Director's

Message

I am pleased to welcome you all the UCD Cinema to the 15th Indian Film Festival of Ireland 2024. This year the festival is focusing on great documenters from the Indian film industry. It is opening the festival with a feature film Mujib, the Making of the Nation, the story of Bangladesh, written by Atul Tiwari, who travels from India to attend the festival. The closing film is DLiving on the Edge: Deglamarisation of Bollywood , a film by Opender Chanana. Other important documentary films The Land of My Dreams, short film Yaan, Kalikh, and Can I be Ok, and many more over the four days.

Star in Retrospect

Atul Tiwari

He is an Indian film writer and actor. He first came into limelight with Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Mission Kashmir (2000). His other notable film is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005), which won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. He has also appeared in films with a very brief role like 3 Idiots (2009), Aakrosh (2010), and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015). He is also associated with the 2018 movie Vishwaroop II.

Highlights

15th Indian Film Festival of Ireland 2024

Join us at the cinema for an unforgettable Four days filled with inspirational movies, documentaries and reflections. It is an amazing opportunity to network with people in the industry while exposing yourself to vibrant Indian culture cinematic brilliance.

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Join us at the cinema for an unforgettable three days filled with inspirational movies, documentaries and reflections. An amazing opportunity to network with people in the industry while exposing yourself to vibrant Indian culture cinematic brilliance.

Timeline

Indian Film Festival Ireland 2024

03 October 2024

Day 1

12:00 Can I be ok? (Short Film)
14:00 Kalikh (Short Film)
17:00 Reception
18:00 MUJIB: THE MAKING OFTHE NATION. (Bengali, with English subtiles)

03 October 2024
04 October 2024

Day 2

11:00 LAND OF MY DREAMS ( Hindi, with English subtitles) 
13:30 Paaravail ( Tamil, with English subtitles)
16:00 OTHERS (Malayalam, with English subtitles) 

Cultural Gala Award  & Dinner Night at 6:30 in Astral Hall Atrium

04 October 2024
05 October 2024

Day 3

12:00 Aata Vel Zaali ( Marathi, with English subtitles)
14:00 Living on the Edge: Deglamarization of Bollywood (Official Closing Film)

05 October 2024
06 October 2024

Day 4

Addendum Last screening on Sunday

15:00 Yaan
16:00 OTHER KOHENOOR: THE ROCKS OF HYDERABAD

06 October 2024

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Films

Feature, Short, Documentaries & Live Cultural Programme

We aim to highlight exceptional pieces of storytelling that often don’t get the coverage they deserve. We have selected powerful narratives that are sure to inspire great conversation.

FILMS 2024

SYNOPSIS

Mujib: The Making of a Nation (2023)

This epic biographical film is based on the life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father and first president of Bangladesh who is popularly known as Bangabandhu. The Making of a Nation" attempts to depict the life and achievements of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. A co-production between Bangladesh and India, the film stars Arifin Shuvoo in the titular role. The film was produced on the occasion of Mujib Year. Directed by Shyam Benegal with the Screenplay by Atul Tiwari and Shama Zaidi. Starring Arifin Shuvoo, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Nusraat Faria, Riaz Ahmed, Dilara Zaman, Tauquir Ahmed, Raisul Islam Asad.

Yaan

We are delighted to present to you our celebrated film 'YAAN', a cinematic masterpiece that has resonated with audiences globally for its profound and powerful message on humanity. This poignant film has been bestowed with the prestigious National Award at the 70th 3 National Film Awards for its exceptional sound design, a testament to its technical excellence. Furthermore, 'YAAN' has garnered widespread acclaim at esteemed international film festivals and events, solidifying its position as a landmark film. Click on the attached link to immerse yourself in this visually stunning and thought-provoking cinematic experience that has captivated hearts and minds worldwide.

