Fire in the mountains
Ajitpal Singh / India / 2020 / 82 min / Colour
Italian premiere
Every day Chandra walks the stone steps that separate her home from the village on the Uttarakhand plateau, where Northern India meets the Himalayan mountain ranges. Always clinging to her shoulders is her son Prakash, who hasn't walked for months and barely talks to her, surrounded by a thick bark of resignation. Chandra has been saving up for some time to have the money to complete a road that would allow her son's pram to get to the hospital for necessary treatment, but not everyone shares her hopes. Ajitpal Singh - in his feature film debut - leads the camera's gaze beyond the peaks, rocks and rich vegetation to immerse the viewer in an India divided between the dogmas and traditions of the ancestors and a modernity that infiltrates the lives of the protagonists, intertwining with their bodies.
Ajitpal Singh
Ajitpal Singh is a self-taught director and screenwriter, living in Mumbai. His debut feature Fire In The Mountains premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2021 in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section. His earlier short film, Rammat-Gammat (2018), won a special mention at the Oberhausen Film Festival. His first screenplay was developed thanks to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2012 where he was awarded the Sundance Grant.
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Subject Ajitpal SinghCinematography Dominique ColinEditing Parikshhit Jha, Simon PriceMusic Arnaud van VlietMain cast Vinamrata Rai, Chandan Bisht, Harshita Tiwari, Mayank Singh JairaProduction company Jar Pictures
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