There is Something in the Air

Описание: Winner of the National Film Award, Awards at Seoul and Trivandrum, and screened at over fifteen festivals at Amsterdam, Berlin, Delhi, London, Taipei, Tehran, Thrissur and Zürich, dreams and accounts of spiritual possession, as experienced by women ‘petitioners’ at a Sufi shrine in North India.

Directed by Iram Ghufran | 2011
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Iram Ghufran is an award winning filmmaker whose work has been shown in several international art and cinematic contexts, including Berlin, Experimenta India, SAARC Film Festival and ISEA, among others. Iram pursued a practice based PhD at the University of Westminster, London.

Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_M....

PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/ci..., https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2..., https://www.thehindu.com/features/cin..., https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2...)

PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.

Credits
Cinematographer: Kashif Siddiqui
Location Sound Recordist: Pratik Biswas
Editor: Iram Ghufran
Sound Designer: Asheesh Pandya
Assistant Director: Pallavi Paul

Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
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Last updated: August 2020