NYIFF 2019

Thursday May 9, 2019 @ 6:00 pm, Auditorium 2
Village East Cinemas, 2nd Ave @ 12th Street, NYC.

SINDHUSTAN
2019 | India | 61 mins | English
Directed: Sapna Bhavnani
Cast - Leila Advani, Laj Badlani, Chaho Bhara, K.C Bhavnani, Sapna Bhavnani, Sundri Keswani, Haji Muhammad, Sunder Nachnaney, Jairam Rupani, Anila Sunder, Kamla Thakur, Dada Vaswani, Yogesh Waghmare

World Premiere

Post Screening Q&A with director Sapna Bhawnani

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-6AGCrpz0

Synopsis: A decade ago, I was visiting India after living in America for 14 years. My body was considerably inked by then. One afternoon while lunching with my grandma, an inked woman herself, I found myself trying to cover my inked body. She caressed my ink and said, “Sapna, you’re so old fashioned. You know, when we first came as a human race, we all had our markings, we all looked like you. I’m happy to see to you are going back to our roots, your roots.” “What!” This entire time I was getting inked rebelling Indian culture and expectations of being and looking like an “Indian” woman.
This was the afternoon that changed me forever.
My documentary will include stories from India and Sindh (Pakistan) and mine, illustrating their journey on my skin. My legs, symbolising our journey and my feet, the lack of our roots. My body is already half tattooed and after this I will be complete and go back to my roots as my grandma said.

Director: Sapna has naturally assumed poster-child status as a powerful female figure. She traverses mainstream success with just as much ease as she skirts the underground youth art & culture movement. Ageless, fearless and forever metamorphosing in her endeavours. Sapna has recently begun giving her celebrity-hood the voice of an activist.
Just recently Sapna was awarded the “IBelieve” award by Savvy Magazine and the “FemEmpowerment” Award by Zee Tv for her work with ex sex workers by starting a free hair academy called Path
Currently Sapna is writing a book for Harper Collins tentatively titled “Chapter One” and editing a documentary she has been working on for 5 years called “Sindhustan.”
Actor, spoken word artist, hair stylist, writer, director, producer- Sapna embodies it all as a visionary and change-maker. No matter how many times she evicts herself, the public always votes her back in!
The rest, like they say, is her story.

Social Media Handles:
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram

Film URL: http://www.sindhustanthedocumentary.com/

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Thursday May 9, 2019 @ 6:15 pm, Auditorium 3
Village East Cinemas, 2nd Ave @ 12th Street, NYC.

CHEGU
2018 | India | 94 mins | Bengali (with English subtitles)
Directed by - Nabamita Ghosh
Cast – Ishan, Aurnima, Sudipta Chakraborty, Ena Saha, Chandan Sen, Vinay Pathak

US Premiere

Synopsis: This is a story of an Indian teenager, Mansur who transcends from a footloose, reckless young boy to a revolutionary. Alam fancied Guevara to be a rockstar but when he discovers true Guevara, he undergoes radical changes and sets to bring reform.

Director: Nabamita Ghosh is an Indian Film Director. 'Chegu' will be her debut Feature Film. She is best known for her work in theatre groups in West Bengal. With 'Chegu' she will create a huge foot print in Bengali Cinema.

Social Media Handles: http://krmoviez.com/chegu.html

Thursday May 9, 2019 @ 6:30 pm, Auditorium 4
Village East Cinemas, 2nd Ave @ 12th Street, NYC.

THE SOUND MAN: MANGESH DESAI
2017 | India | 113 mins | English and Hindi (with English subtitles)
Directed by - Subash Sahoo
Cast - Uday Girkar – Younger Mangesh Desai

Post Screening Q&A with director Subash Sahoo

Synopsis: Mangesh Desai was a giant in the world of Sound Recording & Mixing who recorded and mixed most Bollywood films of his time. Apart from Bollywood, producers and directors from all over India approached him for mixing. His understanding of the craft and technique was unparalleled. The New York Times rated him among top 10 sound mixing engineers of the world.
Producers queued up at his door waiting for his mixing dates. Gulshan Rai, the producer of director Yash Chopra’s 'Deewar' and 'Kabhi Kabhi' lost faith in the films but Mangesh’s tips on re-shooting and re-editing made those cult classics a commercial success.
His dynamic range of work goes from the artistic extremes of Satyajit Ray and Shyam Benegal’s art films to Manmohan Desai’s commercial films. He could blend himself according to the needs of the subject, the film and the director.
Before being a gifted technician Mangesh Desai was a freedom fighter, a nationalist and a patriot. As a freedom fighter he fought the British with smuggled revolvers and self-made bombs. He died due to complications beyond human control. He was a legend by all its definitions.

