NABALOK (The Innocent)
Director : Bauddhayan Mukherji
India. 2014. 51 min.
Cast : Ananya Sen , Barshan Seal, Suman Mukhopadhyay
Venues :
Spanish Film Institute
17 may Sunday. 20.00
ECAM
07 may Thursday. 16.00
Spread over 34 years of the Bengali life, Nabalok (The Innocent) the first piece of Teenkahon explores a transgressive facet of a relationship that exceeds the norms of social acceptability.
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I AM STILL
Javier Corcuera
2013. Peru / Spain. 118 min.
Venue : Centro Cultural Pilar Miró
26 may Tuesday. 19.30
A film about characters, characters who are part of a country. Although the film talks about music and musicians, it is not strictly a musical but rather a reflection on personal stories apparently very far apart, stories that look for one another in a country also immersed in the struggle to find it,s identity.
Ek Hazarachi Note
Shrihari Sathe
Cast: Usha Naik, Sandeep Pathak, Shrikant Yadav, Ganesh Yadav, Pooja Nayak
India. 2014.90 min. Drama
Venue : Spanish Film Institute
24 may Sunday. 19.50
During a political rally in a small village in Maharastra, India, Budhi a poor old woman recieves a largess of several 1000 rupees note from a politician. She goes shopping to the nearby market with her neighbor but fate has other plans for them.
Shrihari Sathe
Shrihari Sathe is a New York and Mumbai based independent filmmaker and producer. Sathe produced Jaron Henrie-McCrea’s Pervertigo which world premiered at the 2012 Warsaw and Mumbai film festivals and was a part of the 2011 IFP Independent Filmmaker Labs. Sathe’s sophomore production It Felt Like Love world premiered at 2013 Sundance Film Festival and 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam to great reviews. It is available in over 30 countries. Sathe is a 2013 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and has received fellowships from the HFPA, PGA, IFP, Film Independent, Sundance Institute to name a few.
Sathe attended the 2011 Film Independent Producer’s Lab with Ed Blythe’s Man With Van. He is a Trans Atlantic Partners fellow (2013) and Cannes Producer’s Network fellow (2015). He is a co-producer on Partho Sen-gupta’s Arunoday (Sunrise) which world premiered at the 2014 Busan International Film Festival and Afia Nathanie’s Dukhtar which world premiered at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Sathe’s feature directorial debut – Ek Hazarachi Note (1000 Rupee Note) won the Special Jury Award and Centenary Award for Best Film at the 2014 International Film Festival of India and has received several other nominations and awards.
Sathe received his BA in Film and Video Studies (High Honors) and Global Media & Culture from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has a MFA-Film degree from Columbia University.
Lajwanti The honour keeper
Pushpendra Singh
Cast: Sanghmitra Hitaishi, Pushpendra Singh, Sugna Devi
India. 2014. 63 min. Love
Venue : Intermediae el Matadero
22 may Friday. 17.00
A folk tale set in the Thar Desert explores the inner struggles of a married woman to honour a dream and in that search find the higher meaning of love and freedom.
Films selected for Imagineindia 2020
A Foreigner in my Own Land (Nishajyoti Sharma) India
Films selected for Imagineindia 2019
Tales From Our Childhood (Mukul Haloi) India
FILMS SELECTED FOR IMAGINEINDIA 2018
Raet Ke Mahal (Akash Basumatari, Arjun Chavah, Maanvi, Priyamvada Jagia) India
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) was established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work. In 1944, it was renamed as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The year 1964 was an important landmark in the history of the Institute, when it was declared Deemed to be a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956.
Chatkorichya Athwani
Shweta Ghosh
India. 2014. 47 min
Venue : Intermediae el Matadero
22 may Friday. 19.00
Bhalchandra (Appa Ajoba) and Kalindi Morje (Kaku Ajji), 90 and 83, are the oldest surviving members of the Morje family that settled in Vengurla in the 19th century. In an attempt to chronicle their lived histories in the Konkan coast, the filmmaker, also their grand niece, stumbles upon an ancestral history of her multicultural self.
Within blurry childhood memories of her maternal family and Vengurla, simmer questions of origin, belonging and home. As she begins to weave Appa’s handwritten account of his early life and times and Ajji’s recollections, she negotiates with her own experience of placelessness, only to find home in the sizzle of fried bangra (mackerel), warmth of triphala spices and luscious, golden Alphonsos.
Shweta Ghosh
Shweta Ghosh is a documentary filmmaker and researcher. A silver medalist from the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (SMCS, TISS), Mumbai, she has explored her interest in disability, cuisine, travel and music through research and film projects.
Shweta’s debut documentary ‘Accsex’, a film exploring notions of beauty, body, sexuality and disability was awarded Special Mention at the 61st Indian National Film Awards and has won accolades across India and abroad. Shweta has recently premiered her new film ‘A Slice of Memory’ which explores history and culture in the coastal town of Vengurla, Maharashtra, through food memories. Her third feature documentary explores diversity in India through tea drinking cultures and is currently in post-production.
