2nd South Asian Short Film Festival (SASFF 2019)
The 2nd edition of the South Asian Short Film Festival (SASFF 2019) took place from 18-31 March , 2019 at Nandan, Kolkata. This time, a total of 271 films were showcased in the festival and a selected package including all the award-winning films were screened at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Kolkata on 1 April 2019. The list of award winning films was as folllows:
Category wise list of selected films were as follows:
Competition Fiction
SL | Director | Title | Country |
CF- 1 | Abdullah Al Maruf | Eternal Life, 1946 | Bangladesh |
CF- 2 | Abhishek Bhattacharyya | Room 462 | India |
CF- 3 | Aditya Kelgaonkar | Soundproof | India |
CF- 4 | Amitabh Reza Chowdhury | Silence | Bangladesh |
CF- 5 | Aparajita Sangita | Fear of Men | Bangladesh |
CF- 6 | Areen Basak | Signature | India |
CF- 7 | Arunava Middya | The Inapt | India |
CF- 8 | Asiya Zahor | The Stitch | India |
CF- 9 | Bhaswati Roy | Landmark | India |
CF- 10 | Chabname Zariab | The Camel Boy | India |
CF- 11 | Chhanda Dutt | Fight | India |
CF- 12 | Hari Viswanath | Monitor | India |
CF- 13 | Indranil Kashyap | Kula | India |
CF- 14 | Joby Varghese | Vuja De | India |
CF- 15 | Kankana Chakraborty | Written By? | India |
CF- 16 | Khandaker Sumon | Pounopunik | Bangladesh |
CF- 17 | Kishor Mahmood | Gray Light | Bangladesh |
CF- 18 | Koel Sen | Valay | India |
CF- 19 | Kripal Kalita | The Cloud | India |
CF- 20 | Kshema B.K | Apraapta | India |
CF- 21 | Kumar Chowdhury | Every Drop Counts | India |
CF- 22 | Kumar Ritu Ranjan | Mohammed Ali Khan | India |
CF- 23 | Mahmud Hasan | Revival | Bangladesh |
CF- 24 | Manas Basu | Aurora Borealis | India |
CF- 25 | Manav Kaushik | For Love with Love | India |
CF- 26 | Monuj Borkotoky | Daai | India |
CF- 27 | Neela Nusrat | Without Money | Bangladesh |
CF- 28 | Nikhilesh Dinda | The Shackles Of Gender | India |
CF- 29 | Pratik Shah | Menopause | India |
CF- 30 | Rohitaswa Mukherjee | Aquarium | India |
CF- 31 | Sahadat Russell | Color of Childhood | Bangladesh |
CF- 32 | Saki Farzana | The Gray Line | Bangladesh |
CF- 33 | Sandeep A. Varma | The Disguise | India |
CF- 34 | Shahariar Choyone | Boot Polish | Bangladesh |
CF- 35 | Sivaranjini | Rhythm | India |
CF- 36 | Sourav Ghosh | Toyhouse | India |
CF- 37 | Sourav Pal | Sound Of Silence | India |
CF- 38 | Sreecheta Das | Posharini | India |
CF- 39 | Suborna Senjutee Tushee | Fish Monolog | India, Bangladesh |
CF- 40 | Sudath Abeysiriwardana | Where’s My Route | Sri Lanka |
CF- 41 | Supratic Gupta & Ors. | Life Song: Let’s Touch The Lofty Sky | India |
CF- 42 | Suranjay Mandal | Color : Grey | India |
CF- 43 | Sujoy J. Mukerji | Ab Mujhe Udna Hai – Let Me Soar High! | India |
CF- 44 | Swajan Majhi | Part Of An Epic | Bangladesh |
CF- 45 | Tathagata Ghosh | The Demon | India |
CF- 46 | Tejus Yakhob | Plucked | India |
CF- 47 | Vishal Jejurkar | The Last Letter | India |
CF- 48 | VS Sanoj | Burning | India |
CF- 49 | Xahid Khan | Mistake | India |
