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  • Largest number of shorts in Film Southasia from India

    Largest number of shorts in Film Southasia from India

    NEW DELHI: A total of 15 shorts from India – the highest – are to be screened at the Film Southasia 2013 Festival of South Asian Documentaries.

    The festival will be held from 3 to 6 October in Kathmandu and will feature 34 shorts in all.

     Film Southasia (FSA) is a biennial festival that was set up in 1997 with the goal of popularising the documentary.

    The Indian films contain Celluloid Man, a bio-documentary by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur about the veteran P K Nair who set up the first film archives in South Asia – the National Film Archives in Pune.

    The other Indian films are: A Prayer For Aliyah (by Zorawar Shukla); Algorithms (Ian McDonald); Big in Bollywood(Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles); CHAR…No Man’s Island (Sourav Sarangi); Elemental Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughn Lee); Fire In The Blood (Dylan Mohan Gray); Gaur in My Garden (Rita Banerji); Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread (Satchith Paulose); Immoral Daughters (Nakul Singh Sawhney); Voice of God (Bernd Lützeler); Invoking Justice (Deepa Dhanraj); Salma (Kim Longinotto); Sama (Shazia Khan);  and The Human Factor (Rudradeep Bhattacharjee).

    There are three films from Afghanistan: Expecting; How To Build an Afghan Box Camera; and No Burqas Behind Bars.

    Pakistan has sent My Punjabi Love For You; Transgender – Pakistan’s Open Secret; and Saving Face.

    The films from Bangladesh are:  Hombre Maquina; Life Begins with Tears; Shunte Ki Pao; and The Strike.

    The Sri Lankan films are: Broken; No Fire Zone – The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, and The Story of One.

    The films from Myanmar (Burma) are: Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls; No. 62, Pansodan Street, and The Old Photographer.

    The three shorts from the host country are: Playing with Nan; Who Will Be a Gurkha; and Yomari Ya Bakhan.

  • FTII film by Italian student wins award at Krakow filmfest

    FTII film by Italian student wins award at Krakow filmfest

    NEW DELHI: 'Allah is Great', an endearing short film from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)., has won the Student Jury award for Short Film Competition at the 53rd Krakow Film Festival.

    Directed by Andrea Ianetta, an Italian student of the FTII, it is the story of a Frank Asmas, a Danish engineer who meets taxi driver Salim when he is on his way out of a remote Indian village to fly to Nairobi. Their journey together appears to result in mayhem, but ends with a moral that whatever happens is for the best. ‘Allah is Great’ is a line that Salim continues to use every time there is a problem.

    The Jury awarded the film for “the precision of narration and reminding us that it’s not always worth to be on time.” This film was earlier honoured with Special July Mention (Coming Stars Panorama) at the 5th Jaipur International Film Festival, won a Special Mention at the 60th National Film awards and competed at the Gulf Film Festival earlier this year.

    Indian documentary filmmaker Sourav Sarangi was on the International Short Film Competition Jury of Krakow, which is one of the oldest film events dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe.