One Sileti colloquial film finds international audience
The present state of affairs of
The films are ‘Children of the River: The Xihus of Assam’ (direction: Mauleenath Senapati), ‘Distant Rumblings’ (Bani Prakash Das), ‘The Brew of Eastern Clouds’ (Tinat Atifa Masood), ‘Sand Castle’ (Pramod Das), and ‘Kunir Kutil Dosha – The elbow in exile’ (Altaf Mazid). Wiebke A.C. Reiss, the Programme Director of the festival attended the MIFF 2008 (Mumbai International Film festival of Short, Documentary and Animation films) and picked up two films from the competition section – ‘The Xihus of Assam’ and ‘Distant Rumblings’. ‘The Brew of Eastern Clouds’ and ‘
It is to be noted that it was the ‘Bollywood and Beyond’ and Wiebke A.C. Reiss who discovered the artistic uniqueness in Jyotiprasad Agarwalla’s ‘Joymoti’ and invited the film for international premier in their 2006 edition.
Website of the festival: http://www.filmbuerobw.de
Film details:
1. Children of the River: The Xihus of
Synopsis: The 3000 kilometre-long river
2. The Brew of Eastern Clouds, 28 min., Betacam-SP, Dir: Tinat Atifa Masood, English
Synopsis: In 1838 the Englishman Charles Alexander Bruce brought black tea from Assam to London for the first time – until then tea was a luxury good for the upper-class. Bruce observed how the people from Singpho in
3. Distant Rumblings, 22 min., Betacam-SP, Dir: Bani Prakash Das, English
Synopsis: In 1942 the Japanese armed forces began their offence against
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Synopsis: In the Indian region
5. Kunir Kutil Dosha (The elbow in exile), 12 min., Betacam SP, Dir: Altaf Mazid, Sileti with English subtitles
Synopsis: Descriptions of the human body have always had a high value in poetry and prose, even today in times of the internet. From the tip of the hair to the toes every part of the body, especially the female one, got treated in poems. Just one part of the human being is ignored till now: the elbow.
Kunir Kutil Dosha is based on an article by noted novelist Roma Bezbarua. Bibhu Ranjan Choudhury has done the Sileti translation of the film text. He has also lent his voice for background narration. The English translation of the sub-titles is by Saurav Kumar Chaliha. Local screening of the film was held in Adda’s 2007 film festival of 31st October and now Bollywood and Beyond is going to open it for the international audience.
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