10th Chennai Film Festival 2022 : Screening Schedule*

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022

21-27 Feb, multiple venues, Chennai 

Tentative Schedule (*subject to changes)

21 Feb : 10 am to 4.30 pm DOT School of Design, Ambattur (open to all)

22 Feb :  11 am to 5 pm Women’s Christian College 

23 Feb : 10 am to 4 pm Ethiraj College

24 Feb : 10 am to 5 pm Roja Muthiah Library (open to all)

23, 25 -27 Feb : 11 am to 8 pm; Periyar Thidal (open to all)

21 Feb : 10 am to 4.30 pm DOT School of Design, Ambattur 

10 am : Inauguration

11 am 

Meraki (Dir :Nikhil S; 8.20 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

Ruuposh (Dir : Mohd Fehmeed, Zeeshan Amir Khan; 32.25; Documentary; India; Non competition)

Kulup (Dir : Sadnyesh Ramdas Ghuge; 13.48 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Chhaya (Dir: Utsav; 15 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Around (Dir : Anadhakrishan K S; 15 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Differences (Dir : Anush Gopinath; 4.27 min; Short fiction; India; Director’s Cut)

State (Dir : Swanand Kottewar; 8.40 min; Short film; India; Director’s Cut)

A Father’s Gift (Dir : Jagannathan Ramakrishnan; 20 min; Short fiction; India; Director’s Cut)

2 pm

Inside (Dir : Jinesh; 14.04; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Closer (Dir : Gowree Sankar; 14.21 min; Short fiction; India; Non competition)

Crescent (Dir : Fazil Razak; 19.04 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Roka (Dir : Tej Thakkar; 19.05; Short fiction; India; Non competition)

Nokkuvidya - The story of a lone puppeteer (Dir : Reshmi Radhakrishnan; 37.08 min; Documentary; India; Non competition)

Forget Me Not (Dir : Lea Gygli; 13 min; Short fiction; Switzerland; Director’s Cut) 

Sweet Biriyani (Dir : Jayachandra Hasmi; 23.38 min; Short fiction; India; Non Competition) 

Single Take films by Students from Asian College of Journalism - Curated by Nilita Vachani 

22 Feb :  11 am to 5 pm Women’s Christian College 

11 am : Inauguration 

11.30 am

Dajla : cinema and oblivion (Dir : Arturo Duenas Herrero; 15 min; Documentary; Spain; Non competition)

Kathekegala Kanive - The Valley of Stories (Dir : Vikas Badiger; 30 min; Documentary; India; Non competition)

Written in the Corners (Dir : Suyash Kamat; 11 min; Documentary; India; Non competition)

Chhoti Si Baat (Dir : Kabir Shah; 10.47 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

A Firecracker Story (Dir : Zhizi Hao; 20 min; Short fiction; China; Non competition)

2 pm

All that is lost (Dir : Arijit Kundu; 15.17 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

What You’re Going Through (Dir : Binyamin Haneman; 20.53 min; Documentary; Israel; Non competition)

The Tipping Point (Dir : Manish Kumar; 15.39; Short fiction; India; Non competition)

The Case (Dir : Arun Varghese; 11.40 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Poster (Dir : Ripan Kumar Das; 9.44 min; Short fiction; Bangladesh; Non competition)

Storgetnya (Dir : Hovig Hagopian; 20 min; Short fiction; France; Non competition)

Aalo (Dir : Soham Kundu; 20 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Ladybird (Dir: Rahul Kumar Singh; 17.42 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Barrio Frontera (Dir: Reed Purvis; 18:00 mins; Short fiction; United States; Director’s Cut)

23 Feb : 10 am to 4 pm Ethiraj College

10 am : Inauguration 

10:30 am

Summertime, Summertime (Dir : Kevin Chen; 16.16 min; Short fiction; China; Non competition)

Baptism (Dir : Yu Zhang; 20 min; Short fiction; China; Non competition)

The Third Solar Term (Dir : Zhanfei Song; 20 min; Short fiction; China; Non competition)

A Conclusion (Dir : Sreemon Das; 8.25 min; Short fiction; India; Non competition)

City of Lanes (Dir : Modak KS, Ragini Rao Munjuluri; 39.47 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

Meraki (Dir :Nikhil S; 8.20 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

Ruuposh (Dir : Mohd Fehmeed, Zeeshan Amir Khan; 32.25; Documentary; India; Non competition)

2 pm

Unowned House (Dir : Kallol Mukherjee; 15 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Manoeuvre (Dir : Jaiveer Rajendra Sarsar; 16.12 min; Short fiction; India; Non competition)