CF- 50 | Zuairijah Mou | Bhoy – The Fear of Silence | Bangladesh |
Competition Documentary
Sl | Directors | Title | Country |
CD- 1 | Ankan Roy & Ors. | Possessed by His Art, a Bahurupi Transforms | India |
CD- 2 | Anubha Bhonsle & Ors | Into The Chakshangs Of Imphal | India |
CD- 3 | Baburaj Asariya | The Unsung Heroes | India |
CD- 4 | Biju Toppo & Ors | Those Who Dance Will Survive | India |
CD- 5 | Biswanath Rath | Kotpad Weaving : The Story of A Race against Time | India |
CD- 6 | Bobbeeta Sharma | A Light That Refuses To Fade Out… | India |
CD- 7 | Chandita Mukherjee | Displacement | India |
CD- 8 | Debalina Majumder | In Fact … | India |
CD- 9 | Farha Khatun | The Jungle Man… Loiya | India |
CD- 10 | Farha Khatun & Ors | I am Bonnie | India |
CD-11 | Himansu Khatua | Ballav Speaks | India |
CD- 12 | Indrani Chakrabarti | Journey on Three Wheels | India |
CD- 13 | K G Das | Master Preacher of Film Theory | India |
CD- 14 | KM Taj & Ors | The Girls are Not Brides | Bangladesh |
CD- 15 | Malyaban Ash | Khela Jakhon | India |
CD- 16 | Md. Ahasan Kabir & Ors | The Artist of Story Telling | Bangladesh |
CD- 17 | Monalisa Mukherji | Who Is This Women’s Day For? | India |
CD- 18 | Nandit Desai | Gwalior- A Journey Of Indian Music | India |
CD- 19 | Oinam Doren | Theatre of The Earth | India |
CD- 20 | Parthajit Baruah | Chaiaroscuro | India |
CD- 21 | Pratibha Sharma | We All Are One | India |
CD- 22 | Ratnottoma Sengupta | And They Made Classics | India |
CD- 23 | Roopkatha Purakayastha | Samkhya | India |
CD- 24 | Satyakam Dutta | Finding Beauty In Garbage | India |
CD- 25 | Shila Dutta | Mother’s Day | India |
CD- 26 | Sinchita Maji | Ganpati Yadav’s Gripping Life Cycle | India |
CD- 27 | Sreemati Mukherjee | The Chitrakars: Where Earth Meets Culture | India |
CD- 28 | Subrata Sen | Kali | India |
CD- 29 | Subuhi Jiwani | Farming Doesn’t Give Us Our Sustenance | India |
CD- 30 | Sudha Padmaja Francis | Memory Beings | India |
CD- 31 | Supriyo Sen | Swimming Through The Darkness | India |
CD- 32 | Suranjay Mandal | Traces : Stories | India |
CD- 33 | Swati Chakraborty | I am Jeeja | India |
CD- 34 | Vishaka George & Ors | I Feel So Happy to See the Paddy Growing | India |
CD- 35 | Zhumur Asma Jui | The Myth of Puppetry | Bangladesh |
Panorama Fiction
SL | Director | Title | Country |
PF- 1 | Abesh Banerjee | Phire Paowa | India |
PF- 2 | Abhijit Dasgupta & Ors. | Angshik | India |
PF- 3 | Abhik Das | Ticket | India |
PF- 4 | Ahsan Ullah Jewel | Whistle | Bangladesh |
PF- 5 | Ajit Giri | Rest is Fine | India |
PF- 6 | Ajoy Kumar Saha | Furlough | India |
PF- 7 | Amarendra Bhosle | Garudi | India |
PF- 8 | Anand Radhakrishnan | Divider | India |
PF- 9 | Aneesh Narath | The Hope | India |
PF- 10 | Anirban Mukherjee | Steps | India |
PF- 11 | Aniruddha Sharma | Bagli Talkies | India |
PF- 12 | Anshuman Chakraborty | And They Named Me | India |
PF- 13 | Anupam Barve | Evening | India |
PF- 14 | Anupam Dasgupta | You are Alive | India |
PF- 15 | Anupma Jai Shanker | Monsters | India |
