17th June- Mai Masri in conversation with Bina Paul • 18th June- Lijo Jose Pellisery in conversation with H Shaji • 19th June- Vipin Vijay in conversation with C S Venkiteswaran

136 10TH IDSFFK Tribute John Berger

10TH IDSFFK 137 John Berger (John Peter Berger) was born on 5 November, 1926, London, England. He died on 2 January, 2017 in France. The British essayist and cultural thinker was a prolific screenwriter, novelist and poet. He is best known for his BBC series Ways of Seeing and his novel G. John Berger’s study at Central School of Arts and Crafts (now Central Saint Martins), was interrupted by service in the British army during World War II. In 1946 he moved to London and studied drawing and painting. He started writing art criticism by the 1950s for publications like New Statesman and New Society. Berger believed that great art should reflect society and that socialism inspired society’s “profoundest expectations” in the 20th century. He published his first novel, A Painter of Our Time, in 1958. Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing, the first collection of his essays on art, was published in 1960. He was attracted to Cubism – Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger in particular. The versatile Berger wrote the text of A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (1967) and A Seventh Man (1975), about Europe’s migrant workers, both of them featuring Jean Mohr’s photographs. He translated writings of Bertolt Brecht from German into English. G. (1972; winner of the Man Booker Prize), the best known of his novels, was praised for its clever details as well as for its portrayal of intricate sexual and interpersonal relationships. In 1972 Berger’s Ways of Seeing was produced by the BBC as a series of four 30-minute programmes. The series and the subsequent book aimed at demystifying art history and revealed the sometimes-underlying ways in which meaning and ideology are conveyed through visual media. The book went on to become a key text in art history education in the 21st century. Berger moved to a small town in the Alps in 1974, where he spent the rest of his life. In the Seventies, he wrote three screenplays partnering with Swiss film director Alain Tanner. The best known among them was for the film Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), which takes place in Geneva. It narrates a small group of people who grapple with the changes brought about by the social and political unrest of 1968. During his stay in rural France, Berger wrote of his surroundings and the culture of French village life in the trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth [1979], Once in Europa [1987], and Lilac and Flag: An Old Wives’ Tale of a City [1990]). Berger collaborated with Mohr again in 1982 with the book Another Way of Telling, which examines the ambiguous reality presented in photographs. Berger began exhibiting his own drawings and paintings in 1994 in galleries in New York City and England. In the 1990s and 2000s Berger published numerous volumes, including the novels To the Wedding (1995), Photocopies (1996), and King: A Street Story (1999); the semiautobiographical Here Is Where We Meet (2005), and From A to X: A Story in Letters (2008; long-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize); and books of essays and art criticism such as The Shape of a Pocket (2001), Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (2007), Understanding a Photograph (2013), and Daumier: Visions of Paris (2013). He was honoured with Golden PEN Award in 2009 by English PEN to a writer whose “body of work has had a profound impact on readers.”

(Courtesy: The Guardian)

138 10TH IDSFFK Tributes John Berger Before establishing the Derek Jarman Lab, a graduatefilmmaking hub at Birkbeck, University of London, in 2012, he produced for theBritish Film Institute and Minerva Pictures. His new book, Perpetual Carnival:Essays on Film and Literature, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Christopher Roth is an artist and a film and theatre director. His film Baader wonthe in the 2002 Berlinale. Represented by Esther SchipperGallery, Berlin, he participated The Seasons in Quincy: in the Venice, Berlin and Sao Paulo biennials. Four Portraits of John Berger His1982 novel 200 D was re-printed in 2012 /2016/English/89’ by Bloomsbury/Berlin publishers. 80*81and 2081 What Happened? were projects involving more than 40 worldwidetheatre performances Direction Colin MacCabe, Bartek Dziadosz, and generating 13 books. His latest feature film Christopher Roth, Tilda Swinton wasHyperstition. Screenplay Christopher Roth, Tilda Swinton Production Lily Ford, Colin MacCabe Bartek Dziadosz is the director of the Derek Editing Christopher Roth, Bartek Dziadosz Jarman Lab. He studied Law inCracow and Camera Bartek Dziadosz, Christopher Roth Contemporary Media Practice at the Westminster Sound Lily Ford, Sally Mumby Croft, Walter Stabb Film School.Dziadosz now combines his doctoral research on editing as cognitive andcultural The four essay films which comprise The practice with a busy career filming and editing. Seasons in Quincy each take different aspects He recently edited a filmabout the heroes of of British writer and thinker John Berger’s Solidarity, The (Un)finished Portrait of Lech life in the Haute-Savoie, and combine ideas Walesa. His ownfeature-length documentary on and motifs from Berger’s own work with the the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, The Troublewith atmosphere of his mountain home. Being Human These Days, has screened at festivals around the world. Each film was created as an individual work of art but they combine to make a feature Tilda Swinton has been involved with filmmaking filmshowing how film can move beyond text for 30 years. The first film sheworked on, and fine art to offer a multifaceted and multi- Caravaggio, won a Silver Bear at the Berlinale layered portrait. in 1985; it was the firstof the seven films she made with Derek Jarman before his death in Ways of Listening, (Colin MacCabe), deals with 1994. Otherfilmmaking collaborators include fathers and friendship. Spring, (Christopher Sally Potter, Jim Jarmusch, David Fincher, Roth) considers Berger’s writing on our WesAnderson, Joel and Ethan Cohen, Lynne relationship with animals. A Song for Politics Ramsay, Lynn Hershman, Tony Gilroy,Luca (Colin MacCabe and Bartek Dziadosz) reflects Guadagnino and John Maybury. on politics through archive footage, song and a discussion between Berger and several young left-wing thinkers. Harvest (Tilda Swinton) revisits Quincy to meditate on belonging and continuity with Berger and his son Yves.

