8th CIDSFF : Screening Schedule

8th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival : Screening Schedule* 

*subject to changes

Summary:

Dates: 19-23 February 2020

Sections :

1) Indian films

2) International films

3) Contemporary German films

4) Retrospective # 1 - Andres Veiel

5) Retrospective # 2 - Ranjan Palit

6) Filmmaker in Focus - Rajula Shah

7) Homage - Manjira Datta

8) Tamil films

Venues:
1) Dept of Visual Communication, Loyola College / 19 Feb

2) Dept of Journalism (PG), Ethiraj College / 20 Feb

3) Dept of Communication (PG), Women's Christian College / 21 Feb

4) Dept of Social Work, Loyola College / 21 Feb

5)Max Mueller Bhavan / 19-23 Feb

Detailed Schedule:

1)  Dept of Visual Communication, Loyola College : 19 Feb

2 pm : Mannu

(Dir: Ramdas Kadavallur; 113 min; India; Doc)

2) Department of Journalism, Ethiraj College : 20th Feb

1.30 to 4.30 pm

Devaradiyar in Sadhir – The Life and Art of Muthukannammal
(Dir:Shanmuganathan; 66 min; India; Doc)
Never Give Up
(Dir: Jonathan Schornig; 16 min; Malta; Doc)
Cuban Canvas
(Dir: Kavery Kaul; 14 min; Cuba, United States; Doc)
Kaggantu
(Dir: Ujjwal Utkarsh; 20 min; India; Doc)
Deep Roots
(Dir: Luc Godonou Dossou; 15 min; Swtizerland, Thailand, Phillipines, Guadeloupe; Doc)

3) Women's Christian College : 21 Feb

1 pm to 5:30 pm

Diary of an Outsider
Dir: Sandeep Ravindranath; 14 min; Hindi, English; USA and India; Short fiction

German Short films

Am Cu Ce – Pride
(Dir: Hannah Weissenborn; 19 min; Germany; fiction)
Halmaspiel (Chinese Checkers)
(Dir: Betina Kuntzsch; 15 min; Germany;Animation)
Fest
(Dir: Nikita Diakur; 3 min; Germany; animation)
Carlotta's Face
 (Dir: Frédéric Schuld,V Riedl; 5 min; Germany; Animation)
Tracing Addai
 (Dir: Esther Niemeier; 30 min; Germany; Animation)
Biotope
(Dir: Paul Scholten; 12 min; Germany; Doc)
Neko No Hi (Cat Days)
(Dir: Jon Frickey; 11 min; Germany; Animation)

Ranjan Palit Retrospective

For Maya
(Dir: Vasudha Joshi; Camera : Ranjan Palit; 40 min; Retro; India; Doc)
Voices from Baliapal
(Dir : Vasudha Joshi and Ranjan Palit; 40 min; Retro; India; Doc)


4) Department of Social Work, Loyola College : 21 Feb

a still from 'Aayi Gayi' by Anandana Kapur

1:30 pm to 4.30 pm

Aayi Gayi
(Dir: Anandana Kapur; 72 min; India; Doc)
Actually She is My Little Brother
(Dir: Lena Lobers & Carina Nickel; 39 min; Germany; Doc)
World Taxi
(Dir: Philipp Majer; 82 min; Germany; Doc)
Big Social Nomad
(Dir: Anna Bohlmark; 25 min; Sweden / India; Doc)
Stekenjokk and the Guardians of the Eggs
(Dir: Per Bifrost, Alexander Rynéus; 29 min; Sweden; Doc)

5) Screenings at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai

19th Feb

a still from 'Neeli Raag' by Swati Dandekar

10 am : Inauguration

11 am

People of the Wasteland
(Dir: Heba Khaled; 21 min; Turkey; Doc)
Janani's Juliet
(Dir: Pankaj Rishi Kumar; 53 min; India; Doc)
Invisible
(Dir: Shirin Barghnavard; 27 min; Iran, Germany; Doc)

2 pm to 5 pm

The Kick
(Dir: Andres Veiel; 82 min; Retro; Doc)
The Quiet Rebel
(Dir: Carole Cassier; 48 min; France; Doc)
Rishte
(Dir: Manjira Datta; 25 min; Homage; Doc)

5.30 pm to 8.30 pm

Neeli Raag
(Dir: Swati Dandekar; 85 min; India; Doc)
Mission Life Line
(Dir: Markus Weinberg; 67 min; Germany; Cont.German films; Doc)


20th Feb

a still from 'Katha Loknath' by Rajula Shah

10 am to 1 pm

In My Skin
(Dir: Anna-Sophia Richard; 72 min; Germany; Cont. German films; Doc)
Word within the Word
(Dir : Rajula Shah; 74 min; Filmmaker in Focus; India; Doc)

2 pm to 5 pm

February 27th
(Dir: Marie-Therese Jakoubek; 43 min; Algeria, Democratic Arab Republic of Sahara; Doc)
Black Box BRD
(Dir: Andres Veiel; 100 min; Germany; Retro; Doc)

5.30 pm to 8.30 pm

Katha Loknath
(Dir: Rajula Shah; 43 min; Filmmaker in Focus; India; Fiction)
In Camera
(Dir:Ranjan Palit; 77 min; Retro; India; Doc)

21 Feb

a still from 'The Last Run' by Anirban Dutta

10 am to 1 pm

BEUYS
(Dir: Andres Veiel; 107 min; Germany; Retro; Doc)
Jumbled Cans
(Dir:Rajula Shah; 23 min; Filmmaker in Focus; India; Fiction)
Night Longer than Sleep
(Dir: Arghya Basu; 6 min; India; Poetry video)
Of Exiles and Kingdom
(Dir: Arghya Basu; 26 min; India; Doc)

2 pm to 5 pm

Recasting Selves
(Dir: Lalit Vachani; 80 min; India; Doc)
Are You Going to School Today?
(Dir: Anupama Srinavasan; 60 min; India; Doc)

5.30 pm to 8.30 pm

The Last Run
(Dir: Anirban Dutta; 37 min; India; Doc)
A Night of Prophecy
(Dir: Amar Kanwar; Camera: Ranjan Palit; 77 min; Retro; India; Doc)

22 Feb

10 am to 1 pm

BREAKING BARRIERS: The Casteless Collective
(Dir: Maja Meiners; 69 min; Germany / India; Doc)
Starting with Fragments
(Dir: Omar Shalash, Robert Dobe; 80 min; Germany, Syria; Doc)
The Man who Looked Beyond the Horizon
(Dir: Martijn Blekendaal; 28 min; The Netherlands; Doc)

2 pm to 5 pm

The War in Me
(Dir: Sebastian Hienzel; 83 min; Germany / Switzerland; Cont.German films; Doc)
Scratches on Stone
(Dir: Amit Mahanti; 62 min; India; Doc)

5.30 pm to 8.30 pm : The Lord of the Orphans
(Dir: Ranjan Palit; 150 min; Retro; India; Doc / fiction)

23 Feb

10 am to 1 pm

A Place to Live
(Dir: Sanjiv Shah; 92 min; India; Doc)
The Outside In
(Dir: Hansa Thapliyal; 25 min; India; Doc)
Sacrifice of Babulal Bhuiya
(Dir :Manjira Datta; 64 min; India; Homage; Doc)

2 pm to 5 pm

2 pm Tamil short films (curated by Ulaga Cinema Bhaskaran)

4.30 pm Student films from Asian College of Journalism

5.30 pm to 8.30 pm

Closing ceremony

Closing film:
The Little Death
(Dir: Annie Gisler; 61 min; Switzerland; Doc)