PF- 16 | Arijit Dey | In The Crowd of Mist | India |
PF- 17 | Arijit Gupta | Uipoka | India |
PF- 18 | Arindam Barooah | Breaking the Cocoon | India |
PF- 19 | Aritra Chowdhury | Chul | India |
PF- 20 | Arudra | 93 Notout | India |
PF- 21 | Ashok Veilou | Look At The Sky | India |
PF- 22 | B. Sivakumar | The Harp’s Resonance | India |
PF- 23 | Biren Mukherjee | Ghoor-The Intense of Life | Bangladesh |
PF- 24 | Chaitali Somadder & Ors | See You | Bangladesh |
PF- 25 | Chetan A | Define | India |
PF- 26 | Chowdhury Asif Jahangir Arko | Dur-Alapon | Bangladesh |
PF- 27 | Debabrata Bhowmick | The Mirror | India |
PF- 28 | Debal Basu | Ganga Prapti | India |
PF- 29 | Debashis Das | The Ballad of a Geek | Bangladesh |
PF- 30 | Debjit Bagchi | Winds of Autumn | India |
PF- 31 | Devprasad Banerjee | A Conflict Within | India |
PF- 32 | Dhiraj Kashyap | She Dreams | India |
PF- 33 | Dhruva Harsh | Harshit | India |
PF- 34 | G Satheeshbabu | On The Way | India |
PF- 35 | Gaurav Madan | Probably | India |
PF- 36 | Gautam Chatterjee | Apne Samne | India |
PF- 37 | Gurprasad Singh | Sare Jahan Se Accha | India |
PF- 38 | Icarr Weeoui | Parting & Bonding | India |
PF- 39 | Indranil Banerjee | One Night Stand | India |
PF- 40 | Jagannaath chattopadhyay | Sukhersansar.com | India |
PF- 41 | Jayakumar | Thiruvithamcore | India |
PF- 42 | K Rajaraman | Reincarnated | India |
PF- 43 | Kanakaraj Balasubramanyam | Burma Express | India |
PF- 44 | Kazi Sami Hasan | Fruit Cake | Bangladesh |
PF- 45 | Kiran Prasad | Love On Rope | India |
PF- 46 | Koushik Mandal | Color Pencil | India |
PF- 47 | Krishnamurthy Chamaram | Refuge to Love | India |
PF- 48 | Kunika Kharat | Saad | India |
PF- 49 | L B Sriram | Nanna Diary | India |
PF- 50 | Lanka Sriramachandramurthy | Second Innings | India |
PF- 51 | M Gani | Gubbare | India |
PF- 52 | Mahesh Chakravarthy | Oodal | India |
PF- 53 | Mainul Hossain Sagar & Ors. | Resonance | Bangladesh |
PF- 54 | Manash Kr. Talukdar | Phand’ The Trap | India |
PF- 55 | Manasi Deodhar | Sound of Silence | India |
PF- 56 | Manoj Babu Pant | The Remains | Nepal |
PF- 57 | Mashroor Parvez | The Dogs Illusion | Bangladesh |
PF- 58 | Mehedi Hassan Rana | Invisible Water | Bangladesh |
PF- 59 | Milan Poudel | Curry | Nepal |
PF- 60 | Mohit Modi | Sandhya | India |
PF- 61 | Nahid Hasan | A Subtle Kind of Murder | Bangladesh |
PF- 62 | Nahida Parvin | Contemplation | Bangladesh |
PF- 63 | Naresh Hegde Dodmari | Uncover | India |
PF- 64 | Nasrina Khan & Ors | An Unknown Story | India |
PF- 65 | Natasha Nazim | Gloomy Eyes | Bangladesh |
PF- 66 | Natesh Hegde | Distant | India |
PF- 67 | Neha Sharma | She Dreams | India |
PF- 68 | Nidhi Taneja | Chutki | India |
PF- 69 | Niyantha Shekar & Ors | Art in A Time of Conflict | India |
PF- 70 | Pabitra Jana | Jaler Naksha | India |
PF- 71 | Parth R. | Bhisma | India |
PF- 72 | Partha Sarathi Manna | Smell | India |
PF- 73 | Parviz Batada | Jawaab La-Jawaab | India |
PF- 74 | Patit Paban Halder | Where | India |
PF- 75 | Pavel Paul | From Moon | India |
