7th South Asian Short Film Festival (SASFF 2024)
7th South Asian Short Film Festival 2024
Nandan, Kolkata, 7-13 July 2024
AWARD LIST
🏆Satyajit Ray Golden Award for the Best Documentary: In Search of Ajantrik (India, Hindi, 2023, 46:27) by Meghnath
🏆Satyajit Ray Silver Award for the 2nd Best Documentary: The Barefoot Journey (India, Bengali, 2024, 29:00) by Bijoy Chowdhury
🏆Satyajit Ray Bronze Award for the 3rd Best Documentary: Small-Time Cinema (India, Assamese, Baluchi, 2022, 29:00) by Priya Naresh
🏆Ritwik Ghatak Golden Award for the Best Short Fiction: The Miniaturist of Junagadh (India, Hindi, Urdu, 2021, 29:18) by Kaushal Oza
🏆Ritwik Ghatak Silver Award for the 2nd Best Short Fiction: The Imam (India, Hindi, 2023, 39:30) by Saba Mumtaz
🏆Ritwik Ghatak Bronze Award for the 3rd Best Short Fiction: Daah Sanskar (India, Hindi, 2022, 29:32) by Falguni Bhakta
🏆Mrinal Sen Golden Award for the Best Direction in Documentary: Bijoy Chowdhury for the film The Barefoot Journey (India, Bengali, 2024, 29:00)
🏆V Shantaram Golden Award for the Best Direction in Short Fiction: Saba Mumtaz for the film The Imam (India, Hindi, 2023, 39:30)
🏆Special Jury Mention: The Way Back Home (Short Fiction, India, Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, 2023, 14:40) by Sandeep Kumar Paul
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS for Outstanding Contributions to the Film Society Movement
🏆 Prof. Sibansu Basu of Midnapore Film Society
🏆 Shri Jyoti Prakash Mitra of North Calcutta Film Society
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Official Selections
DOCUMENTARY – COMPETITION
Sl. No | Title | Section | Country | Language | Year | Duration | Director |
1 | Aam Antir Panchali | Documentary | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:21:56 | Satyajit Dasgupta |
2 | Bindur Pathshala | Documentary | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:35:16 | Santanu Saha |
3 | Divine Dilemma | Documentary | Nepal | Nepali | 2023 | 00:36:00 | K. P. Pathak |
4 | In Between Us | Documentary | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:35:00 | Rajkumari Prajapati, Ruchika Negi |
5 | In Search of Ajantrik | Documentary | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:46:27 | Meghnath |
6 | Ladakh 470 | Documentary | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:38:00 | Shivam Singh Rajput |
7 | Mozhiyazhak: An Ode to Malayalam | Documentary | India | Malayalam | 2023 | 00:56:28 | Sreedevi P Aravind |
8 | Music of Rejuvenation | Documentary | India | English | 2023 | 00:56:42 | Subha DasMollick |
9 | Puthanannam | Documentary | India | Malayalam | 2023 | 00:27:00 | Bini Gopinath |
10 | Shakila– The Collage of Struggle | Documentary | India | Bengali | 2022 | 00:49:00 | Subhasis Chakraborty |
11 | Small-Time Cinema | Documentary | India | Assamese, Baluchi | 2022 | 00:29:00 | Priya Naresh |
12 | Somewhere Near and Far | Documentary | India | English, Hindi, Punjabi | 2022 | 00:23:01 | Gurleen Grewal |
13 | Tanishka | Documentary | India | Hindi | 2021 | 00:58:51 | Sudeep Sohni |
14 | The Barefoot Journey | Documentary | India | Bengali | 2024 | 00:29:00 | Bijoy Chowdhury |
15 | The Sea & Seven Villages | Documentary | India | Odia | 2023 | 00:56:46 | Himansu S Khatua |
SHORT FICTION – COMPETITION
Sl. No | Title | Category | Country | Language | Year | Duration | Directors |
1 | 1234 | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:17:00 | Gita Guha |
2 | 251 | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:16:00 | Bauddhayan Mukherji |
3 | Anita’s | Short Fiction | India | Malayalam | 2023 | 00:22:52 | Megha Priya Sunil |
4 | Boobra | Short Fiction | India | Marathi | 2024 | 00:18:05 | Vishal Vijayrao Shinde |
5 | Broken Wall | Short Fiction | India | No Dialogue | 2023 | 00:18:18 | Mrinmoy Sarkar |
6 | Chase | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:20:00 | Debasish Sen Sharma |
7 | Daah Sanskar | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2022 | 00:29:32 | Falguni Bhakta |
