6th Chennai International Documentary & Short Film Festival 2018: Screening Schedule
Jointly organised by MARUPAKKAM & Goethe-Institut Chennai
Day 3, 17 April
10 am to 1 pm
Guest speakers :
Ujjwal Uttkarsh, filmmaker
Sanjay Maharishi, filmmaker
10 am This is like Gold Only
Dir: Ujjwal Utkarsh; 78 min; Maithili/English/Hindi; Documentary; India
Makhana farming is a specialized and painstaking process practised by farmers of the Mallah community of North Bihar. A species similar to the lotus family, the fox nut plants are cultivated in ponds and their seed of are collected from the bottom of the lake. Through an elaborate process of popping by hand on high heat we get 'makhana' in a state which can be packed and sold. Despite health risks to them, makhana cultivators continue to follow this process.
11:20 My Heritage Singing
Dir: Fatemeh Mosavi; 30 min; Persian with English subtitles; Iran
The prohibition of women singing in public after 1979 revolution in Iran is a recent and elucidative example which prevents them from singing in religious rituals. Bushehr Port, having a history of 5000 years, is the only exception as the local women strive to preserve their old traditions of singing.
11:50 Circus Theatre
Dir: Sanjay Maharishi; 50 min; India; Retrospective
In 2010 theatre director Abhilash Pillai brought a group of his students from the National School of Drama to work with circus artists in Irindjalkuda in Kerala. The film documents the challenges faced by both theatre people on one hand who have never performed in a ring and circus artists who do not know basic norms of theatre like blocking or story telling. An exciting time for all.
2 pm to 5 pm Films from Tamilnadu
Guest speakers:
Ni Sa Ri Sa
Dir: J Madhan; 20 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2017
Affectionate siblings Kavinila and Kannan are ardent fans of A.R.Rahman. They are very possessive on their precious cassette collection. Neighbor girl Ramya and a missing cassette subsequently put their relationship upset. What could re-unite them? The cassette or the Music or a departure?
Mughugelumbu
Dir: Karunakaran C; 21:32 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2016
This is a story of an aged farmer who knows only agriculture from ages. He sells off his land to pay back the debt. He migrates to the nearby town in search of a job for survival.
Slipped Reincarnation
Dir: Jayamurugan K; 9 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles;
This is about who photographs and documents the liquor bottles thrown all over the places i.e., the roadside, streets, agri fields and Wells.
Athe Suvar
Dir: Surya Louis; 90 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2018
Walls have been built all over the world to stop "others" from "encroaching" certain territories. Here in Tamilnadu people from one community build a wall to protect a temple. But their neighbours and activists oppose and protest by calling it as a "Wall of Untouchability".
5) Maasilan Aathal
Dir: G. Nathan; 22 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2016
A truck driver is filled with guilt, for he had accidentally killed a motorist/ a man/ a husband /father.
Presented by Arunmozhi, filmmaker/teacher/selector
5:30 to 9 pm
5:30 pm Echoes of the Past
Dir: Merajur Rahman Baruah ; 52 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; Documentary
Donning a new avatar every day has been a way of life for 60 years old Sikandar Abbas. He was only six-months-old when he had his first performance, as the infant Lord Krishna. A ninth-generation Behrupiya from Rajasthan, the art of impersonation is his greatest inheritance. His ancestors brought comic relief to the humdrum of day-to-day life, even in the Royal courts.
6:40 Sama
Dir: Shazia Khan; 54 min; India; Filmmaker in Focus
SAMA is the story of Indian Islamic Music, born out of a union of Indian and Islamic traditions, more than a thousand years ago. It explores the intermingling of these, in both form and content, to become a truly magnificent sound.
SAMA takes the journey to manybreathtaking locations across India and explores how this music organically blends to absorb cultures and flavours , yet retains its original texture.In doing so the film explores the kaleidoscope of Islamic culture in India and the contacts and conflicts of Islamic India with indigenous elements particularly those of Hinduism.
7:40 Jungle of Cities
Dir: Sanjay Maharishi; 40 min; Retrospective
Students, along with director Robin Das, explore this 1920s text of Bertolt Brecht to find what it means today, about 90 odd years after it was first published. A candid Robin Das talks of his influences, an Oriya director working in Hindi with students from across the country.
