‘Shankar’s Fairies’ to premiere at 74th Locarno Film Festival

The film will have its premiere on August 13 at the prestigious film festival being held from August 4 to 14 in Locarno, Switzerland.

Irfana Majumdar’s debut Hindi feature, ‘Shankar’s Fairies’ is set to have its world premiere at the 74th Locarno Film Festival in the competition section.

The film will have its premiere on August 13 at the prestigious film festival being held from August 4 to 14 in Locarno, Switzerland. The film gala had gone digital for its 2020 edition owing to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Set in 1962 Lucknow in a newly independent and idealistic India that is still class-bound and exploitative, ‘Shankar’s Fairies’ tells the story of Shankar, a village man with a gift for storytelling who brings up a police officer’s daughter while away from his own family. The film stars Irfana in a prominent role, apart from Jaihind Kumar, Shreeja Mishra, Adwik Mathur and Gaurav Saini.

Based on the childhood memories of her mother Nita Kumar and shot in her ancestral home, director Majumdar describes the film a personal one. The film was part of the prestigious 2019 Film Bazaar’s Work-In-Progress Lab and NFDC Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes at 2020 Marche Du Film.

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