Kaleidoscope
The Fable / The Fable
Screening Schedule
Screening 1
- 15th December
- 3.00 pm
- new 1
Screening 2
- 19th December
- 3.15 pm
- Ajantha
Director's bio
Raam Reddy
Raam Reddy is a writer and director who studied Direction at Prague Film School. In 2009, Reddy wrote and published an English-language magic-realism novel titled It’s Raining in Maya. His debut feature film, Thithi (2015), an Indo-US production, won Golden Leopards for Best Film and Best First Feature at the Locarno Film Festival. The film has since won over twenty awards at various film festivals including Palm Springs, Shanghai, Marrakech, and Mumbai. It was also invited to the New Directors/New Films programme at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. In February 2016, Reddy was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of achievers. The Fable is his second feature film.
Synopsis
Spring 1989. High up in the Indian Himalayas, where even the birds fly low to avoid getting lost in the clouds, the soft-spoken Dev owns a sprawling estate of several orchards and lives in a colonial-style house with his family. He spends a lot of his time building human-sized wings which he puts on to take a quick morning flight over his land. One day, while walking through the estate, he discovers a single burnt apple tree. A few days later, more trees are burnt. Dev and his manager monitor the workers on the plantations and this leads to unrest. A group of nomads comes under suspicion and a corrupt police officer gets involved, while loyal men camp out in the orchards to keep a vigilant watch at night. Despite all these measures, a massive fire breaks out a week later and engulfs an entire mountainside of trees. In his search for the culprit, Dev resorts to armed violence. The slow burning of the orchards forces him to face the truth about himself and his family.
Details of Cast
Manoj Bajpayee Priyanka Bose Deepak Dobriyal Hiral Sidhu Awan Pookot Tillotama Shome
Details of Crew
Director of Photography Sunil Ramkrishna Borkar Editor Siddharth Kapoor, Raam Reddy Sound Designer Nithin Luckose Music Director Raam Reddy
Producer Details
Pratap Reddy, Sunmin Park
Writer Details
Raam Reddy
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