Makhana farming is a specialized and painstaking process practised by farmers of the Mallah community of North Bihar. A species similar to the lotus family, the fox nut plants are cultivated in ponds and their seed of are collected from the bottom of the lake. Through an elaborate process of popping by hand on high heat we get 'makhana' in a state which can be packed and sold. Despite health risks to them, makhana cultivators continue to follow this process.
11:20 My Heritage Singing
Dir: Fatemeh Mosavi; 30 min; Persian with English subtitles; Iran
The prohibition of women singing in public after 1979 revolution in Iran is a recent and elucidative example which prevents them from singing in religious rituals. Bushehr Port, having a history of 5000 years, is the only exception as the local women strive to preserve their old traditions of singing.
11:50 Circus Theatre
Dir: Sanjay Maharishi; 50 min; India; Retrospective
In 2010 theatre director Abhilash Pillai brought a group of his students from the National School of Drama to work with circus artists in Irindjalkuda in Kerala. The film documents the challenges faced by both theatre people on one hand who have never performed in a ring and circus artists who do not know basic norms of theatre like blocking or story telling. An exciting time for all.
2 pm to 5 pm Films from Tamilnadu
Guest speakers:
Arunmozhi, filmmaker / teacher / selector
J Madhan, C Karunakaran, K Jayamurugan, Surya Louis, G Nathan, filmmakers
Ni Sa Ri Sa
Dir: J Madhan; 20 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2017
Affectionate siblings Kavinila and Kannan are ardent fans of A.R.Rahman. They are very possessive on their precious cassette collection. Neighbor girl Ramya and a missing cassette subsequently put their relationship upset. What could re-unite them? The cassette or the Music or a departure?
Mughugelumbu
Dir: Karunakaran C; 21:32 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2016
This is a story of an aged farmer who knows only agriculture from ages. He sells off his land to pay back the debt. He migrates to the nearby town in search of a job for survival.
Slipped Reincarnation
Dir: Jayamurugan K; 9 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles;
This is about who photographs and documents the liquor bottles thrown all over the places i.e., the roadside, streets, agri fields and Wells.
Athe Suvar
Dir: Surya Louis; 90 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2018
Walls have been built all over the world to stop "others" from "encroaching" certain territories. Here in Tamilnadu people from one community build a wall to protect a temple. But their neighbours and activists oppose and protest by calling it as a "Wall of Untouchability".
5) Maasilan Aathal
Dir: G. Nathan; 22 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2016
A truck driver is filled with guilt, for he had accidentally killed a motorist/ a man/ a husband /father.
Presented by Arunmozhi, filmmaker/teacher/selector
5:30 to 9 pm
Guest speakers:
Rohini, filmmaker / Actor
Rohini, filmmaker / Actor
Prof V Arasu
Salma, poet
5:30 pm Echoes of the Past
Dir: Merajur Rahman Baruah ; 52 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; Documentary
Donning a new avatar every day has been a way of life for 60 years old Sikandar Abbas. He was only six-months-old when he had his first performance, as the infant Lord Krishna. A ninth-generation Behrupiya from Rajasthan, the art of impersonation is his greatest inheritance. His ancestors brought comic relief to the humdrum of day-to-day life, even in the Royal courts.
6:40 Sama
Dir: Shazia Khan; 54 min; India; Filmmaker in Focus
SAMA is the story of Indian Islamic Music, born out of a union of Indian and Islamic traditions, more than a thousand years ago. It explores the intermingling of these, in both form and content, to become a truly magnificent sound.
SAMA takes the journey to manybreathtaking locations across India and explores how this music organically blends to absorb cultures and flavours , yet retains its original texture.In doing so the film explores the kaleidoscope of Islamic culture in India and the contacts and conflicts of Islamic India with indigenous elements particularly those of Hinduism.
7:40 Jungle of Cities
Dir: Sanjay Maharishi; 40 min; Retrospective
Students, along with director Robin Das, explore this 1920s text of Bertolt Brecht to find what it means today, about 90 odd years after it was first published. A candid Robin Das talks of his influences, an Oriya director working in Hindi with students from across the country.
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