ACF
Asian Cinema Fund
Asian Network of Documentary(AND) Fund
2010 Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund
LIST Inshallah, Football
| Category | PUFS Fund |
|---|---|
| Project | Inshallah, Football |
| Director | Ashvin KUMAR |
| Country | India |
| Director's Profile | Ashvin is the youngest Indian director with an Academy Award Oscar nomination- Little Terrorist. The film has won over 20 awards, including the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA). Ashvin began working in theatre and, after a degree in Media and Communications at the University of London, he shot his first film Road To Ladakh starring Irrfan Khan (Namesake / Slumdog Millionaire). His second film, Little Terrorist became the first short film to get a theatrical release in India. His debut feature film The Forest is a thriller with an ecological message, is due to release in India later this year. |
- Synopsis
- Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. Bashir Baba, a much-wanted leader of the Hizbul Mujahideen, was a Pakistan trained freedom fighter who has now given up the gun. Basharat Baba, his son has grown up under the shadow of a silent war, but yet, within it, he found in football his passion and fuel. Marcos, an Argentinean/Brazilian, is also a FIFA accredited football coach by profession; he has started a football academy called ISAT and an exchange program to Brazil for his most talented players. Basharat is one of them ? to play football in the land of legendary Pele. The irony of it is that Basharat has been denied a passport by the Government of India. His crime? That his father was a member of Pakistan militant group. His story questions India’s claim of being the largest democracy on this planet.
- Director's Note
- A poet describes Kashmir ‘I am rowed through paradise, on a river of hell’. The land of my ancestors has been turned into a desolation, which the Indian establishment likes to call ‘peace’. I went home to Kashmir seeking the meaning of big words like justice and civilization. Then, when I met the people I follow in the film, I sensed that I had found a powerful and special lens through which the democratic credentials of my country would be tested. Inshallah, Football is a very personal human story, one of hope and despair, of daring to be free and the difficulty of dreaming.
- Festivals
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2010 Busan International Film Festival - Wide Angle
2010 Dubai International Film Festival - Muhr Asian Africa Documentary
2011 DocEdgeKolkata
- Still Cut
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