Exclusive: Film follows a young Tibetan woman living in exile in Delhi.
Shrihari Sathe’s Infinitum Productions has boarded Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s second narrative feature The Sweet Requiem.
Scripted by Sonam, the film follows a young Tibetan woman living in exile in Delhi, whose life is unexpectedly shattered when she runs into a man from her past. Sarin and Sonam will co-direct, while Sathe will produce alongside Sarin.
Sarin and Sonam’s first narrative feature, Dreaming Lhasa (2005), was executive produced by Jeremy Thomas and Richard Gere and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Their credits also include award-winning documentaries such as The Sun Behind The Clouds (2010) and When Hari Got Married (2012).
The Sweet Requiem was selected for the Drishyam-Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab in 2015, as well as Busan’s Asian Project market and Film Bazaar in Goa. Cast and locations have been finalised and the film will shoot on location in India later this year...
Shrihari Sathe’s Infinitum Productions has boarded Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s second narrative feature The Sweet Requiem.
Scripted by Sonam, the film follows a young Tibetan woman living in exile in Delhi, whose life is unexpectedly shattered when she runs into a man from her past. Sarin and Sonam will co-direct, while Sathe will produce alongside Sarin.
Sarin and Sonam’s first narrative feature, Dreaming Lhasa (2005), was executive produced by Jeremy Thomas and Richard Gere and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Their credits also include award-winning documentaries such as The Sun Behind The Clouds (2010) and When Hari Got Married (2012).
The Sweet Requiem was selected for the Drishyam-Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab in 2015, as well as Busan’s Asian Project market and Film Bazaar in Goa. Cast and locations have been finalised and the film will shoot on location in India later this year...
- 2/15/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
A still from When Hari Got Married
Dok Leipzig Lake Festival, to be held from April 17-21, in Naukuchiatal in the Himalayan Lake District of Nainital, Uttarakhand is crowdfunding on Catapooolt to realize its second edition.
International documentaries screened at the festival will be curated by Dok Leipzig (Germany), one of the oldest international documentary film festivals in the world.
The festival seeks for a total contribution of $9,166 or about Rs. 5,60,500. At least 12-15 international documentaries will be screened during the festival, each screening followed by film-maker evenings, informal debate and discussions.
Some of the feature length documentaries curated for the festival are Fernand Melgar’s Special Flight (Switzerland), Kamar Ahmad Simon’s Are You Listening! (Bangladesh), Tamar Tal’s Life in Stills (Isreal), and Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s When Hari Got Married (India / UK / USA / Norway). Some of the short documentaries to be screened are Andy Glynne...
Dok Leipzig Lake Festival, to be held from April 17-21, in Naukuchiatal in the Himalayan Lake District of Nainital, Uttarakhand is crowdfunding on Catapooolt to realize its second edition.
International documentaries screened at the festival will be curated by Dok Leipzig (Germany), one of the oldest international documentary film festivals in the world.
The festival seeks for a total contribution of $9,166 or about Rs. 5,60,500. At least 12-15 international documentaries will be screened during the festival, each screening followed by film-maker evenings, informal debate and discussions.
Some of the feature length documentaries curated for the festival are Fernand Melgar’s Special Flight (Switzerland), Kamar Ahmad Simon’s Are You Listening! (Bangladesh), Tamar Tal’s Life in Stills (Isreal), and Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s When Hari Got Married (India / UK / USA / Norway). Some of the short documentaries to be screened are Andy Glynne...
- 3/26/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
2013 proved to be yet another exciting year for Indian documentaries: they screened at numerous international film festivals and took home awards. In a small but significant step, a few of them even found their way into theatres in India. Though the domestic funding and distribution scenario still remains gloomy, there’s much to rejoice in the international acclaim that these documentaries have found in the last year.
We have compiled a list of the 10 most successful documentaries of 2013, taking into account factors such as film festivals, awards, popularity, reviews and distribution.
Special Mention for Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Celluloid Man that has recently been selected for its fiftieth festival, Saurav Sarangi’s Char..The No Man’s Island and Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang for still being hot on the festival circuit and Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s When Hari Got Married for its theatrical release in August. All...
We have compiled a list of the 10 most successful documentaries of 2013, taking into account factors such as film festivals, awards, popularity, reviews and distribution.
