Saurav Kumar Munda | India | 2026 | 24 mins. | Mundari | Filmmaker attending
In a mining-scarred Adivasi village under the shadow of the state–Naxal conflict, a 12-year-old boy’s encounter with a Tiger Spirit in the form of his long-dead uncle leads him to his family’s missing buffalo while uncovering buried memories of loss and violence.
Saurav Kumar Munda
Saurav Kumar Munda is a filmmaker from the Munda community of Ranchi, Jharkhand. He is a FTII Pune graduate who specialised in Direction and Screenplay Writing. His fiction and non-fiction work explores memory, folklore, and the lived realities of indigenous communities through the Mundari language and oral tradition.
Writer: Saurav Kumar Munda
Cinematographer: Wesabo Yobin
Editor: Satyam Kumar Mahato
Sound: Mayuresh Rajgure
Cast: Ayush Lugun, Anurag Lugun, Suman Purty, Kisun Hassa Purty
