INFORMATION
Director: Indranil Roychowdhury
Year: 2020
Duration: 101’
Language: VOSE
Genre: Drama, Crime
SYNOPSIS
A beautifully minimalistic intertwining of ordinary lives in Kolkata, Debris Of Desire follows four main characters with varying approaches to achieve their seemingly impossible dreams of a better life. There is Satya, the petty criminal in love with his reluctant benefactor, Beuti, a savvy, hard-working sex worker. Their story has shadows of an innocent love story between two dreamers, but Satya’s enrichment attitude leads him to attempt a criminal short-cut to Beuti’s heart, potentially cutting short his own dreams after having made peace with an already tragic life. Then there is Soma, a pragmatic mother, who finds work as a handmaid, tired of waiting for her husband Chandu to find a job. His broken ego and impatience drives him to a life of crime. In moments of humanity, we deeply empathize with men; but their tactics are made to look even more pitiful as their stories are told in parallel to women’s histories. When their lives collide in a minimal moment with maximal impact, their fates are all but sealed, likely to be stuck in the confines of their powerless lives.
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Graduating from the Film and Television Inst of India, Pune in 1995, Indranil Roychowdhury has been working as a director/producer in Kolkata since 1996. He has directed and produced over 100 television commercials, documentaries, telefilms, reality television, music videos, and game shows for Bangladeshi TV channels. In 2005, Indranil directed Tapanbabu, a short film within the omnibus feature, Ek Mutho Chobi. In 2013, he released his solo directorial debut, Phoring which received worldwide festival play. Indranil has recently completed his second full length feature, Mayar Jonjal (Debris of Desire), which is an Indo-Bangladesh co-production film based on two short stories by Manik Bandopadhyay. The film had its world premiere at the Shanghai International FF. Indranil Roychowdhury lives and works in Kolkata.
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180º Rule

18Khz

1990

A Balance

A Leave (휴가)

A Love Unknown

A New Day

A’HR

Abhijan (THE EXPEDITION)

Along the Sea

Anima

APARAJITO (THE INVINCIBLE)

Apur sansar (the world of apu)

Aranyer din ratri (Days and nights in the forest)

Around The Table

Bandar Band

Bedridden

Better Days (少年的你)

Bipolar

Borderlands

Bridge

Café By the Highway

Camino Skies

Can Neither Stay Here, Nor Journey Beyond

Captive (Nazarband)

Cartas de Akyab

Charulata (Charulata or the lonely wife)

Children of the Night

Cinema Shahre Gheseh

COLD

Come Here

Crossroads (Tapguan)

Debris of Desire

Devi (The goddess)

Don’t Go Too Far (멀리가지마라)

Drifting (濁水漂流)

Drive My Car

Drown (Shena-ye Parvaneh)

Drowning In Holy Water

El Barro de la Revolución

Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt)

Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots

Far Frontiers

Faraway My Shadow Wandered

Fire on the Plain

Friends and Strangers

Ganashatru (An enemy of the people)

Ghare-Baire (Bimala’s world)

God on the Balcony

GOOPY GYNE BAGHA BYNE (GOOPY AND BAGHA’S ADVENTURES)

H is For Happiness

Hail, Driver

Hand Rolled Cigarette (手捲煙)

I am Vasantrao

I Don’t Fire Myself (나는 나를 해고하지 않는다)

I Met A Girl

In the Wake

Jalsaghar (The music room)

Jeux de Plage

Josée (조제)

Just 1 Day (給我1天)

Keep Rolling (好好拍電影)

Lato Kosero

Life in 24 Frames

Lockdown

Los mensajes ocultos de Ganga

Love, Life and Goldfish

Mahanagar (One Night in Kathmandu)

Mahanagar (The Big City)

Malu

My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan

Nayak (The Hero)

Not Today

On Your Mom, Get, Set, Go! / Zero to Hero (媽媽的神奇小子)

One More Rainbow (Isa Pang Bahagari)

One Second Champion (秒拳王)

Our Midnight (아워 미드나잇)

Paranoia

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road)

Pratidwandi (The Adversary)

Ready O/R Knot (不日成婚)

Restart

Rosemary’s Way

Running to the Sky

Sehar

Shakha Proshakha (Branches of the tree)

Shatranj Ke Khilari (The chess players)

Son of the Macho Dancer (Anak ng macho dancer)

Stars Await Us

Stoma (造口人)

Streamline

The Australian Dream

The Badger

The Blue Girl (Dokhtar-e Abi)

The Dogs Didn’t Sleep Last Night (Sag-ha Dishab Na-khabidand)

The Flute

The Forbidden Strings

The Fourth Round (Rand-e Chaharom)

The Great Indian Kitchen

The Inheritance (Mord-e Khor)

The Lake

The Reversed Path (Masir-e Makus)

The Road to Eden

The Single Tumbler

The Slaughterhouse (Koshtargah)

The Woman

The Women

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

Time (殺出個黃昏)

Ulbolsyn

Unboxing Girl (평평남녀)

Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

Walnut Tree

Water Boy

What We Left Unfinished

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Gūzen to Sōzo)

Where is Pinki?

Wind

Wu Hai

Yellow Cat