Special Mention for Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Celluloid Man that has recently been selected for its fiftieth festival, Saurav Sarangi’s Char..The No Man’s Island and Nishtha Jain’s Gulabi Gang for still being hot on the festival circuit and Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s When Hari Got Married for its theatrical release in August. All...
- 1/3/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Algorithms, a documentary by Ian McDonald, won the Prize for Best Film on Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Jean Rouch International Film Festival 2013 in Paris. The film was part of the international competition at the festival.
An AkamPuram, India production, Algorithms was filmed over three years and is made in black and white. Three blind boys trained by a blind teacher participate in the World Junior Blind Chess Championship in Sweden in 2009 and then in the championship in Greece in 2011.The boys want to make their mark while their teacher wants every blind child to play chess.
The film recently won the Best Film Trophy at the 9th Film South Asia (Fsa), festival of documentaries in Kathmandu, the Dogwoof Audience Film Prize at the Rai International Festival of Ethnographic Films, and received a Special Mention in the Best Documentary category at the Durban International Film Festival. The film is also...
An AkamPuram, India production, Algorithms was filmed over three years and is made in black and white. Three blind boys trained by a blind teacher participate in the World Junior Blind Chess Championship in Sweden in 2009 and then in the championship in Greece in 2011.The boys want to make their mark while their teacher wants every blind child to play chess.
The film recently won the Best Film Trophy at the 9th Film South Asia (Fsa), festival of documentaries in Kathmandu, the Dogwoof Audience Film Prize at the Rai International Festival of Ethnographic Films, and received a Special Mention in the Best Documentary category at the Durban International Film Festival. The film is also...
- 11/15/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Still from When Hari Got Married
D haramshala-based filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam who ruffled a few feathers with their documentary on Tibetan struggle for independence The Sun Behind the Clouds in 2010 are now ready with When Hari Got Married, the story of a taxi-driver’s arranged marriage in the Himalayas. The film has screened at prestigious film festivals like Idfa Amsterdam, Dok Leipzig, Films From the South, Oslo and is all set to release in theatres in India on August 30.
Ritu Sarin in conversation with Nandita Dutta:
How did you meet Hari and why did you decide to follow his wedding?
We live very close to Hari’s village a few miles outside Dharamshala. We’ve known him and his family for many years. In fact, his elder brother works part-time for us and so does his father. When Hari was engaged to get married, he invited us to his wedding.
D haramshala-based filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam who ruffled a few feathers with their documentary on Tibetan struggle for independence The Sun Behind the Clouds in 2010 are now ready with When Hari Got Married, the story of a taxi-driver’s arranged marriage in the Himalayas. The film has screened at prestigious film festivals like Idfa Amsterdam, Dok Leipzig, Films From the South, Oslo and is all set to release in theatres in India on August 30.
Ritu Sarin in conversation with Nandita Dutta:
How did you meet Hari and why did you decide to follow his wedding?
We live very close to Hari’s village a few miles outside Dharamshala. We’ve known him and his family for many years. In fact, his elder brother works part-time for us and so does his father. When Hari was engaged to get married, he invited us to his wedding.
- 8/20/2013
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
When Hari Got Married
When Hari Got Married, a documentary by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam will release on August 30 at PVR cinemas in Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore under PVR Director’s Rare.
A co-production of White Crane Films and Itvs International (USA) with funding from Idfa Fund (The Netherlands) and South Film Fund (Norway); When Hari Got Married takes a humorous look at Hari, a taxi driver from Dharamshala, as he prepares for his marriage to a girl he has only seen once, and that too, with her face covered. Hari’s unusual courtship on the mobile phone and his eventual marriage provide a warm and illuminating insight into the changes taking place in India as modernisation and globalisation collide with age-old traditions and customs.
The documentary premiered at the Films From the South Festival in Oslo, Norway in September 2012. It has travelled to several festivals including Dok Leipzig,...
When Hari Got Married, a documentary by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam will release on August 30 at PVR cinemas in Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore under PVR Director’s Rare.
A co-production of White Crane Films and Itvs International (USA) with funding from Idfa Fund (The Netherlands) and South Film Fund (Norway); When Hari Got Married takes a humorous look at Hari, a taxi driver from Dharamshala, as he prepares for his marriage to a girl he has only seen once, and that too, with her face covered. Hari’s unusual courtship on the mobile phone and his eventual marriage provide a warm and illuminating insight into the changes taking place in India as modernisation and globalisation collide with age-old traditions and customs.
