12,13,14 October Organised By Don Bosco Image N.H. Bypass, Near EMC, Kochi - 682028 Ph: +91 9544449990, E-mail: info@donboscoimage.com Web: www.donboscoimage.com
Patron Rev. Dr. Thomas Anchukandam SDB (Provincial, Banglore) Advisory Board Prof. John Sankaramangalam (Former Director, FTII, Pune) Mr. John Paul (Script Writer) Mr. P.F Mathews (Script Writer) Mr. Jain Joseph (Director, Neo Media School) Fr. Johnson Prasanth CMI (Principal, SH College Thevara) Mr. Sherin Varghese Mr. Paul Raj Adv. Blaze (Legal Advisor) Mr. Sasikumar Rev. Dr. Karakkatt Francis SDB Fr. Bobby Kannezhuth SDB (HOD, Don Bosco College, Angadikadavu) Fr. C.J Sebastian SDB Dr. Prof. C.S Jayaram (Senior professor Amrita Institute Kochi) Mr. Sabu Pravdas Smt. Asha Joseph Administrative board Fr. Jacob Malayatty SDB (Rector, Don Bosco Vennala) Fr. K.T Varghese SDB (Administrator) Fr. Joyson Mulavarikkal SDB (Manager, DB IGACT) Fr. Raju Chakkanatt SDB Fr. Yashin Jose SDB
Message Don Bosco, the great Italian educator and friend of youth had always promoted theatre, music and art. Thereafter it became a family tradition. A few years back at the International Film Festival of Trivandrum, I saw the movie Au revoir les enfants (French for “Goodbye, Children”) by LouisMalle. The film is about a Jewish boy being protected from the Nazis in a boarding school during the year 1943-44. One of the entertainments the children had in the boarding was films. The Children’s refectory turned into a film theatre after their supper and films were projected on the wall. Don Bosco boardings had a similar tradition of projecting movies on the wall after supper. They had a great educative value. Keeping alive the traditions and adapting to the times I am happy to invite you to the Don Bosco International Film Festival 2013. Don Bosco International Film Festistal (DBIFF) is divided into two segments- International Feature Films and Short Films. DBIFF aims at promoting the creative and technical skill of our upcoming movie makers. It is a venue where they can showcase their creativity, get them viewed and evaluated. In these films we see the world view of our youth and how they express it through the medium of film. How they use this medium to inform, entertain, enhance, enlighten and communicate. How they react to what is happening in them and around them and how they want to recreate the society. In the second segment we screen a number of reputed national and international movies. We are grateful to all those who made DBIFF2012 possible. We happily present in this festival book the details of movies selected for DBIFF 2012.
Fr. Jiji Kalavanal sdb Festival Director
Message A note on Programming As we step into the third edition of Don Bosco International Film Festival, I feel immense pride in working with the team I have always dreamt of working with. DBIFF is designed to attain its vision, “opportunity to youngsters� and I am sure that it will continue. Since movie is an art which is taking shape every day through the hands of many, a yearly communion to discuss and evaluate its progress is a must. With the restricted number of delegates and presence of high quality film lovers and critics, I believe that DBIFF has attained such a space in the festival circuit. I wish all the delegates a very happy viewing. All the best Thank you Rahul Rajan Programme Director, DBIFF 2012
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Classics in Modern Times International Cinema Competition Entry Section Contemporary Malayalam Section Homage to C Saratchandran Special Focus on KG George’s Films Homage to Thilakan
Prof: John Sankaramangalam
T
he essential quality of a classic is its acknowledged excellence. The ancient Greek and Roman story tellers created the mythical world of Ulysses and Aeneas, through ‘Illiad’, ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Aenead’. The emotionally gripping power of these ancient literary classics held their sway for over more than two thousand years and still continues to exert their influence on the modern story tellers.
But for a modern writer, the creative environment has undergone a vast change. He/She is not the product of few experiences – he/she is a product of the continuing bombardment of a large number of media impacts as portrayed in the book, “Future Shock”. Therefore, he is compelled to diversify his creative activities in the literary expressions and gravitate towards the omnipresent visual medium. This gravitation towards cinema and Television, which are the most powerful visual media, impacted very strongly on the ancient classical structure and directed a very strong creative energy on the five act classical structure of the melodramatic, protagonist oriented, divine intervention seeking resolution of the ancient well-known literary works.
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The ancient epics like “Iliad”, “Odyssey”, “Mahabharata” and “Ramayana” are structured on the board concepts of macro classics, in which each of the numerous episodes at the micro level demonstrates the typical classical structure. These episodes illuminate the characters in the two shades of black or white. These contrasting characters immediately attract the spectator and provide him with ample diet for a nourishing experience of emotion. A total “Suspension of disbelief” psychologically prepares him for incredible solutions such as “divine intervention”. Aristotelian Empathy and catharsis purify the tension ridden spectator. William Shakespeare, the greatest of the writers during the Elizabethan period exerted a minor paradigm shift in the creation of his tragic heroes in Macbeth and Othello. But his theatre plays strongly pursued the Dramatic structure which is most suitable for any theatre productions when the playwright is aiming at a goal of the emotional level.
