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April 12, 2025 at 5:45:00 PM

AFS Cinema

Online May 2 - 4

Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation

Indie Meme Special 10th Year
Retrospective Showcase

Da'Lit Kids

India | Short

2024 | 6 mins | Malayalam

Followed by the film The Glassworker.

Limited tickets available on site.

A school boy being questioned by his teacher- his first bitter lesson in social discrimination. As he struggles to understand this silent injustice, he begins to see the world through new, questioning eyes.

Film Heritage Foundation used the best surviving elements for the restoration – the original camera negative and the 35 mm print preserved at the NFDC – NFAI. Unfortunately, the sound negative was not available. We digitized the sound from the 35 mm print preserved at Film Heritage Foundation. The film elements were repaired by the Film Heritage Foundation conservators and the scanning was done in Prasad Lab in Chennai We found that due to the deterioration of the print, there were vertical green lines on many parts of the film. While the scanning and digital clean-up was done at Prasad under the supervision of L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, the grading, sound restoration and mastering was done at the lab in Bologna. Both Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, the cinematographer of the film, have been involved in the restoration of the film.

Restoration Process

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Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation

The screening will be preceded by a performance by Specific Thing.

Specific Thing is the project of local musician Román. Sometimes he plays by himself and sometimes he plays with his snazzy band — he loves to do both! And the music? It draws from folk, punk, pop, latin, communism, animals, friends... He likes to keep it cartoony, quick, and catchy. The band released an album in 2025 called "Now Is Actually Not A Good Time". Find more at @specificthing on Instagram.

Meet Specific Thing

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About the Artist

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Photo courtesy: 

Film Heritage Foundation

Appu Soman is an animation filmmaker from kerala, currently based in Kolkata as a student of SRFTI (Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute).

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Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation

Trailer

Credits

Crew:

Director:   

Appu Soman

Writer:

Appu Soman

Producers:

Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute 

Film Editor:

Featured Cast:

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Hridhya Raveendran

Aromal A R

Melvin Babu

Aaron P J

Dhivahar Muthuveeran

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Restoration Effort Led By: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Director, Film Heritage Foundation

 

Restoration Credit:

Restored by Film Heritage Foundation in association with Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(Amul), the cinematographer Govind Nihalani and the director Shyam Benegal. Funding supported by Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(Amul)

Thank you to our community partners for this screening!

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