CSAFF #07: Small Time Cinema, Godsend, Shurpankha

Film Name: Shurpankha

Director: Jayesh Apte

Language: Marathi

Run Time: 35

Cast: Anita Date, Chinmay Udgirkar

Country: India

Detailed Description: While India was excitedly celebrating its 25th Independence Day, siblings Madhav and Rukmini’s loving relationship is put to test. Skeletons buried deep in the closet are unearthed as the brother finally learns about his sister’s unconventional past and the choices she was forced to make by a close-minded society.

Film Name: Small-time Cinema

Director: Priya Naresh

Language: Hazaragi, Assamese

Run Time: 29

Cast: Kandarpa Nath, Sayamuni Nath, Mohammad Zia, Kubara Hosseni

Country: India and Pakistan

Detailed Description: Small-Time Cinema is a documentary that follows two Youtube filmmaking groups, one living in Balochistan, Pakistan, and one, living in Assam, India. The film follows these groups, as they make space for their complex history and cultures, beyond a blanket Indian or Pakistani identity.

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