Shorts & Mid-length · Filmmaker Q&A · Asia Premiere
Amma, Do Giraffes Cry?
Directed by Kartikeya Saxena
Screens as part of Programme 7: Still Human.
Screening at DIFF 2026
Fri30
to Friday 30 Oct · PictureTime 3
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- Runtime
- 27 min
- Year
- 2026
- Countries
- Czechia, India
- Language
- Czech, English, Hindi
- Subtitles
- English
- Premiere
- Asia
Synopsis
Far away from home, an Indian filmmaker calls his zoologist mother from Prague Zoo, describing captive animals: a camera-shy gorilla, an insomniac anaconda, and penguins haunted by their own shadows. As their dialogue unfolds, the space between human and animal dissolves, prompting his mother to confront a long-held belief.
Director
Kartikeya SaxenaKartikeya Saxena is a Prague-based Indian cinematographer and director from Rajasthan. Working across fiction and non-fiction, his films form mosaics of sound and imagery exploring memory, ecology, architecture, and postcolonial landscapes.Cast and crew
- Producer
- Kartikeya Saxena and Tomáš Šimon
- Writer
- Kartikeya Saxena, Rashmi Saxena
- Cinematographer
- Ya Ching Yang
- Editor
- Shawrya Kumar
- Sound
- Devraj Bhaumilk
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