8 | Dustbin | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:27:50 | Ess Dee, Ishani Sengupta |
9 | Entangled | Short Fiction | India | Marathi | 2023 | 00:19:56 | Sainath S Uskaikar |
10 | Hit Wicket | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:29:00 | Santanu Saha |
11 | If | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:25:41 | Tathagata Ghosh |
12 | Ittar | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:38:22 | Anirban Guha |
13 | Kasheer Kaete | Short Fiction | India | Hindi, Kashmiri, Urdu | 2023 | 00:22:54 | Arif |
14 | Life is Bubble | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:14:46 | Aaliya Nawazuddin Siddiqui |
15 | Padmo Madhu | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:40:00 | Susmita Sinha |
16 | Phaans’ 47 | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:07:17 | Akash Singh |
17 | Separation | Short Fiction | Bangladesh | Bengali | 2023 | 00:23:08 | Aparajita Sangita |
18 | Son of the Soil | Short Fiction | India | Assamese | 2023 | 00:23:57 | Akanshya Bhagabati |
19 | Tanked Fish | Short Fiction | Sri Lanka | Tamil | 2021 | 00:08:59 | Nadaraja Manivanan |
20 | The Calling | Short Fiction | India | English | 2023 | 00:08:29 | Pooja Kadam |
21 | The Clown | Short Fiction | Pakistan | Punjabi | 2024 | 00:14:30 | Kamil Chima |
22 | The Cunning-Makkar | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:18:47 | Anil Kumar Anand |
23 | The Imam | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:39:30 | Saba Mumtaz |
24 | The Miniaturist of Junagadh | Short Fiction | India | Hindi, Urdu | 2021 | 00:29:18 | Kaushal Oza |
25 | The Story of A Casteist | Short Fiction | India | Tamil | 2023 | 00:17:10 | Arun Mo |
26 | The Way Back Home | Short Fiction | India | Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi | 2023 | 00:14:40 | Sandeep Kumar Paul |
27 | This is not a Pearl | Short Fiction | Sri Lanka | Sinhala | 2024 | 00:14:59 | Tharindu Ramanayaka |
28 | Thursday Special | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2024 | 00:26:27 | Varun Tandon |
29 | Tumi Robe Nirobe | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:14:05 | Benu Bina Banik |
30 | Yes Sir! | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:20:00 | Mudit Singhal |
DOCUMENTARY – PANORAMA
Sl. No | Title | Section | Country | Language | Year | Duration | Director |
1 | All Day and All of the Night | Documentary | India | Gujarati, Hindi | 2022 | 00:08:40 | Priya Naresh |
2 | An Evening in Golconda | Documentary | India | Hindi | 2022 | 00:10:00 | Teena Amrit Gill |
3 | Calculating Change | Documentary | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:01:13 | Sophiyaa Nayar |
4 | Doprujhiri | Documentary | Bangladesh | Bengali | 2023 | 00:28:38 | Asma Beethe |
5 | Ginger Biscuit | Documentary | India | Malayalam | 2024 | 01:00:47 | Sudha Padmaja Francis |
6 | Illegal Mining | Documentary | India | Punjabi | 2024 | 00:37:38 | Mohan Singh Aulakh |
7 | In the Wake of Devotion | Documentary | India | English | 2024 | 00:15:00 | Vedant Chakraborty |
8 | Lights, Camera, Mega! | Documentary | India | Bengali | 2024 | 00:52:00 | Tanni Chaudhuri |
9 | Living in Isolation | Documentary | Bangladesh | Bengali | 2024 | 00:09:29 | Nirtesh C Dutta |
10 | Mukha Xilpo | Documentary | India | Assamese | 2023 | 00:16:19 | Annanya Bhuyan |
11 | On the Right Track | Documentary | India | Hindi, Marathi | 2024 | 00:39:58 | Devashish Shukla, Isha Tomar, Rituraj, Sam Venkat, Niv |
12 | Our Film | Documentary | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:49:00 | Dakxin Chhara |
13 | Penmudra | Documentary | India | English, Malayalam | 2023 | 00:37:20 | Jishnu Krishnan A |
14 | Reminiscence of Gangaur | Documentary | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:29:28 | Sudeep Sohni |
15 | The Caretakers | Documentary | India | Assamese | 2023 | 00:20:17 | Biswajit Das |