But classics cannot eternally wear iron armour for ever. Eschewing the incredible and ushering in realism was the next shift in theatre productions as the new era opened up with the works of Strindberg (Miss Julie), Henrik Ibsen (Peer Gynt), Maxim Gorky (Lower Depths), Anton Chekov (Cherry Orchard) etc. However, all of them adhered faithfully to the classical structure even though a great transformation in characterization and lesser degree of melodrama became the new trends. When realism penetrated more deeply into theatre productions globally through the works of such dramatists, the massive main façade of the classical structure was violently shaken to its foundations through the bold and fearless attack on theatre aesthetics by Bertold Brecht and his “alienation”. So far the theatre spectator was held in a dream. Now he was made to wake up and behold a drama DON BOCO INTERNATIONAL
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performance in its real merit, enjoy and be a critic at the same time. The outstanding works of Henry Miller, James Joyce, Eugene O’Neil, Harold Pinter, T.S. Elliot, Eugene lonescoe and a host of enlightened writers all took their turn leading the audience more deeply into the “intellectual ecstasy” of the theatre arts. The time was ripe - The opening up of the art of cinema was an eventful phenomenon to re-investigate the concept of classical art form. Akira Kurosawa created phenomenal changes in Macbeth, King Lear and Lower Depths. The famous Russian director Gregory Kotzintzev even changed the dialogue of Shakespeare held in veneration by lovers of classics and also the solemn ambience of Hamlet and King Lear. The great Italian film maker Franco Zefferelli who is a staunch admirer of Shakespeare shifted the emphasis from emotional dialogues to mesmeric visuals. These volcanoes erupted in the frame work of a classic and the critics and the public applauded. Perhaps the finest example of classical structure and dialectical Structure in combination giving us the greatest impact in cinema is the “Odessa Steps” sequence in “Battleship Potemkin” by Sergei Erisenstein the great Russian film maker. The above combination of opposing structural concepts had the ultimate amalgamation in “Breathless” by Jean Godard the famous French film maker and the legitimate father of the French New wave. Classical structure will always last, but eventually the visual art forms, especially cinema and television will be the vast playground in which these opposing forces ultimately meet in fulfilment of the spectators emotional and intellectual needs. By Prof: John Sankaramangalam Former Director of Film and Television Institute of India, (FTII) Pune & Chairman, (Academic Studies) St. Joseph college of Communication (SJCC), Changanacherry (The above article is extracted form an article by Prof: John Sankaramangalam tittled “Semantics and Semiotics”.)
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Immortal Beloved Directed by: Bernard Rose Duration: 121 minutes Script Writer: Bernard Rose Country: UK, US Year of Production: 1995 Language: English Immortal Beloved is a 1995 film about the life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven (played by Gary Oldman). The story follows Beethoven’s secretary and first biographer Anton Schindler (Jeroen Krabbé) as he attempts to ascertain the true identity of the Unsterbliche Geliebte (Immortal Beloved) addressed in three letters found in the late composer’s private papers. Through recollections and scattered hints, we receive glimpses of Beethoven’s relationships.
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Foot note Directed by: Joseph Cedar Duration: 105 minutes Script Writer: Joseph Cedar Country: Israel Year of Production: 2012 Language: Hebrew The plot revolves around a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Uriel, a young charismatic academic, is extremely popular in his sessions with the department’s students and the general public, and is also recognized by the establishment when he is elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The father, on the other hand, is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a desperate thirst for some kind of recognition.
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I've Loved You So Long Directed by: Philippe Claudel Duration: 115 minutes Script Writer: Philippe Claudel Country: France Year of Production: 2008 Language: French I’ve Loved You So Long is a 2008 French-language drama film written and directed by Philippe Claudel. It tells the story of a woman struggling to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema.
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In Darkness Directed by: Agnieszka Holland Duration: 144 minutes Script Writer: Robert Marshall Country: Germany Year of Production: 2011 Language: German In Darkness is a drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. Based on true events, the film tells a story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker in the Nazioccupied Polish city of Lwów. He used his knowledge of the city’s sewer system to shelter a group of Jews of the Lwów Ghetto during the Holocaust in Poland. A dramatization of one man’s rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
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Lourdes Directed by: Jessica Hausner Script Writer: Jessica Hausner Year of Production: 2009
Duration: 96 minutes Country: Austria Language: French
Christine has spent most of her life confined to a wheelchair, unable to use her arms and legs, and while she has a keen mind and the means to seek treatment, she looks for a solution to her condition in faith as well as medical science. Christine has made a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the village in Southwestern France where a celebrated miracle is said to have occurred, and she checks into an upscale clinic.
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Life, Above All Directed by: Oliver Schmitz Duration: 100 minutes Script Writer: Dennis Foon Country: South Africa Year of Production: 2010 Language: Northern Sotho Life, Above All is an emotional and universal drama about a young girl. Just after the death of her newly-born sister, Chanda, 12 years old, learns of a rumor that spreads like wildfire through her small, dust-ridden village near Johannesburg. It destroys her family and forces her mother to flee. Sensing that the gossip stems from prejudice and superstition, Chanda leaves home and school in search of her mother and the truth.
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Monsieur Lazhar Directed by: Philippe Falardeau Duration: 94 minutes Script Writer: Philippe Falardeau Country: Canada Year of Production: 2011 Language: French Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While the class goes through a long healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Bachir’s painful former life; nor that he is at risk of being deported at any moment. Adapted from Evelyne de la Cheneliere’s play, Monsieur Lazhar depicts the encounter between two distant worlds and the power of self-expression. Using great sensitivity and humor, Philippe Falardeau follows a humble man who is ready to transcend his own loss in order to accompany children beyond the silence and taboo of death.
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Maria Full of Grace Directed by: Joshua Marston Duration: 101 minutes Script Writer: Joshua Marston Country: US Year of Production: 2004 Language: Spanish A Pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family. 17-year-old Colombian girl María Álvarez works in sweat shop-like conditions at a flower plantation. Her income helps support her family, including an unemployed sister who is a single mother. María becomes pregnant by a man she does not love. After unjust treatment from her boss she quits work despite her family’s vehement disapproval. On her way to Bogotá to find a new job, she is offered a position as a drug mule. Desperate, she accepts the risky offer, and swallows 62 wrapped pellets of heroin and flies to New York City with her immature friend Blanca.
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Departures Directed by: Yōjirō Takita Duration: 131 min Script Writer: Kundo Koyama Country: Japan Year Of Production: 2008 Language: Japanese A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals. They are informed of the elder Kobayashi’s death. Daigo refuses to see him, but his coworker convinces him to go, confessing that she herself abandoned her son in Hokkaido when he was only six. Daigo and Mika go to see the body of his father, but Daigo finds that he cannot recognize him. As the funeral workers carelessly handle the body, he angrily stops them, and his wife explains that her husband prepares the dead for burial as a living, thereby tacitly admitting that she has come to accept his work.
