Tales from our Childhood (Loralir Sadhukatha)
a film by Mukul Haloi
69 Min I Assamese with English Subtitles I 2018 I India
Watch the film online on the BIC website from Oct 18th - 27th, 2020
Sunanda Bhat will be in conversation with the director on September 29th, 7:00 pm IST.
Viewing is free and open to all.
Synopsis
The filmmaker’s childhood friend dons a borrowed uniform and poses as an ULFA rebel. Another friend opens an old diary. A poem by an ULFA rebel is recited; a play is rehearsed.
The film embarks on a journey to revive the memory of growing up in Assam in the 1990s, a turbulent time when the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was heading an armed rebellion for independence from India. The film recollects and reconstructs fragments violence, death, and disappearance through personal narratives that dominate the filmmaker’s childhood.
Credits
Script, Editing, Camera and Direction: Mukul Haloi
Sound Design and Mix : Rahul Rabha
Cast : Anjan Kalita, Anima Haloi, Nilim Chetia, Shakya Shamik,
Sudakshana Gogoi, Pijush Sharma
AWARD AND SCREENING : TALES FROM OUR CHILDHOOD
The filmmaker’s childhood friend dons a borrowed uniform and poses as an ULFA rebel. Another friend opens an old diary. A poem by an ULFA rebel is recited; a play is rehearsed.
The film embarks on a journey to revive the memory of growing up in Assam in the 1990s, a turbulent time when the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was heading an armed rebellion for independence from India. The film recollects and reconstructs fragments violence, death, and disappearance through personal narratives that dominate the filmmaker’s childhood.
Credits
Script, Editing, Camera and Direction: Mukul Haloi
Sound Design and Mix : Rahul Rabha
Cast : Anjan Kalita, Anima Haloi, Nilim Chetia, Shakya Shamik,
Sudakshana Gogoi, Pijush Sharma
AWARD AND SCREENING : TALES FROM OUR CHILDHOOD
- Bala Kailasam Memorial Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking, India,2019
- World Premiere at Mumbai International Film Festival,2018
- International premiere at ARKIPEL-International documentary and Experimental film festival of Jakarta,2018
- European Premiere at Astra Film Sibiu International Film Festival,România,2019
- Japanese Premiere at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival,2019
- Spanish Premiere at Imagine India,Madrid,2019
- Guwahati International Short and Documentary Film Festival, India,2019
- People’s Film Festival, Kolkata, 2019
- South Asian Short Film Festival, Kolkata, 2019
- Indian Documentary Film Festival of Bhubaneswar, 2018
- VIBGYOR Film Festival, Kerala,2020
THE DIRECTOR
Mukul Haloi is a filmmaker, writer and film educator based in Assam. His works emerge from a deeply personal and poetic remembrance of a collective political and lost past. An alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India and Berlinale Talents 2020, his short films ‘Days of Autumn’ and ‘A letter to home’ have received five Indian awards including Best film at IDSFFK and Signs, Kerala.
He received the ‘Early Career Fellowship’ from TISS, Mumbai to make his debut feature documentary ‘Tales from our childhood’, which reconstructs fragments of growing up during the violent insurgency struggle in his home state Assam. It won ‘Bala Kailasam Award for Excellence in Documentary’ and was shown at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and Sibiu International Film Festival and MIFF. The film has also been included in the coursework of ‘Modern Indian Studies’, Gottingen University, Germany.
