10th Chennai Film Festival 2022 : Shubradeep Chakravorthy Memorial Award for Best Indian Documentary

Dear friends!

We are happy to announce that Shubradeep Memorial Award for the Best Indian Documentary will be given from this year at Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022.

The award includes a cash prize for Rs.50,000/- and a certificate.

Selection Committee : Sehjo Singh, Meera Chaudhary and Sabyasachi Banerjee 

Final Jury : Swarnavel Easwaran, Smriti Nivetia and Fathima N.

We would like to thank the friends and family members of Subhradeep for giving their support.

About Subhradeep Chakravorthy

10th Chennai Film Festival 2022 : Arunmozhi Memorial Award for Best Indian Short Fiction

Dear friends!

We are happy to announce that Arunmozhi Memorial Award for the Best Indian Short Fiction will be given from this year at Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022.

The award includes a cash prize for Rs.50,000/- and a certificate.

Selection Committee for Short fiction  : Louis Mathew, Pratap Joseph and Dhamayanthi

Final Jury for Short fiction : Suma Jasson, Arun Gupta and Sathosh Ram 

Arunmozhi was a filmmaker, teacher and enthusiast for over four decades. He passed away 2 years back while attending a film festival. 

Arunmozhi was also a great friend and supporter of Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival.

Click here to know more about Arunmozhi, the late filmmaker.

We thank his family and friends for their support.

Amudhan R.P.

Festival Director

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022

10th Chennai Film Festival 2022 : Director's Cut - curated by Amudhan R.P.

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022

Director’s Cut : curated by Amudhan R.P.

1) Differences
Dir : Anush Gopinath; 4.27 min; Short fiction; India

We live in a society where everyone is different either by their inborn abilities or by the social strata they come from or by the cultural or religious background. At times, we tend to forget to recognise these differences.

2) State
Dir : Swanand Kottewar; 8.40 min; Short film; India

A family. Lockdown. Caught up in stillness. Thoughts like void in an empty box. No sense of the passing time. Emptiness. Anxieties, Ecstasies and mixed hopes for an uncertain tomorrow.

3) A Father’s Gift
Dir : Jagannathan Ramakrishnan; 20 min; Short fiction; India

An Electrician in desperation to keep up a promise he made to his son commits an offence at a client's house. The act pushes him into an uncomfortable confrontation where he has to uphold either his dignity or the promise.

4) Forget me not
Director : Lea Gygli; 13 minutes 3 seconds; Short fiction; Switzerland

Yuna is looking for her friend Moana and finds answers to her questions. Between memories and longing, Yuna experiences an insight through which she can find peace with her loss.

5) Jadzia
Dir: KK Araujo, Ariane Porto, 19:58 min; German/Portuguese with English subtitles; Short fiction; Brazil

Poetic narrative of Jadzia's look at her prison in the Nazi concentration camp in Ravensbruck. The film is sensitive throughout an attempt to reconstruct its struggle for life in a humane and welcoming way.

6) Perm
Dir: Shekh al Mamun; 30.00mins; Korean with English subtitles; 2021; Short fiction; South Korea

‘Nisha’, who comes from Bangladesh, lives in a rural village in Korea with her mother-in-law and her husband, Byeong-shik. She loves riding her bike to go study Hangeul and wants to become more independent. However, her mother-in-law hopes that Nisha will have a child soon and devote herself to the family. One day, during a jesa ceremony, the uncle keeps telling her that she has to become more Korean and pressures her to quickly have a baby.

7) Barrio Frontera
Dir: Reed Purvis; 18:00 mins; Spanish with English subtitles; 2021; Short fiction; United States

A teenage girl from a poor rural village in northern Argentina moves to Buenos Aires to pursue a life with more opportunities and the hopes of helping her family back home. Sharing a small room in a large informal settlement with her older cousin's family, she must quickly adapt to this radically different urban environment.

