CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY | 79 MIN | 2023

NEPAL, SOUTH KOREA, ROMANIA

Logline Two women in their seventies once shared the same husband. Now they must forget the past and work together to guard an empty, snowed-in Himalayan village for the entire winter.

Directors and screenwriters Rajan Kathet, Sunir Pandey
Producers Rajan Kathet, Sunir Pandey Gary Kam Byung-Seok, Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi
Production companies Salpa Films (Nepal), 129 Film Company (Nepal), Mirror & Story (South Korea), NoCut Film Collective (Romania)
Cinematographer Babin Dulal
Additional Cinematography Shishir Bishankhe
Editor Kiran Shrestha
Sound design Cyrus Tang, Dikesh Khadgi Shahi, Kishore Acharya
Scoring/Composition/Music Rajan Shrestha
Color grader Rajendra Moktan
Sales Tijana Djukic (Stranger Films) | tiana@strangerfilmssales.com

Poster Artwork Deyali Mukherjee, Sriram Raja (SRDM Pictures)
Title Design Anand Maharjan
Trailer and Credits Design Sandeep Shrestha
Subtitles Nasala Chitrakar
Production Support Kipalaya Production
Post Production Icefall Productions, Aslesha Entertainment, Wabi-Sabi Media, Mallaaj Productions  

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

World Premiere Sheffield DocFest, First Feature Competition | UK 2023
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival | South Korea 2023 | Asian Premiere - International Competition
Dharamshala International Film Festival | India 2023
Alternativa Film Awards | Kazakhstan 2023 | NATIVA Awards - Winner
Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival | Nepal 2023 | Best Feature Documentary Award
DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival | Azerbaijan 2023 | Special Mention for Best Feature Documentary
Lima Alterna International Film Festival | Peru, 2023 | International Competition Honorable Mention

SUPPORTED BY

DMZ Docs Fund | South Korea 2020
The 19th Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum - *Awarded with WIP Documentary Award & “HAF Goes To Cannes” Award | Hong Kong 2021

PARTICIPATED AT

Marché du Film Cannes | France, 2021
Locarno Open Doors Editing Consultancy | Switzerland, 2021
Global Media Makers (LA Residency) | U.S.A., 2021/22
DMZ Docs Pitch | South Korea 2020
The Whickers Pitch Finalists | Sheffield Doc/Fest | UK 2020
DocEdge Kolkata Asian Forum for Documentary | India 2019 - *Awarded Best Emerging Filmmaker & DocEdge-DocAviv Award

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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True Story https://www.truestory.film/rifle-and-a-bag

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

CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY | 111 MIN | 2024
INDIA, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS

Synopsis Rural regions in India suffer a high suicide rate among farmers. A group of women farmers who recently lost their husbands, have decided to meet a local psychologist and activist to share their stories and problems and help others in their grief. In this act of silent rebellion against a patriarchal society, the 28-year-old introverted Sanjeevani finds the courage to be self-reliant.

Director and writer Kinshuk Surjan
Producers Evelien De Graef and Hanne Phlypo
Co-producers Arya Rothe, Digna Sinke
Production Clin d’Oeil (Belgium)
Co-production companies NoCut Film Collective (India)

FESTIVALS

World Premiere CPH:DOX | 2024, Denmark - Human Rights Award

SUPPORTED BY

DMZ Docs Fund | South Korea
Flanders Audiovisual Fund VAF | Belgium
Creative Europe MEDIA Program | EU
Stichting Filip Decock | Belgium
Fonds Pascal Decroos | Belgium
Netherlands Film Fund (NFF) | Netherlands
Centre du cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FWB-CCA) | Belgium

CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY | 40 MIN | IN POST-PRODUCTION
ROMANIA, NETHERLANDS

Synopsis Once a year, waiting becomes a religious experience on the streets of the Romanian city Iasi. Few hundred thousand pilgrims celebrate the memorial day of Saint Parascheva by queuing up to 20 hours to bid at her shrine. They form a kilometers long line on the city streets. It is believed that the Saint works miracles around her commemoration day. In a stylized way, the film follows the life and the rhythm of the line, from its forming until the pilgrim gets the chance to touch the Holy shrine. Waiting for a miracle is a reflection on the desire for miracles in our lives and in Romanian society.

