IFFK 2025: Nishanth Kalidindi’s Theatre explores the fragile world of Indianostrum and indie cinema
If ants signify intrusion, control, and imminent violence in Vivek Shanbhag’s novel Ghachar Ghochar (2015), in Shishir Jha’s Santhali documentary on uranium-mining in Jharkhand, Tortoise Under the Earth (2022), ants speak of the displacement of the tribal villagers. In his early 20th century eponymous Expressionistic painting, Salvador Dali draws oversized ants munching on dislocated ears…