11th CIDSFF : The Winners - Short Fiction Category

11th Chennai Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023

Competition for Indian Short Fiction 

Arunmozhi Memorial Award for Best Indian Short Fiction

A certificate and Rs.25.000/- cash prize

Winner : Shimga

Directed by Sanat Dhananjay Ganu

Jury Special Mention 

Winner : Cheepatakadumpa

Directed by Devashish Makhija

Jury Special Mention

Winner : My Heart is an Ocean

 Directed by Tanvi Jadwani

Short Fiction from Tamilnadu  

Jury Special Mention 

Winner : Namaskar

Directed by Athithya Kanagarajan

Jury : Pritham Chakravarthy, M.R.Bharathi and Ulaga Cinema Bhaskaran

Congratulations to the winners! Thanks to the jury members!

11th CIDSFF 2023 : THE WINNERS - Documentary Category

11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023

Competition for Indian Documentaries 

Shubhradeep Chakravorthy Memorial Award 

for Best Indian Long Documentary - above 40 min duration 

A certificate and Rs.25,000/- cash award

Winner : P for Pyaaz (Onion), P for Paisa (Money) and P for Pain (Water)

Directed by Laxminarayan Devda 

Produced by SPS Community Media 

Jury Special Mention : Long Documentary (above 40 min)

Winner : In a Dissent Manner

Directed by Ehraz Zaman

Shubhradeep Chakravorthy Memorial Award 

for Best Indian Short / Medium Length Documentary - up to 40 minutes duration

A certificate and a Rs.25,000/- cash award

Winner: Fantasy Parks

Directed by Ardehl Nainan 

Jury Special Mention : up to 40 min (short and medium length)

Dukhu Majhi - Son of the Barren Land

Directed by Somnath Mondal

Jury : Joshy Joseph, Maheen Mirza and Anirban Dutta

Congratulations to the winners! Thanks to the Jury members!

11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023 : sections, venues, organisers & schedule

11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023

20-28 Feb, multiple venues, Chennai 

SCREENING SCHEDULE 

(click above for the schedule)

Sections :

1) International Documentaries

2) Indian Documentaries

3) International Short Fiction

4) Indian Short Fiction

4) Retrospective - Vinod Raja 

5) Filmmaker in Focus - Sunanda Bhat

6) Homage - KP Sasi 

7) Homage - Venkatesh Chakravarthy

8) Director's Cut - curated by Amudhan R.P.

(click the sections to know more)

Screening Schedule (subject to changes)

click above for the schedule

Day Shows 

20 Feb : DOT School of Design, Ambattur  - 9 am to 4 pm

21 Feb : Ambedkar College of Arts and Science, Vyasarpadi - 10 am to 1 pm

22 Feb : Women's Christian College (students only) - 12 pm to 5.30 pm

23 Feb : Don Bosco College of Arts and Science - 9 am to 1 pm

23 Feb : Madras School of Social Work  - 10 am to 4 pm

24 Feb : Stella Maris College (students only) - 10 am to 4 pm

25 Feb : Roja Muthiah Research Library - 10.30 am to 5 pm

26 Feb : LV Prasad Preview Theatre - 10 am to 8 pm

27 Feb : Loyola College - 9 am to 1 pm 

27 Feb : University of Madras (Chepakkam / main campus) - 10 am to 5 pm

28 Feb : Loyola College - 9.30 am to 1.30 pm

28 Feb : Loyola College - 2.30 to 5 pm

Evening Shows 

20-28 Feb; 5.30 to 8.30 pm : Periyar Thidal

(click the venues above for the detailed schedule with synopsis)

Jointly organised by

DOT School of Design 

Department of Visual Communication - Ambedkar Government Arts College, Vyasarpadi 

PG Department of Communication & Department of Visual Communication

 - Women's Christian College

 Department of Development Studies - Madras School of Social Work 

Department of Visual Communication, Don Bosco Arts and Science College

Department of Social Work - Stella Maris College / Roja Muthiah Research Library / LV Prasad - College of Media Studies / Department Journalism and Mass Communication - University of Madras / DDU Kaushal Kendra & Department of Visual Communication - Loyola College / Periyar Self Respect Media / Padapetti Film Movement / World Cinema Film Festival / Charulatha Publications / MARUPAKKAM 

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11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023 : List of Selected Short Films

11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023

List of Selected Short Films

Selection Committee : Vilasini Ramani, Amudhan R.P.