Director and writer Andreea Dumitriu
Producers Andreea Dumitriu, Isabella Rinaldi, Cristina Hanes
Cinematographer Jesse Tuenter
Sound recordist Andreea Dumitriu
Production NoCut Film Collective

SUPPORTED BY

Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), Netherlands
The Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture, Netherlands

DEVELOPED AND PITCHED AT
fARAD Lab - development and sound workshop for documentaries | Arad, Romania

CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY | 40 MIN | 2017
PORTUGAL, ROMANIA

Synopsis Over the course of three years, filmmaker Cristina Hanes comes and goes from Augusto's life. Augusto is a 70 year old man who decided to isolate himself from the world. Assuming new identities under Antonio and Catarina, they set out to explore love, death, desire and youth trapped in a small room in Augusto's apartment.

Director and writer Cristina Hanes
Cast Augusto Manuel Marthinho, Cristina Hanes
Script advisor Tiago Hespanha
Cinematographer and sound recordist Cristina Hanes
Editors Tiago Hespanha, Cristina Hanes
Sound mix Tiago Matos
Color grading Federico Delpero Bejar
Producers Tiago Hespanha, Cristina Hanes
Production companies Terratreme Filmes (Portugal), NoCut Film Collective (Romania)
Partners DocNomads
Sales agent Agencia - Portuguese Short Film Agency, NoCut Film Collective (Romania)

TRAILER Antonio and Catarina

WATCH THE FILM ON VOD
dafilms: https://dafilms.com/film/13200-antonio-and-catarina
True Story: https://www.truestory.film/antonio-and-catarina

PRESS COVERAGE *click on the name to read the article
Vox Magazine (US) Kbia (US) The Guardian (UK)
DocuArt (RO) Dilema Veche (RO) sub25 (RO) Suplimentul de cultura (RO)
Insider (PT) Sapo (PT)

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

World Premiere Locarno Film Festival | Switzerland 2017 |
Awarded Pardino D'oro for Best International Short in Pardi di Domani Competition
DocLisboa | Portugal 2017
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival | Czech Republic 2017
Uppsala ISFF | Sweden 2017
Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest | Romania 2017
Transcinema | Peru 2017
True/False Film Fest | USA 2018
One World Romania | Romania 2018
Slow Short Film Festival | UK 2018 | Audience Award
Frames | Sweden 2018
Porto Femme | Portugal 2018 | Special Mention for Documentary
Uruguay IFF | Uruguay 2018
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival | Spain 2018
EDOC, Encuentros del otro cine festival internacional de cine documental | Ecuador 2018
Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba Int’l Film Festival 2018 | Brazil 2018 
Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português | Portugal 2017
Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte Festcurtasbh | Brazil 2018
La Cabina Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes Valencia | Spain 2018
ARICADOC | Festival Internacional de Cine Documental | Chile 2018
PARNU International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival | Estonia 2018
FEST Festival Internacional de Cinema Jovem | Portugal 2018
Academia Portuguesa de Cinema - Gala de Premios Sophia | Portugal 2018
Framing the change: A retrospective of the contemporary Romanian documentary film, Romanian Cultural Institute London | UK 2021

Broadcasting CINE TV Portugal

CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY | 26 MINS | 2018
HUNGARY, INDIA

Logline Judit tries to convince her mother Ica to move to a house near her before Alzheimer's separates them further than they should.

Director Arya Rothe
Cinematographer Arya Rothe
Editor Arya Rothe
Production DocNomads, NoCut Film Collective

Trailer Daughter's Mother

FESTIVALS

World Premiere DokLeipzig International Festival | Germany 2018