The Top
Angle category in the 18th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)
includes six films which deal with relevant contemporary circumstances
projecting social, religious and environmental issues. These films have taken
India to the world and been in all the top film festivals across the globe.
Ritesh
Batra’s ‘The Lunch Box’, Joshy Mathew’s ‘Black Forest’ are some of the films
showcased in this category.
Ritesh Batra’s ‘The Lunch box’, screened to rave reviews in Cannes and Toronto, set in Mumbai revolves around a mistaken delivery by the Dabbawalas (lunchbox service). Irfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur are the lead actors.
Joshy Mathew’s ‘Black forest’ has been screened in
over five film festivals all over the world. As the name implies, the film
unveils some of the dark mysteries of the forest through a turning point in the
lives of the three protagonists.
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| A still from Nagraj Manjule's 'Fandry' |
Nagraj Manjule’s Marathi feature debut ‘Fandry’, which
won accolades at the recently concluded Mumbai Film Festival, is
multidimensional portrait of the caste system at work. It tells the story of a
boy from an “untouchable” caste striving to impress a socially superior
schoolmate.
Debutant Unni Vijayan’s ‘Lessons in Forgetting’, won the National award
for the best feature film in English of 2013. The film is based on the novel of
the same name by Anita Nair.
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| Scene from Anup Singh's 'Quissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost' |
Anup Singh’s
‘Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost’, is a
story set in time of Indian Partition, where the main character Umber Singh, much obsessed with having a male heir, decides to wage a fight against destiny when his
fourth daughter is born.
Another key attraction is of the Master Bengali filmmaker, Buddhadev
Dasgupta’s, ‘Sniffer’ (Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa). Screened
at the London Film Festival,
is a dark comical tale of an alcoholic detective with a pet dog
named “Sniffer”, set against the backdrop of Bengal - both through city and
countryside.
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