10:30 am | 113 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
10:30 am | Dekyi Tsering Hall
A selection of 6 short films.
Coming to terms or, Making your Terms? | Kyaa Hai Ye Samjhauta | Hansa Thapliyal | India | 2023 | 9 mins. | Hindi | Director attending Nocturnal Burger | Nischachar Burger | Reema Maya | India, USA... Read More
10:30 am |
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
10:30 am | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Stanley Xu | Singapore, Taiwan | 2022 | 9 mins. | Chinese Mandarin
Five years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him by walking away. A seemingly harmless... Read More
10:30 am | 90 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
10:30 am | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Margreth Olin | Norway | 2023 | 90 mins. | Norwegian | Asia Premiere
With Norway’s dizzyingly beautiful mountain landscapes as its monumental backdrop, Olin embarks on an existential journey with her own ageing parents as the human yardstick within the vast... Read More
10:30 am | 84 mins
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
10:30 am | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Hong Sangsoo | South Korea | 2023 | 84 mins. | Korean
A woman in her early 40s is temporarily staying at her friend's house, who is taking care of a cat. Simultaneously, an elderly man in his 70s, living alone, has recently lost his ageing cat. Both the... Read More
10:30 am | 149 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
10:30 am | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Dhinakaran Sivalingam | India | 2023 | 149 mins. | Tamil | World Premiere | Director and Producer attending
When his wife sends him to rehab for his alcohol addiction without consent, Radha’s world shatters, fuelling his desperate escape plan. Loneliness and estrangement from his family follow as he... Read More
12:30 pm |
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
12:30 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Elham Ehsas | Afghanistan, UK | 2023 | 12 mins. | Dari
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and faces an uncertain future.
12:30 pm | 78 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
12:30 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari | Iran | 2023 | 78 mins. | Farsi
Terrestrial Verses follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities, from school... Read More
12:45 pm | 97 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
12:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Sarvnik Kaur | India, France | 2023 | 97 mins. | Hindi, Koli, Marathi
Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system—a way to harvest the sea by following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing... Read More
01:45 pm |
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
01:45 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Bhaskar Hazarika | India | 2022 | 15 mins. | Assamese
During the peak of the 2020 lockdown, millions of Indian migrant workers were forced to walk thousands of miles back to their villages from big cities. The mother of a young migrant laborer awaits... Read More
01:45 pm | 122 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
01:45 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Rima Das | India | 2022 | 122 mins. | Assamese
Amidst loss and lockdowns, Tora’s husband Jaan, a loving father and kind neighbour, struggles to keep his small-town business afloat and grapples with uncertainty and restlessness. With a worldview... Read More
02:00 pm | 65 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
02:00 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
The participants of Filmlab South Asia 2023 will pitch their projects.
Last year, DIFF launched Filmlab South Asia – a workshop for emerging producer- director teams – in partnership with Festival 3 Continents' Produire au Sud (PAS). DIFF is excited to host... Read More
02:30 pm |
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
02:30 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Sumedh Natu | India | 2022 | 17 mins. | Marathi
Amidst the rise of saffronisation among Indian youth, Saleel, a queer content creator works for the extremist Vinchu Sena party. When tasked with a destructive mission against an author, a mistaken... Read More
02:30 pm | 49 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
02:30 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Dakxin Chhara | India, United Kingdom | 2023 | 49 mins. | Bhantu, Hindi | Director attending
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a collective of indigenous artists belonging to India’s ‘ex-criminal’ De-notified Tribes and associated with Budhan Theatre, decided to produce... Read More
02:30 pm |
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
02:30 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Rajkumari Prajapati and Ruchika Negi | India | 2023 | 35 mins. | Hindi
Shot on mobile phone cameras in western Uttar Pradesh, In Between Us seeks to explore the personal positions of two women—Rajkumari, a social activist, and Ruchika, a documentary filmmaker and... Read More
02:45 pm | 122 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
02:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Maryam Touzani | France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark | 2022 | 122 mins. | Arabic
Born in Tangier, Morocco, in 1980, Maryam Touzani began her career in journalism in London before returning to Morocco to specialise in North African cinema. She ventured into filmmaking with... Read More
02:45 pm |
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
02:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Rahul Roye | India | 2023 | 18 mins. | Hindi
An estranged migrant working-class couple embarks on a deeply emotional journey to find friendship in one another as they grapple with the loss of their daughter to an ill-fated custom.
