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TRIBUTE TO GASTON ROBERGE

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FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’SLETTER

IFFT-ORANGE INTERNATIONAL ONLINE SHORT AND DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2020

TRIBUTE TO JIRI MENZEL

JURY-COMPETITION SECTION

ORANGE FOUNDATION TRUST

COMPETITION SECTION

JURY CHAIRMAN’S FILMS: PN RAMACHANDRA

COUNTRY FOCUS - JAPAN

SATYAJIT RAY- BIRTH CENTENARY

MASTERS & CLASSICS - NORMAN MCLAREN

RETROSPECTIVE ON PATRICIO GUZMAN

EMMRC DOCUMENTARY FILMS

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21-09-2020, MONDAY

SCHEDULE

11 am-1 pm

22-09-2020 , TUESDAY

JIRI MENZEL ONLINE VENUE JIRI MENZEL ONLINE VENUE

11 am-1 pm

COMPETITION 2 pm-4 pm

INAUGURAL FUNCTION5 pm-7 pm

Rabindranath Tagore (Doc) - 1961 Dir : Satyajit Ray - 53.39’ (SRC)Astronomers from my Neighbourhood (Doc)Dir : Patricio Guzman - 14.08’ (PGR) - 2010Jose Maza, Sky Traveller (Doc) - 2010Dir : Patricio Guzman - 12.46’ (PGR)Maria Teresa and the Brown Dwarf (Doc) Dir : Patricio Guzman - 11.48’ (PGR) - 2010Oscar Saa, Technician of the Stars (Doc) Dir : by Patricio Guzman - 10.12’ (PGR) - 2010

A Chairy Tale (Doc) - 1957 Dir : Norman Mclaren- 9.54’ Begone Dull Care (Animated short film)Dir : Norman Mclaren - 7.50’ - 1951Boogie doodle (Doc) - 1940Dir : Norman Mclaren - 3.28’ Canon (Animated short film ) Dir : Norman Mclaren - 1964 - 9.25’Hen hop (Animated short film ) Dir : Norman Mclaren - 3.50’ - 1942

Le Merle (The Blackbird)- (Animation film) Dir : Norman Mclaren- 9.54’ - 1959

Life in Lockdown (Shortfilm) - 2020 Dir : Eshan Harsh - 1.35 ’

Covid Anand (Doc) - 2020 Dir : P N Ramachandra - 4.46’ Neighbours - 1952 Dir : Norman Mclaren - 8.18’ Terrarium- Locker room (Short film) - 2019 Dir:Katsu - 31.17’ Mangroves (Doc) - 2018 By EMMRC, Calicut - 25.02’

1 Million Dollars (Shortfilm) - 2020Dir : Anoob Afsal - 13.41’ Atom (Shortfilm) - 2020Dir : Kiran KR - 12.46’ Baton (Shortfilm) - 2020 Dir : Dr.Sathish Malappuram - 12.40’ Chathra The Student (Shortfilm) - 2020 Dir : Job KL - 9.49’

Oppam (Along with) (Shortfilm) - 2020 Dir : Sreevarun - 5.59’ The Fence (Aavruti) (Shortfilm) - 2020 Dir : Sreehari Dharman KL - 22.16’

Blackmark (Shortfilm) - 2020 Dir : Gokul Ambat - 13.05’

Dr. Joy K L - Principal of St. Thomas College (Autonomous)T Krishnanunni - Chairman , Orange Foundation Cherian Joseph - IFFT Executive Director & Managing Trustee (OFA) Dr K Gopinathan - Trustee & Head of AcademicCouncil

( OFA & RC )

Inaugural Films :

Sri. Damodar Prasad , Festival Director

Presided by : Smt. Ajitha Jayarajan Honorable Mayor Thrissur Corporation

Inaugural talk : Shivendra Singh Dungarpur on Jiri Menzel Topic“The Magical World of the Czechoslovakian New Wave”

Introducing JURY Chairman & MembersP N Ramachandra ,Rekharaj & Aditya SankarFelicitation : V K Joseph, Kerala Chalachitra Academy Exe.Member Dr. C S Biju Director, St. Thomas’ College Media Studies


OFFICIALS ON THE STAGE

Festival Note :

Norman Mclaren Films

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Cheif Guest : Dr. Joy K L Principal of St. Thomas College (Autonomous)

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22-09-2020 , TUESDAY11 am-1 pm

Lines Horizontal ( short film)Dir : Norman Mclaren - 5’ - 1962

RAMACHANDRA P N JURY CHAIRMAN’S FILMS

2 pm-4 pm

Double life (Shortfilm) - 8.43’ - 2018 The Unbearable Being of Lightness (Doc) 2016 - 44.57’Tiku Tiku Director (Shortfilm) - 2015 - 13’Heart Troubles of Ramchand Yavatmal Tiruchinapalli Azamghar (Shortfilm) 2003 - 5.45’India Now !! (Doc) - 2020/ 6’

