2ND HABITAT FILM FESTIVAL 2007 - 21st to 27th May, 2007

• Event Info : Habitat Film Festival will showcase the dynamic and changing face of Indian Contemporary Cinema 2006 – 2007. The festival includes a retrospective of well known Kannada Director, Girish Kasaravalli.

• Entry : Passes available at the Programme Desk exclusively for Habitat Film Club members from May 10 - 15. Open to all from May 16.

• Films :
  
• 21st May : Opening film 6:30pm ‘ Note Book’ ( Malayalam/2006/120 mins) Dir. Roshan Andrews.
• Synopsis : The film is the story of the joys, dreams, fears and sorrows of six students of the Lord's Academy, a residential school, who deal with their problems by staying together and sharing them with one another. The film also highlights the 'communication gap' between parents and children that sometimes jeopardizes the life of the child.
• 2 Best Film – Kerala State Award, 2006
  
• Best Costume Designer – Kerala State Award, 2006
• Amrita Award – Best Direction
  
• 22nd May :
  
• 6:30 pm : ‘ Nayi Neralu’ ( The Shadow Of The Dog ) Kannada/2006/135 mins ) Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
• Synopsis : Achchannaih and his wife live with their widowed daughter-in-law and granddaughter in a traditional society. One day, news reaches him that his son who died 18 years ago, is reborn. He brings home the boy, setting in motion a chain of
  events which alters all their lives.
  
• Winner of the Best Film, Kara Film Fest, Karachi
  
• Winner of Best Film, Karnataka State Award
  
• Best Film, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2007
  
• Special Jury Award, Osian Film Festival, 2006
  
• Indian Panorama, 2006
  
• 9:00 pm : ‘Adieu’ ( Assamese/2006/91 mins), Directed by Arup Manna
• Synopsis : Jyotiprasad Agarwalla , a film personality of Assam wanted to make the first Assamese film. His exhaustive search for a heroine was fruitless as no girl from a good family wanted to enter into films but Aideu Handique finally agreed to act. The film
  salutes the pioneering spirit of Aideu Handique, the heroine of the first Assamese feature film Jaymoti made in 1935. The repercussions of defying society and acting in films tore her personal life asunder.
  
• Mumbai International Film Festival, 2007
  
• Pune International Film Festival, 2007
  
• 25th Munich International Film Festival
  
• 23rd May
  
• 6:30 pm : 'Kahan Se Aaye Badarva' ( Forgot ten Showers ), Directed by Vinod Kumar
• Synopsis : Inspired by a short story 'Bhuli Hui Baarish' by Munshi Premchand, the film is a heart wrenching film depicting the overpowering effect of hunger & its tragic consequences on a small rural household in post independence India.
  
• All India premiere
  
• Audience Choice Award – Leicester Expo Film Festival - UK
  
• 8:30 pm : KRAURYA ( Tale Of A Storyteller ) ( Kannada/1995/105 mins ), Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
• Synopsis : The film, based on a beautiful story by T.N. Seetharam, is about the travails of an old lady in a traditional middle class family and the complex relations between individuals, spanning generations.
  
• National Award, Best Kannada Film, 1996
  
• National Award for Best Child Artist
  
• Indian Panorama - 1996
  
• 24th May :
  
• 6:30 pm : ‘ Atheetham ‘( Malayalam/2006/90 mins), Directed by Devan Nair
• Synopsis : The story of the spiritual journey of a young man who seeks liberation, both emotional and spiritual. Anandan, an idealist youth, is about to be ordained for monkhood, but the murder of his friend's brother by the police, makes him realize that he was cut off from the real world outside. He joins a revolutionary movement, but is disillusioned again. He finally seeks the truth within himself in an attempt to redeem his life and hopes of liberation.
  
• Premiered at the Pune International Film Festival, 2007
• Entry in the Karlovi Vari Film Festival, 2007
  
• 8:30 pm : ‘Hope’ ( Telugu/2006/90 mins), Directed by K.Satish
• Synopsis : She has lived through the suicide of her school-going sister and the despair of her father's death. He is a solitary old man, disillusioned with life. Their pains and anguish bring them closer.
  
• Indian Panorama, 2006
  
• Pune International Film Festival, 2007
  
• 25th May :
  
• 6:30 pm : ‘ Cyanide’ ( Kannada/2006/105 mins), Directed by A.M.R.Ramesh
• Synopsis : The film is an attempt at capturing the human drama that ensued in the last twenty days in the lives of the LTTE assassins of the late Rajiv Gandhi.
  
• Asian Film Festival, Mumbai, 2006
• Mumbai International Film Festival, 2007
• Kolkata International Film Festival, 2006
  
• 9:00 pm : ‘Restaurant’( Marathi/2006/140 mins), Directed by Sachin Kundalkar
• Synopsis : Two dynamic ladies - Jahnavi and Padmakka Patwardhan, descendants of a
  Maharashtrian royal family - run a restaurant. Food is entwined with their lives in various ways. Jahnavi loses interest in cooking after the untimely death of her lover Paul. There is a conflict between the old and the modern as she wants to introduce new recipes in the menu. Meanwhile a property dispute looms and the women can lose their lovely bungalow in which the restaurant is located.
  
