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QISSA (QISSA, THE TALE OF A LONELY GHOST)
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Completed - Drama - 110 minutes

Log Line

A tale of refugees after the 1947 partition of India. A tale of a father and daughter. Except the father is a ghost and it is his daughter who killed him.

Previous markets

  • Toronto 2013 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2014 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Anup SINGH
Writer(s) : Anup SINGH
Cast : Irrfan KHAN, Tisca CHOPRA, Tillotama SHOME

Producer(s) : Johannes REXIN (HEIMAT FILM), Nina GUPTA (NFDC), Bero BEYER (AUGUSTUS FILM), Thierry LENOUVEL (CINE-SUD PROMOTION)

Synopsis

Set in post-colonial India, QISSA tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh, who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; where individual
ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity. QISSA is a modern fable, written from personal experience, inspired by historical events. Themes of displacement and identity resonate across generations and borders, so that QISSA allows a removed perspective on subject matters that
are relevant today.

Production

Country(ies) : INDIA, GERMANY, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS

Start of shooting : November 2011

FRANCE Sep 03, 2014 ZOOTROPE FILMS
NETHERLAND JUST ENTERTAINM


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Festivals and Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2013 - Contemporary World Cinema (NETPAC)
Abu Dhabi FF 2013 (Best Actress Tillotama Shome )
Mumbai FF 2013 (The Silver Gateway)
Rotterdam IFFR 2014 (Public Price)


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