15th Madurai Film Festival 2013: Films from Tamilnadu : Short films

15th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2013

FILMS FROM TAMIL NADU : SHORT FILMS

1.       Vakri Chokku

Dir: Krishnamoorthy; 13mins; Vakri & Tamil; 2013; India

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Maruvan, (7years) having lost his mother at a very early age, lives with father Kasi, (29years) a Narikurava tribal making his living by hunting and selling wild birds. Maruvan is sent to a primary school but always comes back demanding for more facilities like new school shoes. Father tries to sell his catch but unfortunately, that month being auspicious nobody buys meat. One day Maruvan begins questioning his father about the right for every being to live and to be loved including the birds that his father hunts. Now Kasi has to find an answer.

2.      Maayai Nizhalkal

Dir: Venkat; 14mins 17sec; Silent; 2013; India

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A boy from a small village gets his hands on bit of a film reel. Fascinated by his discovery and driven by his curiosity, he imagines what it is like to experience cinema. He turns his imagination into reality with passion, which can come only from love for cinema.

15th Madurai Film Festival 2013: Retrospective Section

15th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2013

6-10 Dec, Madurai

Retrospective Section:
Films by Pankaj Butalia

Pankaj Butalia was a national level table tennis player who, later, taught Economics at Delhi University before he took to making films. He has made eleven documentaries and one fiction film. Most of his documentaries have been screened extensively throughout the world and one of them, MOKSHA, won four major international awards in 1993-94. His first feature film, "Karvaan" won a special award at Amiens in 1999 and has been screened in film festivals in Venice, Toronto, Rotterdam, Belgium, Hong Kong, Turkey, New Delhi and Calcutta among other places.

Pankaj Butalia has been a juror in a number of film festivals including Chairman, Jury, Himal Documentary Film Festival, Kathmandu, 1997 and Member, Jury, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany 1990 among many others.

1.      Moksha   -   (Salvation)

Dir: Pankaj Butalia; 80mins; 1993; India

Abandoned by their families to lives of penury, marked by white veils which they wear, Bengali widows find solace and food in the ashrams of Vrindavan where they gather every morning and evening to sing religious songs.

In this profoundly moving documentary on widowhood portrayed both as social institution and personal tradition, moments of astonishing sensuous beauty alternate with rhythms of anguish. In the best of the new ethnographic tradition, Moksha de-centers the voices of authority and allows a plurality of voices to introduce contesting positions.
Haunting in its evocation of grief and anger, the film transcends documentary and assumes its place in the great tradition of lamentation, the expression of the dark night of the human soul.

2.      Tracing the Arc

Dir: Pankaj Butalia; 2003; India

The Great Arc was a phenomenal achievement of applied science in British India between 1802 and 1843. It was an attempt to measure the curvature of the earth's surface under the guise of cartographic and military necessity. The film attempts to recreate the stupendous effort and look at some of its implications.

3.      A Million Steps

Dir: Pankaj Butalia; 2003; India

In the 1860's, the British, keen to know the terrain of Tibet in case the Russians invaded India through Lhasa, trained Indian surveyors to disguise themselves, enter Tibet and carry on surveys incognito. Over the next twenty years, many Indian surveyors, known today as the 'Pundits', entered Tibet disguised as monks or traders and carried out the most authoritative surveys of their times and contributed to the map of Asia. This film is a short documentary attempting to look at the adventures of three of these surveyors.

4.      Karvaan (Shadows in the dark)

Dir: Pankaj Butalia; 100 mins; 1999; India

A feature film drawing upon the partition of India. Starring Naseeruddin

Shah and Kitu Gidwani, the film looks at the immediate impact of partition on a few lives. It then looks at the protagonists about twenty years later to see if there has been any way in which the events of the forties could have impacted their lives.

5.      An Island of Hope

Dir: Pankaj Butalia; 26 mins; 2010; India

A school started by the Chakma refugees in a remote part of Arunachal Pradesh in India looks set to dramatically change their lives.

