Pusan: Jahar Kanungo on AFC and his Half Truth

This is the third and last interview from the Pusan series, on Indian filmmakers who were part of the Pusan International Film Festival’s various funding avenues this year.

Filmmaker Jahar Kanungo’s second feature film …


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Pusan film fest to aid 3 Indian films

Three films from India– one complete and two planned – have been selected by the Pusan International Film Festival for its programmes targeted at helping independent Asian filmmakers.
Paris-based Partho Sen-Gupta’s Arunoday (Sunrise) is the only Indian entry among 30 selected from all over Asia for the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) project market, designed to help them find co producers and financiers. The 30 were selected from among 200-plus entries received.

Some of us might have seen Partho’s earlier (and first) film Hawa Aaney Dey (Let the Wind Blow), which was partly funded by Fonds Sud of the French Cultural Ministry.

The Arunoday website gives the synopsis as thus:

“In Mumbai, Inspector Joshi is sent to investigate the kidnapping of a street child. As he searches for clues, he meets a six year old boy named Manu. Joshi is strangely drawn to the boy. He starts visiting him, trying to befriend him but …


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