Colin MacCabe is a literary critic and film producer. For more than 30 years hehas taught at the University of Pittsburgh where he is Distinguished Professor ofEnglish and Film. He has produced films including Derek, Young Soul Rebels andDistant Voices/Still Lives.

10TH IDSFFK 139 Tribute Bennurakar Chalam

140 10TH IDSFFK CHALAMBENNURAKAR – A Child of Radical Dreams C S Venkiteswaran

F*** Newton. Apples are full of worms. Wake up Golden Dove award at International Leipzig Festival from slumber. Big Bang can’t be a song for a life of Documentary and Animation Film (Germany) that is stringed by mundane. Quarks can seek all and Citizen’s Prize and Prize of Encouragement at the black holes they desire. Light at the end of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival tunnel hides more than it reveals. Maybe it is in the Japan in1991. darkness that you see that which is mystery. That In the last decades he was actively involved in which is necessary. That which is emancipatory.. several international documentation projects (From Chalam Bennurakar’s Notebook) related to gender issues and resistance movements in different parts of the world. He was also Chalam Bennurakar was an activist, thinker, known for championing the cause of queers and designer, painter, writer, translator and filmmaker transgenders, and his documentary titled All About who always believed in and lived the spirit Our Famila was about the life and struggles of the of resistance and freedom. He was born in latter. He was very much concerned about the life Samphebennur, Chitradurga, and dropped out of at the margins in all its dimensions; especially college to pursue his own dreams and passions. He of people who are marginalized by urbanization, came to Bangalore, where he worked as a signboard development projects, gender bias and blind belief painter, during which time, he got actively involved in instrumental rationality; one can see these in theatre, trade union, and civil liberties movement. concerns reflected in his documentaries like Kunde He later joined CIEDS Collective in Bangalore and Habba, which was about a unique festival of the became part of several civil liberties and human tribal people in Kodagu and in Naave Yearvara rights activities. A film buff from childhood, he about the Yerava community. He also worked was very active in the film society movement and with Amitabh Chakraborty for Bishar Blues which was part of Bangalore Film Society. He was also was about Bengali Fakirs which is a journey to instrumental in organising film festivals on women’s understand Marfat, an indigenous form of Islam in issues in Bengaluru. Sufi tradition. His debut documentary Kutty Japanin A deeply passionate and intense person, he Kuzhandaigal (Children of Mini Japan/Tamil/1990), brought his knowledge and concerns about grass on child labour employed by fireworks and match root politics, dalit literature, theatre movement factories in Sivakashi, won critical acclaim and and radical cinema in his thought, work and words. was noted for its intense humanity marked by He associated with and initiated a number of tender and meticulous detailing in the portrayal institutional and collective interventions to provide of the children. It was selected to the Indian vibrant platforms for artists, writers and filmmakers Panorama of IFFI 1990 and was shown in several to express and exhibit their creative works. international documentary festivals. The film won

10TH IDSFFK 141 Janamadhyam was one such initiative FILMOGRAPHY for screening and creating production Kutty Japanin Kuzhandaigal (Children of infrastructure for grassroots action. Talkies Mini Japan) – on Child Labour in Sivakasi was yet another such attempt. He contributed On Latur – the Earthquake Disaster in to the film society movement as an activist/ Latur, Maharashtra designer of the Bangalore Film Society All About My Famila – on the Transgender and later, organized several thematic film Community festivals. He was also part of the Odessa Naavu Yeravaru – On the Yerava Collective, the peoples’ movement for radical Community cinema in Kerala led by John Abraham. 1n Short Poetic Films on Women and 1991, Chalam travelled all over Kerala with Development; on Women against War the Odessa collective to screen Kuttijapanin for Peace; on Women in Prostitution; on Kulaindakal, which were mostly in open Dowry and Related Forms of Violence; on spaces followed by discussions with the Trafficking; on HIV and AIDs; on US War viewers. In 1998, he initiated Sakshi, a Crimes et al platform for independent documentary (for the Courts of Women – an initiative of filmmakers in India that screened Corinne Kumar) documentaries from all over the world. Bishaar Blues – on the Fakirs of Calcutta He passed away at the age of 62, in ( Co produced and worked with Amitabh Bengaluru on May 6, 2017. Chakraborthy) Work in Progress Film All through his life Chalam explored * On the Dongri Garsias ways and means to fight hegemony and * On the Burns Survivors for Vimochana, intolerance in all realms of life, and believed a forum for women’s rights in collective thinking and action. He leaves behind a legacy of relentless commitment to humanism, deep respect for all forms of expression and ways of living. Above all, he was always open to life in all its complexity and profundity. Adieu, Chalam…

142 10TH IDSFFK Tributes Chalam Bennurkar demands of production. It is these children aged between 4 and 16 who are the protagonists of the film. The film is an attempt to portray their everyday lives, the production process and the complex socio-political reasons that contribute to such a large employment of children in this area.