6.      Kahani Ek Gaon Ki

Dir: Pankaj Butalia; 26 mins; 2012; India

An experiment in a small peri-urban area of Rajasthan, India, where the village gets involved in issues of self-governance and heritage preservation.

7.      The Textures Of Loss

Dir: Pankaj Butalia; 60 mins; 2013; India

Kashmir has been one of the world’s major conflict areas for over two decades. For many ordinary Kashmiris this level of upheaval was completely unexpected. The killing of family members, whether by the Army or by militants has been something that people have not been able to come to terms with. Many families live in a limbo – surviving on a day to day basis – with nothing to look forward to – with no hope except that of bare survival.

15th Madurai Film Festival : Inauguration

15^th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2013

Organised by MARUPAKKAM

6,7,8,9,10 December 2013

Opening Ceremony

6 pm; 6 Dec 2013

Prem Nivas Hotel, Melaperumal Mestry Veedi, Madurai

Chief Guests:

Pankaj Butalia, Filmmaker (New Delhi)

Dr.Murali, Principal, The Madura College

Kathir, Human Rights Activist

Yadhartha Rajan, Film Society Activist

Paravatha Varthini, Activist

Opening Film:

Kanche Aur Postcards (Marbles and Postcard)

Dir: Ridham Janve; 29 mins 55secs; Hind with English subtitles; 2013; India

Kanche aur Postcard is an everyday, lighthearted story of a schoolboy wanting and being denied a game of marbles while on vacation. Seen through the young protagonist’s eyes, though, it is a story full of drama; with deeply felt rejections, difficult choices and unfortunate compromises.

All are welcome!

More than 100 films are screened under the following sections:
1) International Films
2) Films from Rest of India
3) Films from Tamilnadu
4) Retrospective: Films by Pankaj Butalia

Amudhan R.P.

Festival Director

15^th Madurai Film Festival

Venues:

6-10 December 2013

Prem Nivas Hotel; 5 pm to 8 pm

6 Dec: Friday

Mannar Thirumalai Nayakkar College, Pasumalai; 10 am to 5 pm

Department of English, Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed University, Gandhigram; 2 pm to 5 pm

7 Dec: Saturday

Sermathai  Vasan College, Perungudi: 10 am to 5 pm

8 Dec: Sunday

IDEAS Centre, Vazhaithoppu; 10 am to 5 pm

Littles – A Centre for Children, Nagamalai; 2 pm to 6 pm

9 Dec: Monday

Department of Folklore, Madurai Kamaraj University, Nagamalai; 10 am to 5 pm

Yadava College for Men; 10 am to 5 pm

Department of Tamil, Devaangar Arts College, Aruppukottai; 10 am to 5 pm

RVS College of Education, Dindigul; 2 pm to 5 pm

10 Dec: Tuesday

Vellaichamy Nadar College, Nagamalai; 10 am to 5 pm

St. Justin’s College of Education, Teppakulam; 10 am to 5 pm

Department of Sociology, Fatima College; 2 pm to 5 pm

For further details:

www.maduraifilmfest.blogspot.com

15th Madurai Film Festival : International films: Animation

15th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2013

6-10 Dec; Madurai

Selection List 06

Section: International Films

Animation Films

1) The Hopper

Director/s: Alex Bruel Flagstad

17:00mins; Animation; Denmark, Germany; English; 2012

2) 20Zwolf / 20Twelve

Director/s: Christian Stahl

03:34mins; Animation; Germany; German; 2012

3) Grunes Gold / Green Gold

Director/s: Barbara Marheineke

13:10mins; Animation;Germany; German; 2012

4) Andersartig / Different

Director/s: dennis Stein-Schomburg

04:30mins; Animation;Germany;German; 2011

15th Madurai Film Festival 2013: Rest of India: Documentaries

15th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2013

Selection List 05

Section: Rest of India

Documentary Films

1)  I burnt my fingers

Director/s: Kamlesh Udesi

33:39mins; Documentary; India; Gujarati; 2013

2)  No Problem! – six months with the barefoot grand mamas

Director/s: Yasmin Kidwai

56:14mins; Documentary; India; English & Hindi; 2012

3)  Porattangalude Monnamkannu (Third eye of resistance)

