Aashpordha (Audacity)

SYNOPSIS

It starts over a song and ends up where no one could have expected. A thirteen-year-old Indian girl has her first real confrontation with authority when her father forbids her to play the American dance music she loves. When she decides to get back at him, the situation quickly escalates to become a neighborhood scandal. Shot in the style of early Bengali neo-realism films, Aashpordha is a dark comedy about the eternal conflict between the powerful and the powerless.

Film website: Aashphordha

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Winner, Audience Choice Award, Short Film, IFFLA, 2012
Winner, Festival Committee Award, Miami Short Film Festival, 2012
Winner, Award of Merit, Best Short Film, Lucerne International Film Festival, 2012
Nominated, Best Short Film, NYIFF, 2012

TELEVISION AND THEATRICAL SCREENINGS

Part of the theatrical release of Short, across 27 cities in India. Distributor: Anurag Kashyap Films Private Limited
Telecast on SBS, Australia. Distributor: Georg Gruber Filmproduktion
Telecast on SVT, Sweden. Distributor: Georg Gruber Filmproduktion
Telecast on Multicanal Iberia, Spain and Andora. Distributor: Georg Gruber Filmproduktion