Out of tune (Shortfilm) - 2004/7’Selfies with Siri (Shortfilm) - 2020/19.58 ’

Our daily muck (Doc) - 2020/ 10.59’

23-09-2020 , WEDNESDAY

11 am-1 pm

Blinkity Blank - 1955 Dir:Norman Mclaren - 5.17’

Spheres (Doc) - 1969Dir:Norman Mclaren - 7.20’Love on the wing - 1939Dir:Norman Mclaren - 4.27’Mosaic - 1965Dir:Norman Mclaren - 5.27’ Rythmetic - 1956Dir:Norman Mclaren - 8.38’

SCHEDULE

2 pm-4 pm

5 pm-7 pm

I want to learn (Short film ) - 2020 Dir :Premchand Kshetrimayum - 3.21’I’m fine (Short film) - 2020Dir : Abhilash Kunjukrishnan- 9.13’Kanapedatha Malakhamaar (Unseen Angels) Dir : T Akhil Sasi - 13.34’ (Short film) - 2020Late Nights (Doc) - 2020 Dir : Harikrishnan V S - 4.53’Nature striped (Short film) - 2020 Dir : by Anandhu - 12.18’

My screen is black (Doc) - 2020 Dir : Subhasis Chakraborty - 8.12’

Oracle-A travelogue of an innocent man Dir : Murali Krishna - 15.09’ (Short film) - 2020

Shappu (Short film) - 2020 Dir : V K Jinesh -10.28’

Tribute to Fr. Gaston Roberge – Talk by Someswar Bhowmik

Screening of Documentary film‘Master preacher of film studies’ -45’on Fr. Gaston Roberge Dir : K.G. Das

5 pmClosing ceremony

Award function

Certificate distribution

23-09-2020 , WEDNESDAYJIRI MENZEL ONLINE VENUE JIRI MENZEL ONLINE VENUE

SCHEDULE

Closing ceremony

Award function

Certificate distribution


COMPETITION

COMPETITION

Worse than disease (Short film )Dir: Rafiq RajaSurviveDir: Rajeesh Sarovar/5.56’/MalNext you Dir:Rahul KR/ 11.35’/ MalNinte Swasathinu Ethra Vilayundu (Short film) (How Much Does Your Breath Cost)

Dir : Aneesh V P -Mal - 3.42 ‘21 DaysDir: Ramdas Kadavallur/9.05’/ Mal Focus- JapanThe Sleeping Insect (science fiction)/ 2020Dir: Yurina Kaneka/ 61’Dead VacationDir: Yawata/ 26.42’

- 13’ /Tamil

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SCHEDULE

IFFT-ORANGE INTERNATIONAL ONLINE

SHORT AND DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2020

21/09/2020 , MONDAY

Fr. GASTON ROBERGE ONLINE VENUE Fr.GASTON ROBERGE ONLINE VENUE

22-09-2020 , TUESDAY

2 pm-4 pm

5 pm -7 pm :

Chile- A Galaxy of problems Dir : Patricio Guzman -32.25’ (Doc) - 2010

Inaugural function in both ONLINE Venue

Diaries on blindness ((EMMRC)) - 2019Dir: Sajeed Naduthody - 50.40’

11 am - 1pm ‘Czechmate’ made by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur on Jiri Menzel will be screened. 7 hour documentary.

2 pm - 4pm conti……..

5 pm -8pm conti……..

23-09-2020 , WEDNESDAY

EMMRC FILMS

Webinar

11 am-1 pm Wayanadan Ramayanam (Doc) -(2017) Dir : Damodar Prasad - 27.25’’ She paints (Doc) - 18.13’

The rhythms of Kerala- Maddalam (Doc) -Dir : K.S. Sajith Kumaran - 2013 - 24.17’

The pesticide trap (Doc)Dir : Sheji R - 2018 - 22.52’

2 pm-4pm

Dr.C.S. VenkiteswaranRekha Raj

Damodar PrasadAditya Shankar

IFFT-ORANGE INTERNATIONAL ONLINESHORT AND DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2020 @ORANGE FILM ACADEMY PLAT FORM Designed By : ICT ACADEMY ,TRIVANDRUM

Festival Directorate Festival Director : Damodar PrasadExecutive Director& E-book content Editor: Gireeshkumar P.B. Jt. Director : Mariam PaulCEO, Orange Film Academy : Cherian JosephMembers : T. Krishnanunni, Dr.K. Gopinathan, Dr. C S Venkiteswaran,Dr. CS Biju, A. Radhakrishnan, NP Vareed,

