{"id":882998,"date":"2026-10-15T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882998\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:10:34","slug":"kirti-kulharis-kinaare-bows-at-dharamshala-rima-das-hero-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882998\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirti Kulhari’s ‘Kinaare’ Bows at Dharamshala, Rima Das’ ‘Hero’ Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKirti Kulhari<\/a>\u2019s first feature as a producer, \u201cKinaare\u201d (\u201cShores\u201d), will premiere at the 15th Dharamshala International Film Festival<\/a> (DIFF), which will open with Rima Das<\/a>\u2019 Berlin-awarded \u201cNot a Hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival will run Oct. 29\u2013Nov. 1 at the Tibetan Children\u2019s Village in Upper Dharamshala, with an online edition to follow Nov. 2\u20139.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten and directed by brothers Akbar Quadri and Azam Quadri, \u201cKinaare\u201d stars Kulhari as Amina, a single woman in a village near Delhi who spends her days looking after her elderly parents and the family home. Her cousin, played by Azam Quadri, turns up without warning after 15 years away, and his visit brings back the events that once split the family. By the time he leaves, Amina has made her peace with the past. Rajeev Siddhartha, Alka Amin and Ravi Taneja complete the cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tKulhari produced the film through her banner Kintsukuroi Films, with Abhishek Koka and Maansi Guptey as co-producers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a script that really resonated with me. It\u2019s a simple, heartwarming, and subtle film. I find all these adjectives in Iranian films \u2013 which I\u2019ve always really loved \u2013 so when something like this came to me, I knew I had to make it,\u201d Kulhari said. \u201cThis is exactly how I wanted to make this film: independently, make it the way I see it, the way we all see it collectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSiddhartha said every actor hopes for a script that values the written word and also pushes them to explore the spaces between the words. \u201cAnd with \u2018Kinaare,\u2019 I got to do that as an actor. I feel \u2018Kinaare\u2019 has such a universal theme that everybody who sees it will definitely be touched, be moved and be slightly changed from within after the experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film\u2019s crew includes cinematographer Arjun Sundaram, composer Mohan Kannan, editor Bakul Matiyani and sound designer Sanjay Chaturvedi.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNot a Hero,\u201d an India-Singapore co-production, will have its South Asia premiere as the festival\u2019s opening night film. It debuted at the Berlinale earlier this year, where it took a Crystal Bear Special Mention in the Generation Kplus strand, and later won best indie film at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. It has also played Zl\u00edn, Zurich and Busan.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film centers on a boy packed off from the city to his family\u2019s ancestral village. There he meets a distant aunt, makes friends with a horse and falls in with a pack of local children, finding both a life away from screens and a courage he did not know he had.<\/p>\n

\n\tDas is known for \u201cVillage Rockstars,\u201d \u201cBulbul Can Sing,\u201d \u201cTora\u2019s Husband\u201d and \u201cVillage Rockstars 2.\u201d Her films have screened at more than 150 festivals and collected over 75 awards.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latest additions to the DIFF lineup also include Don Palathara\u2019s \u201cThe Uncertainty Principle,\u201d set among young people in Kochi chasing careers in cinema, and \u201cCool Ladies Club,\u201d a documentary co-directed by Shilpi Gulati and 10 women from Mumbai\u2019s eastern suburbs who made the film together over 18 months.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso on the slate are Tanushree Das and Saumyananda Sahi\u2019s Kolkata-set Berlin-debuting family drama \u201cShadowbox,\u201d Rafael Kapelinski\u2019s Poland-Hungary title \u201cBudapest Diaries\u201d and Eimi Imanishi\u2019s Western Sahara-set \u201cNomad Shadow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThey join titles from the festival\u2019s initial lineup, among them Gurvinder Singh\u2019s Locarno title, India-France co-production \u201cRehmat,\u201d which weaves together three stories set in present-day Punjab; \u201cTermite,\u201d a short set in 1990s Old Delhi that marks the first fiction film from Oscar-nominated documentarian Shaunak Sen; and Oliver Laxe\u2019s Cannes-winning \u201cSir\u0101t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first wave also includes Sompot Chidgasornpongse\u2019s Cannes-debuting Thai family pilgrimage drama \u201c9 Temples to Heaven,\u201d Sara Dosa\u2019s Iceland-set \u201cTime and Water,\u201d R. Gowtham\u2019s Berlin-bowing grief drama \u201cMembers of the Problematic Family\u201d and Dennis Harvey and Lars Lov\u00e9n\u2019s Irish folk music documentary \u201cCeltic Utopia.\u201d Samreen Farooqui and Shabani Hassanwalia\u2019s documentary \u201cThe Ordinary Star\u201d follows Nawazuddin Siddiqui as he studies the real-life occupant of the room he would use while shooting \u201cStar,\u201d Dibakar Banerjee\u2019s segment in the 2013 anthology \u201cBombay Talkies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDIFF was founded by filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam. This year\u2019s edition will also run its fellowship program, with seven fellows mentored by Bhutanese director Dechen Roder and Indian independent filmmakers Umesh Kulkarni and Dominic Sangma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirti Kulhari\u2019s first feature as a producer, \u201cKinaare\u201d (\u201cShores\u201d), will premiere at the 15th Dharamshala International Film Festival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[370716,88,370717,206,370718],"class_list":["post-882998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dharamshala-international-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-kirti-kulhari","tag-movies","tag-rima-das"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}