52 Seconds
A sharp, sprightly parody of censorship, official and self-imposed, which corrodes film images in India.
1'
India
IFFR 2023
Scored to Lifafa's lo-fi disco track, Utkarsh Raut's In hi ko is a barrage of images from Bollywood and experimental films, state-sponsored documentaries, newsreels and viral clips from India's COVID-19 lockdown. With evocative, cynical formal rhymes, it satirises the curious detachment of the Indian middle-class from the lives of those who built its cities and made its wealth. In the nation's drawing rooms, the horrors of the world are reduced to television spectacle.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
IFFR 2023
- 4'
- Finland
- 2020
- Director
- Utkarsh Raut
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Countries of production
- Finland, India
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 4'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Hindi
- Producer
- Utkarsh Raut
- Sales
- Utkarsh Raut
- Screenplay
- Utkarsh Raut
- Editor
- Utkarsh Raut
- Music
- Suryakant Sawhney [Lifafa]
- Director
- Utkarsh Raut
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Countries of production
- Finland, India
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 4'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Hindi
- Producer
- Utkarsh Raut
- Sales
- Utkarsh Raut
- Screenplay
- Utkarsh Raut
- Editor
- Utkarsh Raut
- Music
- Suryakant Sawhney [Lifafa]
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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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