16 | Time River | Documentary | India | Bengali | 2024 | 00:38:25 | Debjani Banerjee |
SHORT FICTION – PANORAMA
Sl. No | Title | Section | Country | Language | Year | Duration | Director |
1 | A Dream of a Widow | Short Fiction | India | Assamese | 2022 | 00:15:41 | Rupkamal Hazarika |
2 | A Happy Pizza Day | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:17:23 | Siddhesh Pandey |
3 | Beef | Short Fiction | Sri Lanka | Sinhala | 2023 | 00:31:40 | Hasantha Prabhoothi Dissanayake |
4 | Bhagirath the Sandman | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:24:29 | Dharmesh Mehta |
5 | Chimera | Short Fiction | India | Malayalam | 2023 | 00:14:27 | Aiswarya Thankachan |
6 | Cycle of Eternity | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:14:40 | Souradeep Datta |
7 | D | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:28:05 | Subhas Longmarch, Subhasish Christche |
8 | Devuda Devuda | Short Fiction | India | Telugu | 2023 | 00:22:31 | Dinnesh |
9 | Ek Kerani O Prithibi | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:22:36 | Sharanya Dey |
10 | Gamanak | Short Fiction | Sri Lanka | Sinhala | 2023 | 00:12:40 | Kasun Wadumestiri |
11 | Golper Seshe | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2021 | 00:26:24 | Souvik Pramanick |
12 | Hooves | Short Fiction | Sri Lanka | Sinhala | 2024 | 00:23:50 | Akash Sunethkumara |
13 | In the Cloud | Short Fiction | Sri Lanka | Sinhala | 2023 | 00:15:00 | Suranga Prageeth Handapangoda |
14 | Ipsa | Short Fiction | India | Hindi, Sanskrit | 2023 | 00:24:48 | Pavitra Verma |
15 | Kaina | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2024 | 00:15:45 | Aaryaveer Siingh |
16 | Lotus | Short Fiction | India | Bengali, English, Hindi | 2023 | 00:38:05 | Mainak Mukherjee |
17 | Mastul | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2024 | 00:28:46 | Subhajit Chanda, Samprita Das Roy |
18 | Meshbari | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:29:59 | Dipanwita Sengputa |
19 | Monk with a Red Fork | Short Fiction | Bhutan | Bhutanese | 2023 | 00:10:36 | Karma Galeg |
20 | Muqaddas | Short Fiction | Pakistan | Urdu | 2023 | 00:27:58 | Khurram Zaidi |
21 | My Hate Letter to Cycles and/or Self Harm | Short Fiction | India | English, Hindi | 2023 | 00:19:06 | Harsh Vardhan Kumar |
22 | Naam Jeeban | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:28:06 | Shantanu Mukherjee |
23 | Pest | Short Fiction | India | English, Hindi | 2023 | 00:07:42 | Samar Manhotra |
24 | Protest | Short Fiction | Sri Lanka | Sinhala | 2023 | 00:12:05 | Sandeep Mithum Darshana |
25 | Random Beats | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2024 | 00:13:20 | Manoj Madhusudanan |
26 | Raven | Short Fiction | Bangladesh | Bengali | 2023 | 00:29:40 | Zayed Siddiki |
27 | Reminiscence | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:17:30 | Anup Kumar Chakraborty |
28 | Sadabahar | Short Fiction | India | English, Hindi | 2022 | 00:12:55 | Suyash Kamat |
29 | Sandals of Gold | Short Fiction | India | Gujarati | 2023 | 00:14:20 | Raj Kapadia |
30 | Seppam Thottram | Short Fiction | India | No Dialogue | 2024 | 00:09:58 | Navinraj Selvamathi |
31 | The Beast Inside | Short Fiction | Sri Lanka | Sinhala | 2024 | 00:18:50 | Nerun Kalpajith |
32 | The Counterpart | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:15:54 | Abhinandan Ghose |
33 | The Java Plum Tree | Short Fiction | Pakistan | English, Urdu | 2023 | 00:33:10 | Rafay Rashdi |
34 | The Light, the Cat and the Night Sky | Short Fiction | India | No Dialogue | 2024 | 00:02:04 | Subhadeep Sengupta |
35 | The Quest | Short Fiction | India | Bengali, English | 2022 | 00:13:07 | Pratyush Halder |
36 | The Treasure | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:23:45 | Pubali Halder |
37 | Veni | Short Fiction | India | Marathi | 2023 | 00:23:15 | Vishal Jejurkar |
38 | What Just Happened! | Short Fiction | India | Hindi | 2023 | 00:19:35 | Arunansh Bhatt |