• Mumbai International Film Festival, 2007
  
• Pune International Film Festival, 2007
  
• Maharashtra State Award, 2007 – 2nd Best Film
  
• 26th May :
  
• 11:30 am : ‘Veyil’ ( Tamil/2006 /120 mins), Directed by G.Vasantabalan
• Synopsis : Murugesan as a boy is severely punished for frequenting cinema theatres
  instead of going to school. He runs away from home and eventually starts working in a cinema theater in another town. He falls in love but the relationship ends in the horrid death of the girl. He loses his job as the theater he works in closes down. With no place to go he returns home after twenty years, with only his younger brother Kathir welcoming him with open arms. The film portraits the chronicle of Murugesan's doomed life time.
  
• Pune Internatinal Film Festival, 2007
  
• Entry in the Cannes Film Festival, 2007
  
• 3:00 pm : ‘ Sonam’ (Mohpa(Arunachali) 120 mins/2006), Directed by Ahsan Muzid
• Synopsis: The film is the first feature film made in 'Monpa' dialect of the Indo Tibetan branch of languages. It deals with polyandry in a small society of Yak shepherds ensnared in a circle of love and guilt. A tragic love story.
  
• Indian Panorama, 2006
  
• Asian Film Festival, Mumbai 2006
• Mumbai International Film Festival, 2007
  
• Pune International Film Festival, 2007
  
• 6:00 pm : SONGSHOY ( The Dilemma ) ( Bengali/2006/126 mins), Dir. Saibal Mitra
• Synopsis : The film revolves around four characters who meet in a remote hill resort. Beneath the simple storyline, the film is a strong political statement on the state of affairs in Bengal.
  
• Indian Panorama, 2006
  
• 8:00pm : ‘ Dweepa’ (Kannada/2002/120 mins), Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
• Synopsis : Based on a story by Kannada writer Naa. D'souza, the film is a story of a lone family which stays behind on an island, after a government project makes it a submerged area. The old man of the house, insists that he cannot leave the house of his ancestors. He, his son and daughter-in-law remain on the land as all others leave for the rehabilitation site. A young relative arrives on the island to help them out. The drama of the entire film is the suspicions of Avinash about the relationship between his wife and the young man, which effectively isolates all of them to islands.
  
• National Award - Best Film
  
• Indian Panorama
  
• National Award, Best Cinematography
  
• 27th May :
  
• 10:00 am : WOH SUBAH KIDHAR NIKAL GAYI ( Hindi/ 2006/86 mins ), Directed by Tripurari Sharan
• Synopsis : Five friends in college forge an intense bond amongst themselves sharing their foibles and fancies. After they leave college, each of them follows a path of their choice and one friend becomes a Naxalite. The friends meet again and try to convince him that his chosen path is not correct, but with no success.
• Premiered at IFFI, Goa, 2006
• Pune International Film Festival, 2007
  
• 11:30 am : THE NAMESAKE ( English/Bengali/Hindi 2006/112 mins ), Directed by Mira Nair
• Synopsis : Story of a first generation American teenager caught in a conflict between his Bengali roots to which his parents cling, and his American birthright of forging his own identity.
  
• Mumbai International Film Festival, 2007
  
• 3:00 pm : SHEVRI ( Marathi/2006/104 mins ), Directed by Gajendra Ahira
• Synopsis : Vidya Barve, a divorced working woman shares a flat in Mumbai. Vidya is forced to spend one night on the streets of the city as her room mate has a visitor. As she ambles on, she recalls her relationships as they stand today. As dawn breaks, we see a visibly confident Vidya coming to terms with her lot.
• Best Marathi Film, Pune International Film Festival, 2007
  
• 5:00 pm : ‘Thayi Saheba’ ( Kannada/1998/120 mins ), Directed by Girish Kasaravalli
• Synopsis: The film spans a period of 20 years, 1947 – 1962. The personal becomes the political in the film, but without showing the political development of any society. The film maker tries to show the negative and positive of the Nehruvian era through the small world of a man.
  
• National Award – Best Actress, 1998
  
• Swarm Kamal Award – Best Film
  
• Indian Panorama, 1998
  
• Best Film – Kannada State Award
  
• 7:00 pm : ‘The Bong Connection’ ( Bengali – English/2006/138 mins), Directed by Anjan Dutt
• Synopsis : The story of two young men trying to achieve their dreams in a foreign land. For one, Kolkata is dying and stagnant. For the other, Kolkata is still the Mecca of culture and arts. Two stories that run parallel, erratically, never quite merging; yet colliding. A warm hearted, hilarious, yet deeply touching drama about two men in this
  crazy, global world.
  
• Osian Film Festival, 2006
  
• Mumbai International Film Festival, 2007
  

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