8) The Falling Fruit. The Frozen Time. And the Five Variations on Mani Kaul’s Uski Roti
Dir ; Jay Kholia; 12.12 min; Short film; India

In 1969, Mani Kaul made his debut feature film ‘Uski Roti’ (A Day’s Bread) which brought in radically fresher environment in Indian cinema that was much burdened by theatricality and realism.

Fifty years later, through my ‘Prayoga’ film ‘The Falling Fruit. The Frozen Time. And the Five Variations on Mani Kaul’s Uski Roti,’ I am revisiting Kaul’s film, creating five variations from its key inaugural shot which has become my basic note.

9) Chun Chun Maati / Living Lightly - Journeys with Pastoralists
Dir : Sanjay Barnela; 10.35 min; Short film; India

This cine-poem, Chun Chun Maati, attempts to evoke the eternal spirit of pastoral communities roaming with their animals across the planet in a way of life that is deeply attuned to nature, bringing out their resilience, fortitude and the value of impermanence! Where else would you come across people who live by the maxim, "everyday uncertainty is a certainty”!

10) Scapegoat

Dir: Tathagatha Ghosh; 25 min; Short fiction; India

A young firebrand woman decides to stand up against the patriarchy and hate politics that has begun to infiltrate her rural Bengali village and threatens to destroy her way of life. 

11) The Icon and the Iconoclast 

Dir : Vilasini Ramani; 18.47 minn; Short fiction; India; Director’s Cut

This period short film is based on a conversation that reportedly happened between Periyar E.V. Ramasamy and Mahatma Gandhi in the year 1927. Over this conversation, Periyar, a rationalist anti-caste leader from South India and the key figure of the Dravidian Movement, and Mahatma Gandhi, the well-known pacifist leader of the Indian Independence Movement, discuss their views on religion.

18th Madurai International Film Festival on Democracy 2016

6-10 December 2016

Madurai, India

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23rd Madurai Film Festival 2021 : Animation, Music Videos and Experimental films

23rd Madurai Film Festival 2021
Animation, Music videos and experimental films

The Fox of the Palmgrove
Dir: Divakar SK;08:56 mins; German, Tamil with English subtitles; 2019; India; animation

A random television visual triggers the memories of an old man in which we go through a sequence of random events that summarizes his entire life.

Bloodslide - Pica (Official Video)
Dir: Evan Pearce, Josh Tokarsky; 05:11mins; English; 2021; Canada; animation

The music video depicts Pica - the compulsive appetite for substances considered outside the realm of the acceptable consumables such as ice, hair, metal. Both of the elements, nature and human body are deeply connected, existing in an undisturbed and sublime state. The digitization of these elements using machine learning and medical imaging highlights the divergent attributions of value we assign to these elements in the digital space, and the fact that we - like those who suffer from Pica - are constantly fighting an appetite to consume these digital ghosts.

Kapaat
Dir: Janvi Madabusi; 14:00 mins; Marathi with English subtitles; 2021; India; experimental

As a 10 year old kid loses his favorite cupboard (kapaat) to a dowry transaction he sets out on a quest to buy a new one.

Not Far Out
Dir: Beran Ergün; 11:46 mins; Portuguese with English subtitles; 2021; Germany; experimental

For his training, an extreme swimmer goes to the sea at dawn. On this day the waves are very rough, and the man has problems to keep his head above the water. In what will probably be his last moments he makes an unexpected discovery. 

The bird
Dir: Perrine Lamy-Quique; 05:33 mins; 2020; France; experimental

A man. A woman. A bird. The water and the sky of our memories.

Angel
Dir: Lina Asadullina; 13:36 mins; Russian, Tatar with English subtitles; 2021; Russian Federation; experimental

The year is 2027! A young woman tenderly cares for her one-year-old child, enjoying every moment of his presence or thinking that she is enjoying …… ..?! Or maybe, she is saying goodbye?!

Fallen Friends
Dir: Russell Lake, JazzElle; 04:01 mins; English; 2021; United States; music video

The verse relays two allegories... and the chorus sings out a heartfelt response.

