22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020 : Screening Schedule: Day 4, 9 December

22nd Madurai Film Festival 2020

Screening Schedule: Day 4, 9 December



a still from the film 'A Place to Live'
directed by Sanjiv Shah


1) In Search of Our Lost Rice Seeds

Dir : Suma Josson; 40 min; English; 2013; Documentary; India; Retro I

2) Niyamgiri, you are still alive

Dir: Suma Josson; 16 min; Odia with Eng subtitles; 2010; Documentary; India; Retro I

3) A Place to Live

Dir : Sanjiv Shah; 92 min; multiple Indian languages with Eng subtitles; 2018; India; Doc; Retro II

4) Memory of a Light

Dir: Sandhya Kumar; 26 min; English; 2014; India; Doc; Filmmaker in Focus



a still from the film 'They are Dying'
directed by Dhananjay Bhawalekar


5) Last Kiss

Dir : Eradzh Nidoev; 4.29 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia, Tajikistan ; 2019; Doc

6) 1944. Crimea. Deportation

Dir: Fatima Osman, Yunus Pasha; 62 min; Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar with Eng subtitles; Ukraine; 2019; Doc

7) They are Dying

Dir : Dhananjay Bhawalekar; 28.37 min; Rajasthani, Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Doc

8) Over the Barriers

Dir : Banu Ramazanova; 60 min; Russian, Kazakh with Eng subtitles; Kazakhstan; 2020; Doc

9) Living Dreams

Dir : Ritwik Baiju; 29 min; Malayalam with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Doc

10) North for Happiness

Dir: Alexander Porotov; 2.04.15 hours; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Doc

11) Quarantine

Dir : Alisher Zhadigerov; 30 min; Kazak with Eng subtitles; Kazakhstan; 2020; Doc

12) Speleonaut / Under the Stone Sky

Dir: Sonja Đekić; 57 min; Serbian with Eng subtitles; Serbia; 2018; Doc

13) Navi Mumbai Navi Begari

Dir : Aishwarya Vasudev, Subodh Minto, Meghna Nandy and Ankit Pareek

19.50 min; Marathi, Hindi and English; India; 2018; Doc

14) Hands and Wings

Dir : Sungbin BYUN; 15 min; Korean with Eng subtitles; South Korea; 2019; Doc


a still from the film 'Forget the Palms'
directed by Tim Berezin


15) Akam

Dir: Remya; 3.42 min; No dialogue; India; 2018; Short film

16) Forget the Palms

Dir : Tim Berezin; 6:05 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Short film

17) Letters

Dir: Elena Kuzhel; 14.01 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Short film

18) Knitting Club for Men over 40

Dir : Egor Gavrilin; 22.06 min; Russian with Eng subtitles; Russia; 2020; Short film

19) Home (Ghar)

Dir : Souvik Roy Chowdhury; 10 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Short film

20) The World’s Last House

Dir : Amir Gholami; 16.19 min; Kurdish with Eng subtitles; Iran; 2019; Short film

21) Prashna (Question)

Dir: Santosh Ram; 23.24 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Short film

22) Inner Self

Dir: Shree Raj; 11.17 min; Tamil with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Short film

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

24) Songs From Farway Land 

Dir : Tuhinabha Majumdar; 24 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2020; Short film

25) Whispers of the Henna Tree 

Dir : Soumyajit Ghosh Dastidar; 20 min; Marathi, Bengali with Eng subtitles; 2020; Doc

26) 21 hours

Dir : Sunitha CV; 28 min; Malayalam with Eng subtitles; 2020; Doc

27) A dream in their songs 

Dir: Debaranjan; 29 min; Odia with Eng subtitles; 2020; Doc


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