Without taking recourse to voiceover commentary, the film tries to weave together various episodes by interspersing Villupadal, a traditional performance which celebrates the childhood of Krishna. It is the Villupadalwhich forms the edifice of the film’s critique of post-independent India’s Tryst with Destiny – a nightmare called progress through rapid industrialization. Children of Mini- Japan Awards Kutty Japan in Kuzhandaigal The film has won the following awards since its release: India/ Tamil/1991/63’ 1991 International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany) Direction, Screenplay Chalam Bennurakar • Won - Golden Dove - Children of Mini-Japan - Chalam Production Janamadhyam Camera R V Ramani Bennurkar Editing Jacob Thottathil, Amitabh Chakraborthy 1991 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Sound Suresh Rajamani (Japan) • Won - Citizens' Prize - Children of Mini-Japan - Chalam Kutty Japanin Kuzhandaigal (Children of Mini Bennurkar Japan) is a 60-minute Tamil film set in Sivakasi, Won - Prize for Encouragement - Children of Mini-Japan - a small town in southern Tamil Nadu. It is from Chalam Bennurkur here and the surrounding villages that 70% of the requirements of the match box industry and 90% of the fireworks industry in India are produced. The owners of the match box and fireworks factories proudly refer to their town as ‘Mini Japan’, a self-employed town. This town also prints millions of garish calendars and election posters which are used all over India. Sivakasi has another dubious distinction. It is the single largest concentration of child labour in the world. Nearly 10,000 children, mostly girl children, are employed in Sivakasi to meet the

10TH IDSFFK 143 S peCIAL Screening Life and Films of K G George

8 ½ Intercuts- Life and Films of K G George Afternoon Clouds India/2017/ Malayalam/120’ India/2016/Hindi, Nepali/13’

Direction Lijin Jose, Shahina K. Rafiq Direction Payal Kapadia Camera Mayank Khurana Camera Neil D’Cunha, M J Radhakrishnan Editing Ghanashyam Shimpi Cast Usha Naik, Editing B Ajith Kumar Trimala Adhikari

With a distinct filmography that faithfully depicts Kaki is a 60 year old widow who lives with her the cross-section of the Kerala society on Nepali maid Malti. The film takes place on one celluloid during his active years, K G George is a afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms master filmmaker and one among the pioneers in the balcony. Malti meets a boy from her who heralded the parallel cinema movement in hometown unexpectedly. In the meanwhile, men Kerala. The documentary is an attempt to analyse in the passage spray mosquito repellent smoke the relevance of his major movies and throw light that gives Kaki bad dreams. on his unique personality.

Lijin Jose is a filmmaker based in Kerala. His feature Payal Kapadia is a third year student of Film and films include Friday and Law Point. Shahina K Rafiq is Television Institute of India (FTII). Afternoon Clouds an acclaimed Malayalam fiction writer who has a PhD was India’s only official entry to the Cinéfondation in film studies. section of Cannes Film Festival 2017.

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10TH IDSFFK 145 LADY ANANDI a performance by Anuja Ghosalkar

ady Anandi is a documentary theatre performance, first of its kind in India, by Anuja Ghosalkar. It is the story of a female Lactor, Lady F, who is haunted by the ghost of ASIMA her great grandfather – a female impersonator in late 19th Century Marathi theatre – every S time she goes up on stage, and her love for a Male Vocal & moustaches. Using a series of photographs, anecdotes and fiction, Ghosalkar weaves through time periods to find her great Percussion grandfather. Lady Anandi has been performed as a work-in-progress across India and Ensemble debuted in Sweden. The performance is based on extensive research and is an exploration of a personal archive. It brings together elements like performance, history, early photography and gender. rogramme

P Anuja Ghosalkar is an actor, writer and

director based in Bangalore. Drama Queen, her Documentary theatre company focuses on personal histories and archives to extend the idea of theatre to create audacious work. She documented the oral narratives of her grandfather, the oldest living make-up artist in India. ul

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146 10TH IDSFFK sima is a boundary-breaking vocal and percussion ensemble from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The ensemble combines Aelements from India's rhythmic and melodic systems with harmonic traditions of music. The music of Asima is composed by Devissaro, an Australian born musician who has lived in India since 1980. Trained initially as a classical pianist, Devissaro subsequently studied Hindustani vocal music of the ancient Dhrupad tradition under the renowned Dagar family, as well MUSIC CONCERT as pakhawaj and bansuri. The music of the Asima is a reflection of Devissaro's background in both western and Indian Pushpavathy classical music.

