22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Screening Schedule - Day 2, 7 Dec 2020

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Screening Schedule

Day 2, 7 Dec 

a still from the film 'Famine 87'

directed by Sanjiv Shah

1) I Want My Father Back

Dir: Suma Josson; 50 min; Marathi with English subtitles; 2007; Doc; Retro I

2) Butterfly Stand Still

Dir: 20 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2011; Doc; Retro I

3) Famine 87

Dir : Sanjiv Shah; 52 min; Gujarati with Eng subtitles; 1987; India; Doc; Retro II

4) Thar

Dir : Sanjiv Shah; 60 min; English; 1995; India; Doc; Retro II

5) Koothu

Dir: Sandhya Kumar; 52 min; Eng, Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2018; Doc; Filmmaker in Focus

6) Hockey in My Blood

Dir : Sandhya Kumar; 52 min; Eng, Kodava Takk with Eng subtitles; 2015; Doc; Filmmaker in Focus

a still from 'Dancing Lion of Mazgaon'

directed by Ankeet Pareek, Chinar Mehta, Timmayo Thumra, Yaniam

7) Linea 137

Dir : Lucía Vassallo ; 82 min; Spanish with Eng subtitles; Argentina; 2019; Doc

8) Paper Worlds of Latif Kazbekov

Dir: Sofya Leonidova; 20.53 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia; 2019; Doc

9) Architecture of the Blockade

Dir: Maxim Yakubson; 80 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Doc

10) Dancing Lion of Mazgaon

Dir: Ankeet Pareek, Chinar Mehta, Timmayo Thumra, Yaniam; India; Doc

11) Der Krieg in Mir

Dir: Sebastian Heinzel; 83 min; German, Russian with English subtitles; Germany, Switzerland; 2019; Doc

12) Der nackte König

Dir: Andreas Hoessli; 108 min; Polish-Farsi-English-German with Eng subtitles; Germany, Poland, Switzerland; 2019; Doc

13) Pro geroev i ludei

Dir: Maria Muskevich; 90 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2019; Doc

14) Selflessly Yours

Dir: Navya Sahai Bhatnagar; 2.48 min; English; 2019; India; Doc

15) CHAK CHAGE IMA

Dir : JENISH SALAM; 4.50 min; Manipuri with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Short film

16) THE WAY HOME
Dir: Elena Khimyalyaynen; 16:15 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Short film

17) LIPSTICK
Dir : Svetlana Yashina; 01:19 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Short film

18) Triplet
Dir: Vadim Zaytsev; 20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Short film

19) BALI-TO-FUN
Dir : Jeanne Desire; 20:06 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Indonesia, Russia; 2020; Short film

20) Tisbea
Dir : Israel Ahumada; 11 min.; Spanish with Eng subtitles; Mexico; 2020; Short film

21) The Return
Dir: Chach Elena Andreevna; 07:36 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2018; Short film

22) The Axe
Dir : Lanna (Svetlana) Rybakova; 14.55 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Short film

23) The Swings
Dir : Anastasiia Ostapenko; 13 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Short film

24) The Power of Childhood
Dir : Lolita Naranovich; 13 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Short film

25) Shantabai

Dir : Pratiik Gupta; 11.43 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2019; India; Doc

26) NEELA KUTHIRA (The Blue Horse)

Dir : Himanshu Singh; 12.49 min; Malayalam, Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2019; India; Short film

a still from 'Returning to the First Beat'

directed by Surabhi Sharma

 27) Returning to the First Beat

Dir: Surabhi Sharma; 85 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2017; India; Doc

28) L for…

Dir: Bharati Kapadia; 13.13 min; English; 2017; India; Short film

29) Devaradiyar in Sadhir : The life and art of Muthukannammal

Dir: Shanmuganathan; Tamil with English subtitles; Films from Tamilnadu ; Doc

30) Lakshmi Vilas

Dir : Soma Sundaram; Tamil; Films from Tamilnadu; Short film 

31) Paarvai 

Dir: Dinesh Kumar T.; Tamil; Films from Tamilnadu; Short film

32) Trapped In

Dir : Fazeel AJ; Tamil; Films from Tamilnadu; Short film

33) Neeli Raag (True Blue)

Dir: Swati Dandekar; 85 min; Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, English; Subtitled in English; 2018

Note : Vimeo / YouTube link of each film will be presented here for 24 hours* (12 am to 12 am) as per the schedule.

