4th South Asian Short Film Festival (SASFF 2021)
The 4th edition of the South Asian Short Film Festival (SASFF 2021) took place from 15-22 November 2021 at Nandan, Kolkata. This time, selected films from the festival were also showcased in EZCC, Saltlake, Kolkata and Ritwik Sadan, Berhampore. The list of award winning films was as follows:
SASFF 2021 Award Winners
Documentary
Satyajit Ray Golden Award for Best Documentary Film: Karbala Memoirs By: Sourav Sarangi
Satyajit Ray Silver Award for 2nd Best Documentary Film: Lakshman-Rekha By: Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl
Satyajit Ray Bronze Award for 3rd Best Documentary Film: Sunita, Caring of Phantom By: Digvijay Sulochana Yadaorao
Mrinal Sen Golden Award for Best Direction in Documentary Deepti Sanjeev Sivan Film: Decoding Shankar
Special Jury Award for Documentary Souvik Basu for Cinematography Film: 8th Day of the Week By: Sovan TarafderShort Fiction
Ritwik Ghatak Golden Award for Best Short Fiction Film: Dal Bhat By: Nemil Shah
Ritwik Ghatak Silver Award for 2nd Best Short Fiction Film: Imaginary Homes By: Priya Naresh
Ritwik Ghatak Bronze Award for 3rd Best Short Fiction Film: Bless This Home By: Randi Pavithra Kaluarachchi
V. Shaentaram Golden Award for Best Direction in Short Fiction Film: Visitor By: Navnita Sen
Special Jury Award for Short Fiction Film: The Duffer- Faltu Lok By: Antara Banerjee
The esteemed jury members who voted for the award-winning films out of 63 official selections in the competition categories are as follows:
Jury-Documentary:
John Hutnyk (Vietnam), Panos Kotzathanasis (Greece), and Lucy Virgen (Mexico)
Jury – Short Fiction:
Insaf Ouhiba (Tunisia), Kristina Aschenbrennerova (Slovakia), and Sharofat M. Arabova (Tajikistan)
In the 4th edition of the festival, a total of 152 films were submitted out of which 113 films were officially selected for screenings in four categories. The list of selected films (category-wise) was as follows:
SASFF 2021 Selection List:
Competition – Short Fiction
| Code | Title | Director | Country |
| CF-01 | Naap | Harshit Acharya | India |
| CF-02 | CODA | Sudipto Acharyya | India |
| CF-03 | Imaginary Homes | Priya Naresh | India |
| CF-04 | Xogun (Vulture) | Utpal Borpujari | India |
| CF-05 | Companions | Sanjeeb Mitra | India |
| CF-06 | Okiagari | Samik Roy Choudhury | India |
| CF-07 | MAANS | Prakash Ghai | India |
| CF-08 | The Scapegoat | Tathagata Ghosh | India |
| CF-09 | Veena and Ukulele | Unni Vijayan | India |
| CF-10 | Smoking blocks… | Mrinmoy Nandi | India |
| CF-11 | The Falling Fruit. The Frozen Time. And the Five Variations on Mani Kaul’s Uski Roti. | Jay Kholia | India |
| CF-12 | Bless This Home | Randi Pavithra Kaluarachchi | Sri Lanka |
| CF-13 | Vote for | Anuradha Kunda | India |
| CF-14 | Far-away | Nidhi Taneja | India |
| CF-15 | Animal | Dibya Debasish | India |
| CF-16 | Checkmate | Sidharth Saxena | India |
| CF-17 | Veyil Vizhave | Shanoob Karuvath | India |
| CF-18 | An Open Sky | Surbhi Dewan | India |
| CF-19 | WHITE FLAKES | Himanshu Singh | India |
| CF-20 | Faltu Lok (the duffer) | Antara Banerjee | India |
| CF-21 | When the Earth Sang a Song | Teenaa Kaur | India |
| CF-22 | Prashna ( Question) | Santosh Ram | India |
| CF-23 | PAAP(SIN) | SIMANTA PHUKAN | India |
| CF-24 | Porichoy (The Identity) | Promita Bhowmik | India |
| CF-25 | #Me_Too, A Musical | Swapan Chakravarthy | India |
| CF-26 | Hotel Raahgir | Ektara Collective | India |
| CF-27 | SNEAKERS | Ronal Hussain | India |
| CF-28 | A Silent Warble | Debanjan Majhi | India |
| CF-29 | Kajol Mashi | NANDITA ROY | India |
| CF-30 | Apple Tree | ZINIA SEN, ARITRA MUKHERJEE | India |
| CF-31 | PAARHI(VOYAGE OF SURVIVAL) | PIYALI SHOME | India |
| CF-32 | VISITORS | Navnita Sen | India |
| CF-33 | GAJRA | VINEET SHARMA | India |
| CF-34 | Dal Bhat | Nemil Shah | India |
| CF-35 | Mother | Anondo Khaled | Bangladesh |
| CF-36 | Meera | Prakha Thakkar | India |
| CF-37 | Hunter’s Moon | Ranjan Palit | India |
| CF-38 | MIGRATORY | AMITABHA CHATERJI | India |
Competition – Documentary
| Code | Title | Director | Country |
| CD-01 | Person with Desires | Swati Chakraborty | India |
| CD-02 | Karbala Memoirs | Sourav Sarangi | India |
| CD-03 | Sunita…Caring of Phantom | Digvijay Sulochana Yadaorao | India |
| CD-04 | The Museum Man | Sabyasachi Banerji | India |
