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BIRD THIEF
PETA DOCHCHO
SOUNAK KAR
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BIRD THIEF
PETA DOCHCHO
SOUNAK KAR
Country
INDIA
language
GALO
2022 year
78 Minutes

SCHEDULE

03.03.2024 / 10:00 AM/ Audi 3 PVR INOX ORION MALL

Synopsis

In the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas, amidst the dense forests of Arunachal Pradesh resides the Galo tribe. Bird trapping is one of their age-old traditions and bird meat is considered to be a delicacy. The film begins with a thief stealing the trapped birds. When the young bird trappers find the traps empty, they accuse each other and break into a fight, which results in a boy’s hand getting served from the wrist by a dagger. The matter takes a serious turn involving their families. Thus what began as an ethnographic film, unexpectedly molds into a classical Western vengeance drama.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Tumkar Sora, Sounak Kar
Screenplay: Sounak Kar
Director of Photography: Sounak Kar
Editor: Sounak Kar
Music: Sourav Biswas
Sound: Sounak Kar, Satish Tiriya
Cast: Tumkar Sora, Talo Babing, Tojo Angu, Takay Taba, Doi Basar
Awards - Winner: Reels IFF 2023 (Best feature film)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Unheard India (Rare language category- Kolkata IFF), Reels IFF (Screened), FIPRESCI India nomination for Grand Prix 2022.
Director's Biography
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SOUNAK KAR

Sounak Kar is an alumnus of SRFTI, Kolkata. His films have been selected in several international film festivals. He has written and directed the Bengali web series FISH & CHIPS, which was released on Hoichoi, a leading Bengali OTT platform. He has written, directed, shot, and edited a feature film, BIRD THIEF, in collaboration with the Galo tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. It was listed in the top fifty films nominated for the FIPRESCI-India Grand Prix 2022 Award. He is the associate cinematographer and the editor of the documentary, Slave Garden which received the IDFA Bertha Fund for development. He has also worked as a teacher for the last five years and is currently an assistant professor of Direction and Film History at SRFTI.