Dervish: a spiritual sojourn: Official Selection: Faith: Grace Film Festival

Dervish: a spiritual sojourn
India
Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu
Runtime: 39:01
Category: Faith
Screen Date: April 2015

This journey is about finding the tomb of a forgotten Sufi, Abu Hashim Madani who was the teacher of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Inayat Khan journeyed from Hyderabad to New York following the guidance of his Sufi teacher who bade him, to unite East and West with the harmony of music and spread Sufism.

Meanwhile, the film intents to capture the Sufi traditions existing in the city and how it has been influencing people of different sections of the society. Film also tries to trace the historical context in which Sufi masters from different parts of Asia who came to the Deccan region of India and their contribution in the field of music, literature and architecture.

Director: Siddharth Ojha

Masters in Communication (Television & Radio) from the S N School of Arts & Communication, University of Hyderabad. Prior to Master’s degree worked for two years in the print sector (Times of India) and for about a year with the television sector (Zee News).
Started making short films of small duration and specially documentaries during bachelor’s degree. First documentary, ‘The Eternal Raga’ in 2011 was nominated in Jaipur International Film Festival (2012) and Udaipur International Film Festival (2012).

a Mother: Love: Grace Film Festival: Official Selection

 

a Mother    Buy Tickets

India

Language: Hindi

Runtime: 14

Category: Love 

Screening Date:  January 31, 2015

AAi (mother) is a film about a mother’s unconditional love for her son, the film is her perspective of having a baby and watching her son grow up.. and everything that happens in the middle.

The Film is set up in India and spawns over several years and several generation of one family.

 Director: Aroop Dwivedi

Aroop Dwivedi a 38 year old Animation trainer and Film designer from India, who has mentored several student short films in last couple of years.
He graduated in Commerce in 1998 and later decided to pursue Animation film making as his career; he has been working in the production and education sector at tandem for last 15 years, where other than working on several international projects, he has also designed the animation syllabus for several Indian universities.
He is passionate about the classical style of animation and loves photography.

Director’s Statement

AAi is my debut film,its a film which has been extremely challenging emotionally and physically , due to the fact that i have been working on this film relentlessly for last four years , there had been days where i have just drawn 2 drawings(frames) but i have continuously worked on it with out missing a beat , also the fact that in last four years, the same time i was working on this film, i have lost a lot of my dear ones, acquaintances,friends,relatives which is why finishing this became film became all the more important, this film is my ode to those loved ones.

Yashoda: Grace Film Festival: Official Selection

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Country: India
Language: Marathi
Runtime:9:26
Category: Faith
Screening Date: January 29, 2015

Yashoda, is an emotional short fiction motion picture in which a mother tells her child that she is an adopted one with reference of Indian mythological story characters of Yashoda & Devki.

Director: Yuvraj Mahagaonkar

I am a film making student & I love to explore film making as a medium of expression of my inner complexities.

Director’s Statement

Films I believe is reliving or recreating the moments that one experiences in personal life on celluloid with a creative artistic touch of mise-en-scene to it.