Devoid of Sense: Dark Side of Your Soul
Dir: Maxim Vorobyev; 03:25 mins; English; 2021; Russian Federation; music video

23rd Madurai Film Festival 2021 : Indian Documentaries

23rd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2021

Indian Documentaries



1) Days Of Summer
Dir: Adhiraj Buragohain; 58.40 min; Assamese with English Subtitles; India; Documentary

Amid the pandemic, I went back from my university to my village in Assam. This film is about my interaction with my family and the village members. The film also explores the landscape of Assam, which is changing rapidly due to environmental and socio-economic reasons.

2) Ghar Ka Pata
Dir: Madhulika Jalali; 1 hr 7 min; English/Hindi/Kashmiri with English subtitles; 2020; India; Documentary

I was 6 when my family had to leave the Kashmir valley due to an armed insurgency in 1990. This personal account seeks to understand ‘loss’, ‘identity’ & is an attempt to reconstruct the long lost home of my birth, a place and of a time that exists in mine and my family’s collective memories.

3)Who says the Lepchas are vanishing
Director- Abhyuday Khaitan; 42 minutes 21 seconds; Hindi; 2020

The last documentary featuring Soham Tshering Lepcha, the cultural icon, and the most respected Lepcha figure, documents his life and work. A look at his life and work is also inevitably a look at the tribe, as his life and work are rooted, intertwined, and inseparable from his tribe.

4) Kerala hip hop- Into the roots
Director- Akshay K.P; 9 minutes 4 seconds; English, Malayalam with English subtitles; 2021

5)Dreaming of Words
Director- Nandan; 60 minutes; Malayalam, Tamil with English subtitles; 2020

Njattyela Sreedharan, a fourth standard drop-out, compiles a dictionary connecting four Indian languages. Travelling across four states and doing extensive research, he spent twenty-five years making the multilingual dictionary. This unique dictionary offers a comparative study of Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu. 'Dreaming of Words' traces Sreedharan's life, work, love for languages and the struggles to get the dictionary published. The film also explores the linguistic and cultural diversity in India.

6) Moving Upstream: Ganga
Director- Shridhar Sudhir; 1 hour 45 minutes; Bengali, English, Hindi with English subtitles; 2021

The 'Moving Upstream: Ganga’ documentary was filmed over 6 months on a 3000km walk along River Ganga in India. This documentary explores the idea of walking, people’s responses to a walking traveller in this fast-paced era and an evolving relationship with the natural world. It does this while also amplifying the voices and concerns of the riparian community

7) TUN-RUNG-KHAM (The Golden Willow)
Dir: Mridupawan Bora; 24:20 mins; Assamese with English subtitles; 2021; India; doc

A glimpse into the history, folk traditions and cultural preservation of the Tai Ahom people, from Yunnan to a glorious dynasty in Assam and the existing generation with deep rooted connection to their ancestors that transcend time.

8) BACKSTAGE
Dir:Lipika Singh Darai; 85 mins; Odia with English subtitles ;2020; India; doc

The film portrays the lives and times of puppeteers of Odisha, India. It documents four forms of puppetry; the glove, the string, the rod and the shadow, which are now being performed by the last generation of artists. After them, the art form will probably die. The folk art form, which is as vulnerable as its performers who mostly belong to the lower strata of the society in terms of caste and economy, is experiencing a silent death. The filmmaker builds a personal narrative to trace the time a dying art form is going through. 

23rd Madurai Film Festival 2021 : Indian films - Short Fiction

23rd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2021

Indian films : Short Fiction 

1) Imaginary Homes
Dir: Priya Naresh; 18 min; Punjabi with English subtitles; 2021; India; Short Fiction

An old woman with her incoherent past and a young maid build an imaginary home together.

2) When the Earth Sang a Song
Dir: Teena Kaur; 14:06 min; Hindi with English subtitles; 2021; India; Short Fiction

Rekhi lives in a remote village of Rajasthan and does storytelling with a box of mythological paintings called "Kaavad". His pupil Jhangid is learning this art from him. The peaceful life of Rekhi is disturbed when the village headman starts forcing him to sell his plot of land, as a resort will be built in the village.