Technical Co-ordination :Godwin AntonyOnline Co-Ordination :Ansmy JohnsonGraphics & Layout : Hanna WilsonTyping Settings : Sunitha Roopesh

Topic: Crisis and Creativity

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The first edition of the Online Short film and Documentary festival jointly organized by the Orange Academy and the IFFT will begin on 21st September of this month. This will be a three day festival with competition and non-competition sessions. The competition session has a theme: Alone, Togeth-er. In addition to this, there is a retrospective on great Chilean documentary film maker Patricio Guzman, a country focus on Japan. In commemoration of 100th birth anniversary of Satyajith Ray, the festival will be screening a documentary on Tagore made by Ray. Paying homage to the Czechoslovakian maestro Jiri Menzel, a 7-hour long documentary made on him by Indian film maker, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur will be screened. Mr. Shivendra Singh will also be talking on the inaugural session about the “Czech new wave”. The festival also pays homage to one of the pioneers of Indian film and media studies, Fr. Gaston Roberge. A documentary made on Fr. Gaston Roberge directed by Sri. K.G.Das will be screened in the festival. Dr. Someshwar Bhowmik, author and film critic will be talking about the contributions of Fr. Gaston Roberge. Jury Chairman, P.N.Ramachandra’s documentary will be screened in a separate session titled “Jury Chairman’s Films”. Select documentaries produced by the EMMRC, Calicut University and which have won recognitions will be presented in a separate session. In the Maters and Classics session, we

have the animations of Norman Mclaren. The online festival has a rich diversity of representation in terms of content and narratives.The festival has chosen 22 entries for the competition in which 20 are short films and two are documentaries. The eminent panel of jury is chaired by noted documentary film maker and teacher, Sri. P.N.Ramachandra and it has Dr.Rekha Raj, Academic, Dalit-Feminist Scholar and Writer and Sri. Aditya Shankar, bi-lingual poet and film critic as members. The jury will be selecting the best among the entries in terms of different categories that we announced.There will be open forums where the audience can interact with film makers and also we have a webinar on the topic: Creativ-ity and Crisis in the period of Covid-19.As for an online festival, this is abundantly rich, I would say. Now, many other organiza-tions and festivals- national and internation-al- have organized online festivals. This is a new and innovative experience. Much has to be learned from this. This is no ground for shifting from regular festival events because it is an altogether personal and collective experience. Nevertheless, the instinct for exploration and inventiveness has motivated all of us to seek out newer pathways for engagement and collective expressions in the new media universe. It is not about just screening of films and categorization; it is more about searching for newer meanings and newer spaces for dialogues when we are all passing through one of the worst of crises encountered by humanity due to the world wide pandemic. Our spirit behooves us: we don’t stand alone, we stand together! Damodar Prasad. Festival Director

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FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’S LETTER


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TRIBUTE TO JIRI MENZEL

One of the leading figures of Czech New Wave Cinema and the Oscar-winning director Jiri Menzel passed away recently on Saturday after a long illness. He was 82.

Indian filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungar-pur will inaugurate the festival commemo-rating Jiri Menzel. Shivendra Singh Dungar-pur speaks on the topic: ‘The Magical World of the Czechoslovakian New Wave’. Afterwards, a documentary film, ‘Czech-mate’ made by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur on Jiri Menzel will be screened.

Someswar Bhowmik will deliver a half an hour talk onFather Gaston Roberge. 22-09-2020 , Tuesday , 2pm-4pm , Jiri Menzel Online Venue

CzechMate: In Search of Jirí Menzel (2018) is a 7 hour 9 minute long documentary film. This documen-tary is an in-depth exploration of the work of renowned Czech director Jiri Menzel and the Czech New Wave.


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TRIBUTE TO Fr. GASTON ROBERGE

We think it would be relevant to pay homage to Father Gaston Roberge, a missionary who came to India from Canada and initiated film studies in India. Later, he was fondly called as the father of film studies in India. Fr. Gaston Roberge, passed away on 26 August in Kolkata. He was 85. Father Gaston Roberge set up India’s oldest media and film training institute called ‘Chitrabani’ in 1970 at Calcutta. Chitrabani introduced ideas and projects that influenced the study of mass media and film studies in India. Fr Gaston Roberge who had a deep fascination towards Cinema had associated with big time filmmakers of India including Satyajit Ray.

Someswar Bhowmik will deliver a half an hour talk onFather Gaston Roberge. 22-09-2020 , Tuesday , 2pm-4pm , Jiri Menzel Online Venue

A documentary film on Gaston ‘Master Preacher of Film Theory’ made by K.G. Das will be screened.22-09-2020 , Tuesday , 2pm-4pm , Jiri Menzel Online Venue

K G Das will deliver a brief talk before the screening.