Competition - Indian Films

Trespass (Dir :Tharun Venkituswamy Saravanan)
Ameena (Dir :Guruswamy Ravi Teja Vudatha)
Sandhya (Dir : Utkarsh Rajesh Aherkar)
Victim (Dir : Praveen Shankar)
Namsakar (Dir: Athithya Kanagarajan)
Hands of A... (Dir:Snigdha P Roy)
Turn (Dir: Sharika P Prasad)
Spark (Dir: Swaroop Elamon)
Another Woman’s Story (Dir: Karthik David)
Happy Independence Day (Dir: Maaz Kazmi )
Banana Republic (Dir:Anas Rashad)
Liberated (Dir:Medini Kelamane )
Natok (Dir:Shubhanshi Chakraborty)
Cheepatakadumpa (Dir:Devashish Makhija)
Cycle (Dir:Devashish Makhija )
Missing Since (Dir:Anand Pande)
Shimga (Dir:Sanat Dhananjay Ganu)
Zelam (Dir:Pratim Bharat Waghmare)
Mother (Dir:Anupjyoti Choudhury)
Duswapna (Dir: Jay Kholia )
Her Canvas (Dir: Sagar Devram Minde)
Faces (Dir :Maaz Kazmi )
You Want Company (Dir: Mehak - Matharu )
Samaram (Dir : Mridul S)
An Old Story (Dir:Prateek Prajosh)
Footprints (Dir:Tathagatha Ghosh)

Non Competition - Indian and International Films

Why We Work (Dir:Cesar Javier Monroy Jimenez; United States)
Fillide (Dir :Anna Concetta Corsarino, Jonathan Soverchia; Italy)
Homeland (Dir:J Frisch-Wang; United States)
Ghanimah (Dir: Karan Talwar; United Kingdom)
Town Youth (Dir: Jie Liu; China)
Before Pandemic and War (Dir:Nuruzzaman Khan; Lithuania)
After the Wedding (Dir :Matej Klucik / Slovakia)
Cumbia’s Day (Dir :Teo Belton / Peru)
Beast (Dir : Andrey Okorokov; Serbia)
What’s in the Name? (Dir : Najrin Islam; India)
When the Mill Hill Trees Spoke to Me (Dir :Kirsikka Paakkinen; Sweden)
Flamingos (Dir :Fabian Rieke; Germany)
Fat Tuesday (Dir :Aleksandrija Ajdukovic; Serbia)
How to Build a House (Dir : Bernd Lützeler ; Germany)
Mask (Dir :xiong Bo Lan; China)
My Heart is an Ocean (Dir : Tanvi Jadwani; India)

11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023 : Selected Films - Documentaries

11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023

Selected films : Documentaries

Selection Committee : Vinod Raja, Meera Chaudhry and Amudhan R.P.



Competition 

Indian Long Documentaries

At the Moment of Death (Dir: Ajay Raina)
Hailstorm (Dir: Shobhit Jain)
P for Pyaaz (Dir : Laxminarayan Devda)
a.k.a. (Dir : Geetika Narang Abbasi)
In a Dissent Manner (Dir : Ehraz Zaman)
Thirai Virutham (Dir : Sugumar Shanmugam)
Bonded (Dir : Shobhit Jain)
The Bird, The Priest and The Sixteen Millet Thieves (Dir : Milind Chhabra)
Art world of Adimoolam (Dir : Mayan)
Clowning with Shakespeare (Dir: Siddhartha More)
Entrance Exam (Dir : Aditya Verma)
How Do I Show the Ocean Space You Carried Inside Me? (Dir:Abeer Khan)
Mask Art of Majuli (Utpal Borpujari)

