10th Chennai Film Festival 2022 : Selection Committee and Final Jury

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022 

16-20 February, multiple venues, Chennai 

Organised by MARUPAKKAM

Selection Committee 

Documentaries : Sehjo Singh, Meera Chaudhary, Sabyasachi Banerjee

Short Fiction : Louis Mathew, Pratap Joseph, Dhamayanthi 

Final Jury for competition 

Documentaries : Swarnavel Easwaran, Smriti Nivetia, Fathima Nizarudeen 

Short Fiction : Arun Gupta, Suma Jasson, Santhosh Ram 

10th Chennai Film Festival 2022 : Retrospective - Ramachandra PN

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022

21-27 February, multiple venues, Chennai 

Organised by MARUPAKKAM

Retrospective : Ramachandra PN

Graduated from the ‘Screenplay Writing & Direction’ discipline from the FTII in 1991, Mumbai based Ramchandra PN is a Bachelor of Commerce from Mangalore University. Over the past 30 years he has been making documentaries, features, short films and TV programs. His documentaries have been screened in various national and international film festivals, like The Mumbai International Short and Documentary Film Festival, The International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, The Kolkata International Film Festival, MAMI Film Festival, Mumbai, The Madhurai Documentary Film Festival, Delhi International Film Festival, Prague Indian Film Festival, Abuja International Film Festival, Nigeria etc.

He has also worked in fiction and Nonfiction TV programs like Surabhi India Anjana and Swara Sadhana, Tele Tubbies, Chahcha Chaudary etc.. 

His activities in Cinema Academics includes conducting workshops and short courses,  and mentoring young students in various institutions like FTII, SRFTII, Whistling Woods,  LV Prasad Film Institute, Central University of Hyderabad, Mangalore  and Kuvempu University, Karnataka, Lohit Libraries, Wakro Arunachal Pradesh etc..

His first fiction feature Suddha (The Cleansing Rites) won him the Best Indian Film at the Osian Cinefan Festival of Asian Films, New Delhi Indian 2006. His Putaani Party (The Kid Gang) won the Best Children’s film at the Indian National Film Awards, 2009.

Apart from writing on Cinema, he has also served as a Jury member at the Kashish Film Festival, Mumbai and the Orange International Film Festival, Kerala. Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentaries and Short Films, International Film Festival of Kerala and The Dusserra International Film Festival of Mysore, are some of the Festivals in which he was involved in the pre-selection committee. Besides, his expertise has also been used in the script committees of NFDC, CFSI, the Rough Cut committee in Films Division; as well as the selection committee for commissioning of documentaries in Films Division and the Himachal Pradesh Government.

List of films to be shown: 

1) Voices of Mini Tibet
10 Minutes / Hindi-English / EST / Documentary / 2000
Producer: Films Division
Script and Direction: Ramachandra PN
Cinematography - Shivaji Mane
Sound - H. S. Neelakanta
Editing – Sanjay Jadhav 

Synopsis: Nirvana a spiritual liberation is the core of any form of Buddhism, but to the refugees in the many Tibet are settlement colonies in India such spiritual liberation is closely associated with their political liberation. This film zeroes in at one such colony in Mungod, Karnataka.

2) Makkala Panchayat (Children’s Panchayat)
30 Mins / Kannada / EST / Documentary / 2007

Producers: UNDP
Script, Direction and Editing: Ramchandra PN
Camera: Sameer Mahajan
Sound: Santosh Kumar

Synopsis: In Coastal Karnataka, in South India, 56 Gram Panchayat’s (Village Self Governing Bodies) hold elections to the Makkala Panchavat (Children’s Self Governing Bodies), so that the children can from a pressure group to help solve developmental issues that they think are important to them and to their villages.

3) Gudigeri Company
24 minutes / Documentary / Kannada / EST / India / 2011
Director / Editor / Cameraman: Ramchandra PN 

Synopsis: A popular professional theater troupe arrives at a busy fair in North Karnataka, South India only to find that its audience base is dwindling.

4) Miyar Mané (Miyar House)
76 minutes / Kannada / EST/ Documentary / 2011
Producer: Sonk Films
Camera: Ajay Raina
Sound Design: Santosh Kumar
Direction & Editing: Ramchandra PN

Film Festivals: International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala; Prague Indian Film Festival, Czech Republic; Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI); Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary and Shorts (MIFF)

Synopsis: The filmmaker’s 200-year-old ancestral house in a remote village of Miyar in Karnataka is being dismantled, giving him an opportunity to undertake a journey into a past that he shares not only with his extended family but also with successive generations of rural Indians. A realisation of the inevitability of a transition marks this journey, which could well be the journey of a country that has propelled itself into modernity. As plans are on for the house to be reconstructed in an open-air museum, divorced from its original context, the fossilization seems to be complete.

