7th Chennai Film Festival 2019 : Screening Schedule

7th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2019
6-10 Feb; jointly organised by MARUPAKKAM & Goethe-Institut, Chennai

Screening Schedule

A still from "Small Scale Societies"

 Dir: Vipin Vijay

Section : Artists' Cinema

1) Curtain Raiser Screenings

4 Feb:  5:30 pm at Discovery Book Palace 

Humans Display (Dir: Lam Can-Zhao; 59 min; China)

Madman's Conspiracy (Dir:Algis Arlauskas; 50 min; Spain)

Second Income (Dir: Gal Kedem; 54 min; Israel)

5 Feb : 3 pm at Dept of Social Work, Loyola College

Nimble Fingers (Dir: Parsifal Reparato; 52 min; Vietnam / Italy)

Bakurov (Dir: Yuliya Kiseloyova; 55 min; Russia)

5 Feb: 5:30 pm at Periyar Thidal 

We Have Not Come Here to Die 

(Dir: Deepa Dhanraj; 110 min; India)

Interaction with Navroz Contractor, cinematographer 

A still from "Land of Silences and Darkness" 

Dir: Werner Herzog

Section : Retrospective

2) Screenings at Goethe-Institut, Chennai

Day 01; 6 Feb

10 am to Inauguration

11:00 The Wild Blue Yonder
(Dir: Werner Herzong; 81 min.; Retro)

2 pm Work in Progress

Reason (Dir: Anand Patwardhan; 261 min; India)

Interaction with Anand Patwardhan

7 pm Happy (Dir: Carolin Genreith,  85 min., German films)

Day 02; 7 Feb

9:30 Land of Silence and Darkness  (Dir: Werner Herzog; 87 min)

11 am 9 Pen Cinemackal (Minimal Cinema)

Catharsis (Dir: Indira; 35 min)

Inside (Dir: Sreedevi; 13 min)

Indu (Dir: Anagha Anand; 29 min)

12:15 Interaction with Archana Padmini

12 :30 Reena Mohan Retrospective

Kamlabai (Dir: Reena Mohan; 47 min)

2 pm Reena Mohan Retrospective

Mati Manas (Dir: Mani Kaul; 92 min)

Tales from Planet Kolkata (Dir: Ruchir Joshi; 38 min)

In the Forest Hangs a Bridge (Dir: Sanjay Kak; 39 min; Retro)

Interaction with Reena Mohan

5:30 pm Coral Woman (Dir: Priya Thuvassery; 52 min; India)

6:25 Interaction with Priya Thuvassery

6:45 My Wonderful West Berlin (Dir: Jochen Hick; 98 min., German films)

Day 03; 8 Feb

9:30 am Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Dir: Werner Herzog; 80 min., Retro)

11:00 The Color of My Home (Dir: Sanjay Barnala & Farah Naqvi; 48 min; India)

12 pm The Slave Genesis (Dir: Aneez K Mappilla; 64 min; India)

2 pm Two Flags (Dir: Pankaj Rishikumar; 86 min; India)

3:30 Squeeze Lime in Your Eyes (Dir: Avijit Mukul Kishore; 55 min; India)

4:30  Koothu (Dir: Sandhya Kumar; 52 min; India)

5:45 pm God’s Angry Man (Dir: Werner Herzog; 44 min; Retro)

6:15 Friedland (Dir: Frauke Sandig, 85 min; German films)

A still from "Wagah"

Dir: Supriyo Sen

Section : Filmmaker in Focus

Day 04; 9 Feb

9:30  A Film Unfinished

(Dir:: Yael Hersonski; 89 min.; German films)

11 am Way Back Home

(Dir: Supriyo Sen; 120 min; 2003; Filmmaker in Focus)

Interaction with Supriyo Sen

2:00 pm Artists' Cinema : presented by CS Venkiteswaran

Gigi Scaria : Disclaimer; 9 min 

Lata Mani / Nicholas Grandi : 

De Sidere7; 38 min

Nocturne I  & Nocturne II ; 5 min

Vipin Vijay: Small Scale Societies; 27 min

Aman Wadhan; Letter From Korlai; 22 min

Parvathi Nayar : 

Bubble; 3.08 min

By the Mouth of the River; 12.49 min

Ice Boil; 6.00 min

Order; 3.30 mins

Murali Cheeroth : Pledge; 3.30 min
Sahej Rahel: Barricada; 28 min

5:15  Gandhi, Gandhiness and Cinema Vimarshaa :

presented by Amrit Gangar

Day 05; 10 Feb

9:30 am If I Think of Germany at Night

(Dir: Romuald Karmakar, 105 min.; German films)

Swimming Through The Darkness

(Dir: Supriyo Sen; 76 min; Filmmaker in Focus)

Interaction with Supriyo Sen

12:45  Santhana Gopala (Dir: Sandeep Ravindranath; 8 min; short fiction; India)

Interaction with Sandeep Ravindranath

2 pm Short films from Tamilnadu

Arunagiri (Dir: Ambani Shankar; 10 min)

Mounkia(Dir: Nelson Vasudevan; 9 min)

Marupiravi MGR (Dir: Kumar Rajaraman; 16 min)

Kathaiyin Nayagi(Dir: Charulatha; 16 min)

Peranpudan(Dir: SP Mani; 26 min)

Ranam (Dir: Shalini Charles; 3 min)

Kurumpadam(Dir: M. Saravanakumar; 17 min)

Yendro Oru Naal (Dir: Kishore; 13 min)

Chennai Tamizh (Dir: Arunmozhi; 8 min; documentary)

4 pm : Thadayam

(Dir: Dhamayanthi; 55 min; fiction)

Interaction with Dhamayanthi

5:15 The Death of Us

(Dir: Vani Subramanian; 76 min; India)

Interaction with Vani Subramanian

6:45 pm Closing Ceremony

7:30 Wheel of Time (Dir: Werner Herzog; 80 min; Retro)

A still from "We Have Not Come Here to Die"

Dir: Deepa Dhanraj

Section: Indian films

3) Parallel Screenings

7 Feb 2019

Department of Visual Communication, Loyola College; 2 pm 

9 Pen Cinemackal (Minimal Cinema)

Njaval Pazhangal (Dir: Jeeva KJ ; 23 min)

Ruchibhedham (Dir: Theertha Mythry; 10:20 min)

Ore Udal (Dir: Asha Achy Joseph; 14 min)

Rhythm (Dir : Sivaranjini ; 28 min)

Gi' (Dir : Kunjila Mascillamani; 30 min)

Eye Test (Dir: Sudha Padmaja Francis; 15:30 min)

Interaction with Archana Padmini

8 Feb

University of Madras; 10 am to 4 pm 
Master Class by Reena Mohan

On An Express Highway (Dir: Reena Mohan; 30 min; Retro)

Velvet Revolution (Dir: Nupur Basu; 57 min; Retro)

8 Feb
Dept of Journalism, Ethiraj College; 11 am to 5 pm

The Tribal Scoop (Dir: Beeswaranjan Pradhan; 53 min; India)

There is No Moon (Dir: Ajay TG; 26 min; India)

Tin Satyi (Dir: Debalina; 51 min; India)

Those Stars in the Sky (Dir: Debaranjan; 58 min; India)

9 Feb

5:30 pm at LV Prasad Film & TV Academy

Wagah (Dir: Supriyo Sen; 13 min; Filmmaker in Focus)

Hope Dies Last in War (Dir: Supriyo Sen; 80 min; Filmmaker in Focus)