Marupakkam Film Festival, Chennai
Contemporary Indian and International Documentaries & Interactions!
12,13 July 2025
Curated by Amudhan RP
Schedule (subject to confirmation) **
12 July, Discovery Book Palace
11 am to 5 pm
11 am to 1 pm
Only if the Baby Cries...
Dir: Shadab Farooq; 14:58 min; Documentary; India
Synopsis: In the world's only deaf-mute village where silence reigns, tension mounts as Misra Khatoon approaches childbirth. The villagers surround her home and beat drums seeking a response from the newborn.
Dreams Awaken (Jaagte Khwaab)
Dir: Aprajita Gupta; 18:54 min; Documentary; India
Synopsis: If dreams had eyes of their own, would they see reality for what it is? A queer desire transcends from a night's dream to the day's reality when the Filmmaker starts Filming her everyday. The camera becomes the 'I' and travels through spaces to seek an understanding of its puzzled sense of being. The Film is a jumbled self-expression.
I'm Afraid it's Not Good to Say
Dir: ZHU YUAN KUN; 13:00 min; Documentary; China
Synopsis: In a cacophony of lively phone messages and news clippings, a 15-year-old boy juggles academic pressures and new romance, while celebrating low expectations and homemade Film. The dialogues in the Film were all taken from an old cell phone that the director had forgotten about for 12 years. I plugged in my phone and turned it on. Welcome aboard the Time Travel Machine and step into the middle school era of the generation born in 1995 of mainland China.
Blue Mountain. White Cloud.
Dir: Miglė Križinauskaitė Bernotienė; 10:42 min; Documentary; Lithuania
Synopsis: There is a story circulating among Zen Buddhist monks about two types of monks. First ones are settled and spend all their life in a monastery, they are identified with the blue mountains, while others are like white clouds – constantly traveling from one place to another. In the Film, the Filmmaker and Won Bo Sunim, a Lithuanian woman who decided to go to South Korea more than 20 years ago and become a Zen monk, embark on a journey in the mountains of South Korea.
Dogumentary
Dir: Ilina Perianova; 26:31 min; Documentary; Bulgaria
Synopsis: Since she was little, Asya has been taking care of stray dogs at the Nadezhda shelter, where her mother worked as a caretaker. Years later, they remember this period of their lives as one of the best. The Film also introduces us to hunters from the municipal enterprise "Ekoravnovesie" as they travel around Sofia and encounter various cases related to the homeless animals. Filmed over the course of 12 years.
2 pm to 5 pm
My Dad is a Lightning Researcher
Dir: Iryna Shostak; 18:00 min; Documentary; Ukraine
Synopsis: My Dad is a Lightning Researcher is a documentary Film reflection. A daughter attempts to decipher and memorize the "universe of her dad", a lightning researcher, whom, as it turned out after his death, she never fully got to know. Neither him nor his lasting legacy. This is her attempt to think about how long our memory lasts about the people who meant something to us, who did something and created something next to us. The Film attempts to Fix the Fleeing clues of memory in time to keep it longer. And, of course, it is her attempt to remember everything or at least something he was for her.
Amores hallarás
Dir: Saro Vallejo; 29:11 min; Short Fiction; Switzerland
Synopsis: On the move, along the roads of the Ecuadorian Andes, we are transported to random moments in everyday life. Without appropriating what we observe, we continue the journey.
In the footsteps of the Andalusi clay
Dir: Dany Ruz; 28:00 min; Documentary; Spain
Synopsis: Traditional pottery is a production method and way of life on the verge of extinction. In the province of Almerıá ,this ancient craft is still alive.Through interviews with potters and their work on the wheel, painting, decanting clay, lead glazing, placing ceramics inside the kiln or Firing in an old kiln, we have recreated this ancient tradition that has been handed down from generation to generation, surviving and transforming itself. From the search for clay and raw materials to the breaking of the kiln door to extract the pieces after Firing, this work highlights the potter's craft as a sign of a people's identity and part of our intangible heritage.
Graciela
Dir: Laura Bermú dez; 19:00 min; Documentary; Honduras
Synopsis: Through a poetic journey into her granddaughter's memory, we discover the story of Graciela Bográn, the First woman in the history of Honduras to become part of a government cabinet.
Cinema Pe Cinema
Dir: Vani Subramanian; 01:02:39 min; Documentary; India
Synopsis: An act of resistance against forgetting single screen cinema theatres as they shutter down across India. An effort to keep the memories of some Films alive through traces of their audio and visual ephemera. A shared cinematic space in which diverse audiences speak of complex single screen theatre-going experiences.
13 July, Periyar Thidal
11 am to 1 pm
Messi, Maradona & Tremenheere
Dir: Logesh S; 20:33 min; Documentary; India
Synopsis: In Vadakarai village of Tamil Nadu, Tremenheere Sports Academy, a budding football academy strives to set a stage for school going children to break the endless cycle of bonded agricultural labour.
The Specter of Marx
Dir: Yuting Lam; 27:00 min; Documentary; Hong Kong
Synopsis: A curious Karl Marx drifts away from his grave to follows a mysterious man around London, to see what he is up to.
Mayalou (My Beloved)
Dir: Pratishtha Chhetri; 01:22:17 min; Documentary; India
Synopsis: This documentary Film is a personal journey into the lives of my elderly aunts, exploring the impact of family separation. Raised differently because their father could only afford education for one, one sister went to boarding school while the other stayed home to care for the family. The Film champions women's independence, showing their right to live fully even as they age alone, far from their children.
2 pm to 5 pm
Forbidden Pilgrimage
Dir: Ellen Vermeulen; 01:22:00 min; Documentary; Belgium
Synopsis: In 1952 Marie-Louise Chapelle was the First French woman to stand on a virgin peak in the Himalayas. In 2022, the director embarks on a journey to the same summit to understand the remarkable woman she was. During 50 years she spent six months living a normal life while retreating the other six months in the mountains. How would she combine an unfathomable passion with the daily chores of family life? An intimate story about an unsolvable contradiction as well as a physical
journey through a terrain of snow and ice, guided by two female voices who engage in a dialogue with each other.
Flickering Lights
Dir: Anupama Srinivasan, Anirban Dutta; 01:30:00 min; Documentary; India
Synopsis: Near the Indo-Myanmar border, far from the Indian mainland and mainstream consciousness, there is a village of the Naga community called Tora. Years of neglect coupled with a long history of insurgency have meant that basic civic amenities are conspicuous by their absence. Seventy years after Indian independence, the people of Tora hear that electricity is Finally on its way. They are wary as they have been let down too often in the past. As pits are dug and poles erected, Khamrang, the grand old man of the village, watches with a skeptical eye. His real dream is to see his people attain sovereignty. Jasmine, a pragmatic woman, sees an opportunity in the coming of electricity and dreams of buying a refrigerator to support her children's education. As the installation work proceeds in a bizarre and haphazard way, life Flickers between hope and frustration. Does electricity arrive in Tora? When it does, will it bring the promised joy?
**yet to receive the consent from the filmmakers
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