MA — Cry of Silence | The Maw Naing | Myanmar, South Korea, Singapore, France, Norway,
Qatar | 74 mins | 2024 | Mi-Thet, a young Burmese woman, is working in a garment factory
in Yangon, far from her native village. Wages have not been paid for the past two months,
and a group of workers are leading a strike. But soon, the strikers are attacked by the
henchmen of the military regime, leaving Mi-Thet terrified by her past trauma.
In the Land of Brothers | Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazl | Iran, France, Netherlands | 95
mins | 2024 | (India Premiere). Under the shadow of the US invasion of Afghanistan, an
extended refugee family begins a new life in Iran, unaware of the ultimate price expected of
them as outliers in an unwelcoming environment. The film tells the story of Mohammad, a
young teenager and promising student; Leila, a woman isolated by geography; and Qasem,
who bears the weight of his family’s sacrifice.
When the Light Breaks | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France | 82
mins | 2024 | (South Asia Premiere). When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in
Iceland, from one sunset to another, Una, a young art student encounters love,
friendship, sorrow and beauty. Writer-director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s elegy of love, loss
and acceptance, with its striking 16mm cinematography, captures a precise sense of
time, place and mood.