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Still from A River Colored Red

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A River Colored Red Miyad Arah Gaada

Directed by Saurav Kumar Munda

Screens as part of Programme 13: Visual Poetry.

Screening at DIFF 2026

Sun1 to Sunday 1 Nov · PictureTime 3
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Runtime
24 min
Year
2026
Country
India
Language
Mundari
Subtitles
English

Synopsis

In a mining-scarred Adivasi village under the shadow of the state–Naxal conflict, a 12-year-old boy’s encounter with a Tiger Spirit in the form of his long-dead uncle leads him to his family’s missing buffalo while uncovering buried memories of loss and violence.

Director

Saurav Kumar Munda Saurav Kumar MundaSaurav Kumar Munda is a filmmaker from the Munda community of Ranchi, Jharkhand. He is a FTII Pune graduate who specialised in Direction and Screenplay Writing. His fiction and non-fiction work explores memory, folklore, and the lived realities of indigenous communities through the Mundari language and oral tradition.

Cast and crew

Writer
Saurav Kumar Munda
Cinematographer
Wesabo Yobin
Editor
Satyam Kumar Mahato
Sound
Mayuresh Rajgure
Cast
Ayush Lugun, Anurag Lugun, Suman Purty, Kisun Hassa Purty

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