Girish Kasaravalli

Girish KASARAVALLI (1949, India) is one of the main figures of the New Kannada Cinema of the seventies and eighties. In 2003 he was honoured in Rotterdam as Film Maker in Focus. Many of his films explore individual traumas and tragedies against the background of collective aberrations. He has won several prizes in India. Gulabi Talkies has been named best Indian film at Osian Cinefan Festival 2008.

Filmography

Avasesh (1975), Anya (1975), Ghatashradda/The Ritual (1977), Akramana/The Conquest (1979), Mooru darigalu/Three Path Ways (1981), Tabarana kathe/The Story of Tabara (1987), Bannada vesha/The Mask (1989, TV), Mane/The Dwelling (1990), Ek ghar (1991), Kraurya/The Tale of a Story Teller (1996), Thayi Saheba (1997), Dweepa/The Island (2002), Haseena (2004), Naayi neralu/In the Shadow of the Dog (2006), Gulabi Talkies (2008)