Asima is a group of nine persons, comprising 6 Carnatic male vocalists, 2 percussionists (Drum Kit, hand percussion and one traditional South Indian drummer playing ushpavathy P R is a playback tavil, edakka, , etc) and a Keyboard Singer and Composer based in player. Thiruvananthapuram. Pushpavathy holds Ganapraveena from PMemorial Government Music College, and received her advanced training under Mangadu K Nadesan. 17th June 2017 Her major achievements include Kerala 8:00 pm Sangeetha Nataka Academy Award (2002) and Scholarship from Department of Kairali Theatre Complex Culture, Government of India. ’s first directorial venture was a music album based on the Poems of Kabir (Kabir Music of Harmony 2005) which has won critical acclaim in many platforms and was a best seller too. The Azadi song (freedom song) she composed and sung recently was also a major hit. She has associated with major Malayalam music directors and has sung many popular numbers for films.

18th June 2017 8:00 pm Kairali Theatre Complex 10TH IDSFFK 147 Contact

Opening Films Mother/ Amma Exodus [email protected] Madhav Vishnu Life Animated C/o Joji Mathew Runaway Luminosity Distribution Romakuppayam Vadakkeveettil , Manickanparambil [email protected] Ravi DC Nadakkavu PO, DC Kizhakkemuriyidam, Kottayam Udayamperoor, Ernakulam Sakhisona Kottayam, KERALA Film and Television Institute of Fugue India, Pune Shave Off Vivek Joseph K.R. Narayanan National Institute of TC 4/1875, Lovely home, Pandits Competition Animation Visual Science and Arts Colony Kottayam, Kerala Kowdiar , Thiruvananthapuram Beyond Crimson Ties MIT Institute of Design The corporate culture May I Ask You Something?/ Oru Animation Design Department Udhayan R M Karyam Choikatte? Rajbaug loni-kalbhor, Pune [email protected] Krishnadev Menon 2/38 GIRIDHARA, Doodle Story The Fish Curry/ Maacher Jhol Pratibha Nagar Lane 2, MIT Institute of Design Abhishek Verma Kalmandapam, Palakkad, Kerala Animation Design Department S22, B-10 Second Floor, Khirkee Rajbaug loni-kalbhor Extension, Rooms Pune Malviya Nagar K.R. Narayanan National Institute of New Delhi Visual Science and Arts Gomorrah Kottayam, Kerala K.R. Narayanan National Institute The Lost Bot of Visual Science and Arts Vishal Pulikottil The Big Bang Theory Kottayam #2989/C, Hoodi Centre, K.R. Narayanan National Institute of Kerala 12th Main, HAL 2nd Stage, Visual Science and Arts Indiranagar, Bengaluru - 560038 Kottayam, Kerala Harvest K.R. Narayanan National Institute The Germ/ Keedanu of Visual Science and Arts Competition Campus Fiction LV Prasad Film & TV Academy, Kottayam KINFRA Film & Video Park Kerala Anu Kazhakkoottam, Shahin M S Thiruvananthapuram-85 Homecoming of the Goddess of Manakulangara Parambil House Wealth/ Koorkkenchery P.O 680007 The Sea within Us Lakshmi Aayi Hai Thrissur, Kerala K.R. Narayanan National Institute of IDC, School of Design, IDC- office Visual Science and Arts first floor Arrow of Time Kottayam, Kerala IIT Bombay, Powai – 400076 Manoj C Haridas Mumbai Cherumuttath House Wake up Thiruvankulam PO Aparna Giri In Pieces Ernakulam 682305 ‘CHARUTHA’, VARA-306, Arappura, MIT Institute of Design Vattiyoorkavu, Animation Design Department Bleeding Hearts Thiruvananthapuram, Rajbaug loni-kalbhor K.R. Narayanan National Institute of Kerala Pune Visual Science and Arts Kottayam, Kerala Competition Long Documentary Light Achuth Giri Duel/ Dwandwam Atul ‘CHARUTHA’, VARA-306, LV Prasad Film & TV Academy, Rajiv Mehrotra Aarappura, Vattiyoorkavu KINFRA Film & Video Park PSBT Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Kazhakkoottam, Thiruvananthapuram-85

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Theatre of the earth Survey Number Zero Circus Films Division Films Division, L.V Prasad Film and TV 24, Pedder Road 24 Dr. G Deshmukh Marg, Academy Mumbai – 400026 Pedder Road, Mumbai-400026 28, Arunachalam Road, Saligramam, Chennai With the River Flowing The Itinerants/ Dar-B-Dar Manish Desai, Films Division School of Media and Cultural Studies Days of Autumn/ Xorotor 24, Pedder Road Tata Institute of Social Sciences Aabelibur Mumbai – 400026 Film and Television Institute The Journey To Her/ Avalilekkulla of India Competition Short Documentary Dooram Pune P Abhijith, Early Evening/ Teesra Pahar Thazhe Marampadi Paramba, Grandfather/ Aaba National Institute of Design, Paldi Near Sixth Railway Gate, Amar Kaushik Ahmedabad, PO Nadakakvu, Film and Television Institute Gujarat Kozhikode -673011 of India Pune

