Kalira Atita (Yesterday’s Past)

Director: Nila Madhab Panda
Starring: Pitabash Tripathy
Run time: 83 mins | Recommended Certificate: 12A
Language: Odia with English subtitles | Year: 2020 | Country: India

Strand: SAVE THE PLANET

Acclaimed Director Nila Madhab Panda’s powerful new tale is set against a tableaux of rapidly evolving climate change. Gunu, a young man, is frantically trying to reunite with his missing family days before a predicted super cyclone. As coastal villages are being evacuated Gunu heads in the wrong direction towards his isolated home by the ocean, to find what he has lost. Gunu’s challenging survival on the abandoned coast, his very existence and struggle to survive the fury of nature makes his journey a poetic portrayal of emotional trauma and human triumph.

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