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Aatakkuntu Lekkakkilla

This is a story of two couples, one of which is the newly-married Purushotham (Sanchari Vijay) and Meghana (Mayuri), both of whom are orphans, who lead a happy life, until a certain tragedy strikes and Purushotham's behaviour changes drastically. The other is also newly-wed couple, Sangeetha and Shyam, who happen to be in a haunted house and are then troubled by supernatural elements. As it turns out, Purushotham suffers from a paranoid schizophrenia and suspects that his wife has an extra-marital affair with the spirit of her former boyfriend, which, in turn, leaves their family in tatters.

Aatakkuntu Lekkakkilla

NR 2019
Simplicity and Complexity

In a world subjected to an onslaught of saleable ideas and products, a world where we indulge beyond our means, is there a possibility of leading a life true to the values we believe in? To abstain from indulgence? ‘Sarala - Virala’ is an insight into a life of simple man, who remains steadfast and true to his beliefs in the midst of awards, popularity, wealth, and the materialistic new-age lifestyle. L. Narayana Reddy is an octogenarian organic farmer, imparting knowledge on environment-friendly agriculture gained from decades of practice to people from all walks of life. Narayana Reddy’s farming methods, the knowledge he shares and the lifestyle he leads is a stark contrast to the problem-laden modern farmer. It is this contrast that 'Sarala-Virala' dwells upon, thus documenting a man of example for present day society.

Simplicity and Complexity

NR 2019
In Her City...

Shot using handheld technique from digital camera and partially on smartphone, In Her City is a short film telling the story of love through the protagonist who is travelling from his home to Lucknow, India. He is on this journey in order to find his beloved. The short film is an ode to the narrator's beloved by drawing parallels between her and the city that she inhibits or inhibited at some point. In Her City romanticises Lucknow using Urdu as the language of narration. The entire film has been shot on real locations.

In Her City...

NR 2019
Stallone My Pony

Manipur is considered as the Mecca of Polo where many players and lovers of the sport from all over the world dream of playing. On the contrary, the pedestals of the game and their ponies in this birth place of polo lead a miserable life due to poverty and loss of livelihood. The film shows the predicament faced by a young polo player in relation to his pony (Stallone), family and society at large. It also shows how the emotional attachment of the players to the game restores hope.

Stallone My Pony

NR 2019
Mrityubhoj: The Death Feast

Hindus celebrate 'Mrityubhoj', or the Death Feast, on the 13th day after a cremation as a remembrance for the departed soul, and also as a ritual to help the soul find heavenly abode. However, today this practice has become akin to a status symbol and a reflection of a family's social standing. This film takes a fly on the wall approach, following a family in the Chambal district in India, as they get ready to organize a death feast following the demise of their father. Caught between tradition, societal pressure, and prestige on the one hand and on the other hand, activists trying to put a lid on the pernicious practice of Mrityubhoj, especially for the poor, it tries to capture their predicament of being caught between a rock and a hard place.

Mrityubhoj: The Death Feast

NR 2019
The Flowers and the Gemstones

Skanda Puranam (from mythology) tells the story of Kanyakumari who threw into the sea, the flowers and gemstones kept for her marriage with Shiva. It is said to have coloured the shores. When the last Maharaja of Travancore dynasty travelled through Kanyakumari, he was awed by the exquisite garland made of Oleander flowers and called it Manikkamalai - the ruby garland. Ever since, a family in Thovalai village of Kanyakumari has been weaving Maharaja's favourite garland every morning, to be sent to his Palace temple. The dynasty ended long ago and state borders were marked in modern India. Yet, the custom holding the two lands, in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, remains intact.

The Flowers and the Gemstones

NR 2019
The Last Chapter

Even the cause of gender equality and women's emancipation can be fraught with severely problematic ideologies, as this film goes ahead to portray. Kay Kay Menon, an activist in the gender space, is about to be awarded the Padma Shri for all his work. The narrative progresses to reveal his saviour syndrome, among other extremely problematic views, further accentuating the irony between his public image and personal practice. However, as he sits down to write the final chapter of his book about women's rights, has his past finally caught up with him?