Links will be available for 48 hours for Retro I, Retro II and Filmmaker in Focus sections.

Sections :

Indian films

International films

Retrospective I - Suma Josson 

Retrospective II - Sanjiv Shah 

Filmmaker in Focus - Sandhya Kumar

Student films : from FTII, Pune

Director's Cut : curated by Amudhan R.P.

Films from Tamilnadu : curated by Ulaga Cinema Bhaskaran 

Categories :

Short films and Documentaries

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Screening Schedule - Day 01, 6 December

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020 

6-10 Dec, online and physical

Screening Schedule: Day 01; 6 Dec 2020

a still from the film 'Saree"

directed by Suma Josson

1) Saree

Dir: Suma Josson; 72 min; Malayalam with Eng subtitles; 2001; India; Fiction; Retro I

2) Famine

Dir : Sanjiv Shah; 52 min; Gujarati with Eng subtitles; 1987; India; Doc; Retro II

3) Koothu

Dir: Sandhya Kumar; 52 min; Eng, Tamil with Eng subtitles; 2018; Doc; Filmmaker in Focus

4) Shramjeevi

Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; 43.50 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2020; India; Doc

5) La conquista de las ruinas

Dir. Eduardo Gómez; 88 min; Spanish with Eng subtitles; Argentina, Bolivia; 2020; Doc

6) Katya I Vasya idut v shkolu

Dir. Yulia Vishnevets ; 90 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Doc

7) Ancestral Code

Dir. Volodymyr Lutskiy; 70 min; Ukrainian, Belorussian with Eng subtitles; Ukraine; 2020; Doc

8) Noor Islam

Dir: Devshree Nath; 20 min; Assamese, Bengali with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Doc

9) Holy Rights

Dir: Farha Khatun; 53 min; Urdu with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Doc

10) Udaan

Dir : Poorvi Priya, Priya Singh, Ritika Gupta, Varun Pandey, Vishruti Saraf ; 18.34 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019

11) Stupa

Dir: Kirill Nenashev; 75 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2019; Doc

12) Kafir

Dir: Remya; 5.32 min; Malayalam with Eng subtitles; 2019; Doc

13) Ifigeneia: no more tears 

Dir: George Georgakopoulos; 17.40 min; Greek with Eng subtitles; Greece; 2019; SF

14) Gantabya – The Destination

Dir: Sahin Aktar; 27.36 min; Bengali with English subtitles; India; 2020; SF

15) Pakheru (The One Who Flies)

Dir: Nazir Khan; 22 min; Bundeli, Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; SF

16) Collar

Dir: Katarina Ivanovich; 20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; SF

17) Reflection

Dir: Elena Nodel; 8 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russis; 2020; SF

18) 51+

Dir: Daniyar Abirov; 9.05 min; Kyrgiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan; 2019; SF

19) Tradition

Dir: Zhanuzak Mamytov; 13.09 min; Kyrgiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan; 2019; SF

20) Scenes by the Sea

Dir: Oksana Degtyareva; 20.04 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2019; SF

21) Thank you Coach

Dir: Nikita Tarasov; 9 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; SF

22) Please Have a Seat

Dir: Eteri Nioradze ; 11.36 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; SF

23) Banana

Dir: Stepan Azarian; 14.31 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; SF

24) Bhija Neel Terpal (Wet Blue Tarpaulin)

Dir : Anunay Barbhuiya; 25.00 min; Sylheti, Marathi, Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2019; SF; Student Films

25) Aashaon Ke Paar (Beyond Hope)

Dir: Rohit Kumar; 23 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2020; SF; Student Films

26) Mannu : Sprouts of Endurance
Dir: Ramdas Kadavallur ; 113 min; Malayalam, Tamil; 2020; Director’s Cut; Doc

27) Aayi Gayi
Dir: Anandana Kapur; 72 min; Hindi and English; 2019; Director's Cut; Doc

28) I am a Secularist

Dir : Suryakumar Arumugam; Tamil; Films from Tamilnadu; Doc 

29) Saathi Sanam 

Dir: Karthick Tamizhpriyan; Tamil; Frilms from Tamilnadu; Short film 

30) Kaaranam 

Dir : Vignesh Pavithran; Tamil; Films from Tamilnadu; Short film 

31) Vangi 

Dir : Iniyamithra; Tamil; Films from Tamilnadu

Note : Vimeo / YouTube link of each film will be presented here for 24 hours* (12 am to 12 am)

Links will be available for 48 hours for Retro I, Retro II and Filmmaker in Focus sections.

