Far from Bollywood
Combined programme
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IFFR 2004
Indian shorts are mostly made in a very free, non conventional and challenging spirit. The programme consists of three student films from the prestigious Pune Film Institute, the main educational film centre in India, and from the Tamil Film Institute in Chennai. The films are marked by a certain absurdity and heaviness, and the Hindu notion of ‘Dharma’ or Cosmic Law. Some of the subjects are quite daring for Indian standards, like a gay relationship and a love affair between a prostitute and a young man. Rada Sesic
In this combined programme
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Eternal Search
The film looks at a subject that is risqué in India – the feelings of love and lust between a prostitute and a young man. -
The Unconscious
The female director moved among the ‘Khoti’ (men who feel like women) and owns up to her own mental and emotional loves and pains. -
Without an End
Adaptation of Melville’s classic story is set in 1970s India, when society was still stable and slow. -
Palace of the Winds
Epic film mixes various cinematographic approaches in reflections about that Holy Box: the radio.