03:30 pm | 97 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
03:30 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
Houman Seyedi | Iran | 2022 | 97 mins. | Farsi
Shakib is a homeless day labourer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute... Read More
03:30 pm | 90 mins.
Venue: House of Peace & Dialogue
03:30 pm | House of Peace & Dialogue
Pa. Ranjith in Conversation with Bina Paul
Over the past decade, Pa. Ranjith has emerged as one of the foremost and revolutionary voices in Tamil cinema. By focusing directly on anti-caste politics, his films have challenged the hegemonic and... Read More
05:30 pm | 97 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
05:30 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Varun Grover | India | 2022 | 97 mins. | Hindi
Set in the late 1990s, in the pre-mobile-phone era, All India Rank is a slice-of-life dramedy about 17-year old Vivek who is sent away from home to a prep-school to study for the highly competitive... Read More
10:30 am |
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
10:30 am | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Siddharth Chauhan | India | 2022 | 75 mins. | Hindi | Director attending
In the heart of Amar Colony, a dilapidated building, Meera seeks excitement amidst her pregnancy and a dull marriage, while her absent husband harbours his own secrets. Her young and idle neighbour,... Read More
10:30 am | 114 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
10:30 am | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Saurav Rai | India, Nepal | 2023 | 114 mins. | Nepali
When cardamom prices plummet in her village, it disrupts the once-stable life of nine-year-old Guras. To add to the chaos, her beloved pet dog disappears. Amidst the backdrop of a looming leopard... Read More
10:30 am | 80 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
10:30 am | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Isabel Herguera | Germany, Spain | 2023 | 80 mins. | Basque, Bengali, English, Hindi, Italian, Spanish
In this animation feature, inspired by a feminist science-fiction story written in 1905 in Bengal, the protagonist, Inés, embarks on a journey through India searching for traces of Ladyland, a... Read More
10:30 am | 75 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
10:30 am | Dekyi Tsering Hall
A selection of 5 short films.
Last Days of Summer | Stenzin Tankyong | India, France | 2023 | 15 mins. | Ladakhi (Changskat) | Director attending Mountain Man | Gangri Gi Min | Arun Bhatarai | Bhutan | 2022 | 22 mins. |... Read More
11:00 am | 90 mins.
Venue: House of Peace & Dialogue
11:00 am | House of Peace & Dialogue
Guneet Monga Kapoor in conversation with Ritu Sarin
Guneet Monga burst onto the filmmaking stage as a young, unknown, outsider woman who pulled the rug from under the entrenched preconceptions of a primarily male-dominated industry and proved against... Read More
12:30 pm | 99 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
12:30 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Sepideh Farsi | France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium | 2023 | 99 mins. | Farsi | Director attending
1980. Southern Iran. The people of Abadan have been fighting an Iraqi siege. Among them is 14-year-old Omid, who has chosen to stay in the city with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to... Read More
12:45 pm | 111 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
12:45 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Don Palathara | India | 2023 | 111 mins. | Malayalam | Director attending
In rural central Kerala, Sony, a Catholic man in his late twenties, appears at first glance to be a benevolent and caring individual. However, beneath his public façade lies a hidden persona. As... Read More
12:45 pm |
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
12:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Reetu Sattar | Bangladesh, United Kingdom | 2022 | 22 mins. | Bengali, English
Shabnam delves into the discomfort of colonial history through Bengali language, creating a time gap between sound and text, unearthing hidden narratives and archival images to expose inequality.
