Private Project

Postcards from India - a busker's adventure

From the Rajasthan desert to the big city of Kolkata, reggae-loving busker Filippo Masé, a.k.a. ‘Miserable Man’, crosses paths with many characters: fellow musicians, spiritual seekers and street kids.

From the origins of Masé’s ‘Miserable Man’ persona in the bitter chill of a European winter, Postcards follows the musician’s return to India — where he’s previously spent several years — and observes contrasting elements of Indian society: contemporary and traditional, East and West, ethics and aesthetics.

  • Tommaso Dolcetta
    Director
    "Akil - awareness"
  • Tommaso Dolcetta
    Writer
    "Akil - awareness"
  • Filippo Masè
    Writer
  • Tommaso Dolcetta
    Producer
    "Akil - awareness"
  • Filippo Masè aka Miserable Man
    Key Cast
  • Jason Brooks
    editor
  • Heike Bielek
    2nd Camera
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Documentary, Music, Travel, Anthropology, Nomadism, india, ethnomusicology
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 8 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    25,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Rishikesh International film festival 2020
    Rishikesh
    India
    March 16, 2020
    Asian premiere
    Best Music Film
  • Doc Edge Film Festival New Zeland
    Wellington
    New Zealand
    May 11, 2018
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Doc Edge Film Festival New Zeland
    Auckland
    New Zealand
    May 25, 2018
    Official selection
  • Doc Edge Film Festival New Zeland
    Wellington
    New Zealand
    May 20, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Doc Edge Film Festival New Zeland
    Auckland
    New Zealand
    April 27, 2018
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Tommaso Dolcetta

Tommaso is a researcher, anthropologist and a freelance photographer/filmmaker. He graduated in Economics at Bocconi University in Milan, and later on He received an Ma in Anthropology and Development at the London School of Economics and an MRes in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London. He spent many years traveling and working in South East Asia & South America.
"Postcards From India" is its first feature length documentary. In 2014 he realized in collaboration with anthropologist Dr. Michael P. Hoffman the short documentary "Akil – Awareness" to portray the resurgence of the bonded labors “Kamayia” in Nepal. He has exploited visual media and performance as tools to explore and describe a variety of human behavior and cultures, with a peculiar interest in human and social (self) development.

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