PF- 76 | Pooja Singh | Dew Drops | India |
PF- 77 | Pradip Mistri | Pagli | India |
PF- 78 | Prince Dhiman | Forever Whim | India |
PF- 79 | Raiba Anjali Dileep | Gluttony | India |
PF- 80 | Rajdeep Paul & Ors | Malai | India |
PF- 81 | Rajith Kumar | The Frames | India |
PF- 82 | Rajkumar Das | Yes / Antarale | India |
PF- 83 | Ramana | Living Idle | India |
PF- 84 | Ranjay RC | Ek Bachchan E Bohu Bachchan | India |
PF- 85 | Ravi Vinayak | Caged | India |
PF- 86 | Razid Season | Statue of An Angel (I) | Bangladesh |
PF- 87 | Remya Raj | Midnight Run | India |
PF- 88 | Renuka Soraisam | Un-filled | India |
PF- 89 | Rohan Dewanjea | Memories of a mother | India |
PF- 90 | Rohan Nag | Duality | India |
PF- 91 | Rop Akter Ahamed | Dayan The Slander | India |
PF- 92 | Rudranath Banerjee | Ashariri.. O..! | India |
PF- 93 | Runa Chowdhury | Leela | India |
PF- 94 | Rupesh Sarkar | Ankan | India |
PF- 95 | Sagniik Bhattacharya | The Storyteller | India |
PF- 96 | Sai Prawin Thanigachalam | The Silent Dance | India |
PF- 97 | Saikat Das | Think Beyond the Limit | India |
PF- 98 | Sandeep Ravindranath | A Prayer for the Childless | India |
PF- 99 | Sanjay Namdeo Kamble | Veshbhusha an identity | India |
PF- 100 | Santanu Halder | Unexpected letter | Bangladesh |
PF- 101 | Santosh Kumar | Me Too | India |
PF- 102 | Santu Pati | Apu Kajaler Gappo | India |
PF- 103 | Sanu Kummil | Mind Matter of a Tea Vendor | India |
PF- 104 | Saptarshi Bhattacharya | Adrift | India |
PF- 105 | Sauvik Chattopadhyay | Krishnakali | India |
PF- 106 | Shan | Iyakki – The Driver | India |
PF- 107 | Shaqyo Dey | Head | India |
PF- 108 | Shiv Verma | Ode To Broken Things | India |
PF- 109 | Shivaprasad Maheshwadagi | Chocolate | India |
PF- 110 | Shuvra Goswami | Petals of Love | Bangladesh |
PF- 111 | Siddhesh Talokar & Ors | Obscured | India |
PF- 112 | Sidharth Goutam | Silence | India |
PF- 113 | Snehendu Pal | Anonymous | India |
PF- 114 | Soban Ahmad Khan | Wi-Fi Connection | India |
PF- 115 | Soham Sannamat | Wings A Saga | India |
PF- 116 | Soumadeep Sen | Her Words | India |
PF- 117 | Sourav Neal | The Common Mind | India |
PF- 118 | Sreejith Nampoothiry | Spectrum of Love | India |
PF- 119 | Sreeraj Rajeev S | Second Innings Prize | India |
PF- 120 | Subhadeep Chakraborty | Torsha | India |
PF- 121 | Suchana Saha | Find Me, Mother | India |
PF- 122 | Sumanta Saha | Magic Stone | India |
PF- 123 | Sumit Mishra | Window | India |
PF- 124 | Sumsuddin Ahmed Shiblu | Beyond Equation | Bangladesh |
PF- 125 | Supratic Gupta & Ors | Let’s Change the World | India |
PF- 126 | Suraj Nair | Awakening | India |
PF- 127 | Suvajit Roy | Eclipsed | India |
PF- 128 | Swagata Naik | Pixie Dust | India |
PF- 129 | Swarup Ananda | Faded | Bangladesh |
PF- 130 | T.R. Methu | Porojon | Bangladesh |
PF- 131 | Tamali Ghosh | Bodhon- The Awakening | India |
PF- 132 | Tanbir Aurid | Step – The Untold Truth | India |
PF- 133 | Tanmay Chowdhary | Color of November | India |
PF- 134 | Tariq Naved Siddiqui | The Playboy Mr. Sawhney | India |