She has two peer-reviewed publications – a paper on food television, gender and cooking in urban, middle class India (Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal) and a paper on the representation of cuisine and culture by food television channels in India (‘SubVersions’ Media and Cultural Studies journal).
APUR PANCHALI
Kaushik Ganguly
India. 2014. 97 min
Venue : Centro Cultural Pilar Miró
19 may Tuesday. 19.30
This is a real life story inspired by Subir Banerjee,the little child actor who played the iconic role of Apu in Pather Panchali.
FILMS SELECTED :
SZEGÉNYLEGÉNYEK (The Round up)
CSILLAGOSOK, KATONÁK (The red and the white)
CSEND ÉS KIÁLTÁS (Silence and Cry)
FÉNYES SZELEK (The Confrontation)
One of the masters of widescreen composition and elaborately
choreographed long-take sequence shots, Miklos Jancso has been
described as the most important Hungarian director of all time (Mira and A. J. Liehm) and the key Hungarian filmmaker of the sound era (Jonathan Rosenbaum). His fervid, transfixing, highly stylized and intensely formalist films are noted for their balletic, brutal study of repression, rebellion and revolution.
Hungarian film-maker Miklos Jancso, who graduated in law and took courses in art history and ethnography, also served the Second World War and was for a brief period of time, a prisoner of war. After the war, Jancso enrolled in the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. He received his Diploma in Film Directing in 1950. Jancso’s debut feature, The Bells Have Gone to Rome was released after the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising which left hundreds of Hungarians dead or imprisoned and thousands of refugees.
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The 14th edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival will take place in Madrid from 17 to 31 May 2015.
Rules for the entries of films : Continue reading CALL FOR ENTRIES, EDITION 2015
FILMS SELECTED for Imagineindia 2019
A Glow Worm in a Jungle (Ramana Dumpala) India. (FTII)
A Letter to Home (Mukul Haloi) India. (FTII)
Palaayan (Madahav Chandra Sai) India. (FTII)
Ghayta (Pratik Girish Bhoyar) India. (FTII)
FILMS SELECTED for Imagineindia 2018
Moonga (Nilesh Kumar) India
FILMS SELECTED for Imagineindia 2017
EKAB (Himanshu Prajapati) 11 min. India (FTII)
Bhairav, according to Hindu mythology, is the supreme ruler of time. The film takes place in a narrow lane in a North Indian small town.Three young men are engaged in a virtual game of poker on their cellphones. Meanwhile, at around midnight, a young couple is returning home from the call centre they work at. Barriers between the real world and the virtual world collapse.
Dead end (Rakesh Kumar) 15 min. India (FTII)
Gaurav and Atul are two school friends celebrating the end of their exam. A detour to a brothel and a chance encounter with a cop brings out the worst in them.
Andhere Mein (Vijaya Singh) 15 min. India (FTII)
The short fim Andhere Mein is an adaptation of a story by the same name by the wellknown Hindi writer, Nirmal Verma. The story revolves around four characters, a young boy , his parents and a family friend. The child now grown up into a youngman recollects the events leading to a violent altercation between his parents during a particular summer break in the town of Amravati. The film tries to create the universe of a child as he tries to understand the tension between his parents involving the family friend.
A Hairy Tale (Shivangi Mittal) 5 min. India (FTII)
A fun adventure of a young girl having her first hair cut in an all men’s salon.
Afternoon Clouds Sound (Payal Kapadia) 13 min. India (FTII)
Kaki is a 60 year old widow who lives with her Nepali maid Malti. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy from her hometown unexpectedly. In the meanwhile, men in the passage spray mosquito repellant smoke that gives Kaki bad dreams
Abhisarika (Sonam Singh) 15 min. India (FTII)
Abhisarika a 16-17th century Indian literature phenomenon which has been painted in a series of Ragamala Paintings has been interpreted and subverted in contemporary times. Sarika is a lover of music, nature and she is mostly longing to get loved and feel the physical presence of her husband around her. One night she get decisive about seeking pleasures in the longing of her husband. The film explores how even the natural element conspires against this desire of a married woman to prevent her from breaking these social codes of morality. Will Sarika attains the solace by doing so??
BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT THE FILM AND TELEVISION INSTITUTE OF INDIA (FTII)
Established as ‘Film Institute of India’ in 1960 on the erstwhile Prabhat Studio premises at Pune, FTII boasts of a rich legacy in quality Indian cinema. The Prabhat Studios were declared heritage sites by the Pune Municipal Corporation and are used by the students to this day. The Institute was renamed ‘The Film and Television Institute of India’ in 1971. The Television Wing, earlier located at the Mandi House, New Delhi was shifted to Pune in the early seventies, bringing together the training in film and television under a common roof. At its inception in 1974, the Television wing was concerned with the provision of in-service training to personnel from Doordarshan. This Wing has in recent years launched a one-year course in Television.
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