Whose Dreams, Whose City (Dir : Abhishek Parija; 39.58 min; Documentary; India; Non competition)

Yesterday I was the Moon (Dir : Yihan Lin; 20 min; Short fiction; India; Non competition)

Padagu (Dir : Sahaya Riju; 28.34 min; Documentary; India; Non competition)

Inside (Dir : Jinesh; 14.04; Short fiction; India; Competition)

Closer (Dir : Gowree Sankar; 14.21 min; Short fiction; India; Non competition)

Crescent (Dir : Fazil Razak; 19.04 min; Short fiction; India; Competition)

23 Feb; 5.30 to 8.30 pm  Periyar Thidal

Moving Upstream : Ganga (Dir : Shridhar Sudhir; 105 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

Backstage (Dir: Lipika Singh Darai; 85 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

Perceptions from a Modern Witch Hunt : The Making of a She-Devil 

(Dir : Sourav Roychowdhury; 45.44 min; Documentary; India; Non competition)

24 Feb : 10 am to 7 pm Roja Muthiah Research Library

10 am : Inauguration 

10:30 pm

If We Told the Truth (Dir : Emanuela Giordana; Guilia Minoli; 59.30 min; Documentary; Italy; Non competition)

What’s your story? (Dir : OP Srivastava; 50.47 min; Documentary; India; Non competition)

The Falling Fruit. The Frozen Time. And the Five Variations on Mani Kaul’s Uski Roti (Dir : Jay Kholia; 12.12 min; Short film; India; Director’s Cut)

2 pm

Genocide and Movements (Dir : Luis Carlos de Alencer, Hamilton Borges, Andreia Beatriz; 60.37 min; Documentary; Brazil; Non competition)

Beyond Blast (Dir : Ratan Saikhom; 52.10 min; Documentary; India; Non competition)

Chun Chun Maati / Living Lightly - Journeys with Pastoralists (Dir: Sanjay Barnela; 10.35 min; Short film; India; Director’s Cut) 

4:30 pm

The Last Man (Dir : Dakxinumar Bajrange; 60.17 min; Documentary; Canada; Non competition)

Kalashnikov Society (Dir : Christophe Karabache; 54 min; Documentary; Lebanon; Non competition)

Scape Goat (Dir : Tathagatha Ghosh; 25 min; Short fiction; India; Director’s Cut)

25 Feb : 10.30 am to 8.30 pm; Periyar Thidal

10.30 Inauguration 

11 am 

Ushiku (Dir : Thomas Ash; 87 min; Documentary; Japan; Non competition)

Padagu (Dir : Sahaya Riju; 28.34 min; Documentary; India; Non competition)

2 pm 

Longing (Dir : Bani Singh; 89.42 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

Charaiveti (Dir : Bauddhayan Mukherji, Chandan Biswas; 71.56 min; Documentary; India;; Non competition)

5.15 pm 

Nasima (Dir : Heather Kissinger; 85.20 min; Documentary; USA / Bangladesh; Non competition)

Footloose - a story of belonging (Dir : Gulshan Singh; 93.38 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

26 Feb : 10.30 am to 8.30 pm; Periyar Thidal

3.30 pm

Land of Women (Dir : Marion Gaborit; 77.19 min; Documentary; France; Non competition)

Once upon a Village (Dir : Srishti Lakhera; 60.14 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

Incomplete Sentence (Dir : Adar Bozbay; 58.05 min; Documentary; Turkey; Non competition)

Emergence : Out of the Shadows (Dir : Vinay Giridhar; 79.58 min; Documentary; Canada; Non competition)

27 Feb : 10.30 am to 8.30 pm; Periyar Thidal

10.30 am 

Moon on the Man (Dir : Prince Shah; 75 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

Bid for Bengal (Dir : Dwaipayan Banerjee & Kasturi Basu; 70.30 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

Keemat Chutaki Zeendagi (Dir : Shriprakash; 86 min; Documentary; India; Competition)

2 pm 

Ramachandra PN Retrospective

Voices of Mini Tipet (10 min)

Makkala Panchayat (30 min)

Gudigeri Company (24 min)

Miyar House (76 min)

The Unbearable Being of Lightness (45 min)

An Autobiography of a Project Report (44 min)

5.30 pm 

Closing ceremony & prize distribution 

7 pm 

Screening of award winning films

Jointly organised by

DOT School of Design

Post Graduate Department of Communication, Women’s Christian College

Post Graduate Department of Journalism and Communication, Ethiraj College

Roja Muthiah Research Library

Periyar Self Respect Media 

and 

MARUPAKKAM