Director: An electronics and communication degree engineer from FTII Pune and Post-graduation Diploma in Films Specialization in Sound. Subash worked in the Mumbai film Industry for almost 24 years and did Sync Sound Recording and Sound Designing for more than 110 films.

Social Media Handles:
https://www.facebook.com/The-Sound-Man-Mangesh-Desai-316645908922152/

Reviews:
https://www.filmcompanion.in/documentary-sound-man-mangesh-desai-mumbai-film-festival-2018/amp/
https://asianmoviepulse.com/2018/11/the-sound-man-mangesh-desai-2017-by-subash-sahoo/
https://scroll.in/reel/898919/unsung-hero-pope-of-sound-a-documentary-resurrects-legendary-mixing-engineer-mangesh-desai

Thursday May 9, 2019 @ 6:30 pm, Auditorium 5
Village East Cinemas, 2nd Ave @ 12th Street, NYC.

SALUTE
2018 | India | 140 mins | Punjabi, Haryanvi & Hindi (with English subtitles)
Directed by – Harish Arora
Cast - Nav Bajwa, Jaspinder Cheema

Post Screening Q&A with director Harish Arora

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcEqPQURAY

Synopsis: The movie is based on personal interaction with young war widows & inspired by true events of their lives. Instead of saluting these “Veeranganas”, they are targeted, misbehaved and sexually assaulted by their own relatives and society. Highlighting heart rending fact that the death compensation amount paid to the war-widows are extracted by black mailing them emotionally. No one appears to understand their agonies and helplessness. Through this feature film, we want to spread this strong message of love towards nation, society & family. These “veer narees” and their children deserve the love and respect from the society and A.W.W.A. (Army Wives Welfare Association) is always there to support them to live in the society with dignity. Through this feature film, we want to spread multiple strong messages of inter-caste marriage, drug/alcohol addiction, “Beti bachao, Beti Padhao”, women empowerment and love towards nation.

Director: Born at Dujana, District Jhajjar (Haryana) on 12.07.1949, done Mechanical Engineering from Government Polytechnic, Jhajjar (Haryana).
Art / Cultural / Cinema activities
I was a born artist. During my school / college time, I had performed stage programmes in the various occasions / youth festivals and received various awards
Year 1964 to 1985
In year 1964, I have constituted a Ramlila Club in Dujana and remained as unopposed Chairman of the club till 1985. Apart from conducting Ramlila every year, I had played the key roles as Veer Haqiqat Rai, Veer Bhagat Singh, Pooran Bhagat, Bhagat Sur Dass (Bilwa Mangal), Sikandar Poras, Daanvir Karan & Veer Abhimanyu. Our club’s aim was to create awareness among the young generation to keep alive our heritage culture.
Year 1986 to 2003
In 1986 shifted to Delhi and to carry forward my journey of arts, I associate myself with Ashok Vihar Ramlila Committee till 2003. In 1989, I produced and acted the most popular Haryanvi Film “Zar, Zoru aur Zameen. My character role in film as "Chaudhary Pratap Singh" gave me a big fame and appreciations by then Chief Minister and Dy. Minister of Haryana and by all walks of society.
Year 2018 : I directed film “SALUTE” (Punjabi) and also performed the role of Brig. R.K. Singh.

Social Media Handles:
https://www.facebook.com/HarishAroraUsa/

Thursday May 9, 2019 @ 9:00 pm, Auditorium 2
Village East Cinemas, 2nd Ave @ 12th Street, NYC.

