Focus: The Shape of Things to Come?
Overview of films
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52 Seconds
Prathap Joseph | 1' | India | None
A sharp, sprightly parody of censorship, official and self-imposed, which corrodes film images in India. -
All Was Good
Teresa Braggs | 76' | India | Dutch Premiere
Night-time street views of marginalised student groups protesting India’s controversial citizenship legislation. -
Bajrangi bhaijaan
Kabir Khan | 163' | India | None
Humanity trumps borders and governments in a big-hearted, unabashedly sentimental Bollywood musical comedy. -
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. -
An Election Diary
Avijit Mukul Kishore | 32' | India | World premiere
A revealing look into the mechanics of ‘India’s Greatest Election Machine’. -
Encountered on Saffron Agenda?
Shubhradeep Chakravorty | 90' | India | None
A persuasive exposé of the extrajudicial police killings that shook India in the 2000s. -
Final Solution
Rakesh Sharma | 152' | India | None
A harrowing work of historical remembrance in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots. -
Firaaq
Nandita Das | 101' | India | None
A cosmopolitan city comes undone by civil unrest in a sensitive, searching hyperlink drama. -
Follower
Harshad Nalawade | 99' | India | World premiere
An astute examination of the personal and political sources of a young man’s radicalisation. -
Four Slippers
Anurag Kashyap | 34' | India | World premiere
Sharply analytical psychosexual portrait of a thinking, desiring individual lost to hatred and communal polarisation. -
Holy Cowboys
Varun Chopra | 26' | India | Dutch Premiere
A topical, engrossing documentary about the weaponisation of cow protection in India. -
I Am Offended
Jaideep Varma | 102' | India | None
A revealing, uncensored survey of stand-up comedy in India, its possibilities and its limitations.