Thursday, December 6, 2018

20th Madurai Film Festival 2018 : Revised Schedule

20th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2018
 6-10 Dec; multiple venues, Madurai

Revised Screening Schedule*

Day 01; 6 Dec: Lady Doak College
9:30 am Inauguration
10:30 TOTO Funds the Arts (Part 01)
A Dream Called America (Dir: Anoop Sathyan; 24 min)
Hamare Ghar (Dir: Kislay; 30 min)
A Summer Flu (Dir: Priyanka Chhabra;17 min)
Little Hands (Dir: Rohin Raveendran; 8 min)
Memorials (Dir: Korou Khundrakpam; 24 min)
12:30 Interaction with Lekha Naidu, TOTO Funds the Arts
1 pm Lunch break
2 pm 9 Pen Cinemackal (Part 01)
Catharsis (Dir: Indira; 35 min)
Inside (Dir: Sreedevi; 13 min
Indu (Dir: Anagha Anand; 29 min
2:50 Interaction with Archana Padmini, curator
3:05 The Death of Us (Dir: Vani Subramanian; 76 min)
3:20 Interaction with Vani Subramanian
3:35 Ladies and Gentlewomen (Dir: Malini Jeevarathnam; 46 min)
4:25 Interaction with Malini Jeevarathnam

Day 01; 6 Dec:  LENS Media Centre
5:30 pm Humans Display (Dir: Lam Can-Zhao; 59 min; China)
7 pm Two Flags (Dir: Pankaj Rishikumar; 86 min)

Day 02; 7 Dec: IDEAS Centre
10 am 9 Pen Cinemackal (Part 02)
Njaval Pazhangal (Dir: Jeeva KJ; 23 min) 
Ruchi bedham (Dir: TheerthaMythri; 11’)
Ore Udal (Dir: Asha Achy Joseph; 14’
Eye Test (Dir: Sudha Padmaja Francis; 16 min)
11:05 Interaction with Archana Padmini
11:30 am India’s Forbidden Love (Dir: Sadhana Subramaniam; 25 min; India)
12 pm Hora (Dir: Nachi; 24 min)
1 pm Lunch break
2 pm Perungadal Vettathu (Dir: Arul Ezhilan; 60 min; Doc)
3:30 Amma (Dir: Neelan; 36 min; India)
4:30 Bloody Women (Dir: Priyanka Iswari; 23 min)

Day 02, 7 Dec; Kaleidoscope
6:30 pm Pen Cinemackal (Part 03)
Rhythm (Dir: Sivaranjani; 28 min)
Gi (Dir:Kunjila Mascilamani; 30 min)
7:30 Interaction with Archana Padmini
7:45 The Slave Genesis (Dir: Aneez K Mappila; 64 min)

Day 02, 7 Dec; LENS Media Centre
5:30 pm Lalit Vachani Retrospective
The Boy in the Branch (27 min)
The Men in the Tree (98 min)
Interaction with Lalit Vachani

Day 02, 7 Dec; YADHARTHAA Film Society
5:30 pm S D and His Times (Dir: Kasturi Basu & Mitali Biswas; 114’)

Day 03, 8 Dec; Madurai Media and Film Studies Academy (MMFSA)
10 am Lalit Vachani Retrospective
The Play Goes On (83 min)
The Salt Stories (84 min)
Interaction with LalitVachani
1:30 Lunch break
2:30 Lalit Vachani Retrospective
 An Ordinary Election (125 min)
4:30 Interaction with Lalit Vachani

Day 03, 8 Dec, Sudar
10 am Some Stories around Witches (Dir: Lipika Singh Darai; 44 min)
Bharath Ke Nirmata (Dir: Subham; 50’)
Near the Railroad (Dir: Nora Fingscheidt & Simone Catharina; 63 min; Germany)
Please Mind the Gap (Dir: Mitali Trivedi & Gagandeep Singh; 20 min)

Day 03, 8 Dec; Kaleidoscope
6:00 pm Short films from Russia
Teacher (Dir: Maxim Elagin; 14 min)
The Tree (Dir: Hava Mukhiyeva; 22’
The Typical Case (Dir: Daniil Gellar; 16’’)
7:00 pm Short films by Bhavani
8:15 Interaction with Bhavani

Day 03, 8 Dec; LENS Media Centre
5:30 pm The Madmen’s Conspiracy (Dir:Algis Arlauskas; 50 min; Spain)
6 30 The Color of My Home (Dir: Sanjay Barnela & Farah Naqvi; 48 min)
7:20 pm Interactions with Sanjay Barnela