| CD-05 | Breaking the Silence | Parthajit Baruah | India |
| CD-06 | I Pravir The Adivasi GOD | Vivek Kumar | India |
| CD-07 | I RISE | Borun Thokchom | India |
| CD-08 | Holy Rights | Farha Khatun | India |
| CD-09 | Lakshman-Rekha (The lines that Lakshman drew) | Nandan Saxena, Kavita Bahl | India |
| CD-10 | Pandemic Perceptions | Atanu Ghosh | India |
| CD-11 | THE MAN WHO COULD BE KING | nitin sukhija | India |
| CD-12 | The Flowers and The Gemstones | Sriram Raja | India |
| CD-13 | ALL IS WELL | BARNALI RAY SHUKLA | India |
| CD-14 | Dhak-The Drum of Bengal | Dhananjoy Mandal | India |
| CD-15 | Under the Longphuru Sky | kivini shohe | India |
| CD-16 | Are you going to school today? | Anupama Srinivasan | India |
| CD-17 | The Last Run | Anirban Dutta | India |
| CD-18 | KALMILATA O KANCHDANAR GOLPO | SANTANU SAHA | India |
| CD-19 | Sohrai | Meghnath, Biju Toppo | India |
| CD-20 | Sarala Virala | Ere Gowda | India |
| CD-21 | Dancing with Nature | Malay Dasgupta | India |
| CD-22 | DECODING SHANKAR | DEEPTI PILLAY SIVAN | India |
| CD-23 | an open letter to our forgotten ancestors | SURANJAY | India |
| CD-24 | The Oasis | Anirban Chakraborty | India |
| CD-25 | 8th Day of the Week | Sovan Tarafder | India |
Panorama – Short Fiction
| Code | Title | Director | Country |
| PF-01 | The Ruins | Vanitha Senathirajah | Sri Lanka |
| PF-02 | Being a mother | ABHIJIT ROY | India |
| PF-03 | In a Phylanthropic Nation | chandrajit Dey | India |
| PF-04 | Abandonment | Sagnik Dutta Gupta | India |
| PF-05 | Mubarak Returns to Jaffna | Ashfaque Mohamed | Sri Lanka |
| PF-06 | Bhet – Meeting | Ganesh Shelar | India |
| PF-07 | Chhaddonam (Pen Name) | Dhritisree HZBRL | India |
| PF-08 | The Right Thing | Abhishek Bhattacharyya, Indrashish Lahiri | India |
| PF-09 | Like A Midnight Dream | Sharan Venugopal | India |
| PF-10 | অকথিত (Untold) | Arka Das | India |
| PF-11 | LAST WISH | Chowdhury Asif Jahangir Arko | Bangladesh |
| PF-12 | Happily Ever After | Arambhik Ghosh | India |
| PF-13 | Portrait | Rohith Chandrasekhar | India |
| PF-14 | The Virgin Prison | Arijit Dey | India |
| PF-15 | TRANSFORMERS | Vikil Venu | India |
| PF-16 | He used to bring me apples | Mehdi Jahan | India |
| PF-17 | A Gloomy Sunday | MD SOHANUZZAMAN | Bangladesh |
| PF-18 | Preacher’s wife | Afzaal Y Baig | Pakistan |
| PF-19 | In Search of Peace | Dwaipayan Basu | India |
| PF-20 | “PANTHOUGI LIKLAM” ( footprints of the father ) | Rakesh Moirangthem | India |
| PF-21 | S E C R E T S | Souradeep Datta | India |
| PF-22 | Radha | Bimal Poddar | India |
| PF-23 | Mono No Aware | Koushik Sarkar | India |
| PF-24 | Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit | Debashis Das | Bangladesh |
| PF-25 | Hues of life | Ghanashyam Kalita | India |
| PF-26 | Darkness Everyday | Shaeem Jahangir | Bangladesh |
| PF-27 | UNDER A DARK SKY | Rahula Jayasekara | Sri Lanka |
| PF-28 | The Holy Immersion | Neeladri Banerjee | India |
| PF-29 | Story of a Night | sukanta chakraborty | India |
| PF-30 | Saakshatkaaram | Sudesh Balan | India |
| PF-31 | EPHIALTES | Sumartya Mullick | India |
| PF-32 | A Day Off | Vikrant Mahalle | India |
| PF-33 | Altar | Ritwik Sinha | India |
| PF-34 | Party Blues | Amit Dutt | India |
| PF-35 | PILIBHIT | Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Pankaj Mavchi | India |
| PF-36 | EVA | Sohan Lal | India |
| PF-37 | Still Light | Aparna Sharma | India |
| PF-38 | The Tree | Somnath Ghosal | India |
| PF-39 | Khat Ka Anand | Asim Ali Inamdar | India |
| PF-40 | Urmimala | Indranil Banerjee | India |
Panorama – Documentary
| Code | Title | Director | Country |
| PD-01 | VEERANGANA | Kishore Kalita | India |
| PD-02 | MY RED CARPET | DR. JANET J | India |
| PD-03 | Paika Bidroha | Nichay Rout & Anuj Tyagi | India |
| PD-04 | An Advocate Of The Oasis | Jyotirmay Deb | India |
| PD-05 | Muddy Footsteps along river Kopai | Mainak Ghosh, Santanu Ghosh | India |
| PD-06 | TEBHAGA- THE SANGUINEOUS HARVEST | swarnayu Maitra | India |
| PD-07 | What’s your story ? | O P Srivastava | India |
| PD-08 | A Day in the Armenian Church | Mehzad Ghalib | Bangladesh |
| PD-09 | The Forgotten Melody | NANDINI CHAKRABORTI | India |
| PD-10 | Bamboo Ballads | Sajeed Naduthody | India |
The official festival catalogue is available for download here: