“The Forgotten History,” by celebrated Afghanistan filmmaker Roya Sadat (“A Letter to the President”), is one of 20 projects from 11 countries chosen for India’s Film Bazaar virtual co-production market.
Being produced by Sadat’s women-centric collective Roya Film House and Spain’s Alba Sotorra Cinema Productions, the project previously participated at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum and the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market.
The market line-up of stories will be told in the Assamese, Bengali, Dari, English, German, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Portuguese, Sinhala, Tamil, and Telugu. The selected projects will be pitched virtually to international and Indian producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents.
Projects include “Ashwamedh” (The Sacrifice) (India-u.K.) by Ridham Janve, whose debut feature film, “The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountain,” won the Young Cinema Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Silver Gateway Award at the Jio Mami International Film Festival.
Being produced by Sadat’s women-centric collective Roya Film House and Spain’s Alba Sotorra Cinema Productions, the project previously participated at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum and the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market.
The market line-up of stories will be told in the Assamese, Bengali, Dari, English, German, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Portuguese, Sinhala, Tamil, and Telugu. The selected projects will be pitched virtually to international and Indian producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents.
Projects include “Ashwamedh” (The Sacrifice) (India-u.K.) by Ridham Janve, whose debut feature film, “The Gold-Laden Sheep and The Sacred Mountain,” won the Young Cinema Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Silver Gateway Award at the Jio Mami International Film Festival.
- 10/28/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Climate change is real and India has been facing problems caused by this for years. Tsunami, earthquakes, floods and draughts can be found in the news from a certain part of the country or the other on a daily basis. However, the number of films dealing with these problems, particularly in the Hindi language is scarce. Nila Madhab Panda’s “Dark Wind” delves into such situations without being preachy about it, using a simple but hard-hitting story.
Hedu (Sanjay Mishra) is a blind elderly man living in the village of Mahua, Rajasthan. Like the majority of the people in the village, Hedu’s son, Mukund (Bhupesh Singh) is also long due on a farming loan taken from the bank. The arrival of the new loan recovery officer Gunu Babu (Ranvir Shorey) with a reputation of being Yamduth, The God of Death, scares Hedu along with the farmer suicides in the...
Hedu (Sanjay Mishra) is a blind elderly man living in the village of Mahua, Rajasthan. Like the majority of the people in the village, Hedu’s son, Mukund (Bhupesh Singh) is also long due on a farming loan taken from the bank. The arrival of the new loan recovery officer Gunu Babu (Ranvir Shorey) with a reputation of being Yamduth, The God of Death, scares Hedu along with the farmer suicides in the...
- 4/16/2019
- by Jithin Mohan
- AsianMoviePulse
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