Director/s: Razi

95mins; Documentary; India; Malayalam & English; 2012

4)  A few days more

 Director/s: O.P. Srivatsava

50mins; Documentary; India;English/Hindi; 2012

5)  Don’t be our fathers

Director/s: Roopesh Kumar

30mins; Documentary; India; Malayalam; 2013

6)  BV Karanth: Baba

Director/s: Ramachandra PN

93mins; Documentary; India; Kannada/English/Hindi; 2012

7)  Maliwood Talkies

Director/s: Sudhir kasabe

69mins; Documentary; India; Hindi & Marathi; 2012

8)  V.Babasaheb (Life in full open)

Director/s: Avinash Deshpande

52mins; Documentary; India; Marathi, Hindi & English; 2013

9)  Ningal Aranaye Kando? (Have you seen the arena?) 

Director/s: Sunandha Bhat

73mins; Documentary; India; Malayalam; 2012

10)  My Kashmir

Director/s: Modhuri Mohinder and Vaishali Sinha

31mins; Documentary; India; English, Urdu, Kashmiri, Hindi; 2013

11)  Kandhamal UNRESOLVED

Director/s: Shailendra boora

60mins; Documentary; India; Hindi; 2013

12)  Bottle Masala in Moile

Director/s: Vaidehi Chitre

38mins; Documentary; India; English, East Indian Marathi, Marathi, Hindi; 2012

13)  Scattered Windows, Connected Doors

Director/s: Ms. Roohi Dixit and Ms. Ziba Bhagwagar

75mins; Documentary; India; English; 2013

14)  Ball N Beautiful

Director/s: Chida Bora

14:48mins; Documentary; India; Assamese; 2011

15)  Sama – Muslim Mystic Music of India

Director/s: Shazia Khan

52mins; Documentary; India; Multiple Indian regional Languages; 2013

16)  A Little Revolution – A Story of Suicides and Dreams

Director/s: Harpreet Kaur

60mins; Documentary; India & USA; English & Punjabi; 2009

17)  Diaries of unknown

Director/s: Sohil Vaidya

25mins; Documentary; India; Marathi/Hindi; 2012-2013

18)  Good girls don’t Dance

Director/s: Padmalatha Ravi

14mins 29sec; Documentary; India; English, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi; 2013

19)  Mystery Hunters

Director/s: Sajeevan Anthikad

59mins; Documentary; India; English; 2012

20)  1cube

Director/s: Pramod Dev

42min 51secs; Documentary; India; English, Malayalam & Tamil; 2012

21)  “Vidhappadu” (Sowing Field)

Director/s: Aneez K M

21mins 48sec; Documentary; India;Malayalam; 2013

22)  A Commons story

Director/s: Epti patnaik, Ananda Siddhartha, Pratik Bhakta, Piyush Garud

31mins 48sec; Documentary; India; Hindi & English; 2013

23)  Badalte Nakshe (Changing Maps)

Director/s: Nithila Kanagasabai, Nitya Menon, archana sadar, Lokokba

23mins 30sec; Documentary; India; Hindi, English; 2012

24)  Daane Daane pe

Director/s: Nithila kanagasabai, Mridula chari, nitya menon, Krishna panchal

28mins; Documentary; India; English, Hindi, Tamil; 2013

25)  Farooq versus The State

Director/s: Anjali Montero and K.P. Jayasankar

25mins; Documentary; India; Hindi & English; 2012

26)  Flash point

Director/s: Mridula chari, Francis Lohrii, Gursimran Khamba, Shivani Gupta.

