Little Theatre

There is the curiously titled No Bed-Space for Long Lines. And it gets curiouser, given that first-time filmmaker Sreedeep didn’t even use a video camera. “It is a collection of several hundred still images, both black-and-white and colour, that were juxtaposed to narrate a story,” says the 25-year-old research student from JNU, who made the film during an academic break. If Sreedeep experimented with the form of filmmaking, another Delhiite turned his camera lovingly at the villains of modern India — religious terrorists. Shiladitya Moulik, who honed his talent at the London Film Academy last year, uses his film 30 Seconds to bring a Hindu and a Muslim terrorist together as friends “who want to have all the fun of their lives before resuming their duties as soldiers of god”. In 15 minutes, Moulik packs in a touching narrative of young men who are no longer in control of their actions.

Irengbam Debashish Singh, on the other hand, takes a satirical look at the labels that wind themselves around the people of the Northeast in My “Funky” Date, while Fable by Nitin Das zeroes in on a boy living near the mountains of Tibet who has found the solution to global warming.

The festival is part of the Butterfly Project, an arm of the YP Foundation, which gives a forum for creative expression. “There is minimal editing and nobody has to conform to any ideology or agenda,” says Diksha Singh, project manager of the foundation.

Breaking Stereotypes will be held at India Habitat Centre on November 1 and 2. Time: 7 pm. Contact: 41551222