Ranjan Palit
Cinematographer and documentary filmmaker Ranjan PALIT (India) completed a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and went to FTII, Pune where he studied cinema. He became a specialist documentary cinematographer after filming Anand Patwardhan’s film Bombay – Our City, and went on to shoot more than 100 documentaries over 35 years. Palit also shot 20 fiction feature films. He has directed ten documentaries, including Voices from Baliapal (1988), Forever Young (2008) and In Camera – Diaries of a Documentary Cameraman (2010). His latest feature, A Knock on the Door, was selected for IFFR 2023.
Filmography
(selection) Voices from Baliapal (1988, short), Forever Young (2008, doc), In Camera – Diaries of a Documentary Cameraman (2010), Lord of the Orphans (2020), A Knock on the Door (2023)
Ranjan Palit at IFFR
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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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A Knock on the Door
Persecuted academics fight a disbelieving world in an idiosyncratic, deliciously stylised psychological thriller.
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Karvaan
A Pakistani woman in middle age who grew up in India in the fifties and sixties returns to the spot she knew in her youth. On her return to her for
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Celluloid Man
Although one of the most productive film countries of the last century, India unfortunately never considered archiving this art form. Luckily there
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Such a Morning
A celebrated mathematician suddenly abandons his career and becomes a hermit, moving into an abandoned train carriage as his humble abode. He then