About Love
Director: Archana Atul Phadke
Country of production: India
Year of production: 2019
Duration: 95 mins
Languages: Marathi, English
Synopsis
Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their ancestral home in downtown Mumbai. With her brother’s wedding coming up, and her own misgivings towards marriage, the filmmaker turns the camera inwards towards her family. Rooted in the ebbs and flows of ‘unspectacular time’, the personal becomes political as power structures within the family first become visible, and eventually, unravel. Cruel and comic in equal measure, the film vignettes the vagaries of affection across generations within this family – tied together by something stranger than love.
Director’s Bio
Born in 1986 in Mumbai, India, Archana Phadke is an alumni of the Berlinale Talent campus. Her short film as director, Uski Baarish (2013), was screened at various international film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, Aspen Shorts Fest, Toronto International Film Festival (KIDS), Seattle International Film Festival and 34 others. She has produced and edited the feature-length documentary Placebo. Placebo was an Indo-Finnish co-production which premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), 2014, where it won the jury nomination for Best Film in the First Appearance Category. She has co-edited the film Raghu Rai, An Unframed Portrait – Winner of IDFA Europe fund and Winner of Best International Putch at Asian Side of the Doc and which had its premiere at IDFA 2017 (Mid-length Competition). Her debut documentary premiered at the Sheffield Doc Fest 2019 (New Talents Award) in June 2019.