Chennai :

Slaughterhouses are not meant for intimate relationships. But it proves otherwise in the case of Efrain, who has been working as a reaper in a slaughterhouse for more than 25 years.

The protagonist in this Mexican documentary filmmaker Gabriel Serra’s ‘La Parka’ (the Reaper) tells a tale of his stuggle to live on the face of death.

Chennai International Documentary and Short-film Festival 2015 that commenced from Monday is treat to all the movie lovers.

Organised by Marupakkam, at least 50 documentaries will be screened at various venues in the city namely the Panuval Book Shop, the Discovery Book Palace, Periyar Thidal and the University of Madras as part of the festival.

Indian as well as foreign documentaries, music, experimental films are the centre of attraction in the festival. The festival has it all from screening of old to new films. “We are screening a number of Indian as well as international documentaries as part of this seven-day festival. The idea is to reach out to people from all walks of life,” said R Amudhan, curator of the festival.

The documentary has a list of films made by veteran filmmakers like SNS Sastry, Mani Kaul and S Sukhdev under the Film Division.

Released in 1967, SNS Sastry’s ‘I Am Twenty’ is a 20-minute documentary interviews those who were born in 1947. Shubradeep Chakravorthy’s ‘En Dino Muzaffarnagar’ is s et against the backdrop of the Muzaffarnagar riot. The festival will conclude on Februrary 1.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Chennai / by  M.T. Saju, TNN / January 27th, 2014