The Last Chapter

4.0 2019
Little Men

A short film that explores a space that is indifferent towards the queerness of being, in the midst of a crumbling, dilapidating neighbourhood. In this space, two men, who have a seemingly deep but incomprehensible bond, try to coexist seamlessly while making space to accept the inherent fluidity of human sexuality, for one another. As their exploration, of the 'queer' within, acts in sync with the space around them, their relationship goes through a silent but unrestrained struggle.

Little Men

NR 2019
Josef - Born in Grace

An adaptation of a short story "Joseph" written by Umakanta Mahapatra and is set in the foothills of the Himalayas between 1960 and 1980 in India. Father O'Hara (Victor Banerjee), a missionary doctor with the help of his caretaker Maularam (Sudarshan Juyal), raises an orphan baby Josef (Hitesh Bisht). While still a young boy, Josef is sent to Dehradun, Uttarakhand, for his studies and vocational training. Josef (Subrat Dutta) returns back with a reputation as a great cook as well as his love for alcohol. The film explores in its unfolding of time, the different paths that Father O'Hara, Josef, and Maularam take in their respective journeys for spiritual fulfillment through memories, duty, and search as well as the their interaction with friends and acquaintances. Through static mis-en-scenes, the narrative of the film reflects the all-encompassing nature of time, pre-empting and repeating itself in allegorical hues.

Josef - Born in Grace

NR 2019
Manaroopa

This movie showcases a planned get-together of five youngsters as friends after some time since they parted their ways post college graduation. They presumed that union to bring innumerable memories of their past after each of them are already settled in their respective professions. To celebrate such floodgates of memories as friends and to turn a reunion into a more exciting one, they lead to the dense forests of the Western Ghats. They are excited that such a unique get-together would unwind their kinds of pasts college friends. Their trip is aimed at many angles. They preferred going to KaradiGuhe (Bear cave) instead to share the old memories through juxtaposing friendship, love, pranks and even hatred besides discussing each other's future plans as well.

Manaroopa

6.0 2019
Tennis Buddies

A triumph of human spirit, a rendition of guts and blood, a tale of good Samaritans of Faridabad, story of a small town girl winning against odds, both personal and external. Tale of a girl tennis player who dares to liberate herself from the chains of her tennis obsessed Coach cum father , only to get trapped in the male dominated society of Haryana.Victim of her father's long standing animosity with the antagonist she emerges unscathed , accomplishing her stated goal of fetching redemption for her father. A father daughter relationship in midst of a savage gender disparity and depicted among the settings of the glorious game of tennis.

Tennis Buddies

10.0 2019
Marina Puratchi

Two aspiring reporters learn about the history and significance of jallikattu protest to secure a job in a private channel. The film begins with Sukanya (Shruti Reddy) and Parthasarathy (Naveen) attending an interview for the post of a reporter in a private channel. When the interviewer feels that they do not know much about the history of jallikattu and the protests which took place, he gives them two weeks' time to learn thoroughly about the bull-taming sport. The rest of the film is their presentation about jallikattu to the interview board.

Marina Puratchi

NR 2019
From Janata Colony to Janata Colony (imaginary to destroyed)

The work narrates the social, cultural and political history of the “housing question” in Mumbai, by bringing together cinema, state-sponsored documentary, newspapers, policy reports and archives from social movements, among other source materials. These materials are assembled, via a hand-built web editor, into a new kind of "annotated film" that links to online archival sources. Drawing in form from the video lecture-performance style honed on CAMP's rooftop cinema and studio that takes its audience on dense archival journeys, the work examines a "poor man's colony" that was set up in the 1950s and destroyed twenty-five years later to make room for an atomic research facility in Bombay.

From Janata Colony to Janata Colony (imaginary to destroyed)

NR 2019