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COMPETITION SECTION Ramchandra PN is an alumni of the Film & TV Institute of India (popularly called Pune Film Institute), Asia’s prime film school situated in Pune. After graduating from the Direction & Screen-play writing discipline in 1990, he has been making indepen-dent feature films, documentaries, short films and TV programmes for the past three decades. His first feature ‘Suddha (The Cleansing Rites)’ won the best Indian Film at the 2006 Osian Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Films and in the same year was bestowed with a Hubert Bals exhibition grant. His children’s feature ‘Putaani Party (The Kid Gang) won the best children’s film at the 2009 National Film Awards and was in consideration for a nomination at the Asian Pacific Screen Awards the same year. Ramchandra PN has completed his third feature Haal E Kangaal, in Hindi language. He made 19 documentaries and 12 short films. He has been regularly writing on films and over the years conducted film related workshops in major film and communi-cation schools in India and has been a member of various film commissioning and festival pre-selection committees; as well as a jury member in Film Festivals.

Aditya Shankar is the author of After Seeing (2006), a collection of cine-poems that engages in a dialogue with world cinema through verses. He, along with his friends, founded the Anima-tion studio D3V, for which he wrote and directed short films.His animated shorts have participated in International film festivals such as IDSFFK and AIFF. His short has also been nominated for awards such as Golden Cursor Animation Award. He worked on the subtitles of the Malayalam film Oozham, directed by Jeethu Joseph. He was part of the editorial board of International Film Festival Thrissur(IFFT) and edited Kottaka, their daily bulletin for the 2005 edition of the festival. He is also a widely published bilingual writer and translator.

Aditya Shankar

(Member)

Ramachandra PN,

( Jury Chairman )


JURY

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A film buff and ardent lover of film festivals, Rekha Raj is a Dalit and Feminist thinker, social activist and writer. She is a public intellectual and scholar for more than a decade and has delivered lectures in prestigious institutions in India like Christ University, HCU, TISS etc. She had offered more than 50 public lectures on development issues, gender, human rights, and Dalit issues.She was born on 5th May 1978 in Kottayam, a central district of Kerala. With a PhD in philosophy under the title ‘Politics of Gender and Dalit Identity: Representation of Dalit Women in Contemporary Dalit Discourses in Kerala’, she currently works as Assistant Professor at School of Gandhian Thought and Development Studies in Mahatma Gandhi University. Before becoming a professor she was a project manager of women’s rights at Amnesty International India. She has penned a book titled ‘Dalit Sthree Idapedalukal’ in 2015 and it is translated into Tamil in 2017. Edited a special issue of Sanghaditha Magazine on ‘Dalit Women’ in 2013. She has written many articles both in English and Malayalam including ‘Economic and Political Weekly’, Mathrubhumi, Samakalika Malayalam and Madhyamam weeklies. She also writes short stories, screen plays and a frequent speaker in channel discus-sions on socio-political, democratic and gender issues. Her areas of academic interests are extended with gender, develop-ment, ethnic, cultural, dalit, Ambedkarite and subaltern studies. She always had a passion for cinema and avid partici-pant of film festival circuit. She has recently penned a screen-play too.

Rekha Raj

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Knowledge always seeks new pastures to grow. This novel and updated learning experience will undoubtedly create hands of expertise in creating wonders to the worldCurrently, Academy, which has a very creative and inspiring environment of learning, provides a number of certificates as well as diploma courses with duration of six months to one year. The 2020- 21 Academic year that is to be starting in the months of August/September will offer Cinematography, Editing, Digital Film Production, Digital Imaging technician, etc. in addition to short term courses like Film & Folklore, Film & Theatre, Introduction to Cinema, and Asian African Cinema. The curriculum, a unique hybrid of theory and practical, ensures that the creative minds will be future ready. Each module of the course is planned as ‘Learning by Doing’ and industry-oriented. Depending on their goals, students may choose from our bouquet of courses that is available throughout the year.

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COMPETITION SECTION

This short film gives us a horrid picture of Covid 19 Pandemic. Here, the director highlights the life of a poor family and shows how this family facing the problems during Covid 19 lock down .

WORSE THAN DISEASE (Short film)Dir : Rafiq Raja

Tamil – 3 “

Dir : Rafiq Raja

The first edition of the Online Short film and Documentary festival jointly organized by the Orange Academy and the IFFT will begin on 21st September of this month. One of the highlights of this online film festival is the competition section. The theme of the competition section was ‘Alone, Together’. Altogether 22 films, 20 short films and 2 documentary films, were selected for the Competi-tion section. This section has representations from all parts of India including West Bengal, Imphal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Kerala. The eminent panel of jury is chaired by noted documentary film maker and teacher,

Sri. P.N.Ramachandra and it has Dr.Rekha Raj, Academic, Dalit-Feminist Scholar and Writer and Sri. Aditya Shankar, bi-lingual poet and film critic as members. The jury will be selecting the best among the entries in terms of different categories that we announced. The best film will get a cash prize of Rs.50,000/- and a certificate, and the second best film will get a cash prize of Rs.25,000 and a certificate. Certificates will also be given to the Best Cinematographer, the Best Sound Designer, the Best Editor and the Best Director.


