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KATIYABAAZ
A film by Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa
83 min | India, USA | 2013
26 Feb 2015, 7 p.m. sharp
Everest Talkies, Frazer Town
Open to delegates. Passes available at venue.
Synopsis:
In Kanpur, a city with 15 hour power cuts, an electricity thief provides Robin Hood style services to the poor in the face of day long power-cuts. With the first female chief of the electricity company vowing to eliminate all illegal connections, the lines are drawn for a battle over electricity.
A picture emerges of a modern dystopia encompassing urban decay and desperation in the lack of electricity. Underlying the localized crisis in Kanpur is the glaring energy poverty in India, where a third of the population is bereft of this basic need, and the rest grapple with power-cuts that dictate their own terms.
Powerless puts a lens to an unexplored narrative of one of the world’s fastest developing economies.
Festivals:
Berlinale Forum
Tribeca Film Festival
CHP: DOX
Freiburg Forum
Leuven Docville
Stuttgart Indian Film Festival
Vienna International Film Festival
Nuremberg Human Rights Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
Bilbao International Film Festival
London Raindance Film Festival
Edinburgh Take Action Film Festival
Motovun Film Festival
A film by Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa
83 min | India, USA | 2013
26 Feb 2015, 7 p.m. sharp
Everest Talkies, Frazer Town
Open to delegates. Passes available at venue.
Synopsis:
In Kanpur, a city with 15 hour power cuts, an electricity thief provides Robin Hood style services to the poor in the face of day long power-cuts. With the first female chief of the electricity company vowing to eliminate all illegal connections, the lines are drawn for a battle over electricity.
A picture emerges of a modern dystopia encompassing urban decay and desperation in the lack of electricity. Underlying the localized crisis in Kanpur is the glaring energy poverty in India, where a third of the population is bereft of this basic need, and the rest grapple with power-cuts that dictate their own terms.
Powerless puts a lens to an unexplored narrative of one of the world’s fastest developing economies.
Festivals:
Berlinale Forum
Tribeca Film Festival
CHP: DOX
Freiburg Forum
Leuven Docville
Stuttgart Indian Film Festival
Vienna International Film Festival
Nuremberg Human Rights Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
Bilbao International Film Festival
London Raindance Film Festival
Edinburgh Take Action Film Festival
Motovun Film Festival