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MIFF 2018, V

MIFF 2018, V

A total of 24 films are scheduled to be screened in the National Prism section at the Mumbai International Film Festival, to be held in Mumbai, during January 28-February 3. These have been clubbed under three categories: short fiction, up to 45 minutes; documentaries up to 60 minutes and documentaries above 60 minutes. Here is the list. It includes Breaking all the Way, directed by Sunita Malpani, who has worked in TV serials and feature films, and produced by Films Division. Encapsulating the hop-hop culture in Mumbai, it is 88 minutes long.

LIST OF FILMS SELECTED FOR NATIONAL-PRISM SECTION IN MIFF-2018

Sr. No.

Title In English

Duration in minutes

Category

Director

 

1

Tales from our Childhood

69

Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)

Mukul Haloi

 

2

Breaking All The Way

88

Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)

Sunita Malpani

 

3

A Ballad of Maladies

84

Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)

Tushar Madhav & Sarvnik Kaur

 

4

THE PIONEERING DUO – KRISHNAN-PANJU

92

Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)

G. Dhananjayan

 

5

The Tribal Scoop

60

Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)

Beeswaranjan Pradhan

 

6

Nakusa ‘Unwanted’ is My Name

21

Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)

Shijith V.P.

 

7

Prabhakar Pendharkar – A Midas Touch

52

Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)

Yashaswini Godse

 

8

Mrityubhoj – The Death Feast

52

Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)

Akanksha Sood Singh

 

9

Makaan (A temporary shelter)

36

Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)

Salik Ansari

 

10

SAKHARAM

18

Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)

SARTHAK BHASIN

 

11

The Jowar Ballad

30

Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)

Laxminarayan Devda

 

12

Mother

30

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Tarun Jain

 

13

Broken Flowers

35

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Tushnik Chaudhuri

 

14

Starling’s Nest

17

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Shreyas Dasharathe

 

15

Jyoti and Joymoti

27

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Syed Mehdi Jahan

 

16

Sex with a monk and other stories

31

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Sounak Kar

 

17

The Germ

8

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Jayeshlal K, Linda Susan Mathew & Nazeer M Sab

 

18

THE WAVE

19

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

AJAY SHAJI

 

19

Uncalled

21

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Umesh Mohan Bagade

 

20

The Market

10

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Yashowardhan Mishra

 

21

4 Tamarinds and Toffees

13

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Pranjali D. Upadhye

 

22

SILENT LANGUAGE

6

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

S Raja

 

23

Medium

24

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Vicky Barmecha

 

24

Vacuum

13

Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)

Ashok Moorthy

 

MIFF is a biennial event organised by Films Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. For more information and for registration, log on to www.miff.in

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About Siraj Syed

Syed Siraj
(Siraj Associates)

Siraj Syed is a film-critic since 1970 and a Former President of the Freelance Film Journalists' Combine of India.

He is the India Correspondent of FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the international Federation of Film Critics, Munich, Germany

Siraj Syed has contributed over 1,015 articles on cinema, international film festivals, conventions, exhibitions, etc., most recently, at IFFI (Goa), MIFF (Mumbai), MFF/MAMI (Mumbai) and CommunicAsia (Singapore). He often edits film festival daily bulletins.

He is also an actor and a dubbing artiste. Further, he has been teaching media, acting and dubbing at over 30 institutes in India and Singapore, since 1984.


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