by Anurag Goswami, Hossein Mozdgir Roozane, Rodd Rathjen, Payal Kapadia, Gitanjali Rao, Varun Chawla
The latest short films from India bear witness to this emerging nation’s slowly changing social landscape. The younger generation dreams of a different, more open world, and rebels where it most doubts the system. The shorts selected reach beyond Bollywood to tackle the current issues faced by a country of diverse ethnicities – sometimes socially critical, sometimes romantical, sometimes hopeful and sometimes experimental. (Curated by Senta van de Weetering & Andreas Bühlmann, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur) The following films will be screened: FOR HIRE (Varun Chawla) PROVOKED (Hossein M. Roozane) TRUELOVESTORY (Gitanjali Rao) WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (Payal Kapadia) TAU SERU (Rodd Rathjen) KAUN KAMLESHWAR (Anurag Goswami)