SIVARANJANI AND TWO OTHER WOMEN
Orig Title: Sivaranjaniyum innum sila pengallum
Director: Vasanth S. Sai
Cast: Parvathy Thiruvothu, Lakshmi Priya Chandramouli, Kalieswari Srinivasan
Language: Tamil (with English subtitles)
Production Country: India
Running Time: 2 hrs 3 mins

Post Screening Q&A with director Vasanth Sai

Festivals/Awards:

20th Mumbai Film Festival 2018 - Special Mention: Oxfam Award for Best Film on Gender Equality
23rd International Film Festival of Kerala 2018
17th Pune International Film Festival 2019
40th Goteberg Sweden International Film Festival 2019
11th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2019 – Winner, Best Film – Asia Cinema Competition
18th Tiburon International Film Festival 2019
19th New York International Film Festival 2019

Synopsis:
You can’t keep a good woman down! That is the clear warning to men in this superb, heart-warming study of women in modern-day India, “Sivaranjani and Two Other Women”, which is based on three stories taken from prominent Tamil writers. In the first, a lazy husband gets emotionally and physically abusive with his wife. In a more affluent setting, an educated and successful daughter-in-law is denied her right to privacy by her extended family. While elsewhere, the hopes of an aspiring sports champion are crushed when she is married off into a modern middle-class family.
But all three women rise to these challenges with such energy and gusto that, by the end of the film, they will have you standing up to applaud and cheer them on.

Director’s Note:
The home, considered the safest space for women, is where the casual sexism and entrenched misogyny plays out in the everyday routines of countless women across the world. 'Sivaranjani and Two other women’ is a sensitive capturing of the micro awakenings of identity, space and self-worth when family dynamics, early marriage and pregnancy threaten to usurp the individuality of three different women.
The film is a tribute to their inner strength and courage against casual sexism and patriarchy.

Director: Vasanth S Sai is an Indian film director and screenwriter, working in the Tamizh film industry.
He began his career as a journalist and short story writer, before he began working as an assistant director to legendary Tamizh film Director K. Balachander on 18 films. He made his directorial debut with Keladi Kanmani (Listen, my dear). The film was a major critical and box office success. He followed it up, with Aasai (Desire), Rhythm, Sathum Podathey (Don’t make a Sound) and Visaranai Commission (Inquiry Commission), to name a few. He also has directed short films and documentaries. His newest offering 'Sivaranjaniyum innum sila pengalum' ('Sivaranjani and two other women') is based on the short stories of iconic Tamizh writers Ashokamitran, Jayamohan and Aadavan. To date, Vasanth S. Sai has directed a total of 14 feature films,15 short films and documentaries.

Link to Trailer (39 seconds):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQdx7vDg968&feature=youtu.be

Links to Reviews
Movie Crow – Sivaranjani and Two Other Women, Festival Column
Best of IFFK 2018- Episode 02- Sivaranjiniyum innum sila pengallum (Malayalam)
Best Tamil Films of 2018, Baradwaj Rangan
IFFK Audience Response, Sivaranjaniyum Innum Sila Pengalum Audience Response

Shorts B
Thursday May 9, 2019 @ 9:15 pm, Auditorium 3
Village East Cinemas, 2nd Ave @ 12th Street, NYC.

AWAKE 2019
2018 | India | 23 mins | English
Directed by – Atul Mongia
Cast: Ishika Mohan, Nicholos Brown, Reshmy Kurian, Suhaas Ahuja, Yudhishtar Urs

Synopsis: Sameera (35), upper middle class, successful photographer, is happily married to her husband Vikram (37), who is comatose! She seems very accustomed and normal in her circumstance. They live their lives happily like any other married couple. But all is not rosy as she slowly feels pressure from friends as well as her own desires that sometimes pull at her. 'Awake' is an intimate bittersweet drama that through the mundanity of an everyday relationship, explores the fine line between love and control.

Director: Atul Mongia is an Indian Casting Director, Acting Workshop Director, Writer and Filmmaker who lives and works in Mumbai, India. He started his career with Barry John (theatre director), training under him and later teaching at his acting school for two years in New Delhi. He moved to Mumbai in 2002 and briefly worked with Writer/Director Sudhir Mishra. He conducted independent acting workshops and made indie short films before being called to cast for Dibakar Banerjee’s 'Love Sex Aur Dhokha' in 2010. Atul has done casting for about 10 feature films and conducted acting workshops for about 50 feature films and digital series. In addition to being an assistant director on films like 'LSD' (2010), Atul was the associate director on 'Ragini MMS' (2011), 'Lootera' (2014) and 'Titli' (2016)

SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4155080/

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BINNU: LIFE AND TIMES
2018 | India | 31 mins | Hindi (with English subtitles)
Directed by – Kanu Behl
Cast: Chetan Sharma, Anamica Kadamb, Suman Jain

Synopsis: Binnu has grown up hearing about his mother's first slap, 25 years ago; hit by his father merely for emerging from the same room as her own brother-in-law. Many years later, he leaves home. At a party, he sleeps with his Boss’ daughter, thinking he's fallen in love. Only to be rejected by her the next day.
He falls into deep depression. In a new city, he roams the streets alone. Then engages himself in another romance. But something is not quite right. Slowly, a strange paranoia begins to engulf him. ‘Binnu Ka Sapna’ delves deep into a malignant mindset, trying to bare the ticking time bombs around us and illuminate the wicks that light them.

Director: After dabbling in radio, copywriting, acting and theatre, Kanu Behl studied at the Satyajit Ray Film and TV Institute, Kolkata, majoring in Film Direction. His first documentary, 'An Actor Prepares' landed in competition at Cinema du Reel. Next, he directed and produced three more docs for NHK Japan, ZDF and ARTE. In 2010, he co-wrote 'LSD' with Dibakar Banerjee. In 2014, his debut feature 'Titli' premiered at Un Certain Regard,Cannes.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE
http://www.binnukasapna.com

Reviews:
https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/binnu-ka-sapna-review-kanu-behls-wickedly-intelligent-short-film-is-rooted-in-endless-empathy-for-the-ordinary-5948021.html
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/titli-directors-short-film-to-compete-at-clermont-ferrand-international-short-film-festival/articleshow/67626552.cms
https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/from-gully-boy-to-delhi-crime-story-a-bunch-of-gritty-films-are-all-set-for-the-winter-festival-circuit/article26088867.ece/amp/

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EVENING
2018 | India | 26 mins | Marathi (with English subtitles)
Directed by – Anupam Barve
Cast: Pushkaraj Chirputkar, Sayalee Phatak

Synopsis: Blurring the lines between knowing someone all too well and not knowing them at all, open wounds and closely tied knots, 'Evening' is a simmering encounter between two former lovers. The question is - Is there ever such a thing as closure?

Director: Anupam Barvé is a filmmaker and film educator based in Pune. He holds a BA in Performing Arts from the University of Pune and a MA in Directing: Film and TV from the University of Westminster, London. He is the recipient of ‘Scholarship to outstanding Performing Artistes’ by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India for research and practice in the field of Theatre.
He has recently finished producing and directing a web series in eight parts based on stories around sexuality and self-efficacy for a Pune based NGO.
His previous work has showcased and received critical acclaim at film festivals and competitions worldwide like London Asian Film Festival, New York Indian Film Festival and LUMS Film Festival, Lahore. His film “Fresh suicide” was, nominated for the Golden Palm Tree Award at IFFI, Goa and has won various awards at Pune Short Film Festival. He has also won Best Director at Smita Patil Film Festival, Pune for his film “So What! Transitioning Positively”.
His feature film screenplay “The Shadow Lines” was also selected at NFDC’s Screenwriters’ Lab and Film Bazaar held at Venice Film Festival and International Film Festival of India in 2012.

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FOOL FOR LOVE
2018 | India | 14 mins | Hindi (with English subtitles)
Directed by - Satarupa Sanyal
Cast – Anurag Kashyap, Ritabhari Chakraborthy, Agastya Verma

Trailer: https://youtu.be/glwND65EAx4

Synopsis: 'Fool For Love' is a tribute to Pulitzer Award winner playwright Sam Shepard who passed away in July’2017. The film title is same as his play 'Fool for Love' but our story is completely different, though the structure is inspired from the screenplay of the same.
It narrates the story of an Anglo Indian couple Allan and Beatrice(Bittu). Beatrice who lives in one of the Christian dominant areas of Mumbai, India is visited by her husband one night after almost two years of disappearance.
Bittu has carried baggage of emotions and spent days with emptiness and void without him. She feels she should finally let go of all that. Allan on the other hand just wants to be with his wife.
What follows is a night of passion, anger, romance, emotions and brawls of this couple, whose fate cannot be decided by themselves.
Their love story is bleak, poetic and surreal yet real just like Shepard’s plays.