149 In between/ Madhyaantar Sebastian and Rose Only Sometimes A God patwardhansameersanjay@ Vasant Nath, 904 Building 7 Viacom18 Motion Pictures, gmail.com Raheja Classique Complex Shiv Building, second floor, New Link Road, Andheri West Western Express Highway, Last day of summer Mumbai – 400053 Sahar road junction, George Kora Vile Parle (East) 6C, Sivam Apartments, Layam Sex with a monk and other stories Mumbai road, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Behind Grand Hotel on MG road Kolkata Saeed Mirza - The Leftist Sufi Climb Media India Pvt. Ltd, Let some clouds float in/ Aaye The Accordion Surbala, Plot no 287, Kuch Abr Sandip Banerjee SV Road, Bandra West, Mayuresh Gotkhindikar 74, Purbachal Road (North) Next to Indian Bank, A-804, Shilpa Soc, Rambaug Flat # GE; Ground Floor Mumbai 400050 Colony, Kolkata – 700 078 Next to Swapnpoorti Sabhagruh, Focus Short Documentary MIT collage backside, The Caged Bird Paud Road, Kothrud, Pune Ariji Kundu Ants: A Tiny Creature 411038 3/10 Colony, Mandira Aditya Apartment 1st floor, D 708 omaxe city lucknow Medium Kolkata-700047 Lucknow Syed Sultan Ahmed Uttar Pradesh LXL Ideas Pvt Ltd, 212 Raheja The Limit/ Daayra Plaza, Institute of Film and Television Global Warning - Kashmir Chapter Shah Industrial Estate, Off New Rohtak, Haryana Mehbooba Bano Link Road, House No -121 Opposite Veterinary, Andheri (West), Mumbai The School Bag Near Islamia Degree College, Dheeraj Jindal Hawal Mother/ Amma Meri A-62, Basement, Hauz Khas, New Srinagar, Kashmir Tarun Jain Delhi-110016, India Jammu & Kashmir 84, 1st Floor, Vivekanand Puri, Sarai Rohilla, Wayfarers/ Kudachoodunnavar Green Soil Delhi 110007 Ajaikumar m, Prasanth House , Keerthi Raj B S Ravimangalam, Hostel 1 Moving on Chathangottupuram p.o, Wandoor via, IISER Smrutika Panigrahi Malappuram Dist,679328 Pashan, Pune 1201 Avenue Tapasya CHS, Plot no. 21 SVP nagar, Wedding Preparations in the Country HimaIayan Refugee 4 Bunglows Mahada, Versova, [email protected] [email protected] Andheri(w) Mumbai – 400053, Maharashtra Windows/ Khidkiyaan Khalsis of Malabar: Mustaqeem Khan, 402, The Men who Move Mountains PASHI Golden Petal, B/h Sunrise Arcade, In The Films Division, Siddharth Chauhan Street of KGN Parlour, 24 Dr. G Deshmukh Marg, Top Floor, Sehgal Cottage, Jakhu, Near Vishala Circle, Juhapura, Pedder Road, Mumbai-400026 Shimla - 171001, Ahmedabad - 55, Gujarat, India Himachal Pradesh Meenakshipayattu – Focus Long Documentary Her Story of Sword QISSBAH: What is not a story? Biju Muthathi Dev Gupta, Earth Crusader Muthathian Veedu, 1034, Indraprast, Vanrai Colony Films Division uthathi, ( Opposite Hub Mall), Mumbai - 24. Dr. G Deskhmukh Marg, Korom (P.O) 400063, Maharashtra, India Pedder Road, Payyanur, Kerala Mumbai-400026 Sandhya Saving the Wild-Wildlife Rescue Mohit Modi Mother Bird and Rehabilitation A-403, Mithila Apartment, S.V Babu Kambrath Rajiv Mehrotra Road, Kandivali West, Thanal , Periyat , Po.vilayancode PSBT Mumbai – 400067 Kannur