Sections :

Indian films

International films

Retrospective I - Suma Josson 

Retrospective II - Sanjiv Shah 

Filmmaker in Focus - Sandhya Kumar

Student films : from FTII, Pune

Director's Cut : curated by Amudhan R.P.

Films from Tamilnadu : curated by Ulaga Cinema Bhaskaran 

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Director's Cut

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020

6-10 Dec; online and physical

Section : Director's Cut - curated by Amudhan R.P., Festival Director



a still from the film '21 hours'
directed by Sunitha C.V.


1) Mannu (SOIL) : Sprouts of Endurance
Dir: Ramdas Kadavallur; 113 min; Tamil, Malayalam with English subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

2) Moti Bagh
Dir: Nirmal Chander; 59.23 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2019; India; Documentary

3) Mod Bhaang (Ebb Tide)
Dir : Renu Savant; 60 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Documentary

4) 21 Hours - of Toil, Travel and Trade
Dir: Sunitha C. V.; 28 min; Malayalam, English with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

5) A Dream in their Songs
Dir : Debaranjan; 29 min; Odia with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

6) L for…
Dir : Bharati Kapadia; 13.13 min; English; India; 2017; Short film

7) Returning to the First Beat
Dir: Surabhi Sharma; 85 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2017; Documentary

8) Aayi Gayi
Dir: Anandana Kapur; 72 min; Hindi and English; 2019

22nd Madurai Film Festival : Retrospective II - Sanjiv Shah

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020 

6-10 Dec, Online Film Festival 

Retrospective II – Sanjiv Shah 

About Sanjiv Shah 

Studied a bit of Architecture in the mid 1970’s. Worked briefly with an organization engaged in social housing and issues related to housing rights in Kolkata., and has been an intermittent filmmaker working on diverse fiction and non-fiction films for the past 4 decades. Mainly interested in exploring forms of the medium to effectively communicate and engage with issues that are socially, culturally and politically relevant. 

Brief Filmography: 

Studied editing/filmmaking at FTII, Pune between 1977 and 1981. Edited the Hindi feature film MIRCH MASALA; produced, edited and directed several documentaries on issues like Housing Rights, drought in the grasslands of Kutch, struggles of organized landless labourers across India, and ecosystems of the desert of Rajasthan and the Himalayas. 

Produced, directed and edited a Gujarati film HUN, HUNSHI, HUNSHILAL in 1992. The film was an attempt to look at contemporary social and political history of India around the time of the rise in  globalization and growing fundamentalism, which also coincided with manifest intolerance towards alternative voices and dissent, both from the state and civil society. It was an exploration of the cinematic form to allow a more nuanced and multi-layered look at recent history. 

sanjiv.bandhej@gmail.com 

Films by Sanjiv Shah (shown as part of his retrospective)

FAMINE ‘87 

Editing: Sanjiv Shah / Manishi Jani 

Camera: Navroze Contractor 

52 min; Gujarati with EST 

Lo-Band Umatic 1987

PRAKRIT MEDIA COLLECTIVE 

For centuries, the grasslands in the North- Western, in an otherwise arid region of Gujarat bordering Pakistan have been home to the Maldharis, a predominantly Muslim community of traditional cattle grazers who have a rich heritage of culture, art and music. 

Fifty years after lndia's independence the entire pastoral community and their habitat is under threat of extinction from natural calamities and human intervention in the name of development. Traditional practices of survival have been disrupted; native knowledge and skills have been made redundant. In the fourth successive year of drought an entire population has been reduced to digging ditches and carrying mud - surviving on dole. 

During this re-telling of peoples' histories, what emerges is an understanding of the larger causes of scarcities and famines. And the need to review the very processes of planning and development which have deprived not only the people of BANNl, but the dispossessed all over the world of the right to survive on their own terms. 