The documentary premiered at the Films From the South Festival in Oslo, Norway in September 2012. It has travelled to several festivals including Dok Leipzig,...
- 8/3/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Still from Leipaklei
The 14th Jeonju International Film Festival will host a special section called “Beyond Bollywood” to celebrate the diversity of Indian cinema.
“There has been prejudice that Bollywood represents all of Indian films. Special : Beyond Bollywood is a special program that covers literally entire India. As India officially has 18 languages and 28 states, different styles of films have been made using various languages and sceneries according to specific cultural areas. This Indian program consists of 9 feature films directed by important contemporary directors representing each of the state’s beauty,” says Kang Minyoung, programmer of the festival.
Three Hindi films: Shahid by Hansal Mehta, B.A.Pass by Ajay Bahl and Miss Lovely by Ashim Ahluwalia will be screened at the festival.
Azhagarsamy’s Horse by Suseenthiran and Waterbirds by Seenu Ramaswamy are the Tamil films to be screened.
Malayalam film Color of Sky by Bijukumar Damodaran, Bengali film Untitled by Caesar Das,...
The 14th Jeonju International Film Festival will host a special section called “Beyond Bollywood” to celebrate the diversity of Indian cinema.
“There has been prejudice that Bollywood represents all of Indian films. Special : Beyond Bollywood is a special program that covers literally entire India. As India officially has 18 languages and 28 states, different styles of films have been made using various languages and sceneries according to specific cultural areas. This Indian program consists of 9 feature films directed by important contemporary directors representing each of the state’s beauty,” says Kang Minyoung, programmer of the festival.
Three Hindi films: Shahid by Hansal Mehta, B.A.Pass by Ajay Bahl and Miss Lovely by Ashim Ahluwalia will be screened at the festival.
Azhagarsamy’s Horse by Suseenthiran and Waterbirds by Seenu Ramaswamy are the Tamil films to be screened.
Malayalam film Color of Sky by Bijukumar Damodaran, Bengali film Untitled by Caesar Das,...
- 4/18/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Still from Dekh Tamasha Dekh
The 13 New York Indian Film Festival will open with Feroze Abbas Khan’s political satire Dekh Tamasha Dekh and close with Nitin Kakkar’s Filmistaan. The festival will be held from April 30 – May 4, 2013.
This year the festival will screen 22 Indian features, all having their New York City premieres.
Khan’s 108 minute film Dekh Tamasha Dekh explores a country where bizarre is normal through a poor man in search for his religious identity. While Kakkar’s 117 minute film Filmistaan connects humans and cultures through cinema.
The festival will celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema with the screenings of Rudradeep Bhattacharjee’s The Human Factor, Jaideep Varma’s Baavra Mann, Kundan Shah’s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, M S Sathyu’s Garam Hawa and Uday Shankar’s Kalpana. Whereas, Hansal Mehta’s Shahid will be presented under the Centrepiece section and Amit Gupta’s Jadoo under Special Screening.
The 13 New York Indian Film Festival will open with Feroze Abbas Khan’s political satire Dekh Tamasha Dekh and close with Nitin Kakkar’s Filmistaan. The festival will be held from April 30 – May 4, 2013.
This year the festival will screen 22 Indian features, all having their New York City premieres.
Khan’s 108 minute film Dekh Tamasha Dekh explores a country where bizarre is normal through a poor man in search for his religious identity. While Kakkar’s 117 minute film Filmistaan connects humans and cultures through cinema.
The festival will celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema with the screenings of Rudradeep Bhattacharjee’s The Human Factor, Jaideep Varma’s Baavra Mann, Kundan Shah’s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, M S Sathyu’s Garam Hawa and Uday Shankar’s Kalpana. Whereas, Hansal Mehta’s Shahid will be presented under the Centrepiece section and Amit Gupta’s Jadoo under Special Screening.
