A RIFLE AND A BAG
CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY | 89 MIN | 2020
INDIA, ROMANIA, ITALY, QATAR
SYNOPSIS Somi and her husband are striving to forge a new identity after fighting alongside the Naxalites, a communist guerrilla group that has been waging war on the Indian State since the 60’s. After a decade of armed struggle for the rights of their tribal communities, the couple deserted the movement and surrendered to the police. Ever since, they have been trying to educate their son and reconcile their violent past with the desire to integrate into Indian society.
TRAILER A RIFLE AND A BAG
Directors Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi, Arya Rothe
Producers Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi, Arya Rothe
Production NoCut Film Collective (Romania, Italy, India)
Production companies NoCut Film Collective (Romania), NoCut Film Collective (India)
Co-production countries India, Romania, Italy, Qatar
Production consultants Andra Popescu, Ioana Lascar
Sales Cristina Hanes (NoCut Film Collective Romania) -> hellonocut@gmail.com
Screenwriters Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi, Arya Rothe
Editors Yael Bitton, Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi, Arya Rothe
Cinematography Cristina Hanes
Camera Cristina Hanes, Arya Rothe
Additional camera Chaitanya Guttikar
Sound recording Isabella Rinaldi, Santwana Bayaskar
Sound design Ioan Filip, Dan-Stefan Rucareanu
Color grading Razvan Dimitriu
Languages Gondi (tribal), Madia (tribal), Hindi
SUPPORTED BY
Doha Film Institute | Qatar
IDFA Bertha Fund | Netherlands
Asian Cinema Fund | South Korea
AlterCine Foundation | Canada
INCUBATED AND DEVELOPED AT
ParisDoc Work-in-progress | Cinema du Reel | France 2019
Agora Docs in Progress | Thessaloniki Documentary Festival | Greece 2019
IDFAcademy | Netherlands 2018
DocEdge Asian Forum for Documentary - *Winners of IDFA Award and Best Emerging Filmmakers | India 2018
EURODOC | Local workshop for Italian producers | Italy 2018
Docs Port Incheon | Asian Documentary Project Market | South Korea 2018
fARAD | development and sound workshop for documentaries | Romania 2017
BROADCAST & VOD APPEARANCES
OKTO TV | Austria 2021
Vecernji Premium | Croatia 2021
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FESTIVALS
World Premiere 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Bright Future Competition | Netherlands 2020 | Awarded Special Mention of the Jury
Visions du Réel | Switzerland 2020
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival | Greece 2020
First Look @ Museum of Moving Image | U.S.A. 2020/2021
One World Romania | Romania 2020
Durban International Film Festival | South Africa 2020
Busan International Film Festival | South Korea 2020
Dharamshala International Film Festival | India 2020
International Film Festival Innsbruck | Austria 2020 | Awarded Special Mention of the Jury
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival | Hong Kong 2020
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival | Canada 2020
Minsk International Film Festival Listapad | Belarus 2020
Torino Film Festival | Italy 2020
DokuBaku | Azerbaijan 2020
Dhaka International Film Festival | Bangladesh 2021
MiradasDoc | Tenerife, Spain 2021 | Awarded Special Mention of the Jury
L’Isola del Cinema | Italy 2021
Portland International Film Festival | U.S.A. 2021
IAWRT Film Festival | India 2021
FICUNAM | Mexico 2021
FemCine | Chile 2021
Ponnani International Film Festival | India 2021
Asian Film Archive, Reframe: A Time to Resist | Singapore 2021
Kinodromo Bologna | Italy 2021
Bengalore International Center (BIC) | India 2021
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles | U.S.A. 2021
ZagrebDox | Croatia 2021
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival | Australia 2021
Indisches Film Festival Stuttgart | Germany 2021
Beirut Women International Film Festival | Lebanon 2021
EDOC Encuentros del Otro Cine | Ecuador 2021
Asian CineVision - Asian American International Film Festival | U.S.A. 2021
Indian Film Festival Melbourne | Australia 2021
BelDocs International Documentary Film Festival | Serbia 2021
Tirana International Film Festival | Albania 2021 | Awarded Best Documentary
CineBH International Film Festival | Brazil 2021
Tallgrass Film Festvial | US 2021
All living things environmental Film Festival | India 2021
Crossing Film Festival @CeMIS | Germany 2021
Terra Nostra | France 2021
Visionär Film Festival | Germany 2021
Festival Film Dokumenter | Indonesia 2021 | Awarded Best International Documentary
FIDBA Buenos Aires | Argentina 2022 | Awarded Best International Feature Length Film
Ororu Film Festival | Bolivia 2022
Taiwan International Documentary Festival | Taipei, Taiwan 2022
Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec | Québec, Canda 2022