5) The Unbearable Being of Lightness
45 minutes / Hindi-English / EST / Documentary / 2016
Producer: Sonk Films
Camera, Editing and Direction: Ramchandra P N

Film Festival: Kolkata International Film Festival; Signs Film Festival, Kerala; Social Justice Film Festival, Chennai; Regional International Film Festival of Kerala, Film South Asia, Nepal; Social Movements, Protest & Dissent in India series, Cambridge University, UK

Synopsis: The filmmaker goes to the University of Hyderabad to conduct a film related workshop where the students have to observe and write a structured report using the sight and sounds of a crowded place. The place selected is a shopping area at the University called the Shopcom, which was the epicenter of the struggle for social justice launched immediately after the death of a research scholar Rohit Vemula.

6) An Autobiography of a Project Report
44 mins / Kannada / EST / Documentary / India 2021

Producer: Sonk Films
Writer, Director, Camera: Ramchandra PN

Synopsis: A retired Government technocrat passionately remembers his environment destroying pet projects that he had painstakingly worked out and proposed to the Government of Karnataka that aims to divert a portion of the water of the west flowing rivers of the state into the deep east, where it will be used for drinking purposes and to recharge ground water levels.

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022 : Selected Documentaries

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022

16-20 Feb, multiple venues, Chennai 

Organised by MARUPAKKAM 

Selected Documentaries 

Following films have been shortlisted and recommended by the official Selection Committee of 10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival.

Committee Members : Sehjo Singh, Meera Chaudhary and Sabyasachi Banerjee 

Indian films : Competition 

City of Lanes

Backstage

Longing

Moon on the Man

Moving Upstream Ganga

Meraki

Footloose

Bid for Bengal

Keemat Chukati Zindagi 

Once upon a Village

Indian films : Non competition 

Ruuposh

Whose Dreams

Written in the Corners

Padagu

The Valley of Stories

Beyond Blast

Charaiveti

What's Your Story?

Nokkuvidya - The story of a lone string puppetter 

Perceptions from a Modern Witch Hunt

International films : Non competition 

Incomplete Sentences

Emergence : Out of the Shadows

Ushiku 

If we told the truth

Dajla : cinema and oblivion 

The Last Man

Kalashnikov Society 

Genocide and Movements

Nasima

What you are going through

Land of Women 

10th Chennai Film Festival 2022 : Selected Short Fiction

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022

16-20 Feb, multiple venues, Chennai 

Organised by MARUPAKKAM 

Selected Short fiction films

The official selection committee comprising 

Louis Mathew, Pratap Joseph and Dhamayanthi has given the following recommendations.

1) Indian films : Competition 

Crescent

Chhoti Si Batt

Chhaya

Kulup

Around

All is Lost

The Case

The Unowned House

Inside

2) Indian films : Non competition 

Closer

The Roka

The Conclusion 

Manoeuvre 

Ladybird

Aalo

Tipping Point

3) International films : Non competition 

The Third Solar Term

Summer Time - Summer Time

A Firecracker's Story

Baptism

Yesterday I was the Moon

Poster

Storegetniya 

More details soon!

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022 : Entries invited!

10th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2022

16-20 February; multiple venues - Chennai 

Entries invited! Last date to send entries : 1 January 2022

HIGHLIGHT : COMPETITION FOR INDIAN SHORT FICTION & DOCUMENTARIES!

1) Indian films 

Recently made (made within 24 months) short fiction and documentaries are invited for a competition

No restriction on style and theme

Duration : maximum 20 min for short fiction

No restriction on duration for documentaries

Films that advocate violence and hate will not be admitted

No screening fee will be paid

Filmmakers (one member) of the selected films will be provided a decent stay in Chennai for 3 days during the festival. No travel allowance will be provided

Entry fee : Rs.750 per film

Cash prize for Best Indian short fiction : Rs.50,000/- (will be shared between the producer and the director)

Cash prize for Best Indian Documentary : Rs.50,000/- (will be shared between the producer and the director)

CLICK HERE TO SEND ENTRIES 

2) International films

Recently made (made with 24 months) short fiction and documentaries are invited for a non competitive section 

