9th Chennai Film Festival 2021 : Screening Schedule

9th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2021

3-7 March, multiple venues, Chennai

Schedule (subject to changes)

 
Day 01; 3 March; DOT School of Design

10 am Inauguration: Chief Guest - Trotsky Marudhu

10.30 am Shramjeevi

Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; 43.50 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2020; Documentary

11:30 Interaction with Hymanshu Singh (activist) & Sujata Mody (trade unionist)

12 pm Far from the Madding Crowd

Dir: Abeer Khan; 17.31 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; Documentary

12:20 pm Quarantine

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

2 pm : Prashna ( Question)

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

2:35 pm From Trash to Treasure: turning negatives into positives

Dir: Iara Lee; 20 min; English; USA/Lesotho/Bulgaria; 2020; Documentary

3.15 Ifigeneia: no more tears

Dir: George Georgakopoulos; 17.40 min; Greek with Eng subtitles; Greece; 2019; Short film

3.50 pm Stains

Dir : Rhea Mathews; 30 min; English, Malayalam, Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Short film



Day 02; 4 March; Loyola College

9 am Inauguration

9.30 am to 11.00 am

Guest speaker : Dr. Jaisakthivel, University of Madras

Miangsho (The Meat)

Dir : Tathagata Ghosh; 19 min; Bengali with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Short film

GANTABYA - THE DESTINATION

Dir: Sahin Aktar; 27.36 min; Bengali with English subtitles; India; 2020; Short film

Pakheru (The One Who Flies)

Dir: Nazir Khan; 22 min; Bundeli, Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Short film

Tradition

Dir: Zhanuzak Mamytov; 13.09 min; Kyrgiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan; 2019; Short film

11.15 am to 12.30 pm

L for…


Dir : Bharati Kapadia; 13.13 min; English; India; 2017; Short film

Tisbea

Dir: Israel Ahumuda; 11 min; Spanish with Eng subtitles; Mexico; 2020; Short film

When We Open the Gate of the Sky

Dir: Pavel Bykovchenk; 6.35 min; Kirghiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan; 2019; Short film

They are Dying


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

1.30 pm to 3 pm

The World’s Last House

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

Wantok

Dir : Dmitrii Komarov; 7 min; Tok Pisin with Eng subtitles; Papua New Guinea; Short film

Under the Stork’s Nest

Dir : Ani Oganesyan; 20 min; Armenian with Eng subtitles; Armenia; 2020; Short film

Hands and Wings

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

Kadachit

Dir : Suraj Shelar; 16.43 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Short film

3.15 to 4.00 pm

Living Dreams

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

SABOOT (PROOF)

Dir : Nishtha Jain & Deepti Gupta; 21 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2019; Narrative; Retrospective

4 pm: Reflection and Closing Remarks

 
Day 03; 5 March; Periyar Thidal

11 am Inauguration

Chief Guest: Ravi Subramaniyan, Poet / Documentary filmmaker

11:15 am to 1 pm

Sikhirini Mwsanai (Dance of the Butterfly)

Dir. Subasri Krishnan; 65 min; Bodo, Hindi and English with Eng subtitles; India ; 2019; Documentary

Speleonaut / Under the Stone Sky


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

2 – 5 pm

Guest speaker : Dr. Poarkodi

GULABI GANG

Dir : Nistha Jain; 96 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2012; Retrospective; Documentary

The Conflict

Dir : Debaranjan; 80 min; Oriya with Eng subtitles; Filmmaker in Focus; Documentary

5:15 to 8 pm

Two Autumns in Wyszogrod

Dir : Amit Mahanti & Ruchika Negi

60.03 min; Polish with Eng Subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

At Home Walking

Dir: Rajula Shah; 114 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2021; Documentary

Day 04; 6 March, Periyar Thidal

Guest Speaker : Amshan Kumar, filmmaker

11 am to 1 pm

Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse

Dir: Iara Lee; 58.17 min; English / Ukrainian / Russian with Eng subtitles; Ukraine/Slovakia/USA/Bulgaria; 2020; Documentary



Moti Bagh

Dir: Nirmal Chander; 59.23 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2019; India; Documentary

2 – 5 pm

Guest speaker : Vilasini, filmmaker

CITY OF PHOTOS

Dir : Nishtha Jain; 60 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2004; Retrospective

At The Crossroads

Dir : Debaranjan; 60 min; Oriya, Telugu and Kui with Eng subtitles; Filmmaker in Focus ; Documentary

1944. Crimea. Deportation

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

5.15 – 8 pm

Guest speaker : Malini Jeevarathnam, filmmaker / activist

Mod Bhaang (Ebb Tide)

Dir : Renu Savant; 60 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Documentary


Over the Barriers

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


Those Stars in the sky

Dir : Debaranjan; 60 min; Oriya with Eng subtitles; Documentary; Filmmaker in Focus



Day 05; 7 March; Periyar Thidal

Guest speaker : Someetharan, filmmaker

10.30 am - 1.30 pm

LAKSHMI AND ME

Dir : Nishtha Jain; 59 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2007; Retrospective; Documentary

AT MY DOORSTEP

Dir : Nishtha Jain; 70 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2009; Retrospective; Documentary


2-5 pm

Tamil short films and Documentaries

5.15 – 8 pm

21 Hours - of Toil, Travel and Trade


Dir: Sunitha C. V.; 28 min; Malayalam, English with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

Holy Rights

Dir : Farha Khatun; 53 min; Urdu with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

7 pm : Closing remarks and reflection

 
Jointly organized by

DOT School of Design

Department of Visual Communication, Loyola College

Periyar Self Respect Media

And

MARUPAKKAM



Film Sections:

1) Tamil films

2) Indian films

3) International films

4) Retrospective : Nishtha Jain

5) Filmmaker in Focus : Deba Ranjan



For more details : www.chennaifilmfestival.blogspot.com