19mins 20 sec; Documentary; India; English; 2013

27)  Take back the fight

Director/s: Sujatha Subramanian, Shruthi Ravi, likokba, Mrinal singh

27mins 43sec; Documentary; India; English; 2013

28) When Shankar Nag comes asking (175)

Director/s: Sushma Veerappa

66:45mins; Documentary; India; Kannada; 2013

15th Madurai Film Festival 2013: International films: Documentaries

15th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2013

6-10 Dec; Madurai

Selection List 04

Section: International

Documentary films

1)  Alegria do lar/ The Joy of a Home

Director/s: Ana Isabel Martins

20mins; Documentary; Portugal; Portuguese; 2013

5) Sorry to Interrupt

Director/s: Dravid M. Lorenz

13mins; Documentary; Germany; German; 2012

 6)  In Zukunft / In Future

Director/s: Darja Pilz

64:00mins; Documentary; Germany;Russian; 2013

7)  Casa Luz / House of Light

Director/s: Towanda Films / Navina Khatib

64:00mins; Documentary; Germany; Spanish; 2013

8)  Made You Look

Director/s: Sigal Yona

14:08mins; Documentary; Israel; Hebrew; 2012

9) La Primavera de Juan Pita

Director/s: Miguel Pita

10mins; Documentary; Spain; Spanish; 2013

10)  Kresaletan

Director/s: Juan Bidegain

18mins; Documentary; Spain; Spanish; 2013

11) At the ball of fortune

Director/s: Denis Kurochka

08:40; Documentary; Russia; Silent; 2012

15th Madurai Film Festival 2013: Films from Tamilnadu: Short Films

15th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2013

6-10 Dec; Madurai

Selection List 03

Section: Films from Tamilnadu 

Short Films 

1) Vakri Chokku

Director/s: Krishnamoorthy

13mins; Short film; India; Vakri & Tamil; 2013

2)  Maayai Nizhalkal

Director/s: Venkat

14mins 17sec; Short film; India; Silent; 2013

15th Madurai Film Festival: Selection : Rest of India: Short Films

15th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 20136-10 Dec; Madurai

Selection List 02 

Section: Rest of India 

Short Films

1) Aakhir (At last)

Director/s: Tarun Jain

15:40mins; Short film; India; Hindi; 2012

2) Melawa – The festival of marriages

Director/s: Junaid Imam

17:25; Short film; India; Hindi; 2013

3) Ek kulta ek Raja- The only King

Director/s: Junaid Imam

17:25mins; Short film; India; Marathi; 2013

4) The boy and the Parrot

Director/s: Sagar Shriskar

8mins 23 sec; Short film; India; English; 2013

5) Saknoia (The River flows)

Director/s: Kanjan Kishore Nath

13mins; Short film; India; Assamese; 2013

6) From Beyond

Director/s: Rajbir Kaur

10mins 30sec; Short film; India; English; 2013

7)  As Usual

Director/s: Parashar Naik;