No restriction on style and theme

Duration : maximum 20 min for short fiction

No restriction on duration for documentaries

Films that advocate violence and hate will not be admitted

No screening fee will be paid

Filmmakers (one member) of the selected films will be provided a decent stay in Chennai for 3 days during the festival. No travel allowance will be provided

Entry fee : Rs.750 per film

No cash award for International films

CLICK HERE TO SEND ENTRIES

Our Email : amudhan.rp@yahoo.com

9th Chennai Film Festival 2021 : Screening Schedule

9th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2021

3-7 March, multiple venues, Chennai

Schedule (subject to changes)

 
Day 01; 3 March; DOT School of Design

10 am Inauguration: Chief Guest - Trotsky Marudhu

10.30 am Shramjeevi

Dir: Tarun Bhartiya; 43.50 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2020; Documentary

11:30 Interaction with Hymanshu Singh (activist) & Sujata Mody (trade unionist)

12 pm Far from the Madding Crowd

Dir: Abeer Khan; 17.31 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; Documentary

12:20 pm Quarantine

Dir : Alisher Zhadigerov; 30 min; Kazak with Eng subtitles; Kazakhstan; 2020; Documentary

2 pm : Prashna ( Question)

Dir: Santosh Ram; 23.24 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Short film

2:35 pm From Trash to Treasure: turning negatives into positives

Dir: Iara Lee; 20 min; English; USA/Lesotho/Bulgaria; 2020; Documentary

3.15 Ifigeneia: no more tears

Dir: George Georgakopoulos; 17.40 min; Greek with Eng subtitles; Greece; 2019; Short film

3.50 pm Stains

Dir : Rhea Mathews; 30 min; English, Malayalam, Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Short film



Day 02; 4 March; Loyola College

9 am Inauguration

9.30 am to 11.00 am

Guest speaker : Dr. Jaisakthivel, University of Madras

Miangsho (The Meat)

Dir : Tathagata Ghosh; 19 min; Bengali with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Short film

GANTABYA - THE DESTINATION

Dir: Sahin Aktar; 27.36 min; Bengali with English subtitles; India; 2020; Short film

Pakheru (The One Who Flies)

Dir: Nazir Khan; 22 min; Bundeli, Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Short film

Tradition

Dir: Zhanuzak Mamytov; 13.09 min; Kyrgiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan; 2019; Short film

11.15 am to 12.30 pm

L for…


Dir : Bharati Kapadia; 13.13 min; English; India; 2017; Short film

Tisbea

Dir: Israel Ahumuda; 11 min; Spanish with Eng subtitles; Mexico; 2020; Short film

When We Open the Gate of the Sky

Dir: Pavel Bykovchenk; 6.35 min; Kirghiz with Eng subtitles; Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan; 2019; Short film

They are Dying


Dir : Dhananjay Bhawalekar; 28.37 min; Rajasthani, Hindi with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

1.30 pm to 3 pm

The World’s Last House

Dir : Amir Gholami; 16.19 min; Kurdish with Eng subtitles; Iran; 2019; Short film

Wantok

Dir : Dmitrii Komarov; 7 min; Tok Pisin with Eng subtitles; Papua New Guinea; Short film

Under the Stork’s Nest

Dir : Ani Oganesyan; 20 min; Armenian with Eng subtitles; Armenia; 2020; Short film

Hands and Wings

Dir : Sungbin BYUN; 15 min; Korean with Eng subtitles; South Korea; 2019; Short film

Kadachit

Dir : Suraj Shelar; 16.43 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Short film

3.15 to 4.00 pm

Living Dreams

Dir : Ritwik Baiju; 29 min; Malayalam with Eng subtitles; 2019

SABOOT (PROOF)

Dir : Nishtha Jain & Deepti Gupta; 21 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2019; Narrative; Retrospective

4 pm: Reflection and Closing Remarks

 
Day 03; 5 March; Periyar Thidal

11 am Inauguration

Chief Guest: Ravi Subramaniyan, Poet / Documentary filmmaker

11:15 am to 1 pm

Sikhirini Mwsanai (Dance of the Butterfly)

Dir. Subasri Krishnan; 65 min; Bodo, Hindi and English with Eng subtitles; India ; 2019; Documentary

Speleonaut / Under the Stone Sky


Dir: Sonja Đekić; 57 min; Serbian with Eng subtitles; Serbia; 2018; Documentary

2 – 5 pm

Guest speaker : Dr. Poarkodi

GULABI GANG

Dir : Nistha Jain; 96 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2012; Retrospective; Documentary