Thar: The Secrets of the Desert 

Direction & Editing: Sanjiv Shah 

Sound: Indrajit Neogi 

Camera: Navroze Contractor 

Produced By: Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. 1995 

A minister of the Govt. of India, or may be a leading politician of the time, was once being taken on a tour of the Jaisalmer district. Travelling for a while through the region and song the lush green Khadins, the water filled nadis, and the not-so-poor looking people, he kept on saying that this was not a 'registaan' ("ise registaan kahte ho?"). The journey continued and he kept on castigating the local people for insisting on calling the land a 'barren desert'. The sun climbed on and lunch was taken. The journey resumed and the temperatures outside rose to unbearable limits. The minister desired the cavalcade to stop for a brief rest. But where were they to stop. For miles on end there were no trees and no shade. All was dry; barren and bleak. And one of the local persons accompanying the minister said, "Sab, ye registaan hai!" 

Apocryphal though the story may be, it succinctly illustrates the paradox that is the Thaar. A unique landmass that looks bleak and hostile with undulating sand dunes, lowly rock hills bereft of vegetation, saline marshes, and little vegetation, and yet supports a large human and animal population an moderate comfort. The documentary attempts to capture the spirit of the land and the people, who together have evolved into a rich, multifaceted society, and survived through centuries of droughts and scarcities. And the fate of the same land and people now, when the promise of modern science, knowledge and 'development' has brought them on the crossroads which lead into the unknown future 

Redemption or destruction is the question. And which road to travel on, what direction to take? 

A PLACE TO LIVE 

Direction & Editing Sanjiv Shah 

Camera Ajay Noronha 

Navroze Contractor 

Additional Camera Prathmesh Kharatmal, Jigar Kapdi, Daksh Punj, Githartha Goswami 

Location Sound Suresh Rajamani 

Production Manager Prathmesh Kharatmal 

Project Manager Ela Singhal 

Produced by Architecture Foundation and UDRI 

Supported by TATA TRUSTS 

Duration: 92 min

2018 

Migration due to lack of opportunities, natural calamities, civil strife and forced displacement due to ‘development’ projects have made India a country with one of the largest homeless populations in the world. 

The film argues for broader and inclusive imagination of our villages, towns and cities; acknowledgement of the fundamental rights of people to shelter and food and a model of development that is rooted in the ecology of the land. 

22nd Madurai Film Festival : Selected Short Films - List 05

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020

6-10 Dec 2020

Selected short films : List 05

a still from 'Prashna' directed by Santhosh Ram

1) Forget the Palms
Dir : Tim Berezin; 6:05 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

2) Letters
Dir: Elena Kuzhel; 14.01 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

3) Knitting Club for Men over 40
Dir : Egor Gavrilin; 22.06 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

4) Home (Ghar)
Dir : Souvik Roy Chowdhury; 10 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019

5) The World’s Last House
Dir : Amir Gholami; 16.19 min; Kurdish with Eng subtitles; Iran; 2019

6) Prashna ( Question)
Dir: Santosh Ram; 23.24 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019

7) Inner Self
Dir: Shree Raj; 11.17 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; India; 2020

8) The Prophetess
Dir : Marco Joubert; 2.20 min; French with Eng subtitles; Canada; 2020

9) Miangsho (The Meat)
Dir : Tathagata Ghosh; 19 min; Bengali with Eng subtitles; India; 2020

10) Kadachit
Dir : Suraj Shelar; 16.43 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Selected Short Films - List 04

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020

6-10 Dec, 2020

Selected Short films : List 04

a still from 'Pe (the umbrella)' 

directed by Rakesh Moirangthem

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Selected short films – List 04

1) The Power of Childhood
Dir : Lolita Naranovich; 13 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

2) The Last Illusion
Dir: Vladimir Feklneko; 15.57 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

3) Performance
Dir : Nina Moiseeva,; 20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

4) I want to go home
Dir: Tatyana Lyalina; 14.05 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

5) Tooth
Dir: Siman Lyashenko; 7.58 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

6) Talent
Dir: Oleg Ageychev; 9.57 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

7) Tsoy is Dead
Dir: Alexander Solovyov; 5.20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

8) Under the Stork’s Nest
Dir : Ani Oganesyan; 20 min; Armenian with Eng subtitles; Armenia; 2020

9) Freedom of Choice
Dir : Alexey Medvedev; 21 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

10) Pe (The Umbrella)
Dir : Rakesh Moirangthem; 8.49 min; Manipuri with Eng subtitles; India; 2019