- 4/6/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
While funding and distribution in India still remain a herculean challenge, 2012 seems to have slightly bettered the prospects for Indian documentaries. At par with their fiction film cousins, they not only made waves at international film festivals but a few of them also achieved limited release in domestic theatres. DearCinema lists the top ten favourite documentaries of the year (based on festival participation, awards and reviews):
Celluloid Man
With Celluloid Man, India finally saw a documentary on the life and work of the man who built its National Film Archive reel by reel. The film was so insightful and evocative that it not only got P.K Nair due recognition at home, but also won hearts at numerous festivals abroad. Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man was screened at International film festival of India (Iffi), International film festival of Kerala (Iffk), Mumbai, Telluride and Il Cinema Ritrovato film festivals.
Celluloid Man
With Celluloid Man, India finally saw a documentary on the life and work of the man who built its National Film Archive reel by reel. The film was so insightful and evocative that it not only got P.K Nair due recognition at home, but also won hearts at numerous festivals abroad. Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Celluloid Man was screened at International film festival of India (Iffi), International film festival of Kerala (Iffk), Mumbai, Telluride and Il Cinema Ritrovato film festivals.
- 12/27/2012
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
When Hari Got Married
Two Indian documentaries will screen at the 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films (Dok Leipzig) running from 29 Oct – 4 Nov 2012 in Germany.
Presence by Yashaswini Raghunandan and Ekta Mittal has been selected for International Short Documentary Competition.
When Hari Got Married (India/UK/USA) by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam is being shown in International Programme Documentary Film section.
Dok Leipzig 2012 selected 198 titles (84 documentaries and 114 animation shorts) from among 2,847 candidates from 113 countries.
Two Indian documentaries will screen at the 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films (Dok Leipzig) running from 29 Oct – 4 Nov 2012 in Germany.
Presence by Yashaswini Raghunandan and Ekta Mittal has been selected for International Short Documentary Competition.
When Hari Got Married (India/UK/USA) by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam is being shown in International Programme Documentary Film section.
Dok Leipzig 2012 selected 198 titles (84 documentaries and 114 animation shorts) from among 2,847 candidates from 113 countries.
- 11/1/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Jahnu Barua’s Baandhon will open the Feature Film section of Indian Panorama 2012 at the International Film Festival of India. Celluloid Man will open the Non-Feature Film section.
The 43rd edition of the festival will be held from 20th – 30th November, 2012 in Goa.
The jury for the Feature Film section was headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and comprised Pradip Biswas, Suresh Krissna Katte Ramachandra, Kireedam Unni, Munin Barua, Pawan Manavi, Ajay Sharma, Venita Coelho and Sibi Malayil. The jury selected 18 films from the 144 eligible entries.
The jury for the Non-Feature Film section is chaired by M.R. Rajan picked up 18 films from the 147 eligible entries. Other jury members are Bachaspatimayum Sunzu, Mohammad Ali Baig, Jasmine K Roy and Rajesh S Jala.
The films selected under Feature Film section are:
Baandhon by Jahnu Barua
Shabdo by Kaushik Ganguly
Chitrangada by Rituparno Ghosh
Elar Char Adhyay by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Deswa by Nitin Chandra...
The 43rd edition of the festival will be held from 20th – 30th November, 2012 in Goa.
The jury for the Feature Film section was headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and comprised Pradip Biswas, Suresh Krissna Katte Ramachandra, Kireedam Unni, Munin Barua, Pawan Manavi, Ajay Sharma, Venita Coelho and Sibi Malayil. The jury selected 18 films from the 144 eligible entries.
The jury for the Non-Feature Film section is chaired by M.R. Rajan picked up 18 films from the 147 eligible entries. Other jury members are Bachaspatimayum Sunzu, Mohammad Ali Baig, Jasmine K Roy and Rajesh S Jala.
The films selected under Feature Film section are:
Baandhon by Jahnu Barua
Shabdo by Kaushik Ganguly
Chitrangada by Rituparno Ghosh
Elar Char Adhyay by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Deswa by Nitin Chandra...
- 10/26/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Jahnu Barua’s Baandhon will open the Feature Film section of Indian Panorama 2012 at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi). Documentary Celluloid Man will open the Non-Feature Film section.
The 43rd edition of the festival will be held from 20th – 30th November, 2012 in Goa.
