Wednesday, December 1, 2021

23rd Madurai Film Festival 2021 : Schedule

23rd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2021 6-10 Dec, multiple venues, Madurai


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Animation films, Music Videos, Experimental films





Screening Schedule

6 Dec : 10 am to 5 pm, Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy

10 am Inauguration

11 am - 1pm

Bloodside (Dir : Evan Pearce, Josh Tokarsky; 5 min 11 sec; Animation; Canada)

We Stay in this House (Dir : Kiyoko McCrae; 14 min; 43 sec; Documentary; United States)

Barrio Frontera (Dir :Reed Purvis; 18 min; Short fiction; Argentina)

Kapaat (Dir : Janvi Madabusi; 14 min; Short fiction; India)

State (Dir: Swanand Kottewar; 8.40 min; Documentary; India)

Waiting Room (Dir :Aleksandra Folczak; 23 min 14 sec; Documentary; Poland)

Brief Life of Insects (Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; 22 min; Documentary; Retro I)



2 pm - 5pm

The Disappearance of Tom R (Dir:Paul Sirague; 18 min 55 sec; Documentary; Belgium)

The Fox of the Palmgrove (Dir : Divakar SK; 8 min 56 sec; Animation; India)

Devoid of Sense (Dir: Maxim Vorobyev; 3 min 25 sec; Music video; Russian Federation)

The Bird (Dir : Perrine Lamy-Quique; 5 min 33 sec; Experimental; France)

Not Far Out (Dir : Beran Ergün; 11 min 46 sec; Documentary; Germany)

Fallen Friends (Dir : Russell Lake, JazzElle; 4.01 min; Music video; United States)

Green House (Dir : Andrey Lukyanov; 11 min 52 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

The Golden Willow (Dir : Mridupawan Bora; 24 min 20 sec; Documentary; India)

Doctor (Dir : Alexander Solovyov; 5 min 38 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Ishim (Dir : Kirill Sultanov; 24 min 37 sec; Documentary; Russian Federation)

Since Forever (Dir: Nisam Asaf; 14 min 22 sec; Short fiction; India)

Love Songs of Sotjak and Ringeng (Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; 17 min; Documentary; Retro I)


6 Dec; 6 pm to 8.30 pm, Kaleidoscope

Karl (Dir: Andrii Granytsia; 19 min 37 sec; Short fiction; Ukraine)

Colors : Saffron (Dir: AK Srikanth; 14 min 51 sec; Short fiction; India)

Angel (Dir : Lina Asadullina; 13 min 36 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Chicks (Dir: Olga Gagarina; 14 min 07 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Naida (Dir: Yuri Sholin; 20 min; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Wild Roses of the Barskoon Gorg (Dir : Pavel Bykovchenko; 10 min 17 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Escaping Museums - Lak(h)empong Diaries (Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; 29 min; Documentary; Retro I) 


6 Dec; 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm, LENS Media Centre

Fall of Ibis King (Dir:Mikai Geronimo, Josh O’Caoimh; 9 min 42 sec; Animation; Ireland)

Songs and Secrets of Sadolpara (Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; 20 min; Documentary; Retro I)

Backstage (Dir : Lipika Singh Darai; 1 hour 25 min; Documentary; India 

Happiness Class (Dir: Samina Mishra; 55 min; Documentary; Director's Cut)



7 Dec : 10 am to 5 pm, IDEAS Centre

10 am to 1 pm

The Custodians of Andean Gold (Dir : Marcella Menozzi; 32 min 25 sec;

Documentary ; Italy)

Since Forever (Dir: Nisam Asaf; 14 min 22 sec; Short fiction; India)

Perm (Dir : Shekh al Mamun; 30 min; Documentary; Bangladesh)

Who Says the Lepchas are Vanishing? (Dir : Abhyuday Khaitan; 42 min; Documentary; India)

Zero Kilometer (Dir: Shamas Nawab Siddiqui; 14 min 20 sec; Short fiction; India)

Sounds from a Truck Country (Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; 39 min; Documentary; Retro I)


