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Shorts Program 1Antaral (End Note)ASHISH AVIKUNTHAK (appearing in person)
Featuring: Ashwini Deo, Aditi Deo, Kuheli Das Beware DogsSPANDAN BANERJEE (appearing in person)
Midnight Lost and FoundATUL SABHARWAL
Featuring: Deepak Dobriyal, Geetika Tyagi RewindATUL TAISHETE
Haravele Indradhanush (The Lost Rainbow)DHIRAJ MESHRAM
Featuring: Chinmay Patwardhan, Omkar Pendse, Anupama Rajopadhye, Rajesh Mehendale The Private Life of Albert PintoSIDHARTH SINGH
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Three women who attended school together meet later in life and rekindle their
friendships. Each shares a secret about another one of them with the third.
Antaral is a cinematic adaption of Samuel Beckett's 1967 short play,
Come and Go.
Beware Dogs follows four musicians in the groundbreaking rock band
Indian Ocean as they work on a film score over the course of a day. Individually
and collectively, they discuss their lives, their fears, their hopes, and their
music. We hear their moods and traditions reflected in their music that wafts
through the crumbling old mansion in old Delhi where they are being filmed;
and we witness the process of their musical creation. Indian Ocean has done
the soundtracks of several independent movies.
Arvind works nights, alone, behind the iron bars of a chemist shop in Mumbai. He passes the time reading Batman comics. When he develops a relationship with a prostitute who buys condoms each night from the shop, their conversations help Arvind break free and find his own inner superhero. The film won the Jury Award for best short film at this year's Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
The story of three thieves, one blind, is shown backwards. After cracking a safe filled with diamonds, they decide to play Russian Roulette. The survivor will keep all.
When a young man goes to the ancestral temple with his new bride, his brother, his brother's wife and their son, he recalls the last summer that he and his brother spent time with their grandmother. With this recollection comes a guilt he had long suppressed. Meshram received the Gold Award for Excellence in Short Fiction from the India Documentary Producers' Association for the film's "... evocative use of the language of cinema blended in a simple, yet strong & sensitive [style] that unveils the tiny skirmishes of life between siblings & the experiences of childhood that they look back on as adults."
Albert Pinto is a struggling actor in the dynamic film industry in Mumbai, going from one audition to the next. But then a series of phone calls introduce us to the private realm of Albert Pinto, who turns out to be a deeply complex person playing many not-very-light roles in real life.