ON DUTY
DIRECTOR: KARTHIK MUTHUKUMAR
RUNNING TIME: 14 MINS, LANGUAGE: TAMIL
FICTION/INDIA
The film explores a day in the life of a female police constable, who is being sent to discharge her duties in a remote area along with her colleagues.
BAREFOOT IMPRESSIONS
DIRECTOR: YOGESH VAT
RUNNING TIME: 29 MINS, LANGUAGE: HINDI
FICTION/INDIA
An Army man’s dilemma is reflected under the cruel social structure, that has trapped his wife in it, while he’s been on duty.
JUNCTION
DIRECTOR: KEYUR BIPNCHANDRA SHAT
RUNNING TIME: 5 MINS, LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
FICTION
A soulful encounter in a bookstore. A poetic nar- rative piece on the memory that was unlocked one afternoon. Junction is an ode to a love lost that reappears quietly one afternoon through the doors of a bookstore, tucked away in a gorgeous mountain town. Only to remind the poet that love may leave but its footprints can never be erased. That he will always see her even in an absolute stranger.
WALK
DIRECTOR: MAKI SATAKE
RUNNING TIME: 8 MINS, LANGUAGE: NO DIALOGUE
FICTION/JAPAN
All starts here.I walked with new life.
METRO
DIRECTOR: AMIT KUMAR
RUNNING TIME: 14 MINS, LANGUAGE: NEPALI
FICTION/INDIA
A kid who sets out to work in the city enjoying the first experience, but is soon swallowed in when encounters the other side. The life at two different spaces is explored by the journey of the kid.
CASTAWAY MAN
DIRECTOR: KESANG TSETEN
RUNNING TIME: 14 MINS, LANGUAGE: NEPALI
DOCUMENTARY/NEPAL
Dor Bahadur Bista, Nepal’s most controversial intellectuals in modern times, disappeared without trace in 1996. He became an anthropologist by assisting well-known anthropologist Fuerer Haimendorf, but was largely self-trained. Fatalism and Development controversially argued that Nepal didn’t develop because of Brahminism, the values of fatalism and hier- archy of the caste system. Stirring acrimony, he moved to remote Jumla to put into practice his ideas. Speculation over his disappearance include his high-caste enemies; his alleged affair with a young woman under his mentorship; and his becoming a renunciate on the banks of the Ganges in North India.
NOW I AM THIRTEEN
DIRECTOR: SHIN DAEWE
RUNNING TIME: 15 MINS, LANGUAGE: BURMESE
DOCUMENTARY/MYANMAR
She is thirteen aren’t there innumerable hopes in her dream. Aye Kaung is girl who was born in MYANMAR during the reign of military government. Her father is an alcoholic. Now she is thirteen with a herd of goats. Ma Aye Kaung wants to read and write. Though primary education is free, she has no chance of schooling. During 23 years of the military government, there are hundreds of thousands of girls like Ma Aye kaung. Now in this transi- tion period too, girls like her, have no chance of going to school.woman under his mentorship; and his becoming a renunciate on the banks of the Ganges in North India.
NOW I AM T
FISHI-RU
DIRECTOR: ANJALI NAYAR
RUNNING TIME: 10 MINS, LANGUAGE: HINDI
ANIMATION/INDIA
Set against the backdrop of the floods in Bihar, Fishi-Ru tells the story of a little girl’s concern about the people affected by the flood waters. How- ever, as she tries to faind a way to help out, she discovers an abandoned fish and brings her home, gradually beginning to love it very much. But because of certain reasons, she is faced with a difficult decision (to let the fish go), but in the culmination of which, she finds her own meaning of love and freedom.