12:45 pm | 96 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
12:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Shahrukhkhan Chavada | India | 2023 | 96 mins. | Hindi, Gujarati | Director attending
Set in Kalupur, a neighbourhood in the old city of Ahmedabad, this slice-of-life film follows the daily life of Razzak and his family through an observational lens. Razzak, an unemployed father of... Read More
12:45 pm | 84 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
12:45 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
Leslie Shampaine and Pip Gilmour | India, USA, Israel, UK | 2023 | 84 mins. | English, Hindi | South Asia Premiere | Producer and cast attending
Manish is a talented and athletic street dancer from Mumbai who dreams of becoming a professional against the wishes of his struggling parents who have moved to the big city from a small village in... Read More
02:00 pm | 90 mins.
Venue: House of Peace & Dialogue
02:00 pm | House of Peace & Dialogue
A conversation with Tenzing Sonam and filmmakers Disha Bhardwaj, Dominic Sangma, Rajan Kathet and Sunir Pandey , and Stenzin Tankong
Across the breadth of the Himalaya, from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh, including Nepal and Bhutan, a cinematic churning is becoming apparent as a new generation of filmmakers emerges, determined to... Read More
03:15 pm | 96 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
03:15 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Anand Patwardhan | India | 2023 | 96 mins. | English, Hindi, Marathi | Director attending
In a milieu challenging dominant, exclusivist Hindu caste notions, Anand grew up surrounded by the universalist idea of "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" – the belief that the world is one family. Ancestors... Read More
03:15 pm | 104 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
03:15 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
Emil Langballe and Lukasz Konopa | Denmark, Germany | 2023 | 104 mins. | English, Luo, Swahili
In his role as a defence lawyer at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Krispus Ayena faces a profound ethical dilemma: Can an individual be both an executioner and a victim? Ayena's most... Read More
03:45 pm | 87 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
03:45 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
A collaboration between Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja | Canada | 2023 | 87 mins. | Punjabi | Asia Premiere | Directors attending
I am Sirat features a transgender woman who is caught between duty and self-determination. As Aman, she lives in New Delhi with her widowed mother as a son, fulfilling responsibilities in the... Read More
03:45 pm |
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
03:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Sraiyanti H and Prem Akkattu | India | 2023 | 9 mins. | English, Tamil
A man who works as a security guard in an apartment complex goes about his day, while the residents who live there express their views on caste, identity, and their own social standing. But actions... Read More
03:45 pm | 104 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
03:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Jayant Digambar Somalkar | India | 2023 | 104 mins. | Marathi | Director attending
In a village in rural India, a young determined girl, Savita, yearns for education and a bright future. However, as her farmer parents anxiously struggle to find a suitable match for her, societal... Read More
05:30 pm | 79 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
05:30 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
Rajan Kathet and Sunir Pandey | Nepal | 2023 | 79 mins. | Nepali | South Asia Premiere | Director attending
Amidst the migration of their friends and neighbours for the winter, two widows, Ratima and Kalima, choose to remain behind as caretakers of their empty village. Isolated and snowbound for a hundred... Read More
06:00 pm | 124 mins
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
06:00 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Wim Wenders | Japan | 2023 | 124 mins. | Japanese
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and books. And he loves trees and... Read More
06:15 pm | playing with The Discoverer of the Discoverers
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
06:15 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
C.J. "Fiery" Obasi | Nigeria | 2022 | 107 mins. | West African Pidgin | India Premiere
In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted... Read More
06:15 pm |
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
06:15 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
C.S. Nicholson | Norway | 2022 | 25 mins. | Fongbè, Xwédagbè
In the West African republic of Benin, a family recounts their ancestor's first encounter with Europeans in 1548 to a European film crew. As they share their version of history, including rituals and... Read More
06:30 pm | 100 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
06:30 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Guy Davidi | Denmark, Israel, Finland, Iceland | 2022 | 100 mins. | Hebrew | India Premiere
Innocence tackles the issue of militarisation and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values. Through a narration based on the... Read More
12:00 am | 66 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
12:00 am | Dekyi Tsering Hall
A selection of 3 shorts for young adults.
