An Election Diary
A revealing look into the mechanics of 'India's Greatest Election Machine'.
32'
India
IFFR 2023
An Election Diary + In the Name of God
Combined Programme
IFFR 2023
COMBINED PROGRAMME:
Two films from The Shape of Things to Come?, IFFR's programme reflecting on the socio-political development of India in the past 30 years.
A revealing, resolutely local glimpse into the 2019 electoral campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the constituency of Phulpur in Northern India, weaving together street interviews, social media video clips and recordings of cadre meetings.
A vivid, alarming documentary about a historic Hindu nationalist rally calling for the construction of a temple on the site of a mosque, In the Name of God sets out in search of reason in the midst of madness.
Combined Programme
IFFR 2023
In this combined programme
In the Name of God
A chilling record of a historic Hindu nationalist rally seeking the destruction of a mosque.
76'
India
IFFR 2023
Programme IFFR 2023
Focus: The Shape of Things to Come?
In 2022, India celebrated the 75th anniversary of independence. But is really all well in the ‘world’s largest democracy’? Both documentaries and fictional narratives reflect on the socio-political development of the past 30 years – and ask: Is the institutional success of right-wing Hindu-nationalist groups and the persecution of dissenting voices a sign for the shape of things to come – and not only in India?
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A sharp, sprightly parody of censorship, official and self-imposed, which corrodes film images in India.
1'
India
IFFR 2023
All Was Good
Night-time street views of marginalised student groups protesting India’s controversial citizenship legislation.
76'
India
IFFR 2023
Bajrangi bhaijaan
Humanity trumps borders and governments in a big-hearted, unabashedly sentimental Bollywood musical comedy.
163'
India
IFFR 2023