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Baraka Directed By: Ron Fricke Duration: 96 min. Script Writer: Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson Country: USA Year of Production: 1993 Language: None Baraka is Ron Fricke’s impressive follow-up to Godfrey Reggio’s nonverbal documentary film Koyaanisqatsi. A stunning collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life, the majority of which involve humanity’s many religions. Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on “where,” but on “what’s there.” The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves.
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Sarah's Key Directed by: Gilles Paqute Brenner Duration: 111 minutes Script Writer: Serge Joncour Country: France Year of Production: 2010 Language:- French, English Sarah’s Key follows an American journalist’s present-day investigation into the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup. It tells the story of a young girl’s experiences during these events, vividly illustrating the willing, and even enthusiastic, participation of the French bureaucracy, including the Paris police and French army in aiding and abetting this Nazi persecution and the plundering by the Germans and French of the victims’property. It is also a story of how a farmer and his wife, and by extension a number of French country people, hid and protected Jews from Vichy France authorities, the Germans, and French collaborators, at great risk to their own lives.
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The Help Directed by: Tate Taylor Duration: 146 minutes Script Writer: Tate Taylor Country: US Year of Production: 2011 Language: English American drama film adaptation of the novel of the same name (2009) by Kathryn Stockett, adapted for the screen and directed by Tate Taylor. Featuring an ensemble cast, the film is about a young white woman, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids during Civil Rights era America. An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids’ point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
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Wuthering Heights Directed by: Andrea Arnold Duration: 129 minutes Script Writer: Andrea Arnold, Olivia Hetreed Country: UK Year of Production: 2011 Language: English Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kaya Scodelario as Catherine and James Howson as Heathcliff. A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.
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War of the Arrows Directed by: Kim Han-min Script Writer: Kim Han-min Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 122 minutes Country: South Korea Language: Korean Manchu
War of the Arrows is a 2011 South Korean historical action film starring Park Hae-il. Set after the Second Manchu invasion of Korea, the film is about an archer Choi Nam-yi who risks his life to save his sister from slavery under Prince Dorgan’s rule.
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Ocean Heaven Directed by: Xue Xiaolu Duration: 96 minutes Script Writer: Xue Xiaolu Country: China Year of Production: 2010 Language: Mandrain The story of a father’s tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father’s attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. It is also a poignant tribute to the infinite love that parents have for their children and their unending desire to take care and look after them to their best abilities, no matter the struggle, no matter the effort.
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DOG TOOTH Directed by: Giorgos Lanthimos Duration: 96 minutes Script Writer: Giorgos Lanthimos, Efphymis Filippou Country: Greece Year of Production: November 2009 Language: Greek About a husband and wife who keep their children ignorant of the world outside their property well into adulthood. A married couple and their three young adult children, a son and two daughters, live in a large compound with a garden and a swimming pool. They are taught different meanings for everyday words. The parents promise that each child will be ready to venture outside the compound once she or he has lost a dogtooth. Although the children are told they have a brother just on the other side of the barrier, he never appears.
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The Scent of Green Papaya Directed by: Tran Anh Hung Script Writer: Tran Anh Hung Year Of Production: 1993
Duration: 104 minutes Country: France, Vietnam Language: Vietnamese
A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui’s age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui (now a young woman) was sent to another family, a young pianist and his wife. The musician falls in love with the peasant, he taught her literacy and they eventually married.
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Fiddler on the Roof Directed by: Norman Jewison Duration: 181 minutes Script Writer: Sholom Aleichem Country: US Year of Production: November 1991 Language:English, Hebrew The story centres on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and Jewish religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives. He must cope both with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters-each one’s choice of husband moves further away from the customs of his faith and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.
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Samson and Delilah Directed by: Warwick Thornton Duration: 93 minutes Script Writer: Warwick Thornton Country: Australia Year of Production: February 2009 Language: English Samson and Delilah’s world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone the discover that life isn’t always fair, but love never judges.
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Evita Directed by: Alan Parker Duration: 134 minutes Script Writer: Tim Rice Country: US Year of Production: December 1996 Language: English High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva “Evita” Duatrte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the workers and Descamisados. Evita’s legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina.
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Mother Directed by: Bong Joon-ho Duration: 128 minutes Script Writer: Bong Joon-ho Country: South Korea Year of Production: May 28, 2009 Language: Korean A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbours. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it’s his mother’s call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
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Undertow Directed by: Javier Fuentes-Le贸n Duration: 100 minutes Script Writer: Javier Fuentes-Le贸n Country: Peru Year of Production: September 2009 Language: Spanish Miguel is a young fisherman of Cabo Blanco, a village in northern Peru with specific traditions regarding death. He is married to Mariela, who is pregnant with their first son, but he also has a secret affair with a man, Santiago.
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Le Havre Directed by: Aki Kaurism채ki Duration: 93 minutes Script Writer: Aki Kaurism채ki Country: France Year of Production: September 2011 Language: French In this warm-hearted portrait of the French harbour city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France.
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Pan Negro Directed by: Agusti Villaronga Duration: 108 minutes Script Writer: Country: Spain Year Of Production: September 2010 Language:- Spanish This drama from director Agustà Villaronga takes place in Catalonia during the immediate post-war years. A young boy named Andreu, who belongs to the losing side in the conflict, happens upon the bodies of a man and a young boy in the woods. Local officials want to blame Andreu’s father for the situation; in response, Andreu decides to try and help his dad by setting out in search of the real killers. Slowly but surely, the deception of the adult world comes into focus before his eyes, and he must commit an act of extreme betrayal to save himself.
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In a better world Directed by: Susanne Bier Duration: 118 minutes Written by: Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen Country: Denmark Year of Production: 2010 Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. Anton and his wife Marianne, who have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian is greatly troubled by his mother’s death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger.
