Globally Feted Indian Doc Makers Mull Ways of Expressing Dissent at Cannes Market

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The cream of the current crop of young Indian documentary filmmakers were on fire during the annual Doc Day at the Cannes Film Market, discussing ways of expressing dissent within India’s cur…

” is showing as a special screening at the festival and previously won the documentary grand jury prize at Sundance. It follows Delhi-based Muslim brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who, against the backdrop of the territory’s polluted atmosphere and escalating sectarian violence, devote their lives to saving the black kite bird species.

Sen also said that conversations around the topic are probably going to be “couched in the language of tact and stratagem.” Rahul Jain, whose climate change film “Invisible Demons” played at Cannes last year, said via Zoom, “I don’t understand why there needs to be tact with nonfiction, and how it’s presented. It’s like a snake that eats itself up. I don’t get it. But yeah, sure. You don’t want to get shot, canceled, butchered or whatever. Good for you, best of luck. Yeah, be nice.

Shirley Abraham, who won a special mention at Cannes in 2016 for “The Cinema Travellers,” along with co-director Amit Madheshiya, said via Zoom, “I think that dissent essentially is the most patriotic duty of a citizen, and all of the work that we create, is not going to steer away from that. For me the most exciting or the most new in that sense, is the number of challenges that we are up against both in terms of what can and cannot be said, more towards what cannot be said.

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