11) Wantok
Dir : Dmitrii Komarov; 7 min; Tok Pisin with Eng subtitles; Papua New Guinea

12) Hands and Wings
Dir : Sungbin BYUN; 15 min; Korean with Eng subtitles; South Korea; 2019

13) Akam
Dir: Remya; 3.42 min; No dialogue; India; 2018

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Selected Short Films - List 03

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020 

6-10 Dec 2020

Selected Short films : List 03

a still from 'Tisbea'

directed by Israel Ahumada

1) BANANA
Dir : Stepan Azarian; 14.31 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

2) CHAK CHAGE IMA
Dir : JENISH SALAM; 4.50 min; Manipuri with Eng subtitles; India; 2020

3) THE WAY HOME
Dir: Elena Khimyalyaynen; 16:15 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

4) LIPSTICK
Dir : Svetlana Yashina; 01:19 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

5) Triplet
Dir: Vadim Zaytsev; 20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

6) BALI-TO-FUN
Dir : Jeanne Desire; 20:06 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Indonesia, Russia; 2020

7) Tisbea
Dir : Israel Ahumada; 11 min.; Spanish with Eng subtitles; Mexico; 2020

8) The Return
Dir: Chach Elena Andreevna; 07:36 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2018

9) The Axe
Dir : Lanna (Svetlana) Rybakova; 14.55 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

10) The Swings
Dir : Anastasiia Ostapenko; 13 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Selected Short films - List 02

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020

6-10 Dec 2020

Selected Short films – List 02 

a still from 'Ifigeneia: no more tears'

directed by George Georgakopoulos

1) Ifigeneia: no more tears
Dir: George Georgakopoulos; 17.40 min; Greek with Eng subtitles; Greece; 2019

2) Gantabya - The Destination
Dir: Sahin Aktar; 27.36 min; Bengali with Eng subtitles; India; 2020

3) Pakheru (The One Who Flies)
Dir: Nazir Khan; 22 min; Bundeli, Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019

4) Collar
Dir : Katarina Ivanovich; 20 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

5) Reflection
Dir : Elena Nodel; 8 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

6) 51+
Dir: Daniyar Abirov;9.05 min; Kyrgiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan; 2019

7) Tradition
Dir : Zhanuzak Mamytov; 13.09 min; Kyrgiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan; 2019

8) Scenes by the Sea
Dir: Oksana Degtyareva; 20.04 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2019

9) Thank you Coach
Dir : Nikita Tarasov; 9 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

10) Please Have a Seat
Dir: Eteri Nioradze ; 11.36 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Selected Documentaries - List 03

22nd Madurai International Documentaries and Short Film Festival 2020

6-10 Dec 2020

Selected Documentaries : List 03 

a still from 'Sharamjeevi'

directed by Tarun Bhartiya

1) The Last Kiss / Eradzh Nidoev/ Russia, Tajikistan

2) 1944 / Fatima Osman, Yunus Pasha / Ukraine

3) They are Dying / Dhananjay Bhawalekar / India

4) Over the Barriers / Banu Ramazanova / Kazakhstan

5) Living Dreams / Ritwik Baiju / India

6) North for Happiness / Alexander Porotov / Russia

7) Quarantine / Alisher Zhadigerov/ Kazakhstan

8) Speleonaut / Under The Stone Sky / Sonja Đekić / Serbia

9) Navi Mumbai Navi Begari / Aishwarya Vasudev, Subodh Minto, Meghna Nandy and Ankit Pareek / India

10) Stalking Chernoby / Iara Lee / Ukraine, Slovakia, USA, Bulgaria

11) From Trash to Treasure – Turning Negatives into Positives / Iara Lee / USA, Lesotho, Bulgaria

12) Stop Acid Attack / Farha Khatun / India

13) Chal Ga Heera / Manasi, Prakriti, Prashant, Sreya, Tanushree / India

14) Tabdeeli / Anmol Saini, Anna Binu, Rishika Revo, Sankarsan Behera, Vyshakh Balachandran / India

15) Zindabad / Kavya, Srishti, Lavanya, Apoorva, Ajay / India

16) An Inconvenient Development / Ajay, Anagha, Kavya, Prakriti, Sreya / India

17) Love in Mumbai / Anmol Saini, Isha Srivastava, Priya Singh, Priyanshu Pandey, Rishika Revo, Vishruti Saraf / India

