MANJADIKURU (LUCKY RED SEEDS)

International Premiere

Caption: DRAMATIC COMPETITION

Country/Year: India/2008

Shows included: ANDHERI, MANJADIKURU (LUCKY RED SEEDS)

Venue: SVA THEATRE

Duration:

Show Time: 7:30PM-9:30PM

Website: http://www.manjadikuru.com

General Admission:

$15.00

Synopsis

In the mid 1970s, 10-year-old Vicky arrives in Kerala, to attend his grandfather's funeral. Vicky's ancestral home is a beautiful cavernous house in a rural Kerala village. The disjointed big family has come together at the otherwise desolate home. The traditional funeral rites of sixteen days, lay the perfect ground to relive all their mutual quirks and past tensions. In midst of the infighting, Vicky befriends the children. The innocent beliefs of the children exist parallel to the cynical distrust of the adults. But story that evolves in the midst of this is about someone else - Roja- the servant girl who is neither child nor adult, neither insider nor outsider. With her, Vicky and the children journey through anexperience that steals their innocence from them, replacing it with misplacedguilt. Decades later Vicky returns to his ancestral home to tell us about those sixteen days that left indelible impressions on all their lives.

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About The Director

Manjadikuru is the debut feature film of Anjali Menon, a filmmaker currently residing in India. An Indian by birth, she spent more years outside India; the hybrid cultural influences reflect in her writing and sensibility. Upon graduating from the London International Film School, Anjali Menon chose to reverse migrate to India to begin her career as a filmmaker. Having won Best Indian Debut Director(institued by Mira Nair) & FIPRESCI award for Best Malayalam Film for her debut, Anjali Menon is now completing her second film. Her short films and documentaries have traveled to several international film festivals.