WHISPERS OF FIRE & WATER

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WHISPERS OF FIRE & WATER

By Lubdhak CHATTERJEE

LITTLE LAMB FILMS PVT. LTD. - as PROD

Environmental - Completed 2023

An audio installation artist visits the largest coalmines of India where a fire burns in its belly and natural resources deplete. He succumbs to the highly complex socio-political system there and moves to a tribal village in a forest, where water becomes the labyrinth for a personal quest for self.

Festivals
& Awards

El Gouna Film Festival 2023

Feature narrative film competition

Locarno 2023

Concorso Cineasti del presente

Pianeta 2023

Narrative Competition

Sao Paulo IFF 2023

New Filmmakers Competition

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Environmental, Drama, First film
- Countries
- INDIA
- Languages
- HINDI, BENGALI, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 83 mn
- Director(s)
- Lubdhak CHATTERJEE
- Writer(s)
- Lubdhak CHATTERJEE, Monalisa MUKHERJI
- Cast
- Sagnik MUKHERJEE, Amit SAHA, Rohini CHATTERJEE, Saikat CHATTERJEE, Deepak HALDER
- Producer(s)
- Monalisa MUKHERJI (LITTLE LAMB FILMS PVT. LTD.), Shaji MATHEW (Niv Art Movies), Aruna MATHEW (NIv Art Movies), Bauddhayan MUKHERJI (LITTLE LAMB FILMS PVT. LTD.)
- Synopsis
- Whispers of Fire & Water, directed by debutant Lubdhak Chatterjee, is a journey plagued by depleting natural resources and delineated by two elements – fire and water.
  
  Shiva, an audio installation artist from Kolkata, visits the largest coal mine region of Eastern India for his work. He is not only overwhelmed by the sights of fire that have been haunting the area since a hundred years, but also by a colossal scale and rhythm of sounds. Faced with the highly complex socio-political system – unavoidable like the omnipresent smoke and fire in the area, he struggles to find leads in his work, his woes getting aggravated as his own life gets intertwined with that in the mines. Finally, he succumbs to the monstrous pressure – inflicted upon him by his inability to negotiate the twists and turns of fate. Fire, as an element, engulfs him.
  
  Shiva eventually moves to a tribal village in a dense forest, along with Deepak, a worker in the coal mine who hails from the village. Deepak becomes his vehicle through whom he gets acquainted with the philosophy of life in a forest, far away from the facade of urban life. The panoply of sounds which he experiences in dense forests triggers an inward personal journey which questions his belief system, his urban gaze and fundamental notion of self, carefully constructed over years. Water, as an element, forms the labyrinth of his quest for truth.

WHISPERS OF FIRE & WATER

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