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Eatables
Rope
The film aims to bring forward the sound of meat. The sound of meat, as depicted by the director raises the emotion of grief and inability to escape from the written destiny like a Leith motif.
Rope like its very nature is tied, which reincarnates as a mothers affection and caring. Through this short film the director tunes the viewers thoughts in a multi dimensional way, which itself turns as pointers to the continuing social degradation.
Director: Sivadas Vasu
Director: Ritwik Baiju Chandran
Scripting: Sivadas Vasu
Scripting: Ritwik Baiju Chandran
Category: Micro film Contact id: Shivanayan@gmail.com Festivals : Selected for screening at Kurinji Festival, Trivandrum
& M C Jithin Category: Micro film Duration: 4 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: ritwikbaiju89@gmail.com Festivals: Winner at Focus Film Festival, Dept. of Journalism, Kerala University
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The Hole
Masoom Chappal
The movie revolves around an unpredictable incident evolving in the life of the protagonist. The basic human curiosity is blended well in the script and the juxtaposed shots of the director make the movie believable. The rhythmic editing, sound track and graphics are well blended.
It’s a story about the plight of a small tribal girl, “Durga”, who lives with her parents in a jungle. Durga has a desire for a pair of slippers. Sandwiched between the tussle of Police and Naxalites, the family is going through severe poverty. The whole narration is pathos, how Durga got the slippers at last.
Director: Libin T.B
Director: Nehal Ahmad
Scripting: Falah Ali
Scripting : Nehal Ahmad
Category: Short Fiction Duration: 13 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: libinrko777@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Screening
Category: Short Fiction Duration: 29 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: nehal_ahmed@rediffmail.com Festivals: Best Film, Super Shot 2012, Jamshedpur
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Joy of Giving
LILA
‘Joy of Giving’ is a journey. It’s the story of a photographer who sets out in search of a photograph on his assignment’s theme ‘joy of Giving’.
Claude Lila Parulekar, who runs the jeev Raksha Animal Welfare Trust, has transformed her bungalow into a shelter for homeless animals. For over 55 years, she has been successfully running this trust, shouldering major share of the expenses that sums to over 2.5 lakh every month. Today at 78 and on a wheel chair, she has still kept her care and love for animals.
Director: Jishnu Sanath
Director: Ipshita Tara Das
& Amal Paulson
Scripting: Ipshita Tara Das
Scripting: Jishnu Sanath & Amal
Category: Documentary
Paulson, Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 26 min 17 sec
Duration: 9 min 33 sec
Year of Production: 2011
Category: Short Fiction
Contact id:
Contact id: jishnusanath@gmail.com, amalpaulsonjose@gmail.com
Festivals: Premier Show
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ipshitataradas@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
Reincarnation
Water
The film is built on the small incidents happening in our day today life, mostly the activities that we don’t care much. How these activities reincarnates as light to someone’s future, is the main highlight of the movie.
Stop the drop. Save the Life.
Director: Krishnaveni Scripting: Athira G Category: Short Fiction Duration: 12 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id:
Director: M.C. Jithin Scripting: Libin.K.Thomas Category: Micro Film Duration: 5 min Year of Production: 2012 Festivals: Premier Show
veni.krishna12@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Loud Truth
13 Hours
Loud Truth is the confrontation of the stark contrasts of the progressive world and the savage superstitions. The story deals with the accidental discovery of a morbid truth.
When Rohan receives a New Year Gift-A Diary from his good friend Amit, little does he realise that an ordinary –looking diary will create extra-ordinary situations in the days that are to come. As truth unfolds, Rohan finds out he isn’t the “ONLY ONE’’ out there using the diary.
Director: M.C. Jithin
Director: Sanat Prabhu,
Scripting: Libin.K.Thomas
Scripting: Sanat Prabhu
Category: Micro Film Duration: 5 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: lookme@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
Category: Fiction Duration: 20:42 min Year of Production: April 2012 Contact id: sanotech86@yahoo.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Lemon Tea
Seeking a Space Called Peace
It is the story of Manu and Sumi who are going to celebrate the first anniversary of their life. Though Manu claims that there is nothing to hide between Sumi and him, the situation which follows it changes the expectations.
A helpless woman seeks a space called ‘peace’ for her unborn child.
Director: Safdar Hashni
Director: Sayed Maaz Kazmi
Scripting: Murali Thankkal
Scripting: Sayed Maaz Kazmi
Category: Micro Film Duration: 5 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: safthar60@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
Category: Micro Film Duration: 60 sec Year of Production: April 2012 Contact id: maaz.kazhni18@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Abandoned
Nostalgia
When ‘Fantasy’ becomes a farthing life starts running out from your ways. This film is all about those specials for whom ‘Fantasy’ stands as fancies.
Two men sitting side by side. The young man is engrossed in the newspaper while the old man is starting intently at an object placed right in front of them. The conversation that proceeds leaves the young man grappling with guilt and shame. The old man has the last laugh.
Director: Nithin Devidas
Director: Thomas Jacob
Scripting: Nithin Devidas
Scripting: Thomas Jacob
Category: Micro Film Duration: 3 min Year of Production: 2011 Contact id: nithin.devadas@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Category: Micro Film Duration: 2 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: anubha.rays3D@gmail.com
Tag
Appoosinte Chechi
Four lives, four stories, One Endless Road; This Docu-fiction says how the society has ‘Tagged’ four people which make their mere existence Harder.
Interwoven feelings of loneliness, tenderness and sensitiveness are designed into the thought process of a 13 year old teenager. The affection she has for her puppy, the anxiety about the present that she has to buy for her Christmas friend and the helpless situation of her mother makes her to take some drastic decisions which transform her life.
Director: Nithin Devidas
Director: Roy Karackatt
Scripting: Nithin Devidas
Scripting: Cyriac Palakkudy
Category: Documentary
Category: Fiction
Duration: 5 min
Duration: 30 min
Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: nithin.devidas@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
Year of Production: 2011 Contact id: mediahousecalicut@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Sea Water
Oru Thirakadhailekkulla Yathra
A short story about a restless child and a grief stricken grandmother. The grandmother explains the importance of one’s roots and true identity by citing the example of bottled seawater which is tendered powerless outside the ocean.
