Two DocNomads films selected to Mumbai, India
Coming Back to Life by Mantra Watsa will be presented in the competitive Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films and In Flanders Fields by Sachin will be presented in Focus South Asia section of the 25th MAMI - Mumbai Film Festival held from 19 to 24 October.
ET MOI, JE REVIS
By Mantra Watsa (India) • 20' • 2024
Synopsis:
Shéhrazade, a sex worker, is reclaiming her body and mind from trauma. The lens traverses both outside and within her body to map her experience of love and intimacy – on the job or at home – and capture her healing. The fluidity of the form allows her to animate an inner world that the camera cannot capture.
in MAMI catalogue.
ਫਲੈਂਡਰਸ ਦੀ ਜ਼ਮੀਂ ਵਿੱਚ
By Sachin (India) • 16' • 2024
Synopsis:
This experimental documentary film has fragments of archival letters, images, sounds, and songs of the Indian soldiers in a war-ridden landscape of Europe. While visiting Ypres, the director learnt that 1.4 million Indians were conscripted by the British to fight in Flanders Fields during the First World War. By using audio recordings, letters, songs, and archives, he brings his anonymous ancestors back to life, like ghosts inlaid in an immovable winter landscape.
in MAMI catalogue.