Official Selection - Out of Competition

Sister Midnight

Karan KANDHARI
Festival HITS Late Night Bizarre by Utopia Animation 2024 110 min United Kingdom, India, Sweden
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Synopsis

A genius genre-bending comedy

Under the humid Mumbai nights, a frustrated and misanthropic misfit in a newly arranged marriage attempts to navigate an awkward spouse, nosy neighbors and her own feral impulses that land her in unlikely situations.

Cast/Avec

  • Radhika APTE
  • Ashok PATHAK
  • Chhaya KADAM
  • Smita Tambe
  • Navya Sawant

Screenplay

  • Karan KANDHARI

Cinematographer

  • Sverre Sørdal

Sound

  • Christopher Wilson
  • Gunjan Augustine Sah

Music

  • Paul Banks

Production

  • Wellington Films
  • Griffin Pictures
  • British Film Institute (BFI)
  • Film4
  • Filmgate Films
  • Production Scope
  • Suitable Pictures
  • Coproduction : Film i Väst 

Screenings

Tuesday 11 March 2025 20:30
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : Hindi
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening

Karan KANDHARI

Karan KANDHARI
Karan KANDHARI

Karan Kandhari is an Indian artist and filmmaker, born in the Middle East and mainly based in London, where he studied at University of The Creative Arts, Farnham Surrey.
Between 2010 and 2014, he wrote and directed United Howl, a trilogy of short films—Hard Hat (Winner: Audience Award Rushes Soho Shorts), Flight Of The Pompadour (Berlinale, Generations) and BFI-funded Sidney—about misfits, outsiders and loners, the shorts sharing themes as wel as deadpan sense of humour.
Beyond writing and directing, Kandhari is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, collage and ink illustration. He attended the prestigious Yaddo Artist Residency in upstate New York at the beginning of 2020 to work on a graphic book about his Exile experience titled The Passenger.
Sister Midnight is his debut feature.

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