Shera | Arun Fulara | India | 2023 | 20 mins. | Kumaoni | Director attending Morchang | Chandradeep Singh Rathore | India | 2023 | 24 mins. | Rajasthani | Director attending Roads | Sadak |... Read More
10:30 am | 103 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
10:30 am | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Christian Petzold | Germany | 2023 | 103 mins. | German
A small holiday house by the Baltic sea. The days are hot and it hasn’t rained in weeks. Four young people come together, friends old and new. As the parched forests around them begin to ignite, so... Read More
10:30 am | 94 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
10:30 am | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Vinay Shukla | India, United Kingdom | 2022 | 94 mins. | Hindi
The Prime Time Indian TV journalist, Ravish Kumar, is in trouble. Renowned for his fearless takedowns of the ruling establishment during his long-standing prime-time news slot, he faces mounting... Read More
10:30 am | 89 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
10:30 am | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Clara Kraft Isono | UK, Sri Lanka | 2022 | 89 mins. | English, French | Director attending
Bawa’s Garden is a road movie in search of the works of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The film follows a protagonist scouring the island for the ‘lost’ garden of Lunuganga.... Read More
11:00 am | 90 mins.
Venue: House of Peace & Dialogue
11:00 am | House of Peace & Dialogue
A conversation with Bina Paul, Meenakshi Shedde, Nashen Moodley and Ritu Sarin
For a filmmaker, getting a rejection from a film festival is a heart-wrenching blow. Multiple rejections can be fatal in undermining confidence and self-worth, especially for someone starting out on... Read More
12:30 pm | 93 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
12:30 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Prasanna Vithanage | India, Sri Lanka | 2023 | 93 mins. | English, Sinhala, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil | Director attending
Eager to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary, Amritha, a video blogger, and her husband Kesav, a film producer, arrive in Sri Lanka from Mumbai to experience a mystical tour of historical... Read More
12:30 pm | 71 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
12:30 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
Nirmal Chander | India | 2023 | 71 mins. | English, Hindi | Director attending
"Hands destined to mould a thing of beauty". Thus wrote James Cousins, eminent writer, of a young Sikh potter he met in Japan in 1922. The film celebrates the life and legacy of Sardar... Read More
12:45 pm | 90 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
12:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Aravindan Govindan | India | 1979 | 90 mins. | Malayalam
In a remote Malabar village, the enigmatic figure of Kummatty looms large in folklore. To the village's children, he's both a bogeyman and a magician. One day, Kummatty materialises with a wizard's... Read More
01:00 pm | 124 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
01:00 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora | Brazil, Portugal | 2023 | 124 mins. | Portuguese | South Asia Premiere
Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people in the heart of the Brazilian forest. Tirelessly persecuted, but guided by their ancestral... Read More
01:00 pm | 90 mins.
Venue: House of Peace & Dialogue
01:00 pm | House of Peace & Dialogue
A conversation with Trisha Gupta and filmmakers Clara Kraft Isono, Hansa Thapliyal, Nishtha Jain, and Shreemoye Singh
Documentaries have come a long way from their origins as being factual and objective representations of true events, although from their inception, questions have been raised about their authenticity... Read More
02:45 pm | 110 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
02:45 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
A selection of 6 short films.