The movie “ORU THIRAKATHAYILEKKULLA YATHRA” is a message to the public especially aimed at youngsters, who simply criticize the Malayalam movies in the name of healthy script
Director: Thomas Jacob
Director: Manoj Prathap
Scripting: Thomas Jacob
Scripting: Manoj Prathap
& Amarinder Singh Category: Micro Film Duration: 5 min Year of Production: September 2012 Contact id: anubha.rays3D@gmail.com
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Category: Fiction Duration: 21 min 24 sec Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: manoJPprathap@yahoo.com Festivals: Premier Show
PHOTOGENIC
Way Ward
Photogenic is social guidance movie which shapes into a Drama genre. On a special day the protagonist, a photographer, sets out to find out the true emotion that of a picture drawn by him. The multitude of reactions to his drawing is building tensions in him.
Frustration of unemployment led an educated youth to depend on his friend who persuades him to pay bribe for a job through illegal means. First he hesitates to pay Bribe and he fully opposes to take back money. The story takes a turn as the black magic of money makes him to do something strange.
Director: Ligu
Director: Naveen Narayanan
Scripting: Ligu
Scripting: Nithin c.v
Category: Fiction
Category: Fiction
Duration: 10 min
Duration: min
Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: ligukrishna008@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
Year of Production: March 2012 Contact id: aruakarivellur@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Awake In Your Dreams
On The Way
Laura experiences her daughter Sarah’s death, in her dream. But she is unable to respond as she is in a state called ‘Sleep paralyses. The film revolves around her hallucinations and restless dreams. And Luis tries to rescue her from this.
This short film depicts the love story of a boy and a girl. This love story moves in a journey and in the end, wil they are together?
Director: Shemin.B.Nair
Director: Antony Sony
Scripting: Shemin B. Nair
Scripting: Antony Sony
Category: Fiction
Category: Fiction
Duration: 20 min
Duration: 22 min 33 sec
Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: sheminbnair19@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Year of Production: 2011 Festivals: Premier Show
Ente Ethrayum Priyapetta
Ambu
This short film depicts the conflicts happening in family relationships.
This psychological drama deals with a man’s behaviour. The movie hovers around the tensions and unwillingness of a man when he is forced to do something that he is not mentally or physicaly prepared to do.
Director: Prajeesh Prem
Director: Kalidas Venugopal
Scripting: Prajeesh Prem
Scripting: Kalidas venugopal
Category: Fiction
& Vinod Malabar
Duration: 8 min 31 sec
Category: Fiction
Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 11 min 15 sec
Festivals: Premier Show
Year of Production: 2010 Festivals: Premier Show
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Thief
Killer Killing never pays off and killers never trust each other. No one can change the destiny of a killer.
Director: Abilash Paarol
Director: Sayed Maaz Kazmi
Scripting: Abilash Paarol
Scripting: Sayed Maaz Kazmi
Category: Fiction Duration: 8 min 44 sec Year of Production: 2010 Contact id: neofilmschools@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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The story is about the relationship between a thief and a nine year-old girl Sara. A relationship ,which brings change.
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Category: Fiction Duration: 24 min 35 sec Year of Production: 2011 Contact id: maaz.kazmi18@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
Tryst with Destiny‌ A Journey, A Life
Chatkhaara
This is a story of a boy whose destiny is entwined with that of india,though it achieved freedom and earned its right to stand for itself but still was resigned to fate.
Two days from now, its chacha-chachi’s wedding anniversary. Chandhu, Chacha and Chachi realise this and individually plan a surprise for the occasion not knowing that the other two are doing just the same. Everything boils down to the day where the story meets its destined end.
Director: Mr. Man Singh Scripting: Mr. Araajanya Anand
Director: Syed Maaz Kazmi Scripting: Sayed Maaz Kazmi
Category: Documentary
Category: Fiction
Duration: 10 min 18 sec
Duration: 16 min 40 sec
Year of Production: 2012
Year of Production: 2012
Contact id: suryamusici@gmail.com
Contact id: maaz.kazmi18@gmail.com
Festivals: Premier Show
Festivals: Premier Show
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Silent Sounds
Wave
The documentary narrates the pathetic life conditions in the Aralam tribal settlement area. Along with their hardship to earn a living, It also rewards us about the rich cultural heritage and indigenous art focus of their marginalized community.
The story of a beach trip made by two brothers.
Director: Arun Radhakrishnan,
Scripting: Dileep E.M
Scripting: Soumya C.K.
Category: Micro Film
Category: Documentary Duration: 26 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: pvthomas45@hotmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Director: Jithin Puthanpurayil
Vishnu Prasad.s
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June
Mumbai
Silence speaks its own people’s life; sometimes it creates a void in voice. Would life embrace her? The way she had hoped? Story of June and her small steps towards her freedom is the highlight of the movie.
A boy in search of a place to stay comes to Mumbai. What happens next…..
Director: Viplab Majumder
Director: Shadaab Mirza
Scripting: ViplabMajumder
Scripting: Manish Kindra, Shadaab
Category: Fiction
Mirza
Duration: 17min 40 sec
Category: Fiction
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 15 min
Contact id: viplab@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Boys,Girls, Dogs: A Programme of Respect & Kindness
Get up Stand up
Animals have the power to teach us compassion, friendship and love. The Salesian Boys & Girls Club of Los Angeles has launched a unique program aimed at inspiring and educating its young members. The results of this programme are remarkable.
The documentary is in some ways, an answer to many of the myths surrounding the nuclear project world over. The film is in the backdrop of kudankulam people movements
Director: Desmond Alvacudo Category: Documentary Duration: 6:22 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: info@salesianclubs-la.org
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Director: Sreemith N., Scripting: Sreemith.N Category: Documentary, Duration: 34 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: sreemithe@ gmail.com Festival: Premier Show
Disappointment The story of this short film revolves around the life of two personsAlex and Bejoy. However Mr. Samuel comes up with a decision to get a job for his son just as a “Time pass” in expectation that it will change his behaviour and attitude towards life.
