SIGNS 2017 – CITATIONS
JURY :Amrit Gangar – Chairperson
Dr Meena
T. Pillai – Member
Amudhan
R.P. - Member
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Miryavar
Kahi Mahine (Many Months in Mirya) [Marathi]
Dir: Renu
Savant
Poignant
yet unsentimental reflections of fleeting moments in the life of a little
village. Striking in its poetics and politics, the film seamlessly blends the
temporal into the spatial.
BEST
FILM - CINEMA EXPERIMENTA
Unmathavath
(Malayalam)
Dir:
Ravisankar
Pushing the
boundaries of the time-image, the film explores the possibilities of the palpable
and the perceptible, discovering new philosophical dimensions in the abstract
and the material.
BEST FILM
- SHORT FICTION
Andhere
Mein (In the Dark) (Hindi)
Dir: Vijaya
Singh
A
lyrical ode of an adaptation that evocatively captures an ineffable pang, a
fleeting void in human life.
BEST -
CINEMA OF RESISTANCE
Theatre
of the Earth (Manipuri)
Dir: Oinam
Doren
A film that
celebrates the triumph of human will. It makes a trenchant and yet elegant use
of the body to subvert all hierarchies of oppressive power, and bears testimony
of individual and collective desires to live with dignity and love.
JURY’s
SPECIAL MENTION – DOCUMENTARY FILM
Nostalgia
for the Future (Hindi)
Dirs:
Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Sivkumar
A sensitive
evocation of popular memory in imagining homes and habitations while weaving individual
aspirations into larger narrative of the nation.
JURY’s
SPECIAL MENTION – SHORT FICTION FILM
Saavat (Marathi)
Dir: Swapnil Rajsekhar
A film that
attempts to bear witness to the pathos of human life in rural India, where
age-old oppressions continue to nip dreams and strangle humanity.
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