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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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PIED PIPER. A film of Vivek Budakoti

6 September, 2014 imagineindia

Pied Piper
India. 113 min. 2013
Director : VIVEK BUDAKOTI
Cast: Rajpal Yadav, Vikram Kochar, Abhishek Rawat.

Seen through the prism of Bertolt Brecht, the film Pied Piper is a satirical folklore of a simple laundryman, Chunnilal, who is rumored to have acquired his beloved donkey’s brains in a freak accident.

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Anubrata Bhalo Achho? A tightly handed film of Partha Sen

6 September, 2014 imagineindia

Anubrata Bhalo Achho? / Are you ok Anubrata?
India. 2014. 103 min. Drama.
Director : PARTHA SEN
Cast : Ritwik Chakraborty, Swastika Mukherjee, Debleena Dutta

Venue : Centro Cultural Pilar Miró
21 may Thursday. 19.30

The film mainly delves into the daily routine of the protagonist, Anubrato- a man who has to go through the gradual process of his wife, Neeta’s suffering from cancer.
‘Anubrato- Bhalo Aacho?’ speaks of a solitary world that Anubrato is surrounded by. His fight for his wife’s survival brings him closer to the day to day struggle of life and death.

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Csend és kiáltás (Silence and Cry)

6 September, 2014 imagineindia

Silence and Cry/Csend és kiáltás
Hungary. 73 min. 1968. Drama.
Director: MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
Cast: Mari Töröcsik, József Madaras, Zoltán Latinovits.

Venue : Spanish Film Institute
28 may Thursday. 20.00

Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family. His reluctant hosts are already under police scrutiny for being political suspects.
The local White commander is aware of the soldier’s presence but, for personal reasons, keeps it a secret. The soldier discovers that the farmer is being poisoned, slowly, by his wife and her sister. As a personal war is waging within his own consciousness over morality and self-preservation, Istvan must decide whether to remain silent about the women’s devious secret and preserve his own life, or to report their heinous crime to the Royal Gendarme, which would also mean certain death for him.

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Fényes Szelek (The confrontation)

6 September, 2014 imagineindia

Fényes Szelek
Hungary. 80 min. 1969. History.
Director: MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
Cast: Andrea Drahota, Kati Kovács, Lajos Balázsovits.

Venue : Spanish Film Institute
29 may Friday. 21.40

This is Jancso’s first film in colour—muted, dusky colour punctuated by the vivid red of a boy’s shirt and of a streaming banner, with its suggestion of Hungarian bloodshed. It tells the story of protest and rebellion in 1947 Hungary where the Communist Party had taken power.

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Szegénylegények (The round up)

6 September, 2014 imagineindia

Szegénylegények (The round up)
Hungary. 1966. 90 min. Drama.
Director : MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
Cast : János Görbe, Zoltán Latinovits, Tibor Molnár.

Venue : Spanish Film Institute
23 may Saturday. 19.30

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively.

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Csillagosok, katonák (The red and the white)

6 September, 2014 imagineindia

Csillagosok, katonák
Hungary. 1967. 90 min
Director: MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
Cast: József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák.

Venue : Spanish Film Institute
26 may Tuesday. 21.40

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks’ defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other. Captives are executed or sent running naked into the woods. Neither side has a plan, and the characters that the camera picks out soon die.
A White Cossack officer kills a Hungarian and is executed by his own superiors when he tries to rape a milkmaid. At the hospital, White officers order nurses into the woods, dressed in finery, to waltz. A nurse aids the Reds, then they accuse her of treason for following White orders. Red soldiers walk willingly, singing, into an overwhelming force. War seems chaotic and arbitrary.

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GAAV (The Cow)

5 September, 2014 imagineindia

Director : DARIUSH MEHRJUI
Iran. 1969. 105 min. Drama.
Cast : Ezzatolah Entezami, Mahin Shahabi, Ali Nassirian.

Venue : Función Lenguaje
29 may Friday. 20.00

The story begins by showcasing the close relationship between a middle-aged Iranian villager Masht Hassan and his beloved cow. Hassan is married but has no children. His only valuable property is a cow that he cherishes because it,s the only cow in the village. When Hassan must leave the village for a short time, the pregnant cow is found dead in the barn. Hassan’s fellow villagers fear his reaction and cover up the evidence of the death and tell him upon his return that his cow has run away. Having great difficulty dealing with the loss of his beloved cow, as well the loss of livestock that affects his social stature at the village, Hassan gradually goes insane following a nervous breakdown and he starts to belive he is the cow, adopting such mannerisms such as eating hay. His wife and the villagers try in vain to restore his sanity.

The Samanid prince Nooh ibn Mansur was reported to have thought that he was a cow. He was subsequently cured of his delusion by the medieval Persian physician Avicenna. It is possible that elements of the plot of The Cow were inspired by this.

Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini was reported to have admired this film. This in turn was reported to have been the saving grace that allowed Iranian cinema to continue rather than it being banned after the Iranian Islamic Revolution.

AWARDS

OCIC Award – Recommendation – Forum of New Film 22nd Berlin International Film Festival 1972
FIPRESCI Prize 32nd Venice International Film Festival 1971
Best Actor Award Chicago International Film Festival 1971
Award for Best Screenplay Sepas Film Festival 1970

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Penalty Corner

5 September, 2014 imagineindia

Penalty Corner
Ranjit Kumar Oraon
India. 2014. 23 min.

Venue : Intermediae el Matadero
22 may Friday. 19.00

A poor tribal man, in the village of Jharkhand, struggle to sell his country poultry in village market where farm poultry has made in road, in order to buy a hockey stick and shoe for her daughter, Munuren. Meanwhile Munuren, with her younger brother, Prakash, has embarked on their journey in search of God in the forest who will bring their lost poultry back.

Ranjit Kumar Oraon

Bachelors of Technology in Chemical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai – 600024
Post Graduate Diploma in Film Direction, FTII, 2013