8:00pm (CHST)
Tue, May 09
Charaiveti
India | 72 min. | Guam Premiere
Documentary, Cultural, Adventure, Sports | GIFF Guide: General Audiences – material suitable for all ages
Synopsis
In February 2017, Chandan Biswas, a resident of Barasat, West Bengal set off on his bicycle on an arduous journey of 153 days, traversing 6249 kms, crisscrossing 4 different countries to become the first man to complete the Trans-Himalayan expedition on a bicycle.
Armed with a fixed lens go pro camera, Chandan shot this incredible and spectacular journey of his and came back with a footage of over 52 hours. Charaiveti was born out of this very footage.
Charaiveti is a point of view personal diary about Chandan’s desire to create a new record. For a man who is otherwise afraid of wolves, scared of waterfalls, wary of landslides, seeks tea at every nook and corner – Charaiveti is not a film about a super hero adventurer. Charaiveti is an inward journey of a man discovering and conquering one’s fears and living to tell the tale.
The film is also a journey into realizing that records are not what an adventurer’s journeys are about. It is much more and beyond. It is about the lost songs from childhood, of missing old friends, making new ones, that feeling of homesickness and the desire to return home to have mom’s fish curry.
Charaiveti. For the unflinching traveller in all of us…
Screenings and Awards
Winner – Best Mountain Film, Istanbul Film Awards
Best Editing – Accolade Global Film Competition
Best Travel Film – Druk International Film Festival
Kolkata International Film Festival
Chennai International Documentary & Short Film Festival
Bauddhayan Mukherji (Producer, Director)
Bauddhayan aka ‘Buddy’ (born 1 June 1973) is a national award winning Indian filmmaker based in Mumbai. He is the co-founder—along with this wife Monalisa—of Little Lamb Films, which has produced three feature films, Teenkahon, The Violin Player and Manikbabur Megh (The Cloud & The Man) and one documentary short, Kiske Liye (Who Is This Women’s Day For?) His forthcoming films include Marichjhapi and The Bookkeeper’s Wife.
Marichjhapi, his next directorial venture for Little Lamb Films has already created a buzz in the international co-production market when it was chosen to represent India at the prestigious Asian Project Market at Busan 2019 and Cinéfondation L’Atelier at the Cannes Film Festival 2020. One of Bauddhayan’s forthcoming directorial project, The Bookkeeper’s Wife, was part of the Co-production Market at Film Bazaar 2020 and the Torino Film Lab NXT, 2021.
Chandan Biswas
Writer: Bauddhayan Mukherji
Co-Director: Chandan Biswas
Cinematographer: Chandan Biswas
Editor: Abhro Banerjee
Colorist: Avinash J Shukla
CGI: e-Motion Factory
Sound Designer: Abhijit Tenny Roy
Music Director: Raja Narayan Deb
Post Producer: Sushant Tambe
Publicity Design: Abhinandan Banerjee
Producer: Monalisa Mukherji
Production Company: Little Lamb Films
Funding has been provided to Guam International Film Festival, Inc. from Humanities Guåhan and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the federal ARP Act of 2021.