18) Ivanova igra / Tomislav Zaja / Croatia

19) Sharamjeevi / Tarun Bhartiya / India

20) Bamboo Ballads / Sajid Naduthody / India

21) Far from the Madding Crowd / Abeer Khan / India

22) Kafir / Remya Rajeev / India 

22nd Madurai Film Festival : Selection Documentaries - List 02

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020 

6-10 Dec 2020

Selected Documentaries - List 02

a still from 'Der Krieg in Mir'

directed by Sebastian Heinzel

1) Architecture of the Blockade (Dr: Maxim Yakubson; Russia)

2) Dancing Lion of Mazgaon (Dir: Ankeet Pareek, Chinar Mehta, Timmayo Thumra, Yaniam; India)

3) Der Krieg in Mir (Dir: Sebastian Heinzel; Germany, Switzerland)

4) Der nackte König (Dir: Andreas Hoessli; Germany, Poland, Switzerland)

5) Pro geroev i ludei (Dir: Maria Muskevich; Russia)

6) Katya I Vasya idut v shkolu (Dir: Yulia Vishnevets; Russia)

7) Selflessly Yours (Dir: Navya Sahai Bhatnagar; India)

8) Via Frequency (Dir: Susanna Cherian; India)

9) Kunashir (Dir: Vladimir Kozlov; Russia)

10) Two Autumns in Wyszogród (Dir: Amit Mahanti & Ruchika Negi; India)

11) Pena (Dir: Ilya Povolotskiy; Russia)

12) El Padre Medico (Dir: Vytautas Puidokas; Brazil, Lithuania)

13) Long Live King David (Dir: Ido Zand & Yael Leibovitz; Israel)

14) Vovan (Dir: Alexandra Zaytseva; Russia)

15) Edit as if I disappeared (Dir: Oksana Timchenko; Russia)

Note : One more list will be released soon!

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Filmmaker in Focus - Sandhya Kumar

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020

6-10 Dec 2020

Filmmaker in Focus : Sandhya Kumar 

Sandhya Kumar is an independent filmmaker based in Bangalore, India. A film and communications graduate of San Francisco Art Institute and Jamia Millia University, New Delhi, her work is rooted in non-fiction and inspired by the desire to make visible the poetry of everyday life. Her 2012 documentary, ‘O Friend, This Waiting!’ won the Indian National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film, for its unconventional exploration of the Devadasi tradition in South India through the medium of love-poetry. She had received film grants from the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) and the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) and has been an ATSA fellow at ARThink South Asia.

Sandhya has worked as an assistant director with artist Amar Kanwar on the film and art installation, The Lightning Testimonies, and as a visual arts curator for the Red Poppy Art House, San Francisco, and Mocha Art House, New Delhi. She is a trustee of Vikalp Bengaluru, a filmmakers’ collective committed to creating platforms for documentary films to reach wider audiences. She also conducts workshops and training sessions on the filmmaking process for learners of all levels.

Selected Filmography

2018
Koothu - Direction, Editing
52 min. HD. Produced by PSBT
A film about a rural theatre tradition and changing audiences

2015
Hockey In My Blood - Direction, Editing
54 min, HD
About the world’s largest hockey tournament, played between family clans of Coorg in India

2014
Memory of a Light - Direction, Editing
26 min, HD, Produced by PSBT
A visual essay on nostalgia for the childhood house

2012
O Friend, This Waiting! - Direction, Editing
32 min, HDV, Funded by the India Foundation for the Arts.
A film on the entwined fortunes of temple love songs from 17th century South India and the devadasi-courtesans who performed them

2009 

Light Falling on White Flowers - Direction, Editing
15 min. DV.
A film on Isadora Duncan’s internal journey of discovering the ‘modern dance’

2008 

I Cannot Remember My Mother - Direction, Camera, Editing
4 min. 16mm. colour. silent.
I search the patterns on the silken threads of a sari, hoping to rebuild one glance of my mother

2007 

The Lightning Testimonies - Assistant Direction
120 min. DV, Directed by Amar Kanwar 

A documentary feature on narratives of sexual violence in the public sphere in the Indian sub-continent

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Retrospective I - Suma Josson

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020

6-10 Dec 2020

Retrospective - I : Suma Josson

Born in Kerala, Suma Josson graduated in English Lit. from the College of St.Teresa, Minnesota, U.S.A. Having begun her career as a journalist, she switched over to the visual medium. Since then she has made two feature films and many documentary films on a wide range of issues. 