Birdsong | Omi Zola Gupta, Sparsh Ahuja | United Kingdom, Laos | 2022 | 17 mins. | Hmong | Director attending Regard Silence | Mira El Silencio | Santiago Zermeño | México | 2022 | 29 mins. |... Read More
02:45 pm | 97 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
02:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Asmae El Moudir | Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt | 2023 | 97 mins. | Arabic
Young Moroccan filmmaker, Asmae el Moudir, wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She decides to explore the past and its... Read More
03:00 pm | 127 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
03:00 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Dominic Megam Sangma | India | 2023 | 127 mins. | Garo | Director attending
In a village plagued by kidnapping fears, the church announces the arrival of a miraculous Virgin Mary statue along with a grim announcement from the village security head, Nengsal, who warns “ of... Read More
03:30 pm | 86 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
03:30 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Nishtha Jain | Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Netherlands, Norway, UK | 2022 | 86 mins. | Bengali, Hindi | Director attending
Outside Kolkata, a few jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Powered by steam and sweat, work is a dance to the rhythms of the century-old machines. The Golden... Read More
04:45 pm | 178 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
04:45 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Thien An Pham | Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain | 2023 | 178 mins. | Vietnamese
A reluctant Thien must take the body of his sister-in-law, who died in a freak motorcycle accident in Saigon, and her five-year-old son Dao, who miraculously survived the crash, to their hometown in... Read More
05:30 pm | 100 mins
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
05:30 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
Harshad Nalawade | India | 2023 | 100 mins. | Marathi, Kannada | Director attending
In a small town torn by territorial disputes between two linguistic communities, Raghu, a radicalised journalist working for an online media outlet, becomes a mouthpiece for an extremist leader.... Read More
06:00 pm | 116 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
06:00 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Warwick Thornton | Australia | 2023 | 116 mins. | English
In 1940s Australia, a nine-year-old Aboriginal boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun. The boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story... Read More
06:00 pm | 75 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
06:00 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Sreemoyee Singh | India | 2023 | 75 mins. | English, Farsi | Director attending
Inspired by Iranian cinema and the poetry of Forough Farrokhzad, a young Indian filmmaker journeys to Iran to witness how resistance becomes a daily act of survival in Iranian society. Despite... Read More
10:30 am | 95 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
10:30 am | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Achal Mishra | India | 2023 | 95 mins. | Ladakhi, Balti, Hindi, English, German, Kannada | World Premiere | Director attending
Glimpses of everyday life in Ladakh on a long summer evening. Through vignettes of daily life, landscapes, and wildlife, set entirely during the liminal blue hour, Ri paints a portrait of Ladakh as... Read More
10:30 am | 52 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
10:30 am | Dekyi Tsering Hall
A selection of 3 shorts for young adults.
Stay Quiet | Chupi Roh | Disha Bhardwaj | India | 2023 | 16 Mins. | Hindi, Pahari | Director attending Out Beyond | Salman Alam Khan | Pakistan, Usa | 2023 | 5 Mins. | Urdu Kulfi | Kiran Narayan... Read More
10:30 am | 88 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
10:30 am | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Elvis A-Liang Lu | Taiwan, France | 2022 | 88 mins. | Taiwanese (Hokkien), Chinese | India Premiere
After 24 years of absence, director A-Liang Elvis Lu returns home to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan. His elder brother is a psychic that communicates Taoist deities’ career... Read More
10:30 am | 83 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
10:30 am | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Patricio Guzmán | Chile, France | 2022 | 83 mins. | Spanish
In October 2019, an unforeseen revolution ignited a social upheaval. Over one and a half million individuals took to the streets of Santiago, demanding increased democracy, improved living standards,... Read More
11:00 am | 90 mins.
Venue: House of Peace & Dialogue
11:00 am | House of Peace & Dialogue
Umesh Kulkarni in conversation with short filmmakers Samiksha Mathur (Hello Guyzz!), Aarun Fulara (Shera), Rahul Roye (A Lullaby for the Yellow Roses), Chaman Kishan (A Flight of the Lost Dreamy Bird).