PF- 135 | Vast Felo | Love Story | India |
PF- 136 | Vijay Desai | Love Tiyapa | India |
PF- 137 | Vishnu Muraledharan | The Better Half | India |
PF- 138 | Vishnu Udayan | Waft | India |
PF- 139 | Yash Sawant | A Cold Summer Night | India |
PF- 140 | Yogesh Soman & Ors | Flame | India |
PF- 141 | Zabiullah Saifi Askari | The Last Moments | Afghanistan |
PF- 142 | Zayed Siddiki | Tale of an Ecliptic Time | Bangladesh |
PF- 143 | Ziaul Hoque Raju | A Paper Kite | Bangladesh |
Panorama Documentary
SL | Directors | Title | Country |
PD- 1 | Alexander Leo Pou | Pony Tale | India |
PD- 2 | Amol Dnyaneshwar Kachare | Shepherd and Me… | India |
PD- 3 | Anand Murthy | Anger | India |
PD- 4 | Anoop Oommen | Cataclysm | India |
PD- 5 | Anshul Tiwari | The Primordial Song | India |
PD- 6 | Anshuman Chakraborty | Paradise Lost Children | India |
PD- 7 | Anushka Shivdasani Rovshen & Ors | Breathe | India |
PD- 8 | Arunima Tenzin Tara | Moment’s Notice | India |
PD- 9 | Ashfaque E J | Lynch Nation | India |
PD- 10 | Beeswaranjan Pradhan | The Tribal Scoop | India |
PD- 11 | Bijoy Chowdhury | The Wound | India |
PD- 12 | Bizoy Mahmud | The Birth of A Life | India |
PD- 13 | Er. Abdul Rashid Bhat | Green Gold on Fire | India |
PD- 14 | Farook Abdul Rahiman | Ardrashadananam | India |
PD- 15 | Himanshu Bilochi | The Schooling Pains of Chozom & Palmo | India |
PD- 16 | Janardhana Maharshi | Vishwadarshanam | India |
PD- 17 | Jishnu Krishnan | Killimangalam Vazhi | India |
PD- 18 | John Seddon & Ors | Mountain, Priest, Son | India |
PD- 19 | Joydeep Banerjee | Ray: A Journey Behind The Lens | India |
PD- 20 | Kunal Biswas | Hapu’- The Epilogue | India |
PD- 21 | Lutfun Nahar Taposhi | Dream Man | Bangladesh |
PD- 22 | Manojit Adhikary | Gurusaday Dutt | India |
PD- 23 | Muktha Chand P | Sunanda | India |
PD- 24 | Mukul Haloi | Tales From Our Childhood | India |
PD- 25 | Nainisha Dedhia | Pirana | India |
PD- 26 | Napoleon RZ Thanga | Papuia The Great Father | India |
PD- 27 | Niyantha Shekar | Baraf | India |
PD- 28 | Partha Sarkar | Salute | India |
PD- 29 | Rachita Gorowala | Bhopal, A City of Queens | India |
PD- 30 | Ramen Borah & Ors. | Final Amen | India |
PD- 31 | Ramesh Adhi | Komuraiah – A True Story Of Government Physical Education Teacher (P.E.T) | India |
PD- 32 | Ravi R | Jibanpur Station | India |
PD- 33 | Richa Yadav | Dalaal Street | India |
PD- 34 | Rishaya Palkhivala | Roshan & Mani | India |
PD- 35 | Sagar Shashikant Talashikar | A Blank Slate | India |
PD- 36 | Sanjay Barnela | The Colour of My Home | India |
PD- 37 | Santanu Ray | A Place Called Mustang | India |
PD- 38 | Shijith V.P. | Nakusa Unwanted Is My Name | India |
PD- 39 | Surbhi Dewan | Daughter of Nepal | India |
PD- 40 | Swarnali Goswami | ‘Anandi’-A Tale of Contingency | India |
PD- 41 | U.P. Santhosh | Chemmarathi- Light In The Pyre | India |
PD- 42 | Udayan Borthakur | Legends of Hollongapar | India |
PD- 43 | Utpal Das | Living with The Dead | India |
The festival catalogue is available for download here: