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
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.
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