The jury for the Feature Film section was headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and comprised Pradip Biswas, Suresh Krissna Katte Ramachandra, Kireedam Unni, Munin Barua, Pawan Manavi, Ajay Sharma, Venita Coelho and Sibi Malayil. The jury selected 18 films from the 144 eligible entries.
The jury for the Non-Feature Film section, chaired by M.R. Rajan, picked up 18 films from the 147 eligible entries. Other jury members were Bachaspatimayum Sunzu, Mohammad Ali Baig, Jasmine K Roy and Rajesh S Jala.
Feature Films:
Baandhon by Jahnu Barua
Shabdo by Kaushik Ganguly
Chitrangada by Rituparno Ghosh
Elar Char Adhyay by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Deswa by Nitin Chandra
Byari by Suveeran
Lessons In Forgetting...
The 43rd edition of the festival will be held from 20th – 30th November, 2012 in Goa.
The jury for the Feature Film section was headed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and comprised Pradip Biswas, Suresh Krissna Katte Ramachandra, Kireedam Unni, Munin Barua, Pawan Manavi, Ajay Sharma, Venita Coelho and Sibi Malayil. The jury selected 18 films from the 144 eligible entries.
The jury for the Non-Feature Film section, chaired by M.R. Rajan, picked up 18 films from the 147 eligible entries. Other jury members were Bachaspatimayum Sunzu, Mohammad Ali Baig, Jasmine K Roy and Rajesh S Jala.
Feature Films:
Baandhon by Jahnu Barua
Shabdo by Kaushik Ganguly
Chitrangada by Rituparno Ghosh
Elar Char Adhyay by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Deswa by Nitin Chandra
Byari by Suveeran
Lessons In Forgetting...
- 10/26/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Four Indian films have been selected for the 25th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) that will run from 14th- 25th November, 2012. Another Indian film project Powerless by Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa has been chosen for the Idfa Forum 2012.
Rafea: Solar Mama, Gulabi Gang, When Hari Got Married and Wilbur Episode 1 will be screened across different sections of the festival.
Idfa is known to be the world’s largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988. This year the festival will screen a total of 314 titles, out of which 97 will be world premieres.
Rafea: Solar Mama
Dir.: Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief (United States/Denmark/Jordan/India)
The film about the Bedouin women, who are trained to build solar panels, has been selected for the Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary section. The making of this was commissioned by ‘Why Poverty?’
Gulabi Gang
Dir.: Nishtha Jain (India/Norway/Denmark,...
Rafea: Solar Mama, Gulabi Gang, When Hari Got Married and Wilbur Episode 1 will be screened across different sections of the festival.
Idfa is known to be the world’s largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988. This year the festival will screen a total of 314 titles, out of which 97 will be world premieres.
Rafea: Solar Mama
Dir.: Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief (United States/Denmark/Jordan/India)
The film about the Bedouin women, who are trained to build solar panels, has been selected for the Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary section. The making of this was commissioned by ‘Why Poverty?’
Gulabi Gang
Dir.: Nishtha Jain (India/Norway/Denmark,...
- 10/17/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The maiden edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival will be held from 1st – 4th November.The film festival is an initiative of the Dharanshala based filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam.
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam run an independent film company and produce films mainly focusing on the subject of Tibet. Some of their films include, The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom, The Thread of Karma, Dreaming Lhasa and Big Treasure Chest for Future Kids.
12 films to be screened at the festival are announced so far, more will be coming soon. Those lined-up are:
Miss Lovely
India. Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia. Two brothers, Vicky and Sonu Duggal, produce forbidden sex-horror films for India’s small-town picture houses in mid-1980s Bombay. Vicky is struggling to run the tabooed operation, while Sonu desires to produce a romantic film which he would call ‘Miss Lovely’.
The film...
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam run an independent film company and produce films mainly focusing on the subject of Tibet. Some of their films include, The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom, The Thread of Karma, Dreaming Lhasa and Big Treasure Chest for Future Kids.
12 films to be screened at the festival are announced so far, more will be coming soon. Those lined-up are:
Miss Lovely
India. Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia. Two brothers, Vicky and Sonu Duggal, produce forbidden sex-horror films for India’s small-town picture houses in mid-1980s Bombay. Vicky is struggling to run the tabooed operation, while Sonu desires to produce a romantic film which he would call ‘Miss Lovely’.
The film...
- 9/22/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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