Director: Satarupa Sanyal is a multi-talented personality, she is known as an Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Singer, Lyricist, Poet. She took interest in film acting since 1985 when she was a student . She took part in the lead role of a Doordarshan play title 'Sukh' directed by Santoo Basu in the year 1985 where she has the opportunity to work with Smt Saraju Devi and Ajit Bandopadhyay .
In 1985 acted in a Hindi Film based on Tagore short story titled "Aparichita", under the direction of Utpalendu Chakrabarty for Doordarshan National Network. Anupam Kher, Abhishek Chatterjee, Abhijit Sen and Pallabi Mehata were her co artistes in this film.
In 1986 , she acted in "Uttaradhikar" a film on communal harmony produced by Films Division,directed by Amar Bhattacharjee.In 1987 ,she acted in the lead role of a highly acclaimed telefilm for Doordarshan Kolkata titled "Bikalpa" based on the story of Narendranath Mitra ,directed by Utpalendu Chakrabarty.
After that she has acted in "Sukher Jonne", "Prasab" and "Bhanga Aiyna" and after that she left acting and she got involved in film production works. She worked as an Assistant Director & associated script writer to Utpalendu Chakrabarty for seven years
She takes part regularly in various social activities, debates, elocution, seminars. She also worked as external examiner for Jadavpur University (West Bengal) and Assam University (Silchar, Assam) in Mass Communication. For the President award for All Indian Radio, she worked as a Jury in the year 2001. Now she is one of the Honourable member of Central Board of Film Certification (Censor Board).
Since 1981 a Bengali Quarterly little Magazine name "Aa" had been published under her Editorship. She also contributes short stories, poem, essayers regularly for the leading periodicals and magazines. ANU was her own short story published in "Sananda", the leading Women’s magazine from Kolkata (India)

Social Media Handles:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9358916/

Reviews:
https://www.thedigitalhash.com/large-short-films-fool-for-love-shows-anurag-kashyap-at-his-emotional-best/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/fool-for-love-an-ever-relevant-story-of-illusions-of-love/articleshow/67944297.cms
https://www.femina.in/bengali/celebrity/tolly/anurag-kashyap-acts-in-film-produced-by-ritabhari-1473.html?fbclid=IwAR0htk2F3cc1DAD4wzmFIS19ietLA3jkBBuIZhSGI7es6JcmoqeyVOUFJsY

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FORBIDDEN TIKKA MASALA
2018 | Canada | 15 mins | English
Directed by - Rahul Chaturvedi
Cast – Balinder Johal, Precious Chong

Synopsis: 'Forbidden Tikka Masala' is a coming-of-old-age story that follows a devoutly religious vegetarian who finds a new lease on life after mistakenly eating chicken at her retirement party.

Director: Rahul Chaturvedi is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker. He won the Reel Asian Pitch Competition in 2016 with his short film story, 'Forbidden Tikka Masala'. He was also selected as one of ReelWorld Film Festival's Emerging 20 Filmmakers in 2017. Prior to making his own film, Rahul was assisting Bollywood director Sardar Talukdar on multicultural shows set in Toronto.
Rahul was inspired to write 'Forbidden Tikka Masala' after witnessing the struggles of aging women in the South Asian diaspora trying to adjust to the fast paced and often fragmented life in a new culture and the loneliness this brings.

SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7594458/
https://www.facebook.com/forbiddentikkamasala/
https://www.instagram.com/raincatchermedia

Reviews:
https://thecinemawala.com/2018/12/09/the-cinemawala-shorts-review-forbidden-tikka-masala/

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MAYA
2018 | India | 19 mins | Hindi (with English subtitles)
Directed by – Vikas Chandra
Cast: Kirti Kulhari , Alka Amin, Naveen Kasturia

Synopsis: Maya returns from office and finds that her mother has gone missing. In panic, she calls her ex-boyfriend for help, the one she had just broken up with. During the search for her mother that ensues, Maya is forced to question herself - why do we end up hurting the ones we love the most.

