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 

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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.

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Screening Schedule (subject to changes)

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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!