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SIGNS 2005
WINNERS OF JOHN ABRAHAM NATIONAL AWARDS 2005
BEST DOCUMENTARY

LADIES SPECIAL
Hindi/30 min/2003 Director- Nidhi Tuli

Director- Nidhi Tuli
Cinematography
- M.Shanthi Shubra Dutta
Editing, Sound
- Rikhav Desai



Synopsis
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The film explores how the stressed, overworked women of Mumbai took a time and a space provided to them and made it their own private space, where they could be themselves – where they could laugh, share, agonize, advice, let off steam, bitch and moan, ask for help, give help – a space where they are not mothers, or sisters, or daughters or employees, or daughters in law or mothers-in-law… but simply women.
Ultimately it is a film about the spirit of women…




HAWA MAHAL
Bengali-English-Hindi/60 min/2004

Director- Vipin VijayDirector- Vipin Vijay
Producer
- Rajiv Melhotra
Cinematography
- Vipin Vijay
Editing
- Debkamal. G
Sound
- Subhadeep.S
Script
- Tuhinabha Majumdar and Vipin Vijay

Synopsis-

Hawa Mahal, video on the holy little box, the radio, a profound archaic force, a time bond with most ancient past and long forgotten experience, with its power to turn the psyche and society into single echo chamber. An apparatus that neutralized nationalism but evoked archaic tribal ghosts of the most vigorous brand. This is exactly the meeting of eye and ear, of explosion and implosion - the clock of invisibility.



BEST SHORT FICTION

ULLURUKKAM
Touched
Malayalam/30 min/2003

Script/Direction- Shyamaprasad
Producer
- Doordarshan
Cinematography
- Sham Dutt
Editing
- Vinod Sukumaran
Sound
- C.R.Chandran

Synopsis-
Set against the background of superstition and sorcery, many socio religious factors of the Moslem life in the Malabar village where the little Kuttimon lives, operate as the members of Kuttimon’s family work out their destiny. With his acute and sensitive perception of people, events and the natural world, Kuttimon understands the significance of the happenings partially. Being a child, nurtured on the tales of spirits and snakes and their power, he cannot escape being lured by them.

 

PIRANTHA NAAL
Birthday
Tamil/23 min/2005

Director- K.Muthu KumarDirector- K.Muthu Kumar
Producer- K.Muthu Kumar
Cinematography- Chezhian
Editing- Suresh ARS
Sound- Sekhar and Selvan
Script- K.Muthu Kumar
Music- L.Vaidyanathan

Synopsis-
A writer having existential problems becomes ordinary by falling prey to the needs of practical reality and then regains his position by exposing himself through the story he writes.



The awards were presented by Sri. T.K. Rajeevkumar, Chairman, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy at the Closing Ceremony of SIGNS-2005 on 30th May 2005 at Kalabhavan, Thiruvananthapuram
1. Best Documentary 2. Best short Feature
  Format: Digital/Video
Prize Money : Rs.25,000
Certificate of Merit and Memento
  Format: Digital / Video
Prize Money: Rs. 25,000
Certificate of Merit and Memento




 

SIGNS-2005
COMPETITION
 

List of  Films selected

DOCUMENTARY

          Film                                                           Language/Duration          Director(s) 

  1.     NAATA.................................................... Hindi-English................ K.P.Jayasankar

         .......................................................................................................  Anjali Monterio

  2.     AVAN...................................................... Malayalam/23m............. Shiny Jacob Benjamin

  3.     GIRL SONG............................................... English.......................... Vasudha Joshi

  4.     SOMEWHERE IN MAY............................. English/38m.................. Amar Kanwar

  5.     LADIES SPECIAL..................................... Hindi/30m...................... Nidhituli

  6.     ODE TO THE MARGIN............................. Malayalam/10m............. Pratheesh Vasudevan

  7.     THE SOURCE OF LIFE FOR SALE............ English/58m.................. K.P. Sasi

  8.     KOVILAN ENTE ACHACHAN.................. Malayalam..................... M.A. Rahman

  9.     NAGA STORY - THE OTHER SIDE OF

          SILENCE................................................... English/60m.................. Gopal Menon

10.     AN ENCOUNTER WITH A LIFE LIVING... Mal-English/22m........... Suja

11.     NICE GIRL................................................ Hindi/16m...................... Nimisha Pandey

12.     HAWA MAHAL....................................... Bengali-Hindi/59m......... Vipin Vijay

13.     CHATTAVARINTE CHIRI............. Malayalam/48m........ Rasheed & Gireesh

14.    AGNISAKSHIYUDE SAKSHi......... Malayalam/25m........ Sajeev Pazhoor

15.    WORK IN PROGRESS................... English/59m............. Paromita Vohra

16.    VAIDYARATNAM P.S. WARRIER. Malayalam/30m........ Krishnanunni

17.    FINAL SOLUTION........................ English/149m............ Rakesh Sharma  



 

FICTION

1.    PENCIL........................................ Tamil/24m............... Vetriveeran

2.    ULLURUKKOM............................ Malayalam/30m........ Shyamaprasad

3.    OLICHE KANDE........................... Malayalam/24m........ M.G. Sasi

4.    CROSS......................................... Malayalam/28m........ Suveeran

5.    AN UNFINISHED MOVIE.............. Malayalam/33m........ Avira Rebeca

6.    GEETHAGOVINDAM.................... Malayalam/22m........ Shery

7.    BUDHA NEVER SMILED.............. Hindi...................... Sajeed. A

8.    THE WATCHMAN........................ Malayalam/18m........ R.K. Ajai Ghosh

9.    JUST ABOVE THE POND.............. Tamil/23m............... SMA Vasanth

10.    PIRANDA NAL............................. Tamil/23m............... K. Muthukumar

11.    THANGAM................................... Malayalam/31m........ Pramod Payyannur

12.    RACHIYAMMA............................ Malayalam/28m........ Harikumar

13.    MEN WITH SHADOWS................. Silent/18m............... Sreejith Paul

14.    VAROO........................................ Malayalam/17m........ P.P. Sudevan


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