24th MIDSFF 22 : Selected Films
Short films, Experimental and Animation films
1) Those Seven Steps
Dir : Pavitra Verma; 16.55 min; United States; Short Fiction
Wronged by her family and forced into an arranged marriage, a despondent Indian bride carries out her dangerous escape on the eve of her wedding in an attempt to return to her former life in India.
2) A Beautiful Woman Dies Twice
Dir : Marina Sasina; 18.05 min; Russian Federation; Short Fiction
Music teacher Oleg Gordeev receives a call from his wife… who died seven years ago. The conversation is interrupted, but Polina manages to say a phrase known only to the two of them. Now Oleg is sure: Polina is alive. And he will find her.
3) How to Build a House out of Wreckage and Rags
Dir : Bernd Lutzeler; 8 min; Germany; Experimental
Found footage: California in the 1950's and 60's. A young Indian couple enjoys their personal American dream come true in their home somewhere in the suburbs of San Francisco. In great detail they demonstrate their newly achieved wealth in front of their Super-8 camera. Like postcards, they would send these film rolls to their families back in India.
Around the same time, an American missionary couple visits the city of Calcutta to shoot a Christian propaganda film. The drastic reality of poverty and famine in the streets of the Indian metropolis fits perfectly into their wicked plan: To promote the believe in Christ by showing the misery that pagan believers are doomed to suffer from.
4) Manjadikaalam
Dir : Padmasree Murali; 7.21 min; India; Animation
Manjadikaalam is a journey of a girl back to her childhood memories, where she used to collect 'Manjadi', the red seeds. She carried happy seeds of memory with her but kept unpleasant ones concealed in old glass jars.
Years of metamorphosis left feelings of grief and loss in her. What remains with her is not anger nor dejection but lots of questions to self and to the world.
5) Oblivion
Dir : Dmitry Alekseev; 6.42 min; Russian Federation; Short fiction
A wife delves into the dwindling memory of her dying husband, to say her goodbyes. She lives through three last attempts to repeat their meeting.
6) A Little Someone
Dir : Ramya Ankilla; 6.40 min; India; Animation
Chotu is a kid with oversized shoes, carrying them around in the hope of growing into them someday. The film A Little Someone shows the contrast between the dreams and reality of 10 million Indian child laborers through the story of the protagonist Chotu.
7) Life
Dir : Saurav Mookherji; 4.27 min; India; Experimental
The cinema depicts the aspects of life as a whole in a mere frying pan accompanied by a fish bowl. It shows the differentiation of life which is framed by the portrayal of a "Fish". The main moto of making this cinema is to make a visualization of the two sides of the coin of life and how life is been treated by thee society.
8) The Crossroads
Dir : Anna Nosatova; 15 min; Russian Federation; Short Fiction
Artem (40) is stuck in the routine of an unhappy life. He is under constant female pressure in the family and at work. A sudden meeting with a stranger at the crossroad makes him decide to make drastic changes.
9) Mother
Dir : Anupjyothi Choudhury; 19.39 min; India; Short fiction
“Aai” narrates the story how two childhood friends had to navigate their way through a militant organisation and their own beliefs, leaving their families behind. And, also the dilemma of a mother, whose utmost sacrifice goes unnoticed for the debated cause.
10) Dream
Dir : Alexander Perkov; 13.26 min; Russian Federation; Short fiction
At night the woman runs into the bar. What is she looking for? What is she running from? And how will she spend her probably last night?
11) Ecuador
Dir : Antononia Gileva; 8.43 min; Russian Federation; Short fiction
A father with many children wants to change his life, but does not suspect that the family is hiding something very important from him.
12) Duswapna
Dir : Jay Kholia; 13 min; India; Short fiction
The long poem Duswapna (Nightmare) addressed to a woman named Mrinal (which in Sanskrit would mean Delicate or Lotus) paints strange pictures in colors and sounds; aurality / visuality of which adds to the woman’s anonymity. And yet, the poetic enunciation by the Gujarati modernist poet Suresh Joshi acquires certain universality in its surreal imagery and sonic asymmetry, where the moon turns green, her body turns green that bites green, darkness turns green; the dancing fairies and the wind playing the flute fills the invisible air.
13) An Old Story
Dir :Prateek Prajosh; 15.54 min; India; Short fiction
Deep rooted trauma from sexual abuse suffered as a child, rocks the marriage of a young couple. Will the victim finally confront the abuser and rid the baggage weighing heavy on the marriage?
14) Cheepatakadumpa
Dir : Devashish Mahkija; 20 min; India; Short fiction
‘CHEEPATAKADUMPA’ follows three women over less than a day as they awaken their naughty teenage alter egos when they meet again after years, unleashing mischief on each other, and in turn on the biased patriarchal belief systems of the India they were born into.
15) Cycle
Dir : Devashish Makhija; 19.46 min; India; Short fiction
'Cycle' is the story of a wronged young tribal woman who, in the absence of systemic justice, turns rebel, but struggles to be able to fulfil all the expectations that the path to retribution demands.
16) A Psychogeography of Mourning
Dir : Shayna Connelly; 8.30 min; United States; Experimental
A Psychogeography of Mourning uses static imagery and unpredictable sound to reconcile the contradictory interior and exterior experiences grief elicits.
17 The Lightbulb Named Byron
Dir : Nikita Epikhov; 19.49 min; Russian Federation; Short fiction
A man, tired of the routine life with his wife, decides to meet his first love, but a banana and a light bulb stand in his way.
18) The Obsession
Dir : Anastasia Gorodentseva; 10 min; Russian Federation ; Short fiction
A young woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown shares her story of passionate but unhappy love, lasting more than twelve years, with the first stranger she meets.
19) Tanked Fish (Thotti Meengal)
Dir : Nadaraja Manivannan; 10.16 min; Sri Lanka; Short fiction
The story line revolves around a 8 year old girl Hashini – who finds herself in the confines of her home, barred from talking to her neighbors, friends; watching TV, subsequently prevented from using the phone. She feels she is a prisoner in her own home, imprisoned by jail guards – her own parents.
20) it
Dir : Faye Xia; 6.40 min; China; Animation
The short film depicts a protagonist full of "hallucinations", who always reveals his "beastly nature" at different points in time or under different events. These hallucinations orderly and progressively show the main character's "tiger head and snake tail" day…
21) Kumu
Dir : Akanshya Bhagabati; 19.12 min; India; Short fiction
The short film “Kumu- The song of a wingless bird” is set against the backdrop of the lush tea estates of Assam. The film explores the life of a 12 year old Adivasi girl who had to abandon her school and care free life due to her familial circumstances.
22) Super Power
Dir : Vikram Bolegave; 19.34 min; India; Short fiction
This short movie depicts the stroy of Ramu and his family, a group of people works hard to meet their daily expenditure, who faces an unexpected danger in village that is barely developing.
23) Red Lipstick
Dir : Sita Padmini Vangala; 10.46 min; United States; Short fiction
Amy suffers from dissociative identity disorder, goes on a downward spiral after a recent breakup. She struggles to listen to her own voice, falls victim for the other voices in her head and decides to end her life.
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