3) The Falling Fruit. The Frozen Time. And the Five Variations on Mani Kaul's Uski Roti
Dir: Jay Kholia; 12:12 min; Silent; 2021; India; Short Fiction

In 1969, Mani Kaul made his debut feature film ‘Uski Roti’ (A Day’s Bread), fifty years later I am revisiting Kaul’s film, creating five variations from its key inaugural shot which has become my basic note.

4) Sita
Dir: Abhinav Singh; 18:58 min; Hindi with English subtitles; 2021; India; Short Fiction

Sita is a story of a young 11 year old Dalit boy who finds a dead newborn baby girl in the streets. All he wishes to do now is give her a respectful cremation.

5) Visitors
Dir: Navnita Sen; 13:10 min; Hindi/English with English subtitles; 2020; India; Short Fiction

A 10-year-old boy wakes up to find himself alone in his house, during the Pandemic of 2020. His mother, who had left for work early morning, is unable to return, due to a curfew-like lockdown in the city. An encounter with some unusual visitors, who drop by unexpectedly, change the course of his day.

6) Colors: Saffron
Director- AK Srikanth; 14 minutes 51 seconds; English; 2021

A dance film performed by Savita Sastry is set in a dystopian hell where for a woman to be more successful than men is proscribed. The film looks at the enormity of this crime against women, and their act of defiance on the face of it. 

7) Zero kilometer
Director- Shamas Nawab Siddiqui; 14 minutes 20 seconds; Hindi with English subtitles; 2021

Kajal, a small-town woman who works as a labourer to feed her child, sister and a useless husband finds a way to fulfil her material desires, but that path soon put her on a downward spiral where she loses everything that she had.

8) Since Forever
Dir: Nisam Asaf; 14:22 mins; Malayalam with English subtitles; 2021; India; SF

Unavailability of pregnancy care during the nationwide Covid-19 lock-down in India forces a young woman to seek dangerous illegal methods to terminate her unwanted pregnancy.

9) STATE
Dir: Swanand Kottewar; 08:40 mins; Hindi with English subtitles; 2020; India;SF

The life of a family caught up in stillness amidst the lockdown. Thoughts like void in an empty box. No sense of the passing time. Emptiness, anxieties, ecstasies and mixed hopes for an uncertain tomorrow.

10) A Father’s Gift
Dir: Jagannath Radhakrishnan; 20:00 mins; Tamil with English subtitles; 2021; India; SFAn electrician in desperation to fulfil a promise he made to his son commits an offence at a client's house. The act pushes him into an uncomfortable confrontation where he has to uphold either his dignity or the promise.

11) The Florist
Dir: Priyam Chanda; 14:44 mins; Bengali with English subtitles; 2021; India; SFThe story revolves around Anish, a common man with a painter inside of him, his wife Amrita and a stranger Anish who meet one day while searching for yellow roses. Thus starts the journey of two strangers from their distant lives to an undefined relationship; a journey that leaves both of them battered and bruised. Will they ever find their place in a rather judgmental society? Will they ever be accepted?

12) A Window Of Heart
Dir: Shrinidhi Naulakha; 09:23 mins; Hindi with English subtitles; 2021; India; SF

The film talks about a girl, Nabha, who is missing her friends and decides to write them letters, hoping they'll come and see her.

13) The Threshold
Dir: Mithun Gomes; 11:41 mins; Hindi with English subtitles; 2021; India; SF

20-year-old Seema is nervous about a new business deal for her company, but just as she reaches her workplace, she learns that Naveen has invited his parents over for a lunch. Today, they will decide if Seema is a suitable match for their son. In order to impress them, she must present them with a delectable meal. Unfortunately, her trusted cook, Malati, is unavailable. Seema has never cooked before, and now, for Naveen's sake, she must sacrifice the business opportunity and find a way into the hearts of Naveen's parents.