150 Space B | Baul | Music | Belamukhi Fyllo Philosophy | Fusion Ujjwal Chandra, Jithin Kumbukattu Sreemoyee Bhattacharya A/26- Vishal nagar, seven bunglows, Kumbukkattu Thekkevila, Valakom P.O A 203 Bunch Berry, Yari Road, andheri [west], Valakom, Kottarakkara, Kollam(Dist) Versova, Mumbai - 400057 691532 Andheri West, Mumbai – Maharastra 400061 Grace Villa Blindness Binoy Raveendran The Last Queen of Travancore Shirsha Tanay Ghosh Forbi House, Chooral G. Sujesh Daltala, Anandamayee road, Puratan Mathil P.O Ganesh Bhavan, Bazar, Baruipur Payyannur Via Chavadimuku, Kadakkavoor Kolkata Kannur Distirct Kadakkavoor P.o Kerala – 670307 Blurred Lines The Pangti Story Juhi Rajwani In The Orb Of Night/ Mangiyoranthi Rajiv Mehrotra E7/71 Lala Lajpat Rai Society Area Velichathil PSBT colony, Bhopal Bibin Paul Samuel Madhya Pradesh 7B Golden Heaven Apartments, Thread End friends Lane moolepadam road LV Prasad Film & TV Academy Breath/ Shvaasa vazhakkal KINFRA Film & Video Park Vishnu.K. Thilak Cochin Kazhakoottam, Kuzichamadathil(House) , Thiruvananthapuram-85 Marathakkara(Post) , Inside The Compartments/ Puthur (Panchayath) , Arakalkkakathu Weathering Heights With Anna Thrissur , Kerala , India [email protected] Mani Postcode : 680306 Dr. J. Thulaseedhara Kurup Listen to your child/ Kuttikalkaayi 12B, Heera Grace, Kowdiar, Chance/ Coincidence/Connection/ Kaathorkkam Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Sanyog K Ampady 560075 Whistling Woods First Floor, Kalabhavan Building, [email protected] Vazhuthacaud, Thiruvananthapuram What happens to the heirs of the earth?/ Bhoomiyude Complain Magnet/ Chumbak avakaasikalku enthu Harshik Suraiya Deep Ajwani, sambhavikkunnu? 13 Th Floor, Commerz Westin Tower B-84, Palash Towers, Prathmesh Sudheer Parameswaran Off Western Express Highway Behind Complex, Veera Desai Road, Nandi, Royal Gardens, Oberoi Mall Goregaon East Andheri (West), Thirumala Mumbai Mumbai 400053 Trivandrum - 695006 Conversation No Space Focus Short Fiction Harshal Wadkar, [email protected] First Floor, 642 Dattawadi, A Night/ Oru Rathri Near Lions Club, Noise/ Ruido Anuj Ramachandran Sinhgad Road, Mary Nilayam School, Cheruvalli Pune 411030 Pongummoodu, Mcpo Plavode, Pulimath P.O Trivandrum 695011 Thiruvananthapuram – 695612 Deep Sea/ Aazh Kadal Stanzin Raghu Obituary/ Niryaatharaayi Abhimugham 13, 8th cross, Shuhaib Hameed, Chandroth, Near Sumeru Tagore Nagar Railway Station, TC 1/1443 Lawspet post Changanacherry, Pothujanam road Puducherry District:kottayam, Kerala kumarapuram Trivandrum Drop Patliputra Express Jithinam Raj Rishi More Floating Milkweeds/ Chathamangalam P.o 402, B wing, Raj Paradise, Appooppanthaadi Calicut Marol Military Road, [email protected] 673601 Andheri East Mumbai - 400059

151 Phoolpakhru Born Together The Letters/Las Letras Whistling Woods International [email protected] [email protected] Film City Complex Andheri West Brave Bunch/Fajna ferajna The Revolution won’t be Televised Mumbai – 400065 [email protected] [email protected]

Pu Colombi The silence of the sky J.Bibin Joseph, Thattath (H), [email protected] [email protected] Keezhpally P.O, Kannur, Kerala Covered with the blood of Jesus The Streets Are Ours: Two Lives Cross In [email protected] Karachi, [email protected] Shades Prasun Chatterjee Dil Leyla Velvet Revolution 286, Subhas Nagar By Lane, [email protected] [email protected] Dum Dum Cantonment Kolkata Haloperidol Veni, Vidi, Fugi - I came, I saw, I fled/ [email protected] Veni,Vidi,Fugi - Am venit,am vazut, am Snake and Ladder/ Paambum fugit, [email protected] Koneem Happily Ever After Mohamed Sohal, [email protected] War Memorial Tata Consultancy Services [email protected] Infopark, Kakkanad I’m not your Negro Kochi – 682042 [email protected] Waiting for Hassana India in a Day, Scott Free Films Ltd, [email protected] Tempo [email protected] Rohit Shukre Filmmaker in Focus: Mai Masri B702 Pranay Leela, Piramal Leaving [email protected] Nagar, SV road, Goregaon West. [email protected] Mumbai - 400062 Maestro: Wim Wenders Maharashtra Lifter/Dem Dem! Johannes Klein, [email protected] [email protected] The Anklet/ Paijana [email protected] Little Sammuel Animation Films from Latin America [email protected] Tomas Welss The Break up [email protected] Aadhitya Anbu, Money Puzzle Flat-B1, # 18 Judge [email protected] Special Screening Jumbulingam St, Mylapore, Mostly Sunny 8 1/2 Intercuts- Life and Films of K G Chennai- 600004 Pascale Ramonda, George [email protected] [email protected] International Films Night of Brass/Nacht van de Fanfare [email protected] Afternoon Clouds A Feeling Greater Than Love/ Film and Television Institute of India Shu’our Akbar Min El Hob One Ticket Please/Vienu biïeti, lûdzu Pune [email protected] [email protected] Tribute to John Berger A Secret Heart Siberian Love [email protected] [email protected] The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger Aridai Son of Kali [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Soundphiles by IAWRT’s Asian Women’s Ashamed Space with Memory/Espacio con Film Festival [email protected] Memoria [email protected] [email protected] Blaha Lujza square/ Blaha Vienna Shorts Lujza ter The Austrian Road/Die [email protected] Osterreichische Strasse Carla Losch [email protected] [email protected]

