Odia Film travels to Mexico

Bhubaneswar:05-11-2018:Odia film “Khyanikaa – The Lost Idea” is now travelling to Mexico and will be screened at Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos (FICMA) in Mexico between 21st and 24th November 2018.

This is an unique film festival featuring films made with unconventional and alternate media. Khyanikaa, made with a Canon 6D (DSLR camera) features as the only Asian film in the list of five feature films to be screened at the festival. Out of the other four films, two are from Mexico, one from Romania and one from USA

.Director’s views : This is a special festival as it celebrates films made with alternate media/gadgets. While the world expects such films to come from America and Europe because they are considered to be technologically superior to most other regions, our home-grown Odia film finds a place too. It is to be noted that, be it in terms of content or form, technology or experimentation, we aren’t far behind. I only hope that more and more independent films from India, and especially from states like Odisha, find their place in the international space where there’s clearly a domination of certain countries and ideologies.

The 89 mins long feature film produced under the independent banner of Swastik Arthouse and directed by Amartya Bhattacharyya features Amrita Chowdhury as Idea, Susant Misra and Swastik Choudhury as the aspiring painters and poets. Choudhury Bikash Das plays a mad man, while Hrushikesh Bhoi (Kansha in Dhanuyatra) plays ‘Fate’. performer.