The Conflict

Dir : Debaranjan; 80 min; Oriya with Eng subtitles; Filmmaker in Focus; Documentary

5:15 to 8 pm

Two Autumns in Wyszogrod

Dir : Amit Mahanti & Ruchika Negi

60.03 min; Polish with Eng Subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

At Home Walking

Dir: Rajula Shah; 114 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2021; Documentary

Day 04; 6 March, Periyar Thidal

Guest Speaker : Amshan Kumar, filmmaker

11 am to 1 pm

Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse

Dir: Iara Lee; 58.17 min; English / Ukrainian / Russian with Eng subtitles; Ukraine/Slovakia/USA/Bulgaria; 2020; Documentary



Moti Bagh

Dir: Nirmal Chander; 59.23 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2019; India; Documentary

2 – 5 pm

Guest speaker : Vilasini, filmmaker

CITY OF PHOTOS

Dir : Nishtha Jain; 60 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2004; Retrospective

At The Crossroads

Dir : Debaranjan; 60 min; Oriya, Telugu and Kui with Eng subtitles; Filmmaker in Focus ; Documentary

1944. Crimea. Deportation

Dir: Fatima Osman, Yunus Pasha; 62 min; Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar with Eng subtitles; Ukraine; 2019; 
Documentary

5.15 – 8 pm

Guest speaker : Malini Jeevarathnam, filmmaker / activist

Mod Bhaang (Ebb Tide)

Dir : Renu Savant; 60 min; Marathi with Eng subtitles; India; 2019; Documentary


Over the Barriers

Dir : Banu Ramazanova; 60 min; Russian, Kazakh with Eng subtitles; Kazakhstan; 2020; Documentary


Those Stars in the sky

Dir : Debaranjan; 60 min; Oriya with Eng subtitles; Documentary; Filmmaker in Focus



Day 05; 7 March; Periyar Thidal

Guest speaker : Someetharan, filmmaker

10.30 am - 1.30 pm

LAKSHMI AND ME

Dir : Nishtha Jain; 59 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2007; Retrospective; Documentary

AT MY DOORSTEP

Dir : Nishtha Jain; 70 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles; 2009; Retrospective; Documentary


2-5 pm

Tamil short films and Documentaries

5.15 – 8 pm

21 Hours - of Toil, Travel and Trade


Dir: Sunitha C. V.; 28 min; Malayalam, English with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

Holy Rights

Dir : Farha Khatun; 53 min; Urdu with Eng subtitles; India; 2020; Documentary

7 pm : Closing remarks and reflection

 
Jointly organized by

DOT School of Design

Department of Visual Communication, Loyola College

Periyar Self Respect Media

And

MARUPAKKAM



Film Sections:

1) Tamil films

2) Indian films

3) International films

4) Retrospective : Nishtha Jain

5) Filmmaker in Focus : Deba Ranjan



For more details : www.chennaifilmfestival.blogspot.com

9th Chennai Film Festival 2021 : Tamil films

9வது சென்னை சர்வதேச ஆவணப்பட மற்றும் குறும்பட விழாவில்

தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்ட படங்கள் : 

1. ஐ யம் எ செக்குலரிஸ்ட் [ ஆவணப்படம்]

கதைக்கரு: இந்த ஆவணப்படம், தோழர் சிநேகா பார்த்திபராஜா அரசியல் சக்திகளிடம் சாதிமதம் மறுப்பு சான்றிதழ் பெற பத்து வருடம் போராடிய வரலாறை விவரிக்கிறது.

தொகுப்பு மற்றும் இயக்கம் - சூர்ய குமார் ஆறுமுகம்.


2. சாதி சனம்

கதை: இன்னும் இந்திய கிராமங்களில் தீண்டாமை நிலவுகிறது என்பதை உணர்த்தும் கதை.

எழுதி இயக்கியவர்: எஸ்.கார்த்திக் தமிழ்பிரியன்.


3. காரணம்

இயக்கம்: விக்னேஷ் பவித்திரன்.

கதைக்கரு:

எழுத்தாளர் சுஜாதா அவர்கள் எழுதிய சிறுகதை "காரணம்", நகரம் தொகுப்பில் 1971 ஆம் ஆண்டு வெளியானது

பெற்றோர்களின் நடத்தையால் அவர்களது மகன் எப்படி உளவியல் ரீதியாக பாதிக்கப்பட்டிருக்கிறான் என்பதை விளக்கும் கதை.


4. நான் யார்

எழுத்து,இயக்கம்: நிர்மல் நிர்மி.

