11th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2023
20-28 Feb; multiple venues, Chennai
Day 01, 20 February; 9 am to 4 pm : DOT School of Design, Ambattur
9 am : Inauguration
9.30 to 10.45
My Heart is an Ocean
Dir: Tanvi Jadwani; 21:50; India; Short film
As the water recedes the reclaimed shore of Mumbai every evening, three children living on its shore in a small fishing ghetto come out to play on this temporary playground. The sea dictates game of the day.
Mask
Dir: Xiong bo lan; 18:11; China; Short film
Chinese-American Wang Hao is a marathon runner. After the epidemic in 2020, his family died one after another. Physically disabled due to Covid-19 and its complications, he is confined to a wheelchair, and today he received a mask that will allow him to travel back in time to see his family again.
Chun Chun Maati
Dir: Sanjay Barnela; 10:35; India; Documentary
This cine-poem, Chun Chun Maati, attempts to evoke the eternal spirit of pastoral communities roaming with their animals across the planet in a way of life that is deeply attuned to nature, bringing out their resilience, fortitude and the value of impermanence!
The Challengers
Dir : Rhonda Chan Soo; 21 min; Trinidad and Tobago; Documentary
“The Challengers”, a competitive underdog volleyball club, nurtures community for Venezuelan refugees and asylum-seekers in Trinidad and Tobago.
11 am to 12 pm
Dukhu Majhi - Son of the barren land
Dir: Somnath Mondal; 28:25; India; Documentary
This documentary is regarding a relentless struggle of a solitary man in his unique way to save the mother earth.
Bully
Dir: Alejandro Mendoza Llopis; 9:30; United states; Documentary
How does it feel when your classmates point at you, insult you, and hit you for being different, or even more unfair, just for fun? Bullying is a reality... Bullying is unwanted and aggressive behavior among school-age children that involves a real or perceived imbalance of power.
Footprints
Dir : Tathagata Ghosh; 23 min; India; Short film
Pampa, a single mother and a lower caste slum dweller, works as domestic help for a dysfunctional middle class family. As her world comes crashing down at work one day, Pampa must stand up for herself by blurring the lines between the master and the maid.
1 pm to 2.15 pm
It's Not About London
Dir: Tam Lai; 12:24; United Kingdom; Documentary
A Poetic experimental documentary that I compiled and re-wrote the interviewees' answers into a poem. Then, based on the poem, we shot the visual around London and in the studio with the minimum crew.
Duswapna
Dir: Jay Kholia; 13:00; India; Short film
The long poem Duswapna (Nightmare) addressed to a woman named Mrinal (which in Sanskrit would mean Delicate or Lotus) paints strange pictures in colors and sounds; aurality / visuality of which adds to the woman’s anonymity.
Kubra
Dir: Mélanie Trugeon; 11:11; France; Documentary
Kubra is an Afghan performing artist and a refugee based in Paris. Her body is the medium she's chosen to search for her own history. Her connection to the world and to the body is transformed by her current situation but her art remains condemned. Is fighting the only way for Kubra to be in this world?
Flamingos 5895m N.N.
Dir: Fabian Rieke; 7:20; Germany; Documentary
The Film is about the archives we create of our lives. My grandfather projects his carefully numbered die positives in his basement. They are the proof of his mountain adventures back in the days of his youth. The positives are filmed on 16mm negative and come to live anew, while the memory fades.
The Orphanage of Records
Dir: Remo Carlo Notarianni; 19:15; Hong Kong; Documentary
Music lover Paul Au escaped war-torn Vietnam in 1975 to live in Hong Kong, where he fulfilled his dream of owning a record shop. His passion for vinyl has endured in an age of digital music.
When the Mill Hill Trees Spoke to Me
Dir : Kirsikka Paakkinen; 17.30 min; Sweden; Short film
The filmmaker returns to her childhood village. As she looks at her own past and the place’s history, a poetic investigation into the relationship between human and nature takes form.
2.30 to 4 pm
Kazhicho?
Dir: Darpan Bajaj; 30:00; India; Documentary
An observational & experimental documentary that captures a mundane life of a Son, her mother, their cat & kittens co- existing at Andaman & Nicobar island, together symbolising the "being in itself”.
Like the Flowing River
Dir: Neelansh Mittra; 29:03; India; Documentary
Fillide
Dir: Anna Concetta Corsarino, Jonathan Soverchia; 15:00; Italy; Short film
For a mysterious reason every individual on earth is motionless. Of wax. They are all alive, they breathe, they communicate with their eyes, but they are still. They watch the days go by with the seasons.
Mother
Dir: Anupjyoti Choudhury; 19:39; India; Short film
“Aai” is a short film bringing to light such personal turmoil that the youth of the state had to go through to realise their dream of liberating their land and when the youth of the land suffer & their families also feel the heat of the fire burning within them.
How to Build a House out of Wreckage and Rags
Dir: Bernd Lützeler; 8:00; Germany; Short film
Found footage: California in the 1950's and 60's. A young Indian couple enjoys their personal American dream come true in their home somewhere in the suburbs of San Francisco. In great detail they demonstrate their newly achieved wealth in front of their Super-8 camera. Like postcards, they would send these film rolls to their families back in India.
Around the same time, an American missionary couple visits the city of Calcutta to shoot a Christian propaganda film. The drastic reality of poverty and famine in the streets of the Indian metropolis fits perfectly into their wicked plan: To promote the believe in Christ by showing the misery that pagan believers are doomed to suffer from.
Jointly organised by DOT School of Design & MARUPAKKAM
For more details : www.chennaifilmfestival.blogspot.com
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