2021
year
28
Minutes
SCHEDULE
01.03.2024
/ 11:00 AM/
Audi 3 PVR INOX ORION MALL
Synopsis
This documentary follows Dukhu Majhi, an elderly man, as he tirelessly works to protect the environment. Despite extreme temperatures in his area, Dukhu is driven by childhood inspiration and a government campaign promoting tree planting. He believes trees provide shade and essential oxygen, crucial for survival. With basic tools and mounted on a cycle, Dukhu plants trees along roadsides and school grounds, ensuring their care and protection. Using cloth from a nearby crematorium, he shields his saplings from harm. Dukhu's philosophy, despite his poverty and lack of education, is both compelling and inspiring.
Producer(s) or Production Company: Somnath Mondal
Screenplay: Somnath Mondal
Director of Photography: Robindranath Das
Editor: Debashis Guha
Music: N/A
Sound: Abdul Rajjak & Somnath Mondal
Cast: N/A
Awards - Winner: 69th National Film Awards (Best Biographical Film), Madurai IDSFF(Best Indian Documentary), Durgapur IFF (Best Documentary Film), Golden Harvest FF(Best Documentary Film)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Official Selection at Bengal ISFF, IDSFF Kerala, Chennai IDSFF, Madurai IDSFF, South Asian SFF.
Director's Biography
SOMNATH MONDAL
Somnath Mondal, a batch of 1993 FTII alumni with a specialization in sound, worked as a sound recordist at Sunny Super Sounds, Mumbai, and a former chief sound recordist at HMV music recording studio in Kolkata. He has also made many radio and TV spots on Health-related issues for mass education. The DUKHU MAJHI - SON OF THE BARREN LAND is his debut film made from his resources.
- Asian Cinema Competition
- Indian Cinema Competition
- Kannada Cinema Competition
- Contemporary World Cinema
- Country Focus - Germany
- Critics Week
- Bio-Pics
- Kannada Cinema of Popular Entertainment
- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
- Centenary Tributes
- Homages & Remembrances
- Thematic Films on Human Resilience, Rights and Values