The Asian Selections for the November Edition of Monthly Indie Shorts Film Festival has been announced.
- KUKLI
Short Film
Directed by SHYAMA SUNDAR MAJHI
Country: India
Synopsis:
Pukli is a village girl who belongs from an indigenous community of rural India. The lively little girl is known for her endless questions and curiosity towards anything unknown to her. But one fine day she suddenly stopped talking to everyone. No one had any clue about her silence. Her parents, villagers and school teacher have tried a lot to find out her doubt. But they all remained speechless when they heard her foremost unanswered question.
- Operacion Banana, the Formula
Short Film
Directed by Leonidas Stanescu
Country: Singapore
Synopsis: Prof Gustav is hustled to make a formula for men. Will he manage to get it done under the pressure from his family that happens to be the distributors in the black market?
- A World Without You
Short Film
Directed by Katsuhide Yamago
Country: Japan
Synopsis: 30 years ago, older sister and younger brother broke up. What happened? It was related to some ability about future.
- The Stranger
Horror Short
Directed by SOUMEN PAUL
Country: India
Synopsis: A woman reads a horror storybook on her bed. Suddenly she hears a door knocking sound on the door and opens the door, but there was none. She returns to her bedroom but was shocked by seeing a sprit (Ghost). And the most amazing thing was that the Ghost looked liked her.
- Incredible Insight – The Story of His Ability
Documentary
Directed by Dr. Kushal Dasgupta
Country: India
Synopsis: “INCREDIBLE INSIGHT: The Story of His Ability” directed by Dr. Kushal Dasgupta is about the life of Dr. Sai Kaustuv Dasgupta, a 90% differently-abled person, who discovered himself, determined with vision, achieved with passion, chiseled his legacy by making a difference in exemplifying mankind, mastered his will to prove that nothing is impossible. This film also talks about social issues like inclusion, accessibility, disability rights, etc. It is spreading the awareness of the rare disease (Osteogenesis Imperfecta) and how a wheelchair confined person can reach out to many people across the globe with his power of positivity, willpower, and can-do attitude. There are many disability-based films but it is rare to find a real-life story with a real person. Viewers can experience the plight of the disabled community through their regular day to day crisis and how they are breaking all barriers to inspire able-bodied people around.
- Evolution
Animation Short
Directed by Olga Haldiz
Country: Russian Federation
Synopsis: Masked doctors bent over the patient. This is a woman borning a child. Her face is with a mask. She is pushing. A child is born with a mask on his face. The life of this child flies by quickly: he grows up being in a mask. Children's birthday – masked clown, masked children. School class – all children and the teacher in masks. Graduation ceremony – all in gowns, quadrangular hats and masks. The wedding is all masked. Instead of a kiss, a bride and a groom hit their elbows. Husband and wife, being masked, grow old. Funeral, all wearing masks. The dead man in the mask. Archaeological excavations. Archaeologists, without mouths, brush the finds with brushes. They find a skeleton, a skull in a shabby mask.
Children without mouths are sitting in the class. A child is reading a book. It depicts a picture of the transformation of a Neanderthal into a homosapiens. And the last in a series of dichotomies is the masked homosapiens and the mouthless homosapiens.
People without mouths are walking down the street. People without mouths ride the subway.
- BARCODE
Screenplay
Written by HÜSEYİN URÇUK
Country: Turkey
Synopsis: A critical point of view of a story about a wooden mankin that represents the masses of individuals in our days, who live according to the motto “Use-Consume-throw away”
In a time where humanistic values are exposed to erosion, where objects and items dominate our consume society the human being becomes a ware too. The masses of individuals who live according to the motto “Use-Consume-throw away” represented by the wooden mankin, live a life, that only makes sense when consuming because every day is a repeat of the day before. The film “Barcode” wants to show how the mankin becomes a slave of the system believing that consuming and freedom are equivalent and how he turns into the piece of waste that is the only product of a consume society.