Aata Vel Zaali (2023)

Aata Vel Zaali is a Marathi-language psychological drama film written and directed by Ananth Mahadevan and produced by Dinesh Bansal, G. K. Agrawal, and Ananth Mahadevan. It features veteran actors Dilip Prabhavalkar and Rohini Hattangady as a couple who move court to have the liberty to exit their lives when they want. The arguments and debates that follow probe the nuances of passive versus active euthanasia. “During Covid, we thought that the world was coming to an end. Everybody started trying to read the meaning of what it meant to be alive and why we deserved such a terrible end. For example, a professor in Kerala was a healthy person who wanted a dignified exit and had applied for legalising active euthanasia. The court turned it down and in sheer frustration, he committed suicide”. In Aata Vel Zaali, active euthanasia is pitched as an extension of one’s right to dignity.

Other Kohinoors (2022)

A resonant documentary love letter to the unique rocky terrain and culture of Hyderabad, celebrating how the landscape inspirits the culture in its art, craft, folklore, poetry, songs, architecture, and cuisine. The film highlights the affection and respect with which the 2 landscape is held. With an energetic rap song as 'Sutradhar narrator' carrying the storytelling there is also a sharing of the sorrow over what has been lost in the past decades. Beautiful animations styled in local art and craft traditions enrichen it. This could be called a 'Rasa' documentary showcasing as it does the different moods/rasas in the city's relationship with its distinct terrain, in the manner of an Indian masala or 'Navarasa' film. Directed by Uma Magal, the film is about this emotional bond with the rocks that every Hyderabad worth his grain of Biryani will relate to.

Paaravail

Kabir Lal directs this thriller where Bhavya, a visually impaired woman, commits suicide under suspicious circumstances. Her twin sister, Divya believes it was murder. Against her husband’s approval, Divya sets out on a journey to find the murderer of her sister. Is it her sister’s mysterious lover or her husband who later commits suicide or a mysterious man following Dvya. Before she can reach a conclusion, Divya starts to lose her sight due to a degenerative disease that runs in the family. The world that had become colourless after her sister’s death is now pitch dark. Parvati Niar stars as both Bhavya and Divya with Ganesh Venkatraman, Mdranahen an Ajay Kumar Singh.

Living on the Edge (2017)

This documentary focuses on the startling working conditions for thousands of workers and technicians engaged in making thousands of hours of content for cinema and television. The plight of the largest workforce in the biggest entertainment industry Bollywood, now claiming to be a global giant, has to be seen to be believed. It portrays a completely unglamourised insight into the Bollywood film industry. This documentary dares to bare the abysmal health and safety standards that are primitive or non-existent, together with the violations of human rights. Written and Directed by Opender Chanana, the film to its credit, has won 354 International Awards and Accolades in 36 countries and 20 states in India alone.

Kalikh

A loving father, files a plea for Euthanasia, for his only daughter, who has been comatose for a long time, because of a horrific incident. The court accepts the plea, but life has other plans.

Others (2022)

Others is a Malayalam drama movie directed by Srikanth Sreedharan and produced by Dr Manoj Govinda. The movie's star cast includes unknown celebs in the main lead roles. The music was composed by unknown.

The Land of Dreams (2023)

In 2019, protests broke out after the Indian government enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act, which overtly discriminates against Muslims. Directed by, Nausheen Khan the film documentary follows the women at the forefront of the resistance. As protests spring up across India against the Citizenship Amendment Act, a group of intergenerational, multi-faith women gather at Shaheen Bagh, a Muslim neighbourhood in Delhi, to form a non-violent sit- in that grows into a nationwide movement. It soon faces both institutional and societal repression. Drawing on her identity as a Muslim woman, the filmmaker captures this movement, whilst questioning current notions of belonging, nationalism, and identity in India. Land of My Dreams encapsulates so much that is good in India, and what is being lost. In a celebration of diversity, various communities came together to peacefully protest a patently discriminatory law. And in crushing the protest with hate, violence, and arrests, the authorities snatched from the young their right to dissent in a democracy.