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21 DAYS (Short film) Dir : Ramdas Kadavallur

Mal - 9.05 “

1 MILLION DOLLARS (Short film) Dir : Anoob Afsal

Mal 13.48 “

ALONG WITH (OPPAM) ) (Short film) Dir : Sreevarun

Mal - 5.47 “

Ram, a business man who was an addict of Apple Siri Voice Application, spent extremely long hours in office. His wife was disturbed with his busy work schedules. Once on Christmas eve, Ram got confirmation from an Australian Client that they will credit 1 Million Dollars that night itself, for his new project, but that day he found his wife left him. On that X-mas eve he had drunk, slipped and fell down to get a head injury. He tried to make a call with the help of Siri application but failed . The watchman who was treated badly by Ram reached for Ram’s help, but Ram was dead. 1 million dollars was credited in Ram’s account, but only after his death.

In the wake of COVID 19 pandemic, a nationwide lock-down was clamped in India for 21 days from the midnight of 24th March to 14th April 2020, which was extended subsequently. More than 600 people lost their lives due to starvation, police brutality and lock down induced accidents during this period. The film has been shot using a mobile phone and depicts as a 'Cat and Mouse game' as we have seen and heard in fables and cartoons.

While society is passing through a painful period of sufferings, there are many good Samaritans in the society who stand alongside us for our safety. But, knowingly or unknowingly, we fail to identify these well-wishers. The short film ‘Along with’ (‘Oppam’ in Malayalam) reveals these good Samaritans who stand for others’ safety and goodness. ‘Along with’ unravels the dedication and sacrifice of cleaning workers, the unsung heroes of our society.

Dir : Anoob Afsal

Dir : Ramdas Kadavallur

Dir : Sreevarun

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ATOM (Short film) Dir : Kiran K RMal - 9.55 “The film unravels a day of two human beings who belong to entirely two different worlds. Society and its institutions invisibly come and reach out help them in their solitude.

Life is not a mad running race where everyone is focused only on their individual goals. The multiple handoffs in life is clearly depicted in this short film. The film portrays the selfless rural lives, who self-adjust to others' needs and help others complete the race called life. The film also mentions the theme of secularism in a subtle way. Characters in the film lend a helping hand to the needy; the difference in their religion / background never ever crosses their mind. Baton brings out secular interactions as a positive feeling through-out the film , especially at a time religious differences create discord in society.

The film focus on the struggle of an innocent child while fighting against the system of naturally racial society. He can't ever accept that his mother falls under the title ""ugly"" even when the society is trying to establish the conventions.This little step taken by the child left all of us in wonder whether all we once constructed could ever fall down."

BLACK MARK (Short film) Dir : Gokul AmbatMal - 13.05 “

BATON (Short film) Dir : Dr. Sathish MalappuramMal - 12.40 “

Dir : Kiran K R

Dir : Dr. Sathish Malappuram

Dir : Gokul Ambat

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Guru’s blessing is an invaluable asset. It will be a life-long grace that will lift us up to the sky-high. But most of us like to forget it, fail to notice it. During this Covid Pandemic time, we hope that everything will be changed. Let us hope this film will awaken and purge us all but only after his death.

'The Fence' contains within its boundaries of the lives and words of the Clare nuns living within its constraints. When one of them leaves the monastery unexpectedly, her roommate is cloistered by her newfound loneliness. Questions ravaging within her don’t find a way out of the monastery’s vows of deafening silence that she now finds cloying at her own peace. She tries to find some kind of answer that would let her break free of her sense of apostasy. And all the while she has an Alzheimer's affected mother to take care of, who have forgotten all rules of convent.

The story is related to George Floyd, a black who was killed as a victim of racism in the United States at the end of May 2020

CHATHRA THE STUDENT (Short film)Dir : JOB

Mal - 9.49 “

THE FENCE (AAVRUTHI) (Short film) Dir : Sreehari Dharman

Mal - 22.16 “

#RAJESH (Short film) Dir : Sumesh Mundakkal

Mal - 9.56 “

Dir : JOB

Dir : SreehariDharman

Dir : SumeshMundakkal

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It is an experimental work on breath. The film tries to say how States are working on people. The incident of George Floyd triggered the feelings that whether oppressed or not lives matter. So the each visuals composed to convey the whole people's individual life scenario through their breath. Their whole class_caste_race_gender identities and sub cultural elements are in it. The state always having clear discrimination in praxis. That's why they ban people. But the question remains- "HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BREATH COST".... That will become a political philosophy in the digitalized era.

