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Thursday, November 26, 2020 - 21:00
Cinematography:
Sohrab Hura
Editing:
Sohrab Hura
Sound:
Sohrab Hura
Music:
Sohrab Hura
Producer:
Sohrab Hura
In BITTERSWEET, the director focuses on intimate family life, particularly the relationship between his mother who was diagnosed with acute paranoid schizophrenia and her dog, Elsa. What began as a way to escape his family situation turned into a method of confronting the realities at home. Photographed and filmed over a period of ten years, it is a search for meaning and closure with Hura questioning and discovering the banalities of everyday life at home.
Director:
While the core of SOHRAB HURA’s work lies in photographs, he tries to break that form regularly and extend it into film, text and sound. In 2010 he made PATI, a ten minute short film, which is an assemblage of photographs, collected sounds, film footage, as well as text and his voiceover to give a glimpse of life in a village in Central India. Continuing his experiments with this half moving form, he has made THE LOST HEAD & THE BIRD (2017) and BITTERSWEET (2019). He is currently finishing the production of his film THE COAST (2020). Under his self publishing imprint Ugly Dog, Sohrab Hura has published 5 books and in 2019 he won the Paris Photo Aperture -Photobook Of The Year Award for his book The Coast. His film THE LOST HEAD AND THE BIRD won the NRW Award, as well as the special mention in the International Competition at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2018, and went on to win the Videonale Award at Kunstmuseum, Bonn in 2019. His film BITTERSWEET was awarded the Principal Award by the International Competition Jury of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2020. He lives and works in New Delhi.
Contact:
SOHRAB HURA
Festivals, awards:
Principal Prize by the International Jury – Oberhausen 2020 / 2nd Prize from the Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia – Oberhausen 2020/ Image Forum Film Festival, Tokyo / Vancouver International Film Festival 2020 / Uppsala International Short Film Festiva 2020 / Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2020 / L’Alternativa, Barcelona 2020 / Cork International Film Festival 2020 / Message to Man IFF, St.Petersburg 2020 / Gimli Film Festival, Canada 2020 / Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, Toronto 2020
“Both unflinching and loving, SOHRAB HURA's BITTERSWEET is a rumination of familial relationships and domestic spaces, exploring the bonds between himself and his mother, and his mother and her beloved dog. HURA uses his grainy flash photography to empathetically depict intimate and banal moments in the life of his mother…while showing the audience the power of a mother and son bond, and the healing powers of an animal's love.” (Oberhausen jury statement 2020)