Ghayta
Pratik Girish Bhoyar
India.  14 min.  2018

Shankar lives on occasional repairs not enough to support his family. But whenever Mr Seth calls him, he does not charge him. One day the teenage daughter of Mr. Seth disappears. Shankar has to answer the questions.

Palaayan
Madahav Chandra Sai
India.  15 min.  2018

In near future of industrialization and acid rain, Girilal, the old man decides to leave the village with his daughter Meghna and rest of the people for the city. But while travelling, they get stuck and have to seek help help from Parthiv, the boy who was excluded from that village.

A Letter to Home
Mukul Haloi
India.  25 min.  2018

Glimpses of lives from a village in Assam reveal the relationship between its history and the present. People’s lives and beliefs are entangled with ecological strings, as nature stands witness to the narratives that unfolded there. A young boy, Rahul, hopes to write a book on his experience of growing up in this village. His mother, being deeply connected with nature, can sense messages and signs arising from nature. Urmila, a pregnant lady, is driven by sensorial experiences. But, in contrast to the serenity and harmonious living, there lurks a violent societal past. These peaceful and quiet lives intersect in a space where traumatic memories of death and loss in Assam’s thirty years of secessionist movement keep resurfacing.

MUKUL  HALOI

Mukul Haloi is from Nalbari, Assam. He was born in January 1991. He studied Film Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. His short film “Days of Autumn” was appreciated at many festivals, including top prize at International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2017. It was also screened at DIFF 2017. His feature-length documentary “Tales From Our Childhood” had its International Premiere at ARKIPEL-Jakarta, 2018 and Indian premiere at MIFF.

A Glow Worm in a Jungle
Ramana Dumpala
India. 12 min.  2018

If you go to Budhwar Peth in Pune, you will find a house surrounded by trees, birds, cats, dogs, and piles and piles of books, cohabiting in organized chaos. This is where Hema Sane, a retired professor of botany, lives.

Boundary
Gaurav Puri
India. 11 min. 2018

Two cricket teammates, Amar and Armaan, have secretly fallen in love in an orthodox sporting atmosphere.
Set in today’s Indian city, Boundary is a short film about the boundaries of gender that contain our lives. Amar, a young promising cricketer has fallen for his teammate, Armaan. As state tournament approaches, their love intensifies. Raised is an orthodox family to be a ‘man’, Amar’s father has raised him to live his dream of playing for the nation. Amar finds himself on the boundary line between ambition and love, between mind and heart, can these two co-exist today? Sooner he finds, that one step in any direction can become a life’s path.

Bhagavati
Aakash Nagaraj Yankannavar
India. 12 min.  2018

Based on a mithila folklore Bhamati. Bhagavati is a
story of woman waiting for her husband to finish writing his book.
Time flies and they both lose the sense of time. He in writing his
book and she waiting for him. After 12 years when he is finished
writing his book, and acknowledges her, she is thrown into a
confusing reality.

AAKASH  NAGARAJ  YANKANNAVAR

Aakash Nagaraj is a film student and a filmmaker from India. Aakash’s interests include films, literature,and spirituality. He completed his Bachelor’s in Business administration from Karnataka and is currently in the final year of his post graduate diploma in filmmaking from Satyajit Ray Film & TeIevision Institute, kolkata

Aakrosh
Princy Pal
India.  10 min.  2018

Golu with his broken shoes denies going to school, with a hope he goes to his father asking for a new shoe, his father (Prakash) promises him to get new shoes.
The story takes a turn when the news of Prakash’s brother’s death arrives. Everyone gathers at the mango orchard where the body is discovered. When the Police start inquiring about the murder, the villagers start blaming other caste groups.
Prakash notices police and escapes from the mango orchard. The murder of a single person leads to the discourse about the division of elite people and poor farmers, and their tolerance. which build up communal violence in the whole village

Into The Blue
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Croatia.  22 min.  2017

After fleeing her violent father, 13-year-old Julija seeks comfort in her kindergarten friend Ana, who still lives on the island. But during a diving expedition, Ana only has eyes for her boyfriend. Feeling that she is increasingly being pushed away, Julija desperately struggles to gain recognition and attention. As her loneliness grows, her buried pain comes to the surface and confrontation becomes inevitable.

ANTONETA  ALAMAT  KUSIJANOVIC

3 Years 3 Months Retreat
Dechen Zangmo
Bhutan. 20 min.  2016

How long does it take to make your journey bright and pure? A ritual of more than three-year-long isolation “Lo-sum-Choe-sum” is a practice of Buddhist monks, nuns and devoted followers. It is a journey of transformation, where one reaches the state of higher mind and clairvoyance over the course of three years, three months and three days.

DECHEN  ZANGMO

The Third Wife
Ash Mayfair
Vietnam.  96 min.  2018

In 19th century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung.  Soon she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child.  May’s hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant.  Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between.

In her statement about her debut feature “The Third Wife”, director Ash Mayfair states two main reasons why she made the film and which topics it deals with. On the one hand, she names her upbringing in Vietnam, most importantly the women in her life who have supported her through the years. Given her career, which has led her to a degree in English Literature and one in Theater Directing from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, large parts of her biography have taken place outside her home country. Yet, as her statement and the nature of “The Third Wife” prove, she has returned there for her directorial debut paying homage to the women who have been most important in her life.

ASH  MAYFAIR

Ash Mayfair was born and raised in Vietnam, and received her MFA in filmmaking from NYU. Her short films — including “The Silver Man” and “No Exit” — have been screened at numerous international film festivals. “The Third Wife” is Mayfair’s first feature film, and the screenplay won the Spike Lee Production Fund in 2014.

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