Things weren’t fine. Failure was the norm, but something changed. The change unfolded in a manner that was unreal. Each step was a path to discovery. Each discovery led the upcoming change, closer to reality. Some realities were unpleasant. Whatever it may be, there’s always a silver lining in a new beginning.

A large number of children are likely to miss out distance learning opportunities due to lack of internet access. Closures due to COVID-19 lockdown have far more severe impact for students belonging to below the poverty line. Their learning has been disrupted as such their right to education is being compromised. "I want to learn..." is one such film depicting the plights faced by these deprived students.

HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BREATH COST (Short film) ( NINTE SWASATHINU ETHRA VILAYUNDU ) Dir : Aneesh V PMal - 3.42 “

I'M FINE (Short film) Dir : Abhilash KunjukrishnanMal - 9.13 “

I WANT TO LEARN Dir : Kshetrimayum PremchandSilent – 3.29 “

Dir : Aneesh V P

Dir : Abhilash Kunjukrishnan

Dir : KshetrimayumPremchand

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The film is made in the backdrop of Covid 19 Pandemic that rocked all the normals of our society. Director turns camera to a strange piece of life in which late night conversations in a containment zone unravels.

When the world is undergoing the impact of COVID - 19 by which everyone is locked up in their home.The short film Life In Lockdown is about a lady who is caged at her own house and have noticed how life can be lived with limited resources just like fish in an aquarium.

My Screen is Black is an experimental documentary in solidarity with, Black Lives Matter, a movement, protesting against incidents of police brutality in the USA and all the racially motivated violence against Black . It has been eradicated the visual racism of high and low art by the inclusion of vertical moving image as well as texts in a horizontal black screen. The football skill of Ira Traore, the poetic and musical expressions of AssétouXango and Billie Holiday respectively, depicted the counter narrative of the black people to eliminate the discrimination on the basis of racism.

LATE NIGHTS (Short film)Dir : Harikrishnan V S

Mal - 4.43 “

LIFE IN LOCK DOWN (Short film)Dir : Eshan Harsh

Hindi - 1.35 “

MY SCREEN IS BLACK (Doc)Dir : Subhasis Chakraborty

Eng - 8.12 “

Dir : Harikrishnan V S

Dir : Subhasis Chakraborty

Dir : Eshan Harsh

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Dir : Harikrishnan V S

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The story is about a day of two siblings, Kannan and Minnu, who bunk

classes to spend a day outside. On their way, Kannan caught and

bottled small fish, Manathukanni, from a nearby stream for Minnu.

When they got hungry Kannan stole money from a temple treasure

box for lunch. But when they went to a tea shop, Minnu accidentally hit

a milk container. Shopman asked them to pay for the milk. While

Minnu stayed at the shop, Kannan tries in many ways to get the money

to release Minnu. Finally Minnu was released from the shop and on the

way home Minnu flashes her situation in the tea shop and opens the

bottle to free the fish to the water.

The film is about the story of a determined youth who beat the Corona

virus through sheer will. In 45 days of hardwork and care, the hero of

the movie fights well against the fear of Covid-19 and finally wins his

battle.

Oracle, the journey of life that time encrypted. The biography of a

person who rose up from a society, which tormented and

marginalized him to the worst and denied him the right to live. It

is the biography of a person who fought alone against a society

tainted with vile visions. It is not an autobiography but the untold

history of the Clay Pottery Community and of a man representing

the same having innumerable thoughts, hopes and aspirations..

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NATURE STRIPED (Short film)(MANATHUKANNI)

Dir : AnandhuMal - 12.18 “

NEXT YOU (Short film)(ORU QUARANTINE KAALAM)

Dir : Rahul K RMal - 11.39 “

ORACLE - A TRAVELOGUE OF AN INNOCENT MAN (Doc)

Dir : Murali KrishnaMal - 15.09 “

Dir : Anandhu

Dir : Rahul K R

Dir : Murali Krishna

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‘Survive’ tells the pathetic story of the survival of sea crabs in the

backdrop of a beach. Growing presence of human beings in one form or

another on the beachside narrows down the survival potential of sea

crabs. Through a series of touching imageries and music, the director

turns focus to the pathetic plight of a sea crab.

Shappu presents the sad plight of a widow and how she finds help

from the least expected people. She comes to the town with her infant

son to buy medicine for him. A thief snatches her bag and vanishes.

Crying, she enters a school trying to seek help, but faces humiliation

from the teachers. Nowhere to go, she approaches a toddyshop nearby.

Surprisingly enough, a group of drunkards feed them, get her

medicines and treat them well. They send her home in an autorickshaw

with a handful of their money. Sometimes the ones society look down

upon are the real Good Samaritans...

