2024 - 69th Edition

The Fable

Raam Reddy
India, United States
 - 2024
Estreno nacional
An extraordinary mystical tale of family legacy, the search for identity and the personal re-appropriation of the land. Raam Reddy's second film, which premiered in the Encounters section of the Berlin Film Festival, takes us into the breathtaking landscapes of the Indian Himalayas in the late 1980s. It follows the story of Dev, a patriarch who owns inherited colonial-era land and whose idyllic family stability is threatened when he discovers that someone is setting fire to his fruit trees. Starring country stars Manoj Bajpayee and Priyanka Bose, shot by Sunil Borkar in 16mm, the film unfolds an overwhelming, nearly magical realist tone that captures the aura of an ancient fable to re-imagine Dev's past and his class status as he accuses the world of irredeemably destroying his present.
Raam Reddy

Writer and director born in 1989 in Bangalore, India. He studied Direction at Prague Film School. In 2009, he wrote and published an English-language magic-realism novel ‘It’s Raining in Maya’. His debut feature film ‘Thithi’, an Indo-US production, won Golden Leopards for Best Film and Best First Feature at the 2016 Locarno 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 program at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The film was a commercial success, running for close to 100 days in theatres in India while also streaming worldwide through Netflix. In February 2016, he was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of achievers. ‘The Fable’ (2024), his second feature film, was premiered at Berlin International Film Festival.

Screenings

O.V. in Hindi, English subtitled in English and Spanish
Fri. 25, 16:30
Presentation
Q&A
Sat. 26, 12:00
Sat. 26, 16:30
Presentation
Q&A
DIRECTOR
Raam Reddy
SCREENPLAY
Raam Reddy
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Sunil Ramkrisna Borkar
ANIMACIÓN
Varun Ramanna
EDITOR
Raam Reddy, Siddharth Kapoor
SOUND
Nithin Lukose
MUSIC
Raam Reddy
PRODUCTION
Pratap Reddy, Sunmin Park, Ganesh Babu Shetty
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Prspctvs Productions, Maxmedia
CAST
Manoj Bajpayee, Priyanka Bose, Deepak Dobriyal, Hiral Sidhu, Awan Pookot, Tillotama Shome
RUNNING TIME
116 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
VERSION
V.O. en hindi, inglés subtitulada en español e inglés
COUNTRY
India, United States
CONTACT
Prspctvs Productions

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