Janmadinam, her first feature film, in 1999 has won several awards and has travelled to various International Film Festivals and Universities abroad. It was premiered at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. Won three Kerala State Awards.

Also contributed to the documentary, 'Trading Images', an international co-production with IFU, (International Women's University, Hannover) and the German television company, NDR in 2001. This was made along with four other women filmmakers from: the U.S, Africa, China and Germany.

She is also a poet and fiction writer and has published three books: Poems and Plays, A Harvest of Light (a collection of poems, Orient Longman), and ‘Circumferences’ (a novel, Penguin). Mahua Tola Gets A School, is a book on an experimental primary school system in Madhya Pradesh, India. 

a still from 'Niyagiri, You are Still Alive'

Dir: Suma Jasson

 'Saree' is her second feature film made in 2001. This film has also traveled to several international film festivals.

'Gujarat A Laboratory …’ on the violence, which engulfed Gujarat in 2002. 45 mins

‘Ayodhya to Varanasi: Prayers for Peace’, 2004 is a cultural journey as the film travels from Ayodhya to Varanasi. 60 mins

‘Before the Last Tree Falls’, 2006 is a study on the suicide of farmers in Wayanad, Kerala. 70 mins

‘I Want My Father Back’, 2007 is a study on the suicide of farmers in Vidarbha, Maharastra. 50 mins

Won the first prize at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival, 2008

Won the first prize at the Karimnagar Film Festival, 2009

Raghuvanshi, The Seed Man, (2010) a plant breeder in Varanasi, U.P. 19 mins

‘Niyamgiri You are Still Alive’ (2010) won the Vasudha Environment Award, at the International Short Film section at IFFI, Goa, 2010. 17 mins

‘Butterfly Stand Still’ (2011) on a 55 year old woman who models at the J.J.School of Arts in Mumbai for art students and other artists.

‘Reap What You Sow, Eat What You Grow’ (2011) on a group of city farmers practicing community farming in Mumbai, India.

‘In Search of our Lost Rice Seeds’ (2012) a film on the loss of the traditional rice seeds of India. 40 mins. Won the “Main prize in the category - People and Earth/Ecological Success Stories” at the EKOTOPFILM film festival, 2013, at Bratislava, Slovakia.

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Highlights!

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020

6-10 Dec, Madurai (physical / virtual / both)

a still from 'SIKHIRINI MWSANAI (DANCE OF THE BUTTERFLY)'

directed by Subasri Krishnan

Highlights!

Retrospective I : Suma Josson

Retrospective II : Sanjiv Shah

Filmmaker in Focus : Sandhya Kumar 

Tamil short films and documentaries: Curated by Ulaga Cinema Bhaskaran 

International films

Indian Films 

Students films from FTII, Pune 


Amudhan R.P.
Festival Director
22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Selected Short Films - List 01

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020

Selected Short films : List 01 

1) Akam

2) Jack and Chan

3) Kafir

4) Nap Time

5) The Last Illusion

6) Performance

7) I want to Go Home

8) Talent

9) Alaska

10) When We Open the Gate of the Sky

Note : The second list will be released soon!

22nd Madurai Film Festival : Selected Documentaries - List 01

22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020

Selected Documentaries - List 01

a still from 'Holy Right'

directed by Farha Khatun

1) Sikhirini Mwsanai (Dance of the Butterfly) / Dir. Subasri Krishnan / India

2) La conquista de las ruinas / Dir. Eduardo Gómez / Argentina, Bolivia

3) Katya I Vasya idut v shkolu / Dir. Yulia Vishnevets / Russia

4) Ancestral Code / Dir. Volodymyr Lutskiy / Ukraine

5) Noor Islam / Devshree Nath / India

6) Holy Rights / Farha Khatun / India

7) Udaan / Poorvi Priya, Priya Singh, Ritika Gupta, Varun Pandey, Vishruti Saraf / India

8) Stupa / Kirill Nenashev / Russia

9) Linea 137 - Lucía Vassallo / Argentina

10) Paper Worlds of Latif Kazbekov / Sofya Leonidova / Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia


Note: Second list will be released soon!