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KSCA Executive Committee Members

Dr. K.M. Abraham, IAS Sri. Kamal Additional Cheif Secretary, Film Director Finance Department, ‘Subah’, Govt. Secretariat, Kodugalloor.P.O., Thiruvananthapuram. Thrissur. Smt. Rani George, IAS Smt. Bina Paul Secretary Film Editor Cultural Affairs Department, 9 B, Winter Mist, Govt. Secretariat, Season Appartment, Thiruvananthapuram. Kuravankonam, Thiruvananthapuram. Sri. K.R. Mohanan Sri. Mahesh Panju Film Director, Secretary No.7, Green villa, Kerala State Chalachithra Academy, Mudavanmugal, Poojappura, Sasthamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram – 12 Thiruvananthapuram - 10. Sri. Zulfikar Rahman A Film Director Treasurer 33, Jo Ans Estate, Kerala State Chalachithra Academy Kaittinkara, Sasthamangalam, Muppathadam.P.O., Thiruvananthapuram -10. Aluva, Ernakulam – 10.

KSCA General Council Members Programme Head Doordarshan Kendra, Dr. K. Ampadi Kudappanakunnu, Director Thiruvananthapuram. I & PRD Govt.Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram. Smt. Deepa .D. Nair Managing Director Sri. G. Kerala State Film Development- Registrar, Corporation, Chalachithra Bhavan, C-dit, Chithranjali Hills, Vazhuthacadu, Thiruvallom, Thiruvananthapuram – 690 032. Thiruvananthapuram – 695 027. Sri. Resul Pookutty Sound Designer Smt. Warrier CAS, MPSE, Canaries Post Sound, Cine Artist 507, Dilkap Chambers, Pullil Warriyam, Off Veera Desai Road, Andheri (W) Pullu. P.O., Mumbai – 400 053. Thrisoor – 680 641.

10TH IDSFFK 153 Sri. V.K. Joseph Sri. Writer/Film Critic Cameraman, Mythri, A.P.R.A.217, Pulli Lane, Chakka, G.R.A 632, Petta. P.O., Thiruvananthapuram. Gowrisapattom, Pattom. P.O., Thiruvananthapuram – 04. Sri. Neelan Writer/Film Critic P.V.R.A./112/B1 Mullamangalam, Bodhi Lane, N.C.C. Road, Near Santhawana Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram – 05. Smt. Deedi Damodharan Writer/Film Critic Dr. C.S. Venkiteswaran Papathy, Arts College.P.O., Writer/Film Critic Kozhikkode – 673 018. Amrutha, C.S.M.Nagar, 172, Edapazhinji, Sasthamangalam.P.O., Sri. Pradeep Chokli Thiruvananthapuram – 10 Film Director Lakshmi Nivas, Chokli P.O., Thalasseri, Kannur – 670 672. Sri. G.P. Ramachandran Writer/Film Critic Akam, Perumparadi Thapal, Smt. Sajitha Madathil Mannarkadu, Cine Artist Palakkad – 678 762. 8 D, A.B.A.D. Blue Chip Tower 1, Kinfra Ware House Road, Nilampathinja Mugal, Kusumagiri, Kakkanadu, Kochi – 30.

Sri. Madhu Janardhanan Film Activist Savithri Nivas, Angadippuram.P.O., Malappuram – 679 321.