Kanapedatha Malaghamar is the short film based on the theme

'survival during covid-19', dedicating to all health workers, corporation

workers and security officers who are effortlessly fighting against the

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SURVIVE (Short film) Dir : Rejeesh SarovarMal - 5.56 “

SHAPPU (Short film) Dir : V K JineshMal - 10.28 “

UNSEEN ANGELS (Short film) (KANAPEDATHA MALAGHAMAR)Dir : Akhil Sasi & Sreehari GiriMal - 13.34 “

Dir : RejeeshSarovar

Dir : V K Jinesh

Dir : Akhil Sasi

Dir : Sreehari Giri

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A young boy wants to be in two places at the same time and contacts a technologist who has a solution for it.

JURY CHAIRMAN’S FILMS: P N RAMACHANDRA’S SHORT AND DOCS

Ramachandra P. N. is an award-winning filmmaker making feature films, short films, documentaries and TV programs. in India. He is a Tuluva-based in Mumbai. His nine short films are exhibited.

Double life (short film) - 8.43 “


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The impressions of the filmmaker of people and the place, strung together in a structured form, while he was at the University of Hyderabad to hold a film workshop immediately after the student strike on the Rohit Vemula issue had ended.

JURY CHAIRMAN’S FILMS

The Unbearable Being of Lightness(Doc)

-44.57 “

Three committed and ambitious children, fed up of getting constantly rejected by a famous film director to act in his films, think of a deadly plan that could rattle the director.

Tiku Tiku Director (Short film)-13 “

COVID ANAND (Doc)-4.46 “

Covid Anand is a Docu film made in the backdrop of Covid19 pandemic. On March 24, 2020, India declares a National Lockdown and strict social distancing measures. Almost immediately, many insecure migrant city workers begin their long journey back home. And some never make it...


Ramchand Yavathmal Tiruchanapalli Azamghar's bride hunting methods are unique and unconven-tional. Circulating photographs and matching horoscopes are passé. Instead, he opens up his heart. That is, he shows and analyses his recent ECG heart test report to prospective brides.

A six minute movie made about the current situation in India. 'INDIA NOW!' (2020)

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Heart Troubles of Ramchand Yavatmal Tiruchinapalli Azamghar(Short film)-5.45 “

India Now !!(Doc)-6 “

The film stirringly reveals the grinding life of ordinary people to meet the two ends of life.

Our daily muck(Doc)-10.59 “



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The impressions of the filmmaker of people and the place, strung together in a structured form, while he was at the University of Hyderabad to hold a film workshop immediately after the student strike on the Rohit Vemula issue had ended.


Out of tune (short film)-7 “

A medieval Tulu language folklore Paddana of Siri brought alive by illustrations where the protago-nist Siri revolts against patriarchy.

Selfies with Siri (Short film)-19.58 “


Mitsuko, is struggling to overcome a badly broken heart. Musician Keisuke is a ghost who is unable to rest in peace. A summer fantasy about the woman who can't let go of her ex and the ghost unable and unwilling to make the journey to his ultimate destination. (Source: Japanese Film Festival Magazine)

Dead Vacation(Short film)Dir : Yawata-26.42 “

Twenty six year old Momo works quietly at her office and finds secret pleasure in growing a terrarium in her locker. A chance meeting with a mysterious gardener is all that’s needed to bring about a gradual and positive change in this mousy office worker. A human drama that intuitively depicts the subtleties of a woman's heart.

Kanako Seri is on a packed bus heading to band practice. She becomes fascinated by a melody being hummed by a fellow passenger, an old man, a stranger. When the bus reaches Kanako’s stop, she doesn’t get off, she continues on a journey that turns out to be weird adventure. This film won the 2019 MOOSIC LAB Grand Prix.

Terrarium Locker Room (Short film)Director: Katsu-31.17 “

The Sleeping Insect(Short film)Dir : Yurina Kaneko-60 “

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COUNTRY FOCUS-JAPAN


Rabindranath Tagore is a 1961 Indian documenta-ry film written and directed by Satyajit Ray about the life and works of noted Bengali author Rabin-dranath Tagore. Narrated by Satyajit Ray, the film begins with the funeral procession of Rabin-dranath Tagore. Briefly mentioning about Kolkata, the documentary explains the Tagore lineage, starting with Dwarkanath Tagore. Ray avoided the controversial aspects of Tagore's life in order to make it as an official portrait of the poet. The documentary won the President's Gold Medal for the Best Documentary Film in 1961.

Rabindranath Tagore

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SATYAJIT RAY-BIRTH CENTENARY

Commemorating the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, his documentary film Rabindranath Tagore, which is based on the life of the great poet of India, is screened.


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This short animation explores the “canon”, a form of musical "round" in which each singer picks up the words and tune of a song after the preceding singer. Through a combination of animation and live action, this lively musical film demonstrates, without dialogue, the many patterns that a canon can take depending on the number of participants and the length of the piece of music in question.