2 pm to 5 pm

Friend (Dir : Andrey Svetlov; 20 min; Short fiction; Belarus)

Sugar School (Dir: Dhanajay Bhawalekar; 37.24 sec; Documentary; India)

The Price of Cheap (Dir : Barry Stevens; 1 hour 20 min; Documentary; Canada



7 Dec; 6 pm to 8.30 pm, Kaleidoscope

Kerala Hip Hops - Into the Roots (Dir: Akshay KP; 9 min 04 sec; Documentary; India)

Before We Leave (Dir: Natalia Gurkina; 9 min 24 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Like in the Movies (Dir : Maria Ivanova; 13 min 04 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Shadows of Your Childhood (Dir: Mikhail Gorobchuk; 21.23; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

The Broken Femur (Dir: Luyckx Jonas; 28 min 44 sec; Documentary; Belgium)

Saving Kolobok (Dir: Zhanna Shmakova; 10 min; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Forget Me Not (Dir:Lea Gygli; 13 min 03 sec; Short fiction; Switzerland)

Copi (Dir: André Gevaerd; 18 min 47 sec; Short fiction; Brazil)

The Mercenary (Dir: Elena Vorobyova; 8 min 17 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Home (Dir: Yang Yang; 16 min 59 sec; Short fiction; China)

Mavka (Dir: Anastasia Ledkova; 15 min; Short fiction; Russian Federation) 




7 Dec; 5.30 to 8.30 pm, LENS Media Centre

Kings Have Their Resorts, People Have Theirs Songs (Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; Documentary; Retro I)

80.000 Schnitzel (Dir: Hannah Schweier; 1 hour 43 min; Documentary; Germany)

The Sako Tapes (Dir: Machiel van den Heuvel; 1 hour 13 min 20 sec; Documentary; Indonesia / Netherlands)



8 Dec; 10 am to 5 pm; Lady Doak College

10 am to 1 pm

The Threshold (Dir: Mithun Gomes; 11 min 41 sec; Short fiction; India)

A Window of Heart (Dir: Shrinidhi Naulakha; 9 min 23 sec; Short fiction; India)

The Hook You Will Not Bite (Dir :José David Apel; 29 min 30 sec; Documentary; Argentina)

La Mujer Salvaje (Dir: Sara G. Cortijo; 25 min; Documentary; Spain)

Hanlong Soymilk Shop (Dir : Ina Morken; 6 min 51 sec; Documentary; Taiwan)

Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf (Dir : Hope Tucker; 16 min 40 sec; Documentary; United States)

Imaginary Homes (Dir: Priya Naresh; 18 min; Short fiction; India)

When the Earth Sang a Song (Dir: Teena Kaur; 14 min 06 sec; Short fiction; India)




8 Dec; Lady Doak College

2 pm to 3.30 pm

652 miles = 0 (Dir: Giulio Gobbetti; 3 min 45 sec; Documentary; United Kingdom)

Jadzia (Dir: KK Araujo, Ariane Porto; 19 min 58 sec; Short fiction; Brazil)

Dancing with Rosa (Dir : Robert Muñoz Rupérez; 26 min; Documentary; Spain)

I Won’t Remain Alone (Dir: Yaser Talebi; 15 min

3.45 pm to 5 pm

Retrospective of Nina Sabnani (Screening and interaction with the filmmaker)


8 Dec; 6 - 8.30 pm ; Kaleidoscope

The Florist (Dir: Priyam Chanda; 14 min 14 sec; Short fiction; India)

A Father’s Gift (Dir: Jagannath Radhakrishnan; 20 min; Short fiction; India)

Nonsense (Dir : Elena Korzhaeva; 18 min 22 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Under the Dark Clouds (Dir: Kangmin Lim; 3 min 27 sec; Animation; United States)

Days of Summer (Dir : Adhiraj Buragohain; 58.40 min; Documentary; India)

12 + (Dir: Irina Valts; 11 min 24 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

