6th Chennai Int Doc & Short Film Fest 2018: Screening Schedule - Day 4, 18 April

6th Chennai Int Doc & Short Film Fest 2018: Screening Schedule

Day 4, 18 April

10 am to 2 pm 

Guest speaker: Renu Sawant

10 am Many Months in Mirya

Dir: Renu Sawant; 3 hours 50 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; Documentary; India

In 2015, I stayed and shot in my ancestral village in western coastal India, and the film is a record of this village during that time. The resulting film flows into stories of people and events happening in the village. The subject's canvass demanded the scale of the longer narrative form, like a novel in digital video.

2:30 to 5:30 Artists' Cinema

Guest speaker: C.S.Venkiteswaran, curator / critic /  documentary filmmaker

Films by Sahej Rahel, Nina Paley, Ashish Avikuntak, Riyas Komu, Sumedh Rajendran, Gigi Scaria, Sudharshan Shetty and Mithu Sen

Curated and Presented by C S Venkiteswaran, curator/critic

5:45 to 9 pm

Guest speakers: 

Dhamayanthi, writer

Karunaprasad, theatre director/actor

5:45 pm Sanjay Maharishi Retrospective 

Making of King Lear (Dir: Sanjay Maharishi; 50m)

The well known Uzbek theatre director Ovlyakuli Khodjakuli interprets Shakespeare's King Lear in his distinct style and brings out yet another adaptation of this fabulous play. Nature plays a big part in his narration as does memories of a peaceful childhood.

Kahinoor theatre (Dir: Sanjay Maharishi; 8min)

Kahinoor is a short film that introduces the travelling theatre of Assam, a unique form, hardly seen anywhere in its expanse and reach. About a hundred and fifty people travel in trucks, buses and cars on a predefined itinerary for a year from village to village. Assam does not have too many film halls and the travelling theatre provides for popular entertainment, just as films do in other parts of the country.

Nautanki (Dir: Sanjay Maharishi; 10 min)

This short film introduces to the viewer, a unique style of northern India called Nautanki or Swang. The film, although short, traverses three centres known as the origins of Nautanki, namely Mathura, Vrindavan and Hathras.

Grotowski Workshop (Dir: Sanjay Maharishi; 30 min)

7:30 Saints of Sin

Dir: Aniruddha Sen; 80 min; English; Documentary; India

The Saints of Sin is a lyrical journey of emotion and experiences of Seven and a Half Bengali women spread all over the globe between Nairobi to New York to New Delhi and Bombay. Built on intimate conversations recorded over three years, the film explores the lives of Debbie, Runa, Srila, Gopi, Shreya, Swati, Paro and Pradipta, where each of them acknowledges her propensity towards one of the Sins and speaks of her negotiations with it.