Liar’s Dice
India
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2014
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Color
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103 min
This directory compiles the glossaries from all editions of Cines del Sur: eleven already held and the twelfth currently underway. It serves as a living memory of the festival, its films, guests, sections, and spaces for reflection on the cinemas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world. Here you can trace the evolution of its programming, rediscover filmmakers, and follow the thematic threads that have defined Cines del Sur's identity as a meeting point for cultures, perspectives, and ways of understanding cinema from the Global South.
Kamala lives with her daughter Manya in Chitkul, a quiet village near the Indo-Tibetan border. After several weeks without news from her husband Harud, the young wife and her daughter embark on a journey to find him. During her odyssey, Kamala meets Jampa, a free-spirited smuggler from Tibet who makes easy money playing the gambling game "Liar's Dice." For selfish reasons, Jampa agrees to help Kamala and Manya reach their destination. Through this narrative, filmmaker Geetu Mohandas expresses a certain sense of life's futility and her indignation with the system, while also exploring the dynamics of relationships between men and women. Liar's Dice is a linear narrative of a journey, set against the alarming socio-political conditions currently experienced in India.
Technical Details
Direction:
Geetu Mohandas
Cinematography:
Rajeev Ravi
Music:
John Bosters
Language:
Hindi and Himachali
Production:
Ajay G. Rai, Alan McAlex
Art Direction:
Prakash Moorthy
Sound:
Mohandas V.P.
Subtitles:
English and Spanish
Screenplay:
Geetu Mohandas
Editing:
Ajithkumar
Cast:
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Geetanjali Thapa, Manya Gupta
Director
Geetu Mohandas
Born in Kannur, India, in 1981. She began her cinematic career at the age of four, acting in five feature films during her childhood. She completed her formal education in India, Malaysia, and Canada. She continued acting and has, to date, starred in forty feature films across three South Indian languages. Mohandas and her husband Rajeev Ravi, a cinematographer, founded Unplugged in 2009, hoping to use cinema as a vehicle to foster creative expression and dialogue. Unplugged produced Mohandas's first short film: Are You Listening? The piece premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and subsequently won three international awards for Best International Short Film, as well as the National Award for Best Actor in India. Liar's Dice, a film funded by the Rotterdam Festival, is her first feature film.