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1869 33 Chance/Coincidence/ I am Not Your Negro 100 1984,When the Sun didn’t Rise Connection/Sanyog 76 I saw, I fled 95 18 Children of Mini- Japan 143 I’m Jeeja 25 3000 Nights 114 Children of Shatila 115 I’m Not from Here 123 33 Days 114 Chitrasutram 121 Im Wohnzimmer 125 8 ½ Intercuts- Life and Films of K Circus 34 In A Sea of Other Voices 127 G George 144 Colombi 91 In Between 36 A Brief History of Princess X 123 Complain 77 In Pieces 48 A Feeling Greater Than Love 97 Conversation 77 In Praise of that Angel Face 19 A Moment 33 Corporate culture, The 51 In The Orb of Night 80 A Night 73 Covered with the blood of Jesus India In a Day 101 A Secret Heart 89 99 Insan 135 A Trick of Light 109 Days of Autumn 35 Inside the Compartment – Abhimugham 73 Deep Sea 78 Arakalkkakathu 80 Accordion, The 41 Dil Leyla 99 Ira 135 And So We Put Goldfish in the Doodle Story 46 Is it too much to ask 25 Pool 123 Dopahar Ke Baadal 144 Itinerants, The 29 Ants: A Tiny Creature 65 Drop 78 Jeep Mein Beep Dil Mein Dhak 127 Anu 54 Duel 55 Journey Back 136 Appooppanthaadi 74 Early Evening 24 Journey, The To Her 30 Aridai 89 Earth Crusader 62 Kabariiiiaaaaa 127 Arrow of Time 54 Everything 124 Khalasis of Malabar: The Men who Ashamed 90 Exodus 56 Move Mountains 67 Atul 18 Farz-I Muhal/ As If 127 Kumbh 26 Austrian Road, The 97 First and Foremost 124 La Casa Triste 131 Barren Spaces 34 Fish Curry, The 51 La Noria 132 Beer & Calippo 123 Fluxos 131 Last Day of Summer 36 Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies & Frontiers of Dreams and Fears Last Queen of Travancore, The 69 Videos 115 116 Leaving 92 Belamukhi 74 Fugue 56 Let some cloud float in Aaye kuch Beyond Crimson Ties 46 Fyllo 79 abr 37 Bhoepae Antakshari 127 Germ, The 58 Letters, The 104 Bhoomiyil Chuvadurachu 121 Global Warning - Kashmir Life Animated 12 Big Bang Theory, The 58 Chapter 65 Life of Ajnabi 135 Blaha Lujza square 98 Gomorrah 47 Lifter 92 Bleeding Hearts 55 Good luck, Orlo! 124 Light 49 Blindness 75 Grace Villa 79 Limit, The 42 Blurred Lines 75 Grandfather 35 Listen to your child 81 Bogota me Kafka 131 Green Soil 66 Little Sammuel 93 Books We Made, The 21 Guardians of the Grain 24 Lost Bot, The 52 Born Together 98 Guida 131 Magnet 81 Brave Bunch 90 Haloperidol 91 Manos Libres 132 Break up, The 87 Happily Ever After 100 May I Ask You Something? 57 Breath 76 Harvest 47 Medium 37 Broken Glass, Torn Film 120 Hawamahal 120 Meenakshipayattu – Her Story of Bullet proof – Ventil 123 Himalayan Refugee 66 Sword 67 Caged Bird, The 42 Homecoming of the Goddess of Money Puzzles 101 Casino 124 Wealth 48 Mostly Sunny 102

10TH IDSFFK 155 Mother 38 Sea within Us, The 59 Mother 49 Search 28 Mother Bird 62 Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits Moving on 38 of John Berger, The 139 Muhajir 135 Sebastian and Rose 40 Nasrin 135 Sex with a monk and other stories Neuro-ICU 127 41 Night 132 Shades 85 Night of Brass 93 Shave Off 50 No Space 82 Siberian Love 103 Noise-Ruido 82 Silence of the sky, The 94 Nostalgia for the Future 19 Singalila in the Himalaya 28 Notebook on Cities and Clothes Snake and Ladder 85 109 Son of Kali 94 Number Unreachable 128 Sonderfrooh 128 Obituary 83 Soz | A Ballad of Maladies 20 Of Love & Artistry 20 Space B | Baul|Music |Philosophy One Ticket Please 102 | Fusion 68 Only Sometimes a God 63 Space with Memory 103 Orogenesis 125 Streets Are Ours: Two Lives Cross Our Grandparents’ Home 26 in Karachi, The 105 Paijana 86 Survey Number Zero 29 Pangti Story, The 69 Swimming Pool 128 Paraiso Terrenal 132 Tempo 86 Pashi 39 Territory – The Blaze 125 Pasta 133 Theatre of the Earth 22 Patliputra Express 83 Thinking Body, The 21 Phoolpakhru 84 Thread End 70 Pina 110 Threads As Yet Undone 128 Poet who Stormed Ember into his Tokyo Ga 111 Libretto, The 30 Unmathabudham Jagath 120 Poomaram 121 Velvet Revolution 105 Prita Noire 133 Veni, Vidi, Fugi - I came, Pu 84 Verde que te Quiero 133 Puntos 133 Video Game 120 Qissbah: What is not a story? 39 Vishaparvam 121 Rabbit Hunt, The 125 Waiting for Hassana 95 Raghu Rai: Hearing through the Wake Up 59 Eyes 27 War from 1980 till today 128 Revolution won’t be Televised, War Memorial 106 The 104 Wayfarers 43 Romakuppayam 50 Weathering Heights with Anna Room 666 110 Mani 70 Rooms 57 Wedding Preparations in the Saeed Mirza - The Leftist Sufi 63 Country 44 Safar 136 What happens to the heirs of the Sakhisona 13 Earth? 71 Salute the Motherland 27 Wheel To Reel - A Dream Journey Sandhya 40 31 Saving the Wild – Wild Life Windows 44 Rescue and Rehabilitation 68 With the River Flowing 22 School Bag, The 43

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