52 Seconds
A sharp, sprightly parody of censorship, official and self-imposed, which corrodes film images in India.
1'
India
IFFR 2023
Young Rajat, caught fantasising in class, is humiliated by a sadistic teacher. Permanently welding education to a feeling of shame, this primal trauma hurls Rajat into a life of progressive social isolation and emotional corruption. Divided into four rhyming chapters, Anurag Kashyap's sharply analytical Four Slippers is a psychosexual portrait of a thinking, desiring individual lost to hatred and mobilised by dominant political sentiments.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
IFFR 2023
- 34'
- India
- 2023
- Director
- Anurag Kashyap
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- India
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 34'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Chaar Chappalein
- Language
- Hindi
- Producers
- Anurag Kashyap, Anurag Kashyap, Ranjan Singh
- Production Companies
- Phantom Films Pvt Ltd., Good Bad Films
- Sales
- Reliance Entertainment Studios Private Limited
- Screenplay
- Varun Grover
- Cinematography
- Shanker Raman, Sylvester Fonseca
- Editor
- Konark Saxena
- Production Design
- Shazia Iqbal
- Sound Design
- Kunal Sharma
- Cast
- Randeep Jha, Rajat, Manav Kaul, Poonam Rajput
- Director
- Anurag Kashyap
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- India
- Year
- 2023
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 34'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Chaar Chappalein
- Language
- Hindi
- Producers
- Anurag Kashyap, Anurag Kashyap, Ranjan Singh
- Production Companies
- Phantom Films Pvt Ltd., Good Bad Films
- Sales
- Reliance Entertainment Studios Private Limited
- Screenplay
- Varun Grover
- Cinematography
- Shanker Raman, Sylvester Fonseca
- Editor
- Konark Saxena
- Production Design
- Shazia Iqbal
- Sound Design
- Kunal Sharma
- Cast
- Randeep Jha, Rajat, Manav Kaul, Poonam Rajput
Programme IFFR 2023
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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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76'
India
IFFR 2023
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163'
India
IFFR 2023