Recap
Dharti Latar Re Horo
India
Santhali
2022
97 mins
Festival History
Vancouver Int’l Film Festival| São Paulo Int’l Film Festival | Dharamshala Int’l Film Festival | Nuremberg Int’l Human Rights Film Festival | Indian Film Festival of Melbourne
Recap
Dharti Latar Re Horo
India
Santhali
2022
97 mins
Festival History
Vancouver Int’l Film Festival| São Paulo Int’l Film Festival | Dharamshala Int’l Film Festival | Nuremberg Int’l Human Rights Film Festival | Indian Film Festival of Melbourne
In a uranium mining area of Jharkhand, India, a tribal couple cope with the loss of their daughter. Dharti Latar Re Horo is a poetic elegy to a world that is rapidly disappearing, subsumed by unchecked development and displacement.
Jagarnath Baskey
Maugli Baskey
Shishir Jha
Shishir Jha
Shishir Jha
Dhiman Karmakar
Durga Prasad Murmu
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Vinay Mishra
Pallavi Rohatgi
Preety Ali
Raghavan Bharadwaj
Humara Movie
Vinay Mishra
vinay@humaramovie.com
Shishir Jha is a Mumbai-based filmmaker who was born in Bihar, India, in 1988. He graduated from the National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad with a Bachelor's degree in Film & Video Communication Design. In 2016, he received a Diploma in Filmmaking from a workshop led by Master Abbas Kiarostami at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV) in Cuba. He has made several short films, and his directorial debut, "Tortoise Under The Earth/ Dharti Latar Re Horo," a Santhali language film, premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and won the Vanguard Award, Honorable Mention, in 2022. The film was also selected for the New Directors Competition at the São Paulo International Film Festival and had its world premiere at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