7 mins, 50 secs; Short Film; India; English/Hindi; 2013

8)  Gutthi – The Riddle

Director/s: Abishek Chatterjee

29mins; Short film; India; Hindi; 2012

9) Every Silence another Doubt

Director/s: Vivek Asri

19:40mins; Short film; India; Hindi; 2013

10)  Villari

Director/s: Prashant Vanjani

17mins; Short film; India; Hindi; 2013

11)  Beyond the Hill

Director/s: Akshay Dilip Ware

10mins; Short film; India; Marathi; 2013

12)  Kanche Aur Postcards / Marbles and Postcards

Director/s: Ridham Janve

29:55mins; Short film; India; Hindi; 2013

13)  Chandmiya

Director/s: Suhaas Karnekar

19mins 35sec; Short film; India; Hindi; 2012

14) E Kaalath

Director/s: Jenith kachapally

8mins; Short film; India; Malayalam; 2013

15)  Rab da vasta…

Director/s: Chakravarty devulapalii

10mins 45sec; Short film; India; Hindi/Punjabi; 2013

16)  Amidst Dark

Director/s: Sohini Singh

11mins; Short film; India; Hindi/English; 2013

17)  The Visit

Director/s: Moa Kichu

22min; Short film; India; Nagamese; 2012

15th Madurai Film Festival 2013 : International films: Short films

15th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2013

6-10 December 2013; Madurai

Selection List 01 
Section: International Films
Short Films 

1) Mecs Meus

Director/s: Liam Engle

3mins; Short film; France; French; 2013

2) Descent into Hell

Director/s: Sergi guibas Arnau

14:57mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

3) Vaterlandsliebe / A German Loves His Fatherland

Director/s: Nico Sommer

20:10mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2011

4) Erinnerungen An Den Sommer / Remembering The Summer

Director/s: friedrich Tieditke

10:20mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2012

5) Moritz Und Der Waldschrat / Moritz and The Woodwose

Director/s: Byn Chainey

20mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2013

6) Nicht Den Boden Beruhren / Don’t Hit The Ground

Director/s: Mia Spenglar

30mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2013

7) Die Schaukel Des Sargmachers / The Swing of The Coffin Maker

Director/s: Elmar Imanov

29:58mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2012

8) Domoj / Home

Director/s: Simona Feldman

9mins; Short film; Germany; German/Russian; 2013

9) Musik Liegt In Der Luft / There is Music in The Air

Director/s: Tim Bosse

20:00mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2012

10)  Milchbart / Milk Mustache

Director/s: Katrin Woller

03:09mins; Short film; Germany; No Dialogue; 2013

11)  Komm Und Spiel / Come and Play

Director/s: Daria Belova

30:00mins; Short film; Germany; German/Russian; 2013

12)  Pro Kope / The Maid

Director/s: Sascha Zimmermann

13:45mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2012

13)  Welcome to Bavaria

Director/s: Matthias Kobmehi

11:21; Short film; Germany;German; 2012

14)  Feel

Director/s: Marcus Hanisch

05:02mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2012

15)  Gay Goth Scene

Director/s: Kai stanicke

04:57mins; Short film; Germany; No Dialogue; 2013

16)  Ein Augenblick in Mir / In The Nick of Time

Director/s: David M. Lorenz

13:00mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2011

17) Achttausend / Eight Thousand

Director/s: Simon-Niklas Scheuring

19:00mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2013

18) Allah is Great

Director/s: Andrea Lannetta

25:04mins; Short film; India; English/Hindi;  2012

19) Another Fukking

Director/s: Katharina Marie Schubert

30:00mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2011

20) Bumpy Night

Director/s: Julie Kreuzer

30:00mins; Short film; Germany;German; 2012

21)  Cold Star

Director/s: Kai Stanicke

07:03mins; Short film; Germany; No Dialogue; 2011

22) Crushed Willi

Director/s: Volker Heymann

05:49mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2013

23) Dreieinhalb / Three and A Half

Director/s: Elisa Unger

20:00mins; Short film; Germany; German; 2012

24) Kukla / A Dummy

Director/s: Konstantin Chelidze

13:36mins; Short film; Russia;Russian; 2013

25) Jacobo

Director/s: David Del Aguila

13:37mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2012

26) Hibernation

Director/s: Jon mikel Caballaro;

17:00; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2012

27)  La Casta

Director/s: Victor Tejera

16:48mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

28) Caretos

Director/s: luis sanchez-Polack

05:46mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

29) Dragon High School

Director/s: Lola Parra

08:30; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

30)  Espana Different

Director/s: Salvdor Guerra

04:00mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

31) The Discarded

Director/s: Juan Antono Delicado & David Elicado

11:36mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

32) The First Night

Director/s: Eduardo Moyana

16:40; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

33) Eutanas S.A

Director/s: Victor Nores

09:50mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

34) Chaos

Director/s: Miguel Moneagudo

13:44mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

35) You are a Terrorist

Director/s: Antoni Sole

11:28mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

36)  Explosive

Director/s: Jose Ramon Sonario & Ivan M. Valencia

17:56mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

37)  Tabato

Director/s: Joao Viana

13mins; Short film; Portugal; Mandinga; 2013

38) Mi ojo derecho (My right eye (the apple of my eyes)

Director/s: Joseco de linares

13mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish

39) Cuidadano Torralba (Citizen Torralba redux)

Director/s: Suso Hernandez

11mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2013

40) Rake’s commitment

Director/s: Santi Veiga

14mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2012

41)  Tarde de Futbol (soccer day)

Director/s: Miguel Pita

19mins; Short film; Spain; Spanish; 2012