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EntertainmentPosted at: Jan 24 2017 6:53PM


Award-winning Manipuri film 'Lady of the Lake' to have its European Premiere at Berlin Filmfest

New Delhi, Jan 24 (UNI) Haoban Paban Kumar’s debut feature in Manipuri, 'Lady of the Lake' will be making its European Premiere at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, one of the world's most celebrated film festivals to be held from February 9-19.
'Lady of the Lake' will be screened in the ‘International Forum of New Cinema’, which is considered to be the most daring section of the Berlinale featuring avant-garde, experimental works, political reportage and yet-to-be-discovered cinematic landscapes.
‘Lady of the Lake’, starring real life couples Ningthoujam Sanatomba and Sagolsam Thambasang is a story about a depressed fisherman, Tomba who gets a gun accidentally.
Loktak Lake is a unique ecosystem where fishermen lived in huts built on floating biomasses. In 2011, the authorities, in the name of protecting serenity of the ecosystem, burnt down hundreds of these crumbly huts leaving thousands of fishermen homeless.
Tomba, one of the victims, lives with a harrowing nightmare of looming displacement since then. He is haunted by seamless fear of further intervention of authorities that would make him homeless forever. Confined in his makeshift hut, Tomba senses the spirit of evil around, while his wife Thambalsang works hard to make their living. One fine morning Tomba accidentally finds a gun hidden within the biomass. He marvels with the gun as his power of self-protection. He transforms himself to an assertive man who is looking for an appropriate offense. One day an old lady who mysteriously wanders in the lake, knocks at his door in the middle of the night. Fearful Tomba, anticipating the lady as the spirit of all evils, chases her and commits an unintended crime.
The movie was shot entirely in and around the Loktak Lake -- the largest fresh water lake in North East India, which has a unique ecosystem, where people live on floating huts, built on floating biomass called Phumdis.
Directed and produced by Haoban Paban Kumar, ' Lady of the Lake' made its World Premiere in the category Asian New Currents (Competition Section) at the 21st Busan International Film Festival 2016.
The film was screened in over 10 prestigious international and national film festivals and won four awards including Golden Gateway Award (For the Best Indian Film) at 18th Mumbai Film Festival 2016 (MAMI), where it had its Indian Premiere and was selected in the Indian Panorama at 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa.
The film won the NETPAC Award (Asian Select) at the 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival, 2016 and recently won the Special Jury Award at the 15th Pune International Film Festival 2017.
Delighted on Berlinale being the 11th Film Festival of his debut feature length movie, award-winning documentary filmmaker Haoban Paban Kumar said,''I have been making documentaries for the last 10-12 years. But when you do your first fiction feature film you are under lot of pressure. I am lucky that my film got its World Premiere in the Competition section of the prestigious 21st Busan International Film Festival 2016 and now it is having its European Premiere at the prestigious 67th Berlin International Film Festival 2017.''
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