கதைக்கரு: வலியவர்கள் எளியவர்களை வேட்டையாடும் உண்மைச்சம்பவத்தை அடிப்படையாக கொண்ட கதை.


5. நான் பேச நினைப்பதெல்லாம்

எழுத்து,இயக்கம்:நேசமணி.

நேரடி ஒலிப்பதிவு மற்றும் ஒலி வடிவமைப்பு:செந்தில் குமரன் சண்முகம்.

கதைக்கரு: இரு நண்பர்களுக்கிடையே இருந்தது நட்பா…காதலா…என்பதை விவரிக்கிறது திரைக்கதை.


6. லட்சுமி விலாஸ்

இயக்கம்: சோமசுந்தரம்.

கதைக்கரு: ஆணதிக்க சமூகத்தில் பெண்கள் வதை நிரந்தர வாதை என்பது உண்மை.

பெண்ணுரிமைக்கான குரலும் ஒரு குடம் விஷத்தில் ஒரு துளி பாலாக மறைந்து போகும் உண்மையையும் உரைக்கிறது.


7. பார்வை

எழுத்து,இயக்கம்: டினு [ டி.தினேஷ்குமார்]

கதைக்கரு: ஆணாதிக்க கோணல் பார்வையை நேராக்க முயலும் கதை.


8. மடமைக்கு அஞ்சேல்

எழுத்து&இயக்கம்: பாலமுருகன்,மலேசியா.

கதைக்கரு: மலேசியாவில் சகோதரனும் சகோதரியும் இணைந்து நாதஸ்வரம் மற்றும் தவில் வாசித்து வருகிறார்கள்.

அவர்களை படைப்பூக்கமாக கொண்டு இந்த குறும்படம் வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

ஆணாதிக்கத்தை விளாசி பெண் விடுதலையை பேசுகிறது.


9. பூட்ஸ்

இயக்கம்: ஆர்.சிவா.

திரைக்கதை மற்றும் தயாரிப்பு: ஆர்பி.வினு,மலேசியா.

கதைக்கரு: காவல்துறையின் அராஜக வரலாற்றின் ஒரு துளி.


10. சிரிக்கும் துர்கா

இயக்கம்: சரவணன் பழனிச்சாமி.

கதை மற்றும் திரைக்கதை: ஜி.அசோக் நவீன்.

கதைக்கரு: சமூகத்தில் இன்றும் நிலவும் குழந்தை திருமணத்தின் ஒரு சாட்சியாக திகழ்கிறது இக்கதை.


11. சவுண்டு

திரைக்கதை&இயக்கம்:சிநேகா பெல்சின்

கதைக்கரு: அதிகார வர்க்கத்தின் அத்துமீறலையும்,அடங்கி போகும் தன்மையையும் விமர்சிக்கும் திரைக்கதை.


12.மோடி&எ பியர்

எழுதி இயக்கியவர்:தினா சந்திரமோகன்

கதைக்கரு:  ஒரு வெற்றிகரமான காதல் அரசியல் விவாதத்தால் எப்படி உடைகிறது என்பதைப் பற்றி இப்படம் பேசுகிறது.


13. எழில்

கதை,திரைக்கதை,ஒளிப்பதிவு,இயக்கம்:விமல்ராஜ்,இலங்கை.

கதைக்கரு: தமிழ் ஈழ விடுதலைக்காக போராடிய மாவீரர்களை போற்றி பாதுகாக்க வேண்டும் என்பதை வலியுறுத்தும் கதை.


14.சுயரூபம்

திரைக்கதை,ஒளிப்பதிவு,நேரடி ஒலிப்பதிவு,ஒலி வடிவமைப்பு,தொகுப்பு,இயக்கம்:செந்தில் குமரன் சண்முகம்.

கதை:கு.அழகிரிசாமி.

கதைக்கரு:சாதிய பெருமிதம் சோறு போடாது என்ற எளிய உண்மையை உரைக்கும் கதை.

[உலகிலேயே முதன்முதலாக திரையிடப்படுகிறது]

நிகழ்ச்சி அமைப்பு: மறுபக்கம் அமைப்பு, மதுரை.

ஒருங்கிணைப்பாளர்: இயக்குநர் ஆர்.பி.அமுதன்.


தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்ட படங்களின் படைப்பாளிகள், தொழில்நுட்பக்கலைஞர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் வாழ்த்துகள்.


அன்புடன்,

உலக சினிமா பாஸ்கரன்,

இன்ஷா அல்லாஹ் திரைப்பட இயக்குநர்.