BISFF

9th BISFF-2024
VENUE: NANDAN-III, KOLKATA
20-23 May 2024
Daily from 1.00pm to 7.00pm
ENTRY: OPEN TO ALL (FREE)

SCREENING SCHEDULE
20 May 2024 (Monday)

1.00-1.27pm: Lyubima (Bulgaria, Fic. 27:00) By- Maya Ivanova Vitkova-Kosev
1.28-1.43pm: Knife, Chocolate (Iran, Fic. 15:00) By- Hooshmand Varaei
1.44-2.22pm: The Yesterday (Canada, Fic. 38:00) By- Benita Vera Von Sass
2.23-2.39pm: Malti (USA, Fic. 16:00) By- Mrunal Meistri
2.40-3.05pm: Mom I am Drowning (Russia, Fic. 24:46) By- Dmitry Rudakov
3.06-3.18pm: Ivania (Spain, Fic. 12:00) By- Luigi Abanto
3.19-3.32pm: Chor- The Tale of a Thief (Hindi, Fic. 12:59) By- Ayush Anita Sharma
3.33-3.52pm: Mulaquat (Hindi, Fic. 18:59) By- Sandeep Sarwate
3.53-4.09pm: The Counterpart (Bengali, Fic. 15:54) By- Abhinandan Ghose
4.10-4.40pm: Termite (Bengali, Fic. 29:59) By- Tathagata Bhowmik
4.41-5.05pm: Bindur Pathshala (Bengali, Doc. 23:05) By- Santanu Saha

5.10-6.00pm: INAUGURATION CEREMONY FOLLOWED BY TEA
6.01-6.26pm: Adore (Hindi, Fic. 24:41) By- Mrinal Nath

21 May 2024 (Tuesday)
1.00-1.14pm: From Darkness to the Lightness of Being (USA, Fic. 13:47) By- Patty M Simon
1.15-1.30pm: Dojo (USA, Fic. 14:50) By- Armin Alic
1.31-1.48pm: You Deserve it (Spain, Fic. 17:00) By- Sergio Montes
1.49-2.04pm: Relics (Spain, Fic. 15:00) By- Jordi Conil Salome
2.05-2.13pm: Love Bubbles (Switzerland, Fic. 7:34) By- Marcel Hobi
2.14-2.33pm: Chosen (Cambodia, Fic. 18:30) By- Daniel David Newman
2.34-2.57pm: Devuda Devuda (Telugu, Fic. 22:31) By- Dinnesh
2.58-3.11pm: Tomorrow (Telugu, Fic. 12:42) By- Jayaram Dharavath
3.12-3.28pm: A Dream of a Widow (Assamese, Fic. 15:41) By- Rupkamal Hazarika
3.29-3.34pm: Unsent (English, Fic. 4:26) By- Nanda
3.35-3.42: Operation Theater One (Hindi, Fic. 6:22) By- Farzad Sarosh Limathwala
3.43-4.11pm: Christmas of our Ancestors (Slovakia, Doc. 27:26) By- Denis Németh & Mário Németh
4.12-4.20pm: Woman Guardians of Seeds (Columbia, Doc. 7:14) By- Juan Sebastián Malaver Valencia
4.21-4.32pm: Exotic Charm (English, Doc. 10:27) By- Rajgopal Singh
4.33-5.13pm: Something Like That (Other, Doc. 39:38) By- Aditya Modak
5.14-5.36pm: Aam Antir Panchali (Bengali, Doc. 21:56) By- Satyajit Dasgupta
5.37-6.05pm: Wavelength (Bengali, Fic. 27:48) By- Rudrajit Roy
6.06-6.31pm: A Ride in the Rain (Bengali, Fic. 24:12) By- Utsab Ray
6.32-7.01pm: Jamalporer Choto Jamider (Bengali, Fic. 28:31) By- Deep Bhattacharyya