39 | Window Shopping | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2022 | 00:34:07 | Soumitra Bagchi |
40 | XX Chiranjivi | Short Fiction | India | Kannada | 2024 | 00:36:06 | Rahul Kaundinya |
41 | Zoo Loom | Short Fiction | India | Bengali | 2023 | 00:06:35 | Nemo |
INTERNATIONAL WINDOW
Sl. No. | Title | Section | Country | Language | Year | Duration | Director |
1 | Brink of Tears | Short Fiction | France | French | 2023 | 00:19:00 | Anne Amiand |
2 | Intimacy in the Afternoon | Short Fiction | Cambodia | Khmer | 2022 | 00:26:45 | Marc Philippe Baudinet |
3 | Jump Senior | Short Fiction | Korea | Korean | 2023 | 00:14:00 | Won Jin |
4 | Kali | Short Fiction | United Kingdom | Bengali | 2023 | 00:25:35 | Jijo |
5 | Lyubima | Short Fiction | Bulgaria | Bulgarian | 2023 | 00:27:00 | Maya Ivanova Vitkova-Kosev |
6 | Malti | Short Fiction | United States | English | 2023 | 00:16:00 | Mrunal Mestri |
7 | Pakeeza | Short Fiction | United Kingdom | Urdu | 2022 | 00:19:54 | Jaffar Raza Jafri |
8 | Queer Khalifa | Short Fiction | United States | English | 2023 | 00:13:47 | Danial Gondal |
9 | Reunited | Short Fiction | Canada | English | 2023 | 00:20:00 | Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri |
10 | Subiksha Subramani | Documentary | Canada | English | 2022 | 00:03:01 | Salima Stanley-Bhanji |
11 | The Apple | Short Fiction | United Kingdom | Hindi | 2023 | 00:15:00 | Mayank Sharma |
12 | The Blessed | Short Fiction | United States | Sanskrit | 2022 | 00:05:24 | Amitava Ganguly |
13 | Until Mina | Short Fiction | Iran | Persian | 2024 | 00:14:59 | Mehdi Arhami |
14 | What Will You Take With You | Short Fiction | United Kingdom | Hindi, Urdu | 2023 | 00:13:23 | Adil Sher |
Jury : SASFF 2024
Anjan Bose
Anjan Bose is the 3rd generation custodian leader, officially MD of Aurora Film Corporation, which happens to be India’s oldest functioning Cinema Company since 1906 having the legacy of producing and distributing films of maestros like Satyajit Ray (Aparajito, Jalsaghar, Pather Panchali), Ritwik Ghatak (Ajantrik) and many more. He is a senior filmmaker-producer who has to his credit three National Awards (including Rajat Kamal) as director and many more national and international acclaims for his films including the prestigious Indian Panorama, IFFI. He has also been a one-time chairman and three times jury member of the Indian Panorama.
Mirza Shabnam Ferdousi
Shabnam Ferdousi is the Head of Program, Current Affairs & Program Department, Ekattor TV, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is an audio-visual consultant, organizer and film activist. She has 30 years of experience in electronic media. She is a popular news and program presenter. She has made more than 150 documentaries as an executive producer, and more than 40 documentaries as a director. She also has made many short fiction films. Her debut feature length fiction Ajob Karkhana (2022) participated many festivals in home and abroad, and won FIPRESCI award in Dhaka IFF. She has a M.S.S degree in Sociology. She is the president of Bangladesh Documentary Council, and former joint secretary of Bangladesh Short Film Forum. She has served on the jury in many national and international film festivals.
Swati Bhattacharjee
Swati Bhattacharjee is Senior Assistant Editor, Ananda Bazar Patrika. She has an MA in Philosophy from Jadavpur University, an MSc in Media Research from Stirling University UK, and a PhD in Social Science from TISS Mumbai. She writes on poverty alleviation and gender justice. She has authored and edited several books. Swati was a Fulbright-Nehru fellow, 2010-11, at ALJ Poverty Action Lab, MIT. She was a Jefferson Fellow at East West Centre, Hawaii, in 2006. She also received the Senior Research fellowship from ICSSR, 2012-14. Swati won the Journalist of Courage and Impact Award in 2018 from East West Centre, Hawaii. She is a founder-member of South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), and is currently the president of its Indian chapter.