DEAR JOHN This film is about People who know him and those who don’t know him.
Director: Biju Ravi
Director: Sreejith.Paul
Scripting: Biju Ravi
Scripting: Sreejith.Paul
Category: Fiction
Category: Fiction
Duration: 11 min
Duration: 12 min 14 sec
Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: bijuravikerala@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: sreejithpaul@reddiffmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Lonely Hearts
Compassionate Kerala
Three different people a kid, old woman and a dog of different age, nature, habits and only one thing in common, loneliness. They try to be happy with the small moments they make in their life. Nobody wins nobody fails, it’s just the loneliness that bring them together and make them strong.
The film is a presentation about the need to be compassionate to animals. It emphasises the need of a harmonious relationship between nature and man.
Director: Sreejith.Paul
Director: Thomas Jacob
Scripting: Sreejith.Paul
Scripting: Thomas Jacob
Category: Fiction
Category: Fiction
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 10 min
Contact id: sreejithpaul@reddiffmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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& Jain Joseph
Duration: 15 min 43 sec
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Year of Production: August 2012 Contact id: anubha.rays3D@gmail.com
My Mamma’s Milk
Il Dubbio (The Doubt)
The story is about a Little boy is struggle for getting his Mother’s Milk.
‘The Doubt’ is a micro film depicting the fate of a youngster which is doubted, condemned and cleared.
Director: Jayaprakash P Koroth
Director: Toms Ullattikulam,
Scripting: Jayaprakash P Koroth
Scripting: Toms Ullattikulam
Category: Fiction Duration: 29 min 45 sec
Category: Micro film Duration: 4:58 min
Year of Production: 2011
Year of Production: 2010
Contact id: JayaprakashP @reddiffmail.com
Contact id: togyu@rcj.org, Festivals:
Festivals: Premier Show
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Together We Live
Peith
‘Together We Live’ is a musical video inspired from by words of Jesus. “The harvest is rich but the workers are few; pray therefore to the Lord of the Harvest to send workers to His harvest.’’
The film is based on the short story ‘Karanju Peytha Mazha’. The main characters are Anandu and Amina, and tells about Motherhood and rain.
Director: Fr. Togy Ullattikulam Lyrics: Dr. Joby Kavungal Music Director: Fr. Sijo & Bro. Praveen Category: Music Video Duration: 4:58 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: togyu@rcj.org, Festivals:
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Director: Biju Mattanur Scripting: Ashref Adoore Category: Fiction Duration : 23:37 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: teenagefashiondesigner@gmail.com
Bleeding
Take - 1
The ides of illness, the ones that plague the body and the mind, is the central theme of the short film. Basic plot is inspired by Irving Stone’s biographical novel ‘Lust for life’ (1934)
Take- 1- Revolves around the story of an actor, who passes through a situation when his first film doesn’t see the light. Later he comes to know that it was a plan by the director to mould him to his character. And the whole thing turns out to be an imagination of a writer.
Director: Aromal T
Director: Prasanth Prasad Menon
Scripting: Aromal T
Scripting: Prasanth Prasad Menon
Category: Fiction
Category: Fiction
Duration: 20 min
Duration: 10:24min
Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: sanachristopher@gmail.com Festivals: Premiered at the Senet Hall, University of Kerala, on
Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: prsnthmenon@gmail.com Festivals: St.Xavier’s AluvaVivace’2K12 - selected for screening.
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Don’t Mix Drink With Drive
Samantharam
This film portrays the message of ‘Don’t Drink & Drive’, through imagery.
This is a story about an unexpected meeting of two persons and the big changes that meeting brings in their life.
Director: Deepak Rajeev K
Director: Sheen Joseph
Scripting: Deepak Rajeev K
Scripting: Sheen Joseph
Category: Micro Film Duration: 1:23 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: deepak.rajeev@gmail.com
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Category: Fiction Duration: 10:40 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: sheenocd@gmail.com
Thieves of Darkness
Mr. Cabman
Two thieves try to attempt a robbery and the story continues. The main plot of this story is that all the characters in this film run to death.
The film is about a traveller who dreams of going to beautiful and unknown regions of India. He starts his journey to see his dream in real. For this he uses Mr. Cabman. He dreams about the places and sees them in real as he travels with the cabman.
Director: Sumesh Kulathoor Scripting: Sumesh Kulathoor Category: Fiction Duration: min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: sumeshckulathoor@gmail.com
Director: Sai Kumar Lyrics: Sai Kumar Music director: Hardik Desai & Praveen jain Category: Music Video Duration: 4:10 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: escapist.in@gmail.com Festivals: 5th International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala, 2012 DON BOCO INTERNATIONAL
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Puzhayil Ninnum Veettilekkulla Dhooram
Zindagi...a Life
“Distance from river from Home� is a humble attempt to pay tribute to the atrocities and protest against the officials. What if the innocence of river is destroyed due to the selfish interests of few people? Shall we shut up, bear everything or shall we raise our voice against them?
When the family comes to know that the newborn is a Khusra they are foreced to expell him from the community.
Director: Aby Thomas
Director: Harman Aggarwal
Scripting: Arun Manuel
Scripting: Jagdev Dhillon
Category: Documentary
Category: Fiction
Duration: 18 min
Duration: 34 min
Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: abythomas@gmail.com
Year of Production: 2010 Contact id: harmanaggarwal@gmail.com Festivals: Best Young Director @PIFF Toronto
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Salvation Roy is a businessman who has a wife and a kid. Unsuccessful in his business he is forced to sell his whole property. Losing hope in life, he decides to end his life along with his family. But Roy still stays in that house with his memories of that day. Waiting for his salvation.