22 May 2024 (Wednesday)
1.00-1.28pm: U=Me (Hindi, Fic. 27:47) By- Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
1.29-1.58pm: 2 BHK (Hindi, Fic. 29:00) By- Arsh Jain
1.59-2.12pm: Heart of Darkness (Bengali, Fic. 13:22) By- Soham Pal
2.13-2.51pm: Ghubaar (Hindi, Fic. 37:39) By- Omair Farooq
2.52-3.12pm: Yes Sir (Hindi, Fic. 20:00) By- Mudit Singhal
3.13-3.21pm: Kaaya – The Mission of Life (Hindi, Fic. 8:12) Sahil Rajesh
3.22-3.41pm: Atman (No Dialogue, Fic. 19:02) By- Hariharan Raju
3.42-4.02pm: Path (Hindi, Fic. 20:00) By- Pradip Kurbah
4.03-4.27pm: Son of the Soil (Assamese, Fic. 23:57) By- Akanshya Bhagabati
4.28-5.03pm: In Between Us (Hindi, Doc. 35:00) By- Rajkumari Prajapati & Ruchika Negi
5.04-5.31pm: Puthanannam (Malayalam, Doc. 27:00) By- Bini Gopinath
5.32-5.55pm: Somewhere Near and Far (Punjabi, Doc. 23:01) By- Gurleen Grewal
5.56-6.23pm: Ekaki (Assamese, Fic. 26:33) By- Rupam Jyoti Malakar
6.24-7.02pm: Ladakh 470 (Hindi, Doc. 38:00) By- Shivam Singh Rajpoot

23 May 2024 (Thursday)
1.00-1.38pm: Lotus (Bengali, Fic. 38:05) By- Mainak Mukherjee
1.39-2.05pm: Kali (Bengali, Fic. 25:35) By- Jijo
2.06-2.30pm: The Treasure (Bengali, Fic. 23:45) By- Pubali Halder
2.31-3.10pm: Blood (Bengali, Fic. 38:57) By- Biresh Chatterjee
3.11-3.35pm: Mayabhumi (Bengali, Fic. 24:12) By- Arijit Dey
3.36-3.49pm: The Last Destination (Bengali, Fic. 12:16) By- Ritam Chakraborty
3.50-4.19pm: Mastul (Bengali, Fic. 28:45) By- Samprita Das Roy and Subhajit Chanda
4.20-4.36pm: Sound of Silence (Bengali, Fic. 15:24) By- Bipasha Chatterjee
4.37-4.53pm: 251 (Bengali, Fic. 16:00) By- Bauddhayan Mukherji
4.54-5.22pm: Gauri (No Dialogue, Fic. 27:57) By- Biswarup Biswas
5.23-5.50pm: Golper Seshe (Bengali, Fic. 26:24) By- Souvik Pramanick
5.51-6.20pm: Hit Wicket (Bengali, Fic. 29:00) By- Santanu Saha
6.21-6.36pm: Cycle of Eternity (Bengali, Fic. 14:40) By- Souradeep Dutta

AWARD CEREMONY
8th June 2024 Saturday, 6.30pm
Venue: Spring Club, Kolkata
Entry: Only by Invitation
NB: Schedule may change at the last moment for any reason beyond our control.

9th BISFF: JURY

Shri Sekhar Das is a National and international award-winning film director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, and drama director based in Kolkata. Written and directed seven feature films and adapted four great plays by Anton Chekov for Television. Directed and anchored 120 episodes of Travelogue for a TV channel covering S-E Asia, Europe and the USA. Made award-winning documentaries for Doordarshan, covering 8 N-E states of India. An activist of the film society movement. Teaches film as an external faculty in different film schools. Served in the Jury for many national and international film festivals, national films awards, Indian panorama and others.

Dr. Rita (Rwita) Dutta is a film critic and film scholar based in Kolkata. A PhD in cinema studies from the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Teaches in Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, Kolkata. Edits an international film journal ‘FilmBuff’ since 2006. Attended many international film festivals worldwide as a jury member like Cannes,Busan, Kiev, Cairo, Kerala, Osian’s Cinefan Delhi, Nepal, Aswan, Ukraine,Italy, Turkey, and others. Delivered lectures on cinema, especially on Indian cinema,in Istanbul, Almaty, Poland, Greece, China, Brazil, Germany, Romania and several other places at home and abroad. Contributes to various national and international publications in India, Spain, France and several other countries. A member of the International Federation of Film Critics- FIPRESCI.

Dr. Pradeep Kenchanuru is from Kenchanuru, Karnataka. A Ph.D. in cinema studies from Kannada University Hampi. Teached in Govt College Sullia, Karnataka. Attended film appreciation course of FTII Pune in 2015. Done a short course on Sound in SRFTI Kolkata in 2020. Screenwriter of the National award winning Kannada film ‘Reservation’ in 2016. Writes extensively about cinema. Former member of Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy under Govt. of Karnataka. Served in the jury of IFFI-Goa, Bangalore IFF and national film awards. A fellow of ICHR New Delhi in 2018. Visiting faculty of NID Ahmedabad, Nitte University Mangalore and Manipal Institute of Communication. Served as the Dy. Artistic Director of 14th Bengaluru International Film Festival.