Is the short film a stepping stone to feature films, a calling card to showcase one’s potential in the hope of moving up the so-called ladder to more serious filmmaking? Is it the poor cousin,... Read More
12:15 pm | 99 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
12:15 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Aamir Bashir | India, France, Qatar | 2022 | 99 mins. | Kashmiri, Urdu | Director attending
In the city of Srinagar, Nargis searches for her missing husband, Manzoor, until she is forced to hopelessly return to her village home. With a little help from a local man Yaseen, she silently toils... Read More
12:30 pm | 89 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
12:30 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
A collection of video and written essays
Monographs is a project born during the COVID-19 pandemic, serving as a critical platform for discourse on moving images beyond the confines of cinema. The second edition of Monographs, guided by... Read More
12:30 pm | 52 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
12:30 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
Deepa Dhanraj | India | 1991 | 52 mins. | Hindi, Marwari
A historical overview of India's coercive Family Planning programme and its effect on women. The film examines this issue from the point of view of women themselves, those who were pushed to... Read More
01:15 pm | 83 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
01:15 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Billy Luther | USA | 2023 | 83 mins. | English, Navajo | Director attending
In 1990, 12-year-old Benny, a Native American boy from San Diego, is reluctantly sent to his Grandma Lorraine's Navajo ranch in Arizona. Despite the language barrier and harsh living conditions,... Read More
02:00 pm | 90 mins.
Venue: House of Peace & Dialogue
02:00 pm | House of Peace & Dialogue
A conversation with Prathyush Parasuraman and filmmakers Ruchika Negi and Rajkumari Prajapati, Shahrukhkhan Chavada, Harshad Nalawade, Jayant Digambar Somalkar, Achal Misra, and Siddharth Chauhan.
Like in many parts of the world, the advent of digital technology and the democratisation of cinema production has led to an explosion of independent filmmaking in India. No longer dependent on the... Read More
02:30 pm | 120 mins.
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
02:30 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
A selection of 7 short films.
Dreams Awaken | Jaagte Khwab | Aprajita Gupta | India | 2022 | 19 mins. | English, Hindi | Director attending A Flight of the Lost Dreamy Bird | Hare Patte Ke Rang Ki Patrangi Aur Kahin Kho Gaya... Read More
02:45 pm | 81 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
02:45 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany | 2023 | 81 mins. | Finnish
Fallen Leaves tells the story of two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first and ultimate love of their lives. Their path towards this honourable... Read More
03:00 pm | 166 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
03:00 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Peter Mettler | Switzerland, Canada | 2023 | 166 mins. | English | India Premiere
While The Green Grass Grows is an audio-visual, trance-like, epic diary that looks at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. Peter Mettler follows and weaves, with his unique... Read More
03:45 pm | 111 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
03:45 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Jyoti Nisha | India | 2023 | 111 mins. | English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati | World Premiere | Director attending
Through the discerning lens of a Bahujan feminist filmmaker operating within the upper-caste Indian film industry, the film delves deep into critical themes of liberty, equality, fraternity, social... Read More
04:45 pm | 138 mins.
Venue: Hermann Gmeiner Hall
04:45 pm | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
Devashish Makhija | India | 2022 | 138 mins. | Hindi | Director attending
Dasru and Vaano lead an anonymous life as migrant labourers on a Mumbai construction site with their infant daughter, Joram. The family’s world collides with Karma, a female tribal leader from... Read More
05:30 pm |
Venue: Dekyi Tsering Hall
05:30 pm | Dekyi Tsering Hall
Manthia Diawara | Portugal | 2023 | 77 mins. | Language | India Premiere
The essay film reflects on the life and work of the North American activist Angela Davis. The film is neither a biography nor a fictional narrative. Instead, Diawara’s footage, which is... Read More
06:00 pm | 115 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
06:00 pm | Picture Time 1 (Basketball Court)
Makbul Mubarak | Indonesia, France, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Germany, Qatar | 2022 | 115 mins. | Indonesian
With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakib works as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served... Read More
06:15 pm | 100 mins.
Venue: Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
06:15 pm | Picture Time 2 (Football Ground)
Darkhan Tulegenov | Kazakhstan | 2022 | 100 mins. | Kazakh | India Premiere
Akzhol, a new graduate of the orphanage, starts a new and independent life. He is convinced that his father is alive and begins to search for him. After meeting his neighbour Dimash, the two begin to... Read More