Tortoise under the Earth | Kriti Film Club screening @IHC, New Delhi | 8th April 2023

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Kriti Film Club invites you for our monthly screening @IHC, New Delhi

TORTOISE UNDER THE EARTH

(95 min./ Santhali with English subtitles/ 2022/ Drama)
Dir.: Shishir Jha

8th April 2023, 7 pm onwards
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
The film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.

About the film: ​In a uranium mining area of Jharkhand, India, a tribal couple cope with the loss of their daughter. For them, the land and forest are witness to their daughter’s memory. With great sensitivity and beauty, the film explores the deeply intertwined connections between tribal communities and the forest that is their traditional home. Deftly interweaving the vivid colours of their festivals, their folk songs and the sense of community that binds them together, Tortoise Under The Earth is a poetic elegy to a world that is rapidly disappearing, subsumed by unchecked development and displacement.
About the filmmaker: Shishir Jha is a Mumbai-based Film-maker born in 1988, Bihar. He graduated from the prestigious National Institute of Design (NID) with a Bachelor’s degree in Film & Video Communication Design. He was then selected for the Master’s degree programme in Film Direction at the Sarajevo Film Academy. He has received a Diploma in Filmmaking at the workshop of the late Abbas Kiarostami at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV), Cuba 2016. He is one of the Directors of “Shuruaat Ka Interval”-an anthology of eight short films with the common theme was released as a feature film by PVR Directors Rare produced by Humara Movie.
Premiere Status: 
  • World Premiere as on 13th March 2022, Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, INDIA
  • Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada (International Premiere): Special Mention, Vanguard Award. 2022
  • Mostra Internacional de Cinema/ São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil : (South American Premiere) 2022, New Filmmakers Competition.
  • Dharamshala International Film festival. India Premiere on 5 Nov 2022 India.
Other Credits:
Producers: Vinay Mishra, Pallavi Rohatgi, Preety Ali, Raghavan Bharadwaj, Shishir Jha, Mritunjay Jha,  
Cast: Jagarnath Baskey, Mugli Baskey
Music: Durga Prasad Murmu
Sound Designer: Dhiman Karmakar
Production Company: Humara Medialabs Pvt Ltd
ABOUT THE KRITI FILM CLUB: We are an educational initiative of a not-for-profit organisation 'Kriti team'. We screen and share documentary films on development, environment, and socially relevant issues, in an effort to positively influence mindsets and behaviour towards creating an equitous, just, and peaceful world. We also curate issue-based film festivals and organise documentary film shows in neighbourhoods, communities, schools, colleges, or institutions on request and otherwise. The Kriti Film Club has been screening documentaries regularly and independently (without any funding) in Delhi - NCR since 2000 and in Mumbai since 2019, and online since 2020 (doculive.blogspot.com), to promote #thoughtprovokingcinema and #cinemaforsocialchange.

Venue Collaboration: India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road New Delhi
Nearest Metros: Jor Bagh, JLN Stadium, Khan Market, Race Course
OPEN FOR ALL
The venue is wheelchair friendly.
Seating on first cum first serve basis
Confirmations are requested on space.kriti@gmail.com
Contact us: 098106 66692
https://krititeam.blogspot.com

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