MASTERS & CLASSICS -NORMAN MCLAREN

Norman McLaren, (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of anima-tion and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound.

Canon

The surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.

Blinkity Blank


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Begone Dull Care is a 1949 visual music animated film directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart.Using drawn-on-film animation, McLaren and Lambart paint and scratch directly onto film stock to create a visual representation of Oscar Peterson's jazz music. The film is produced by the National Film Board of Canada.


Begone Dull Care

Rythmetic is a 1956 Canadian short animated film directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival, Rythmetic won the Silver Bear (Short Film) award.

Rythmetic

The BlackbirdCut out animation set to the French-Canadian nonsense song 'Le merle'


Hen Hop is a 1942 drawn-on-film animation short by Norman McLaren, in which a hen gradually breaks apart into an abstract movement of lines as it dances to a barn dance.

Hen Hop

Reminiscent of the mid-20th-century style of “op art,” McLaren and Lambart's film follows a single tiny square as it divides and multiplies, eventually forming a colourful, hypnotic mosaic set to the animators' precise and deliberate musical orches-tration.

Mosaic

This animated short film by Norman McLaren and René Jodoin is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimit-ed panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction.

Spheres

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This is a short animated film that was created as an advert for the postal service. A man and a woman carry out a relationship by sending each other letters.

Love on the Wing

Lines horizontalRythmetic is a 1956 Canadian short animated film directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival, Rythmetic won the Silver Bear (Short Film) award.

Neighbours Neighbours is a 1952 anti-war film by Scottish Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren. The film uses pixilation, an animation technique using live actors as stop motion objects. McLaren created the soundtrack of the film by scratching the edge of the film, creating various blobs, lines, and triangles which the projector read as sound.


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RETROSPECTIVE ONPATRICIO GUZMAN

Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941) is a Chilean documentary film director. He is internationally renowned for films such as The Battle of Chile and Salvador Allende. Guzmán also teaches documentary film classes in Europe and Latin America, and is the founder and director of the International Documentary Festival of Santiago (FIDOCS).


This package brings out a rare combo. Here all five short films revolvearound astronomy and historical memory. Patricio Guzman is an ardentover of the subject - Astronomy. By picking a clutch of documentaries related to Astronomy, another face of Patricio Guzman is revealed here. In an interview he said: “Memory has a gravitational force. Cinema suffers without memory in the same way that history suffers without memory. Science would also suffer without memory. The human racesuffers. The absence of memory produces global suffering.” These filmsshow images of the galactic cosmos. The film achieves poetic rhymes that approximate the rhythms of time.


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A short documentary about Chilean amateur astronomers.

Short documentary about how Chileans cannot come to terms with the Pinochet dictatorship and the negative effects of this on the country.

Astronomers from my Neighbourhood ( Doc )

- 14.08 “

Chile - A Galaxy of Problems (Doc)

- 32.25 “

Jose Maza, Sky Traveller(Short film )

- 12.48 “This is one of the several short documentaries that Patricio Guzman did around astronomy when he made his feature film ‘Nostalgia for the Light’. This one takes the form of an interview with an astronomer, who patiently explains several concepts in astronomy, including supernovae and even time itself.



Another short interview with a Chilean astrono-mer, in this case Maria Teresa Ruiz, who discov-ered the first "brown dwarf" star. She explains the way solar systems are created, and then links in her astronomy work with her interest in tapestry -- a fastidious process of building on previous work, slowly and carefully, to make greater discov-eries.

This short piece by Patricio Guzman tracks an engineer at one of Chile's observatories, as he discusses the telescope and how it can be used to watch the stars. There's little more than him pottering around inside the telescope, fiddling with the electronics and talking about how people use it, but it's pleasant enough.

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Maria Teresa and theBrown Dwarf (Short film)- 11.48 “

Oscar Saa, Technician of the Stars (Short film)- 10.12 “


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The documentary brings forth the world of a bunch of women painters to drive a point- 'In the realm of art too, she is marginalised and given only a second-class status.

The Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC) at the University of Calicut is the only one of its kind to be set up in Kerala by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The objective of the media centre is to produce high-quality audio visual programmes and developing multimedia content. As a special package, a clutch of documentaries made by EMMRC is included.


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The film shows how the extensive uses of pesticides harmful to the nature.

The pesticide trap

Introducing the rhythms of Maddalam, this documentary invites the audience into the complex rhythmic world of Kerala’s percussion instrument.

The Rhythms of Kerala – Maddalam

Wayanadan Ramayan explores various versions of Ramayana popular in Wayanad and nearby places. All these stories are remembered in connection with various stories and characters in Ramayana.

Wayanadan Ramayanam

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