Is Media Is Truth This film is based on the false news which appeared about the ISRO Spy case in 1994. In 2012 the Supreme Court Verdict clearly stated that the ISRO members are innocent.
Director: M.G Prajeesh
Director: Karthik H.K
Scripting: Anoop & Team
Scripting: Karthik H.K
Category: Fiction
Category: Micro Film
Duration: 12:56 min Year of Production: September 2012 Contact id: 4prajeesh@gmail.com
Duration: 4:59 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: Karthik.hk6@gmail.com
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Prejudice
Vin Poovu
A documentary that deals with the stigma attached to breast cancer. It emphasises the need of cancer survivors to come out in the open to share their experiences. Using a distraught joker as the character that takes the story forward, the film manages to establish that cancer can be treated, like any other disease.
Vin Poovu is a musical album depicting the tragic-stricken man. While he faces trauma of losses in life a consoling touch is extended to him. That makes him realize that he is not a ‘fallen flower’ but the ‘flower in the sky’.
Director: Thomas Jacob
Director: Roy Karackatt
Category: Documentary
Scripting: Cyriac Palakkudy
Duration: 30 min
Category: Music Video
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 4min 22 sec
Contact id: anubha.rays3D@gmail.com
Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: mediahousecalicut@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Rust
Paradise Lost
Tarnished by the struggles of life, the young protagonist finds his position in the world beyond reach. There appears a path to knowledge, through two unexpected loving friends.
A visual journey into the plight of animals living among human society. The documentary travels to rural India to showcase the animals living conditions. It’s upto the viewers to judge who has lost the Paradise on Earth.
Director: Roy Karackatt
Director: Sreejith.Paul
Scripting: Cyriac Palakkudy
Scripting: Sreejith.Paul
Category: Fiction
Category: Documentary
Duration: 15 min 49 sec
Duration: 13 min 11 sec
Year of Production: 2012
Year of Production: 2011
Contact id: mediahousecalicut@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
Contact id: sreejithpaul@reddiffmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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The Accused The short film critically analyses the drawbacks of present Kerala Ragging Prohibitions Act through the life of Varun Krishnan and his friends. It is not against ragging laws and also not in support of ragging in the campus.
Director: Raiz kochery Scripting: Vishal Ajayan Category: Fiction Duration: 33 min 54 sec Year of Production: 13/April/2012 Contact id: raizkocherry@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
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Neythalin Paadal (song of coastal lives)
‘Song of Coastal lives’ is a musical documentation of the threats of nuclear attacks, leaks and disasters. The musical piece aims to unify people for a common cause ‘a cause for their lives’.
Director: Sreemith. N Lyrics: Music Director: Category: Music Video Duration: 7 min Year of Production: 2012 Contact id: sreemithe@gmail.com Festivals: Premier Show
Pakarnnattam Directed by: Jayaraj Country: India Produced by Ravi Kottarakkara Language: Malayalam Year of Production: 2012 The film explores the practice that makes martyrs of the local political activists who are willing to sacrifice their life for ideologies. The film is also a poignant love story of a Meera (Sabitha Jayaraj) and her relentless fight against her own family and society for the man she love. Meera falls in love with Thomas (Jayaram), who becomes an accused in a political murder and is sent to jail. Although Thomas is innocent, he accepts the verdict against him for his political party. Along with Meera’s battle to save Thomas, the film also makes a statement on the tragedy caused by the pesticide Endosulfan, in Kasaragod district. Thomas is an activist who fights for the rights of the victims of Endosulfan.
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Sthalam Directed by: Sivaprasad Kaviyoor Duration: 120 min Country: India Produced by Mariyam Anoop Language: Malayalam Year of Production: 2012 The movie with a subtle environment conservation theme is based on the real life story of Kallen Pokkudan, a dalit environmentalist who has carved a niche for himself in the eco conservation history of Kerala through his mangrove conservation campaign. The septuagenarian Pokkudan himself plays the central character, Pokkan, in the movie. Sivaprasad who has got nearly 90 classic filmy productions to his credit says ‘Sthalom’ will be an eye-opener to the advocates of the neo-development culture sans concern to environment
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UMMA Directed by: VIJAYAKRISHNAN Duration: 105 minutes Editing : Seena panolifv Produced by K.K SURESH CHANDRAN Category: Fiction Year of Production: 2011 In Maxim Gorky’s ‘Mother’, a mother who has been skeptical of her son’s revolutionary activities, later on becomes a committed participant. What could be the approach of a mother towards her son’s activities in today’s bitter environment? Khader, the husband of Subaida is a factory worker. A hardcore drunkard, he every day cruelly beats up his wife. Mansoor stands a mute witness to this. One day, unable to bear the roughing up of his mother by father, he raises protest against Khader and goes off home. Consequently, the mother faces the greatest trial in her life. It is a conflict between love towards her son and commitment to the nation. But to arrive at a right choice, she shas no hesitation.
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dhoore Directed by: Prabhu Radakrishnan Editing : Rahman Diaz Category: Drama
Duration: 105 minutes Produced by John Joseph Language: Malayalam
Dhoore is the story of a young expectant mother who after the death of her husband reads from his diary that she has a twin sister. She herself dying of cancer takes a journey from Calcutta to a remote village in Kerala in search of her sister. It is a story of love, and resilience.
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The third eye of resistance Directed by: Razi Editing : Seena panolifv Category: Documentary
Duration: Produced by Kalitha Year of Production: 2012
A journey through the life of C Saratchandran who travelled constantly with the camera and cinemas. It is a journey through the vivid, living memories of the protesters at Chaliyar. Plachimada, Muthanga and Kathikudam: through the experiences of his friends and everyone who have travelled with him or parallel to his path. For someone like Sarat, who remained wide awake in both at the struggle fronts and in his personal relationships; for someone as unconditionally empathetic, the camera was always the third eye for fulfilling his mission, the third eye of the resistance.
