Asia International & Japan Program 1
A&J 1
Grandfather
Amar Kaushik/22:00/India/Drama/2016
Grandfather is set in a remote village of Arunachal Pradesh in North East India. An orphan girl staying with her grandparents comes across the news of her grandfather being in the advanced stages of lung cancer. With not much to do, the grandfather spends the rest of his days revisiting his personal possessions and digging his own grave. But then life has its own surprises…
Berlin Film Festival - Special Prize (Germany)
Director : Amar Kaushik
Amar Kaushik was born in 1983 in Uttar Pradesh, India. With no contact in the film industry, Amar has spent 9 years making his way up the ladder from being an assistant director to associate director to a second unit director, while working with some of the best minds in Bollywood.