Siddharth Sinha | India | 2007 | 21’ | Bhojpuri spoken, English subtitles
A most assured student graduation film, Siddharth Sinha’s Udedh Bun ((Un)Ravel) won the Silver Bear Award for best short film at the Berlin Film Festival, 2008. Produced by the Film and Television Institute of India, it is a coming of age portrait of a teenage boy, who is bullied at school, must tend to a sick mother – and his first stirrings of sexuality. Sinha is currently working on his debut feature film Twosome with Trompe Le Monde and Anurag Kashyap Films; it won the Best Feature Film Project Award by the Hubert Bals Fund of the Rotterdam Film Festival, at the International Film Festival of India, Goa, 2009.
Sunday 14 August, 4.45 pm, Rialto
Tuesday 16 August, 9.45 pm, Rialto