Indian Short and Medium Length Documentaries 

Small Time Cinema (Dir : Priya Ramesh)
Forest Rights Act (Dir: Sanjay Barnela)
Thengapalli (Dir:Sanjay Barnela)
Koppa (Dir : Vivek Sangwan, Aiswarya Ravikumar)
Like the Flowing River (Dir : Neelansh Mittra)
Why Wander Outside? (Dir : Neelansh Mittra)
Behind the Doors (Dir : Kushal Shekhawat)
Dukhu Majhi - Son of the Barren Land (Dir : Somnath Mondal)
Seven Seeds (Dir : N.Ravindran)
Kazhicho (Dir : Darpan Bajaj)
Fantasy Parks (Dir: Ardehl Nainan)
Chun Chun Maati (Dir : Sanjay Barnela)



Non Competition

International Long Documentaries

Anwar (Dir : Rosa García Loire / Spain)
80 Years Later (Dir : Celine Parreñas Shimizu / United States)
Maka (Dir : Elia Moutamid / Italy)
Dear Audrey (Dir : Jeremiah Hayes / Canada)
Imad’s Childhood (Dir : Zahavi Sanjavi / Sweden)
Namarali (Dir : Tim Mummery / Australia)
Las Abodas : Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis (Dir : Victoria Bruce / United States)
A Pile of Ghosts (Dir : Ella Raidel / Austria)
The Last Seed (Dir : Andrea Gema / South Africa)
The Adventures of Saul Bellow (Dir: Asaf Galay / United States)
A pain in the neck (Dir:Fernando Romero-Forsthuber, Pablo Zanon / Austria)
The Undocumented (Dir : Sampsa Huttunen, Ann-Mari Leinonen / Finland)
Globes (Dir:Nina de Vroome / Belgium)
LO QUE QUEDA EN EL CAMINO [previously ¡Vámonos!] - Dir:Jakob Krese, Danilo Do Carmo / Germany)
fikitre (Dir : Yi Wu / Ethiopia)
Freedom Squared (Dir : Anastasia Zverkova / Russian Federation)

International Short and Medium Length Documentaries

83 / Unwell Mind (Int / Medium)
17 / The Beyond (Int / Short)
149 / The Challengers (Int / Short)
6 / It is not about London (Int / Short)
169 / The Orphanage of Records (Int / Short)
150 / When the Dust Clears (Int / Medium)
136 / Sex Relish (Int / Short)
37 / The Caring Women (Int / Medium)
65 / At the Beginning of the End (Int / Short)
179 / Awadagin Pratt (Int / Short)
137 / Brave (Int / Short)
78 / Besetzt (Int / Short)
70 / Strangers (Int / Medium)
128 / Aktrissa (Int / Short)
135 / Kubra (Int / Short)
193 / Bully (Int / Short)
0 / Toang (Int / Short)

11th Chennai Film Festival 2023 : block your dates!

11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023

20-26 February, multiple venues, Chennai 

KP Sasi

Highlights :

1) Competition for Indian Documentaries and Short Films

 - for Shubradeep Chakravorthy and Arunmozhi Memorial Awards 

2) International Documentaries and Short Films  - non competition 

3) International and Indian Animation, Experimental Films and Music Videos

4) Retrospective - Vinod Raja 

5) Filmmaker in Focus - Sunanda Bhat

6) Homage - KP Sasi 

7) Homage - Venkatesh Chakravarthy

8) Director's Cut - curated by Amudhan R.P.

More details soon!

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022 : Thank you all!

10th Chennai Film Festival 2022

We would like to thank the filmmakers, selection committee members, jury members, volunteers. co organisers, audience members and friends for the successful completion of 10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022.

We would like to also congratulate the winners of the competition for Indian short films and documentaries.

Shubradeep Chakravorthy Memorial Award for Best Indian Documentary goes to 'Bid for Bengal', directed by Dwaipayan Banerjee and Kasturi Basu.

Once Upon a Village, a documentary by Srishti Lakhera gets the Special Jury mention for Indian Documentaries.

Arunmozhi Memorial Award for Best Indian Short Fiction goest to 'Crescent' directed by Fazil Razak.

Around, a short fiction by Anandakrishnan KS gets the Special Jury Mention for Indian Short Fiction.

Chhaya, a short fiction by Utsav also gets the Special Jury Mention for Indian Short Fiction.

Congratulations and Best wishes.

Amudhan R.P.

Festival Director

10th CIDSFF 2022