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Asian Selections at Monthly Indie Shorts, October 2020

BEFORE THE DAWN….NIGHT 
Director: Anjanabha Roy 
Short Movie 
India 

Synopsis:
1971. KOLKATA. It is a story of a girl whose cousin left the house for naxalite movement. She never witnessed her elder brother(cousin) but came to know about his ideology from her mother. One day when she was returning home from university, she suddenly met a man hiding from the police. They took shelter in an abandoned roof and spent an argumentative time. The girl falls in love with his ideology which was very much opposite rather than popular Marxism. But at dawn, the man is killed. Later she discovers, the man was his brother (cousin) when she finds a photo of her mother in his bag. 

Son of a human being 
Director: Evgeny Vedrov 
Short Movie  
Russian Federation 

Synopsis: 
A door slam wakes up a client of a small-town guest house in the middle of the night. Trying not to give himself away, he starts moving stealthily around the rooms in search of the one who woke him. But his journey turns into a mystic quest. 

In 
Director: Sun-Woo Kim 
Students Short 
Republic of Korea 

Synopsis: 
Miso has trauma of her mother leaving her when she was young. She tends to always keep her bag full of things because of what her mom said before leaving. 

About the author

Rouven Linnarz

Ever since I watched Takeshi Kitano's "Hana-Bi" for the first time (and many times after that) I have been a cinephile. While much can be said about the technical aspects of film, coming from a small town in Germany, I cherish the notion of art showing its audience something which one does normally avoid, neglect or is unable to see for many different reasons. Often the stories told in films have helped me understand, discover and connect to something new which is a concept I would like to convey in the way I talk and write about films. Thus, I try to include some info on the background of each film as well as a short analysis (without spoilers, of course), an approach which should reflect the context of a work of art no matter what genre, director or cast. In the end, I hope to pass on my joy of watching film and talking about it.

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