I, The Song
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A tale of Buddhist karma, doppelgangers and melancholic Dzongkha songs.
In Bhutan, a country of 700,000 people, everyone knows everyone else. Nima, a schoolteacher, faces trouble when an explicit intimate video surfaces online, featuring a woman who looks exactly like her. Determined to calm her students’ outraged parents, Nima embarks on a quest to find her naughty lookalike. But her doppelganger, Meto, has disappeared without a trace. The locals, struck by Nima’s uncanny resemblance to Meto, begin to believe she is Meto’s long-lost ghost. The village elders suggest singing Aum Tshomo’s sacred song to unravel the mystery. Now, Nima must open her heart and sing to rebuild her shattered life.
Actress Tandin Bidha, who takes on a dual role, shines especially bright as the vibrant doppelganger Meto. This intriguing film, inspired by true events, shifts between past and present, illuminated by Bhutanese culture, customs, and colours.
Director
Dechen Roder
Producer
Dechen Roder, Johann Chapelan
Cast
Tandin Bidha, Jimmie Wangyel, Tshering Dorji, Sonam Lhamo, Dorji Wangdi
Sound
Actarus Studio
Cinematographer
Rangoli Agarwal
World sales
Diversion
Runtime
1h 52m
Language
Dzongkha
Subtitles
English
World Premiere at Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia.
SHERA
FEATURE FILM
SHERA
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Everyone but MONU (11) has seen SHERA, the elusive leopard living in the forest around his remote Himalayan village. When his parents decide to migrate to the city, MONU is heartbroken. But his best friend RAJU is determined to help him see SHERA – a parting gift he’ll never forget.
Directed by: Arun Fulara
DOP: Rangoli Agarwal
Produced by: Khan & Kumar Media
SUNDAY
SHORT DRAMA
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SUNDAY (2020) is a soft, romantic take on the longing of and desire for intimacy that a middle-aged, working-class closeted gay man experiences.
Directed by: Arun Fulara
Produced by: Arun Fulara, Rangoli Agarwal, Darshana Binakar, Pooja Chauhan
SUNDAY continues it’s festival run having traveled to 50+ festivals internationally including Tampere Film Festival, Roze Filmdagen, Shorts Mexico, OutOnFilm Atlanta, Damn These Film Festival, Outfest Peru, GAZE Dublin, IFFLA and Inside Out Toronto since 2020.
- Jury Prize for the best short film at USN Sardinia Queer Film Festival (2020)
- The Festival Favourite at Muskoka Queer Film Festival (2021)
- The Best Short Fiction award at the SiGNS Film Festival (2021) – You can read the citation here
- Special Mention at GAZE International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (2020)
- The Riyad Wadia Award for Best Emerging Filmmaker at Kashish MIQFF (2020)
- The Best Director award at Yerevan Short Film Festival (2020)
The film was also nominated in two categories (Best Film and Best Actor) at the 2021 Critics’ Choice Film Awards given out by the Film Critics Guild of India.
- Film Companion – A modest, charming snapshot of closeted love
- Cinestaan – Sunday is a gentle, heart-warming film about imagined possibilities
- National Herald – Exploring same-sex love – All about look, smile, and touch
- HighOnFilms – Queering the narrative of the ‘friendly neighbourhood uncle’ figure
- Gaysi – Sunday: A Queer Short Film On Closeted Desire
- Medium.com – Sunday is a minimalistic miracle of a film, a sheer triumph for Fulara and his team
- The Wee Review – A sensitive look at repression and homosexuality in a constrictive society
JYOTI
SHORT DRAMA
JYOTI
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In a rural town in India, at a time when the world is witnessing a movement for gender equality, a 13-year old Jyoti, fights a lonely battle and dares to see the light despite the darkness that looms around her in this patriarchal society.
Directed by: Vinamra Pacharia
Produced by: Black Salt Films
MY MOTHER’S GIRLFRIEND
SHORT DRAMA
MY MOTHER'S GIRLFRIEND
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MY MOTHER’S GIRLFRIEND (2021) is a film about two women in love. RENUKA and SADIYA, two working-class women in love with each other, enjoy their day out celebrating Renuka’s birthday. After a fun-filled day, they head home to spend the night together. But unknown to them, RENUKA’s son, MANGESH, is around.
MY MOTHER’S GIRLFRIEND is the story of what happens when these two relationships collide..
Directed by: Arun Fulara
Produced by: Neeraj Churi, Saagar Gupta, Sridhar Rangayan
Co-Produced by :Arun Fulara, Andreas Lucas
Thus far the film has screened at 20 festivals in all. The film premiered in August ’21 at the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. It’s international premiere was at the Concorto Film Festival (Italy) and since then it has traveled widely across to the world to festivals like Show Me Shorts (NZ), Gaze Dublin (Ireland), Bogota Short Film Festival (Columbia), Reeling Chicago (US), Shorts That Are Not Pants (Canada), Image+Nation LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Canada) and IDSFFK (India).
It won the Jury award for Best Film at the REELING: Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival as also the Best Short Film award at the prestigious IDSFFK in Kerala (India).