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THE DREAM Director: C Saratchandran, Camera: Yogesh Chandran, Editing: Sharmishta N, Music: Kanavu Children, Text: Anwar Ali, Narration: Sunil Shanbagh, Duration: 35 mins, Year of Production: 2001
When you travel along a highway, you tend to notice the well maintained asphalt, the manicured lawns, the big trees, fields stretching up to the horizon, carpet of blossoms. But on a closer look and if you are not in a hurry , you will notice that your scenery is also dotted with tiny way-side flowers. They are as beautiful, perhaps more important than the dominating landscapes. Kanavu, the alternate school tucked away in the hills of Wynad forest, is one of them. The children of kanavu come from wrecked homes, brought up like orphans by their parents. Their mothers spend their meager daily earnings on watching movies, while fathers drink it up. In between the children remain abandoned. This documentary tells the story of the children of Kanavu in the background of the Aadivasi’s situation in Kerala and the so-called terminology of Kerala Education Model.
HOMAGE to
C Saratchandran
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“I believe in making entertaining films. All the cinema of the world I have seen, those that are classics have always been immensely entertaining. To have a film where nothing happens is a kind of pseudo film and could be because of the ignorance of the film maker. I believe there should be a give and take between the film maker and the audience”, said Kulakkatil Geevarghese George.
Don Bosco International Film Festivals adorns him for his significant contribution to the world of silver screen through the screening of three of his films.
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K G George is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of Kerala who modernized the Malayalam cinema in the seventies. He was completely different in the way he selected plots and the way it was treated. Many of K. G. George’s movies will disturb the audience by their straightforward and uncompromising exposal of uncomfortable truths - corruption and decadence in the society around him. After his diploma from FTII, Pune, K G George started his film career as the assistant to director Ramu Kariat. He made his directorial debut with Swapnadanam (1975) and became a strong presence of the new cinema movement that became active during the early 1970s. Swapnadanam was a commercial success while maintaining its artistic quality. Most renowned works of the maestro are: Elavamkodu Desam (1998), Ee Kannikoodi (1990), Mattoral (1988), Kathakku Pinnil (1987), Irakal (1986), Panchavadi Palam (1984), Adaminte Variyellu (1983), Yavanika (1982), Kolangal (1981), Ulkatal (1979), Swapnadanam (1975), Mela (1980), Ona Pudava (1978), Vyamoham (1977), Ini Aval Urangatte (1978), Mannu (1978), Rapadikalude Gatha (1978).
Yavanika - 1982 (The Curtain Falls) Yavanika stands out as one of the most commercially successful, yet artistically superior films of 1980s. In the form of a detective thriller, Yavanika explores backstage drama of a traveling drama troop. The plot is structured around the search for the vanished unpopular tabala player of a touring theatre group. He turns up as a murder victim. The subsequent police investigation reveals the complicated sexual rivalries and internal dissensions within the group, yielding several possible suspects.
Yavanika won the State award for best film Direction & Co-Screenplay: K G George Co-Screenplay: S L Puram Sadanandan Cast: Gopi, Jalaja, Mammootty, Venu Nagavalli, Nedumudi Venu, Thilakan Cinematography: K Ramachandra Babu Music: M B Srinivasan
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Adaminte Variyellu - 1983 (Adam’s Rib) K G George used a new narrative technique Adaminte Variyellu, by telling the story of unhappy marital lives and oppressions suffered by three urban women. Vasanthi has to mother three generations of her family in addition to her daytime job. She finds liberation by escaping into madness and a mental asylum. Alice is married to a ruthless businessman and seeks solace in affairs. When she is refused a divorce, she commits suicide. When both the middleclass women prefer self destruction as their way to liberation, the third, a brutally exploited housemaid, Ammini ends up in a home for women, but later helps all the inmates of this home to break out of the suffocating atmosphere of the home to freedom. Direction & Co-Screenplay: K G George Co-Script: Kallikkadu Ramachandran Cast: Suhasini, Srividya, Soorya, Rajam K Nair, Gopi, Mammootty Cinematography: K Ramachandra Babu Music: M B Srinivasan
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Irakal - 1985 (The Victims) Irakal is an in-depth exploration of the psychology of violence. A ruthless rubber baron, Mathukutty, disregards the prevailing moral standards and spawns criminal sons as well as a sexually wayward daughter, Annie. His son, Baby is a psychotic strangler using a nylon wire and is eventually shot dead by his repentant father.
Direction & Screenplay: K G George Cast: Ganeshan, Srividya, Tilakan, Chandran Nair, Gopi, Ashokan, Nedumudi Venu Cinematography: Venu Music: M B Srinivasan
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Credits
Festival Book Chief Editor
: Jiji Kalavanal SDB
Programme Director Rahul Rajan
Executive Editor
: Rahul Rajan
Function in charge
Shino Varghese
Designs
Dils Joseph Tom
Editorial Support
: Jackson Mathew, Nemo Job, Sibi Mathew, Ebison V J
Online Promotion
Jobin Jose, Anitha Kumari K. J
Design & Layout
: Dils Joseph Tom
Signature Film
Nidhin Noyal
Press
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Event Coverage
Bineesh Sebastian, Peter John
Press Relations
Primal Sebastian
Media Cell
Don Bosco Angadikadavu, Kannur
Festival Cell
Easwar K Uthaman, Nemo Job, Sr. Bindu Thomas, Jithin Tom Mathew, Ebison V.J, Avinash Cleetus, Antony Jose.
Delegate Cell
Ayana Mol Benny, Deryl Cherian , Alwin Tommy, Able B Kunnel, Adharsh k R, Athira C Mohan, Minnu Elizabeth George, Alan Santhosh, Ajith Kumar, Sio George, Neethu Mol Franscis, Jobin Ambrose, Asha Cyriac, Fr. Sijo Jacob, Fr. Promod M Thomas, Joseph Kuran, Shamlal.
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We are grateful to various film journals, festival publications, Film Festival websites from which we have borrowed materials to enrich this book. The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily that of Don Bosco IMAGE or the Editors. Last minute changes to the programme have not been included in this book.