Director: Vikas is a screenwriter & director based in Mumbai, India. Having grown up in a small town in Eastern India, he strayed from his family ethos and joined the unconventional “movie business”, driven by a desire to tell the stories of his milieu, his world. His latest works are available on Amazon India & Voot India.
He is a Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab (India) Fellow (2012) with a political thriller set in 1976 Delhi. Was also a Finalist at Film London’s feature film scheme, Microwave International: Shakespeare India, with an adaptation of 'The Merchant of Venice' (2015).
Was Associate Creative Producer & Script Supervisor on acclaimed Indian director Dibakar Banerjee’s 'Detective Byomkesh Bakshy', a neo-noir set in 1940s Calcutta. Was also Executive Producer on Dibakar’s segment in 'Bombay Talkies' (2013), an anthology film celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema.
Wrote, produced & directed the unique collaborative short film PROJECT 11. The film was shot in 11 cities with 11 co-directors. Premiered at Puchon Fantastic Film Festival 2012 in South Korea.
Was named as one of the Top 50 young filmmakers in India at the 1st Indian edition of Berlinale Talent Campus in 2001. Directed a slew of TVCs & shorts. Written for UTV Bindass, Bloomberg, SABTV, Cartoon Network & Star India.

SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES
https://www.facebook.com/mayatheshort/

Reviews:
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2019/mar/02/maya-is-about-politics-in-relationships-says-vikas-1945588.html?fbclid=IwAR2Fvj7IaBHNU91nRecUMqg3QziSofX6dxzprUse65TfOXow2qr81Y66DKk

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ONLY YOURS
2019 | India | 5 mins | Hindi (with English subtitles)
Directed by - Yashasvi Juyal
Cast – Voice of Shyam Sundar Dabral

Synopsis: Anand, moved out of his hometown in 1955 in search for a better future. He couldn’t convince himself from not writing a third letter to his wife when he didn’t receive any answer of his two previous letters. A visual poetry made out of the final letter written by Anand to his wife and found by his Grandson two months after his death in 2019.

Director: Yashasvi Juyal, Born in Uttarakhand, India, is an Indian Independent Filmmaker and a dancer. He started his film journey in 2015 by winning the special jury award for his documentary, Kekda in Mumbai film festival.
He has, ever since, directed and edited various experimental short films and documentaries which have participated and won awards in various film festivals under the banner of Silvercord films, A film and a community building company based in Uttarakhand of which he is the founder and the artistic director.
Director's filmography : 'Confident in being confused', (short documentary) (2016), The bond behind the 'Jam', (short documentary) (2017), I stammer when I talk, short documentary (2018), 'ARevolT', (short documentary).

Social Media Handles:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013892343950

Thursday May 9, 2019 @ 9:30 pm, Auditorium 4
Village East Cinemas, 2nd Ave @ 12th Street, NYC.

CAT STICKS
2019 | India | 94 mins | Bengali, Hindi and English (with English subtitles)
Director: Ronny Sen
Cast - Tanmay Dhanania, Sumeet Thakur, Joyraj Bhattacharya, Saurabh Saraswat, Rahul Dutta, Raja, Sounak Kundu, Kalpan Mitra, Soumyajit Majumdar, and Sreejita Mitra

Post Screening Q&A with director Ronny Sen

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZfDsRpQPXk

Synopsis: On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. 'Cat Sticks' weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with them through states high and low, spaces real and unreal. A relentless downpour plays backdrop to lives balanced on the precarious heights of addiction. Some of them seek a release, while others do not seem to want the night to end.

Director: Ronny Sen (b. 1986, Silchar) is a film director, writer and photographer based in Calcutta. His debut feature film 'Cat Sticks' world premiered in the competition section at Slamdance Film Festival, 2019 where it won the jury honourable mention. He has previously directed television documentaries for BBC. He started his career as a photographer and has made two artist books, 'Khmer Din' (2013) and 'End of Time' (2016). He was invited to be an artist in residence in Japan by The Japan Foundation in 2013 and in Poland by the Polish Institute in 2016. He received the Getty Images Instagram Grant in 2016 for his work in Jharia coal mines which were shown in his debut solo exhibition in 2018 titled, 'Fire Continuum' at gallery Tarq in Mumbai. His works are included in the permanent collection of the Alkazi Collection of Photography.

Social Media Handles: https://www.instagram.com/catsticks/?hl=en
Reviews: https://asianmoviepulse.com/2019/05/interview-with-ronny-sen/