‘Kalira Atita’ to Have World Premiere at Prague Film Festival

Bhubaneswar (Reporters Today Bureau): Odia film ‘Kalira Atita’ will have its world premiere at the 28th Prague International Film Festival, FEBIOFEST, scheduled from April 29 to May 7.

Scripted, directed and produced by Nilamadhav Panda, the film revolves around the life of a man from Odisha’s Satavaya village in Kendrapada district, which has been swallowed by the rising sea level. Pitobash Tripathy plays the protagonist in this film, through whom the filmmaker has expressed his own trauma of witnessing the ferocious sea gobble up village after village.

Nilamadhav has also submitted ‘Kalira Atita’, for which he began shooting in 2005, for the Oscars. The film was earlier premiered at IFFI panorama 2020.