This is not a War (Dir : Irina Valts, Evgeniya Lazarenkova; 11 min 58 sec; Short fiction; Russian Federation)

Bad Places (Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; Music Video; Retro I) 




8 Dec; 5.30 - 8.30 pm LENS Media Centre

La Manaa / Not Allowed (Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; Documentary; Retro I)

The Russian Rondo of Natalia Shakovskaya (Dir: Irina Zaitseva; 1 hour 17 min 46 sec; Documentary; Russian Federation)

65 Rose (Dir : Davide Del Mare; 1 hour 29 min 28 sec; Documentary; Italy)


9 Dec; 10 am to 5 pm, People’s Watch TN

10 am to 1 pm 

Hope on Paper (Dir: KP Sasi, 7 min; Short / Music / Experimental film; India; Director’s Cut)


Emptiness Crossing Us (Dir: Fernando Moreira; 22 min 58 sec; Documentary; Brazil)

Moving Upstream Ganga (Dir: Sridhar Sudhir; 1 hour 45 min; Documentary; India)

In their Eyes (Dir: Arnaud Blin; 44 min; Documentary; France)

2 pm to 5.30 pm

Father (Dir : Deng Wei; 1 hour 37 min; Documentary; China)

Ghar Ka Patha (Dir: Madhulika Jalali; 1 hour 7 min; Documentary; India)

Ailleurs Partout ( Dir: Isabelle INGOLD, Vivianne PERELMUTER ;1 hour 3 min; Documentary; Belgium) 





9 Dec; 6 pm to 8.30 pm Kaleidoscope

The Falling Fruit. The Frozen Time. And the Five Variants on Mani Kaul’s Uski Roti

(Dir: Jay Kholia; 12 min 12 sec; Short fiction; India)

Sita (Dir: Abhinav Singh; 18 min 58 sec; Short fiction; India)

Visitors (Dir : Navnita Sen; 13 min 10 sec; Short fiction; India

Tolilo and Wassla (Dir: Jon Meyer; 24 min 33 sec; Documentary; United States

ID-Tal - a sacred painting (Dir: Yamini Makeshwar; 16 min 42 sec; Documentary; Canada

From Durban to Tomorrow (Dir: Dylan Mohan Gray; 39 min 48 sec; Documentary; South Africa

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; 60 min; Documentary; Retro I) 


9 Dec; 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm LENS Media Centre

Street Out (Dir : Sofia Rocha; 1 hour 40 minutes; Documentary; Argentina

Murder Most Modest (Dir : Shany Moran Haziza; 1 hour 46 min; Documentary; Israel)




10 Dec; 10 am to 5 pm, Madurai Kamaraj University

10 am to 1 pm

Films by Abeer Khan : Filmmaker in Focus

Films by Nina Sabnani : Retrospective

2 pm to 5 pm

Student films from USA : Curated by Swarnavel Easwaran 

10 Dec; 10 am to 5 pm; Gandhigram Rural Institute

10 am to 1 pm

Dreaming of Words (Dir : Nandan; 60 min; Documentary; India) 

Insects to Infinity - Sublime Journey of Jayaram (Dir: Mayan @ Mahesh Yoganand; 50 min; Documentary; Director's Cut)

2 - 5 pm

Adhichanallur Thamirabarani Civilization (Dir: R R Srinivasan; 122 min; Documentary; Director's Cut)

10 Dec; 6 pm to 8.30 pm, Kaleidoscope 

Scape Goat (Dir: Tathagatha Ghosh; 25 min; Short fiction; India; Director’s Cut)


Jacaranda (Dir: Austin Spies; 2 hours; Documentary; United States)

Closing remarks


10 Dec; 5.00 pm to 8.30 pm, LENS Media

Red Ant Dreams (Dir: Sanjay Kak; 120 min; Edited by Tarun Bhartiya; Documentary; Retro I)

Closing remarks


*AS MORE VENUES MAY BE ADDED, THE SCHEDULE GIVEN ABOVE MAY BE CHANGED ACCORDINGLY.


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