Jonaki, an eighty-year-old woman, finds herself in a decaying world of nostalgia. She relives moments of her life with a strangeness that churns up feelings buried deep in her soul. Her memories surface in dream-like modes in which the line between real and surreal blurs. The echoing space of this fascinating meditative journey gently and carefully confronts us with a possible moment of transition between life and death.

The cinematic form of a beautiful, esoteric trance with meticulously created painterly images suggests a temporal and spatial void inhabited by a less immediate kind of time. The Bengali director (also a painter, animator and film author), whose remarkable debut Labour of Love was screened at IFFR in 2015, daringly and successfully digs deeper in search of an exciting personal cinematic language. 


Director
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Premiere
World premiere
Countries of production
India, France, Singapore
Year
2018
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
95'
Medium
DCP
Language
Bengali
Producers
Samir Sarkar / Magic Hour Films, Catherine Dussart / Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP), Vikram Mohinta
Production Companies
Magic Hour Films, Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP), For Films
Sales
Magic Hour Films
Screenplay
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Cinematography
Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Mahendra Shetty
Editor
Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Jonaki Bhattacharya
Production Design
Jonaki Bhattacharya
Sound Design
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Music
Alexander Zekke
Cast
Lolita Chatterjee, Jim Sarbh, Ratnabali Bhattacharya
Director
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Premiere
World premiere
Countries of production
India, France, Singapore
Year
2018
Festival Edition
IFFR 2018
Length
95'
Medium
DCP
Language
Bengali
Producers
Samir Sarkar / Magic Hour Films, Catherine Dussart / Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP), Vikram Mohinta
Production Companies
Magic Hour Films, Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP), For Films
Sales
Magic Hour Films
Screenplay
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Cinematography
Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Mahendra Shetty
Editor
Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Jonaki Bhattacharya
Production Design
Jonaki Bhattacharya
Sound Design
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Music
Alexander Zekke
Cast
Lolita Chatterjee, Jim Sarbh, Ratnabali Bhattacharya

Programme IFFR 2018

Bright Future

A selection of discoveries for the future. Emerging talent with original subject matter and an individual style. Includes the Bright Future Competition for first feature films.

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