Section: New Frontier Films
TAKING THE HORSE TO EAT JALEBIS | GHODE KO JALEBI KHILANE LE JA RIYA HOON
Director: Anamika Haksar, Screenwriters: Anamika Haksar, Lokesh Jain
Cast: Ravindra Sahu, Raghubir Yadav, Gopalan, Lokesh Jain
The waft of kebabs blends with the memories of an Indo-Islamic culture, fusing and playing with the dreams and subconscious landscapes of a modern migrant community laboring hard with dignity and humor. Fusing documentary-realism with magic-realism, and true and fictionalized stories with poetry and dreams, it is testament of time written into the geography of Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi) with the past and present plotted into its lanes.
Section: Indie Episodic
DELHI CRIME STORY
Director and Screenwriter: Richie Mehta
Cast: Shefali Shah, Rasika Dugal, Rajesh Tailang, Adil Hussain, Gopal Datt, Vinod Sherawat
Based on the 2012 rape case in Delhi that shocked the world, the series centers on the heroic actions of the Delhi police. With the eyes of the world upon it, the investigation is led by one passionate female officer who was driven to find the perpetrators by the crime’s extreme brutality. This is a world premiere.
Section: International Narrative Short Films
THE FIELD
Director and Screenwriter: Sandhya Suri
A France, United Kingdom, India co-production, this is the short film about a poor agricultural laborer leads a double life in the village’s last remaining cornfield. But the harvest is approaching.
Section: Documentary Short Films
THE DISPOSSESSED
Director and Screenwriter: Musa Syeed
Hazari is a traditional faith healer, exorcising patients who’ve been possessed by jinn. But in Kashmir, amidst the world’s longest running conflict, nothing is as it seems. This is a world premiere.
Section: Premieres
PHOTOGRAPH
Director and Screenwriter: Ritesh Batra, Producers: Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra.
The film traces the life of a struggling street photographer Rafi (Siddiqui), who persuades Miloni, a shy stranger (Malhotra), to pose as his fiancee when he is being pressured to marry by his grandmother. The two lives intersect in Mumbai and go along together. To know more about this film, go here.
Also, in November 2018, Sundance Institute announced thirty-three nonfiction works from seventeen countries comprise the latest Sundance Institute Documentary Fund and Stories of Change Grantees, across different stages of filmmaking. And one Indian feature documentary film received A grant under the Stories of Change Fund – A creative partnership with the Skoll Foundation, which supports social entrepreneurs and independent storytellers.
FIRST TIME STORIES
Directors: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya
Deep inside the Amazon, rainforests flourish untouched from horizon to horizon, guarded by mountains never climbed, and cut by rivers unmapped. And yet, they have all been claimed by stories told by elders around a fire. Keepers of the oral storytelling tradition in Suriname for 300 years, frail Matawai elders seek to pass them to the young, who are lured away by gold mining, far from the secrets of the forest.
Sundance Film Festival will held at Park City, Utah in the USA from 24 January to 3 February, 2019. We look forward to seeing how the films are received.