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Guras

Proxima Competition 2023 / Guras / India, Nepal 2023

Guras Guras

Synopsis

Life in Darjeeling in northern India passes by uneventfully. Every now and then, the quiet days are enlivened by a village ritual or an unexpected drama, as when nine-year-old Guras’s beloved dog Tinkle goes missing. Perhaps he was merely taken by someone from the neighboring village, and not eaten by the leopard prowling the area. The young girl’s family, however, has other things to worry about: the cardamon harvest is not going as planned, and they are struggling for their mere existence. Guras is left on her own to look for her four-legged companion, but in this magical land of tea plantations, good advice awaits in surprising places... A mystical odyssey of painful loss that shows the different ways of mourning of children and adults.

Martin Horyna

About the film

114 min / Color, DCP
World premiere

Director Saurav Rai / Screenplay Saurav Rai / Dir. of Photography Subal KR / Music Lokesh Kanithi / Sound Ankita Purkayastha / Editor Saurav Rai, Ankita Purkayastha / Art Director Mojesh Rai / Producer Ram Krishna Pokharel, Sanjay Gulati, Sudeepto Sadhukhan / Production Icefall Productions / Coproduction Appu Prabhakar, Low IQ, Crawling Angel Films / Cast Tulsi Khawas, Menuka Pradhan / Contact Icefall Productions

About the director

Saurav Rai

Saurav Rai (India). Filmography: Monsoon Rain (Barkhay Jhari, 2014, short), Memories (Jhajhalko, 2014, short), Happy Feet (2014, doc.), Nest (Gudh, 2016, short), The Invitation (Nimtoh, 2019), Guras (2023).

Contacts

Icefall Productions
2nd Floor, Aashahi Complex, 1 Jyatha, 446 00, Kathmandu
Nepal
Phone: +977 153 126 22
E-mail: [email protected]

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Saurav Rai
Film Director

Menuka Pradhan
Actress

François-Xavier Durandy
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