Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition 2021
Strand: SHORT FILMS PROGRAMME
Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition Part 1
India, USA, Pakistan, Nepal | 89 mins | Cert 18
The festival’s annual Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition is a rare chance to see the works of talented and emerging filmmakers who are exploring themes of South Asian experience, that also in different ways reflect the humanist ideals of the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray. The winner will be announced on 2nd July.
Available online during the festival from 17 Jun – 4 Jul
Lata
Director: Alisha Tejpal | Run time: 21 mins | Country: India | Language: Hindi, Marathi
Honing a quiet strength, Lata, a domestic worker, navigates her way through an upper class home in South Mumbai. Doors consistently open and close, giving Lata selective access to the various realities that occupy this space.
Black Goat
Director: Tang Yi | Run time: 12 mins | Country: Nepal | Language: Nepali, English
A new girl at a nunnery has her first period after hearing a late-night ghost story. She believes that she has been cursed and needs to sacrifice a black goat to avoid further misfortune
Dhulo (The Scapegoat)
Director: Tathagata Ghosh | Run time: 25 mins | Country: India | Language: Bengali
A young firebrand woman decides to stand up against the patriarchy and hate politics that has begun to infiltrate her rural Bengali village and threatens to destroy her way of life.
Anita
Director: Sushma Khadepaun | Run time: 18 mins | Country: India | Language: Gujarati
While attending her sister’s wedding in India, Anita tells her family of some big news and is pushed to question whether her life in America is any better than those in her hometown.
1978
Director: Hamza Bangash | Run time: 17 mins | Country: Pakistan | Language: Urdu
Pakistan, 1978. Lenny, a rockstar from the Goan-Christian community, is offered the chance to reinvent himself as a state sanctioned singer. With Islamic fervor gripping the nation, he must decide if he can change with the times.
Bittu
Director: Karishma Dev Dube | Run time: 17 mins | Country: India | Language: Hindi, English with English subtitles
Set in a small Himalayan village, Bittu tells the story of a fiercely independent and foul mouthed little girl whose life is turned upside down after a careless act results in tragedy.
Frayed Lines
Director: Priya Belliappa | Run time: 20 mins | Country: India | Language: Kodava, Assamese with English subtitles
In the midst of coffee plantations in a remote corner of India, two individuals who don’t speak a common language, connect and take a step away from a life they have known.
Sumamime (Wade)
Director: Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, Kalp Sanghvi | Run time: 10 mins | Country: India | Language: Bengali with English subtitles
In the future, the city of Kolkata is wrecked by climate change. Things take an even darker turn for one refugee family when they are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.
Kanya
Director: Apoorva Satish | Run time: 16 mins | Country: India | Language: Tamil with English subtitles
An adolescent girl’s aspirations of becoming a competitive swimmer take an unexpected turn when she gets her first period.
Transit
Director: Ariq Anam Khan | Run time: 19 mins | Country: Bangladesh | Language: Bangla with English subtitles
A man on the verge of poverty waits for a migrant visa to Italy in the hope that it will change his and his families fortunes.
B. Selvi & Daughters
Director: Drishya | Run time: 24 mins | Country: India | Language: Tamil with English Subtitles
A woman in her 50s tries to deal with her fears and trepidation as she looks to break out of her cocooned life and start a business.