Focus: The Shape of Things to Come?
Overview of films
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An Election Diary + In the Name of God
Two films from IFFR’s programme reflecting on the socio-political development of India in the past 30 years.
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Which Colour?
Tender, trailblazing vignettes from the quotidian life of a working-class family on a historic day.
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The Men in the Tree
An unsettling glimpse into a far-right paramilitary outfit through the eyes of young trainees.
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Love in the Time of Malaria
A constipated king declares war on insurgent mosquitoes in an absurdist political musical comedy.
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Lords of Lockdown
Volunteer groups supply relief to stranded migrant workers in an uplifting portrait of civic responsibility.
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A Knock on the Door
Persecuted academics fight a disbelieving world in an idiosyncratic, deliciously stylised psychological thriller.
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Kali of Emergency
The goddess Kali takes human form in an inscrutable, transfixing avant-garde work.
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In the Name of God
A chilling record of a historic Hindu nationalist rally seeking the destruction of a mosque.
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In hi ko
India’s lockdown-induced horrors come under the microscope in a heady, evocative media collage.
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I Am Offended
A revealing, uncensored survey of stand-up comedy in India, its possibilities and its limitations.
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