Kaleidoscope
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust / Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
Screening Schedule
Screening 1
- 14th December
- 3.15 pm
- Sree
Screening 2
- 17th December
- 8.30 pm
- new 1
Director's bio
Ishan Shukla
Ishan SHUKLA was born and raised in a family of artists where an interest in theatre, comic books and movies was fostered from a young age. After his graduation from the 3D Sense Media School, Singapore in 2008 he started out working in the TV, film and music video industry. After returning to India, he finished his first short film Schirkoa (2016) which screened at more than 120 international film festivals and made history as the first Indian animated short film to qualify for the Academy Awards. In 2020, he founded Red Cigarette Media to develop original, adult oriented animated films, graphic novels and video games. Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust (2024) is his debut feature film.
Synopsis
In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a mythical land without the bags start to float and a fresh council member sparks an accidental revolution.
Details of Cast
Golshifteh Farahani, Asia Argento, SoKo, Arish Ahmad Khan, Denzil Smith, John Sutton, Tibu Fortes, Shahbaz Sarwar, Lav Diaz, Karan Johar, Shekhar Kapur, Anurag Kashyap, Piyush Mishra, Gaspar Noé
Details of Crew
Composer Sneha Khanwalkar Sound Florent Fournier Sicre Nicolas Titeux
Producer Details
Main producers: Bich-Quân Tran, Ishan Shukla; Co-producers: Stephan Holl, Samir Sarkar; Executive producer: Anushka Shah
Writer Details
Ishan Shukla
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