Day 04, 9 Dec, VIDIYAL
9:30 Tamil short films
NiSaRiSa (Dir: J Madhan; 20 min)
Mudugelumbu (Dir: Karunakaran; 22 min)
Slipped Incarnation (Dir: Jayamurugan; 9’) MaasilanAathal (Dir: Nathan G; 22’)
11:15 Arlette, Courage is a Muscle (Dir: Katharina Diessner & Matilda Mester; 83 min; Central African Republic / Germany)
1 pm lunch break
2 pm We the People (Dir: Samarth Mahajan; 28 min)
2:45 Copy Brad Pitt (Dir: Ariela Alush; 60 min; Israel)
4 pm Student films from Sophia College, Mumbai
4:15 Gaja Puyal (Dir: Ajayan Bala; 10 min)

Day 04, 9 Dec; MMFSA
10 am to 5 pm
Master Class by Lalit Vachani
5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Artists’ Cinema: Curated by CS Venkiteswaran

Day 04, 9 Dec; Kaleidoscope
6:30 pm Unreserved (Dir: Samarth Mahajan; 60 min)
7:30 Short films from Russia
Hand (Dir: Igor Marchenko; 23 min) / Say Before: Dir Nadezhda Krylova; 28’ / Kin (Dir: Elen Nelidova; 30 min)

Day 4, 9 Dec, LENS Media Centre
5:30 pm Nimble Fingers (Dir: Parsifal Reparato; 52 min; Vietnam / Italy)
Lock and Key (Dir: Shipi Gulati; 83’)

Day 5, 10 Dec, Arul Anandhar College
9:30 am We Have Not Come Here to Die (Dir: Deepa Dhanraj; 110 min)
11:45 Battle of Bhima Koregaon (Dir: Somnath Waghmare; 49 min; India)
1 pm Lunch break
2 pm Bakurov (Dir: Yuliya Kiseloyova; 55 min; Russia)
The Day Before Chinese New Year (Dir: Lam Can - Zhao; 23 min; China)
3:35 The Tribal Scoop (Dir: Beeswaranjan Pradhan; 53 min)

Day 5, 10 Dec, Madurai Kamaraj University (Dept of Communication)
10:30 am to 2:00 pm
Student films from Michigan State University, USA
Curated by Prof Swarnavel Easwaran
3 pm Nagapattinam : Waves from the Deep
Dir: Swarnavel Easwaran; 73 min
3:15 Interaction with Swarnavel Easwaran, filmmaker

Day 5, 10 Dec, Gandhigram Rural University (Dept of Tamil)
10am Inauguration
10:30Premji – a non unidimensional life (Dir: Neelan; 83 min)
I2 pm Interaction with Neelan
12:20 The Season in the Mist (Dir: Merajur Rahman Baruah; 36 min)
1:10 Lunch break
2 pm Koothu (Dir: Sandhya Kumar; 52’
Palai - Landscapes of Longing (Dir: Jayakrishnan Subramanian; 28 Min; India / Germany)

Day 5, 10 Dec, Kaleidoscope
6:00 pm TOTO Funds the Arts - Part 02
Dive (Dir:Archana Chandrashekar; 19’)
Kurli (Dir: Natesh Hegde; 17’)
Bismaar Ghar (Dir: Shreyas Dasharathe;  26’)
7:00 Interaction with Lekha Naidu, TOTO Funds the Arts
7:15 Tin Satyi (Dir: Debalina; 51 min)

Day 5, 10 Dec; LENS Media Centre
5:30 pm There Is No Moon (Dir: Ajay TG; 26 min)
6:00 Dispossession (Dir: Mathieu Roy; 83 min; Canada)
7:30 Interaction & closing ceremony

Special Lecture by Usha Ramanathan, advocate / researcher / activist
8 Dec; 11 am Lady Doak College
5:30 pm PUCL, Madurai

Contact numbers:
1)       Lady Doak College -  9840594289
2)       Lens Media Centre –
9940642044
3)       Kaliedoscope –
9443444378
4)       Yadhaarthaa –
9965990708
5)       Sudar – 9600989209
6)       Vidiyal – 9600989209
7)       MMFSA – 9940642044
8)       Madurai Kamaraj University – 9600930723
9)       Gandhigram – 944952925
10)    Arul Anandhar College – 9488553703
11)    PUCL – 8778911916
12)    IDEAS - 9940642044

* subject to changes!