9th BENGAL INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
NANDAN, Kolkata, 20-23 May 2024
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

Short Fiction in Competition

Lyubima (Bulgaria, 27:00, Maya Ivanova Vitkova-Kosev)
Termite (Bengali, 29:59, Tathagata Bhowmik)
Knife, Chocolate (Iran, 15:00, Hooshmand Varaei)
Chor- The Tale of a Thief (Hindi, 12:59, Ayush Anita Sharma)
The Yesterday (Canada, 38:00, Benita Vera Von Sass)
Ekaki (Assamese, 26:33, Rupam Jyoti Malakar)
The Counterpart (Bengali, 15:54, Abhinandan Ghose)
Mulaquat (Hindi, 18:59, Sandeep Sarwate)
Malti (USA, 16:00, Mrunal Meistri)
Mom I am Drowning (Russia, 24:46, Dmitry Rudakov)
Ivania (Spain, 12:00, Luigi Abanto)
Ghubaar (Hindi, 37:39, Omair Farooq)
Mastul (Bengali, 28:45, Samprita Das Roy)
Son of the Soil (Assamese, 23:57, Akanshya Bhagabati)
Yes Sir (Hindi, 20:00, Mudit Singhal)
Sound of Silence (Bengali, 15:24, Bipasha Chatterjee)
251 (Bengali, 16:00, Bauddhayan Mukherjee)
Gauri (No Dialogue, 27:57, Biswarup Biswas)
Golper Seshe (Bengali, 26:24, Souvik Pramanik)
Kaaya – The Mission of Life (Hindi, 8:12, Sahil Rajesh)
Atman (No Dialogue, 19:02, Hariharan Raju)
Hit Wicket (Bengali, 29:00, Santanu Saha)
Cycle of Eternity (Bengali, 14:40, Souradeep Dutta)
Path (Hindi, 20:00, Pradip Kurbah)
Adore (Hindi, 24:41, Mrinal Nath)

Short Fiction Out of Competition

Operation Theater One (Hindi, 6:22, Farzad Sarosh Limathwala)
Devuda Devuda Devuda (Telugu, 22:31, Dinnesh)
A Dream of a Widow (Assamese, 15:41, Rupkamal Hazarika)
Dojo (USA, 14:50, Armin Alic)
Wavelength (Bengali, 27:48, Rudrajit Roy)
A Ride in the Rain (Bengali, 24:12, Utsab Ray)
Lotus (Bengali, 38:05, Mainak Mukherjee)
U=Me (Hindi, 27:47, Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni)
Kali (Bengali, 25:35, Jijo)
You Deserve it (Spain, 17:00, Sergio Montes)
Heart of Darkness (Bengali, 13:22, Soham Pal)
Relics (Spain, 15:00, Jordi Conil Salome)
Jamalpore Choto Jamider (Bengali, 28:31, Deep Nhattacharyya)
Unsent (English, 4:26, Nanda)
The Treasure (Bengali, 23:45, Pubali Halder)
From Darkness to the Lightness of Being (USA, 13:47, Patty M Simon)
17.Love Bubbles (Switzerland, 7:34, Marcel Hobi)
Blood (Bengali, 38:57, Biresh Chatterjee)
Tomorrow (Telugu, 12:42, Jayaram Dharavath)
2 BHK (Hindi, 29:00, Arsh Jain)
Chosen (Cambodia, 18:30, Daniel David Newman)
Mayabhumi (Bengali, Arijit Dey, 24:12)
The Last Destination (Bengali, 12:16, Ritam Chakraborty)

Documentary in Competition

Ladakh 470 (Hindi, 38:00, Shivam Singh Rajpoot)
In Between Us (Hindi, 35:00, Rajkumari Prajapati & Ruchika Negi)
Puthanannam (Malayalam, 27:00, Bini Gopinath)
Somewhere Near and Far (Punjabi, 23:01, Gurleen Grewal)
Bindur Pathshala (Bengali, 23:05, Santanu Saha)

Documentary Out of Competition

Aam Antir Panchali (Bengali, 21:56, Satyajit Dasgupta)
Christmas of our Ancestors (Slovakia, 27:26, Denis Németh & Mário Németh)
Woman Guardians of Seeds (Columbia, 7:14, Juan Sebastián Malaver Valencia)
Exotic Charm (English, 10:27, Rajgopal Singh)
Something Like That (Other, 39:38, Aditya Modak)

Jury to be announced soon.

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