Experiencing Interruptions?

After Prayers

In Indian Kashmir, between a call to prayer and the other, daily life intertwines with separatist politics, Islam and routine violence. From traumatic memories of a guerrilla's funeral to the present anti-India street-riots, throughout a maimed muhajideen's tale, people's destiny seems to be shaped by hope and anger, love and grief, poetry and brutality. Nourished by martyrs' blood, the dream of Kashmir's independence, along with the nightmare of the conflict, is still preserved alive.

  • Simone Mestroni
    Director
  • Simone Mestroni
    Writer
  • Simone Mestroni
    Producer
  • Donatello Conti
    Editing
  • Francesco Morosini
    Sound Editing
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 1 minute
  • Completion Date:
    July 10, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English, Kashmiri
  • Shooting Format:
    digital full hd
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Sheffield DOC/Fest
    Sheffield
    United Kingdom
    June 6, 2018
    NA
    DOC/PLAYER
  • Rome Independent Film Festival
    Rome
    Italy
    November 16, 2018
    Co-world premiere
    Docuriff
  • Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival
    San Jose
    United States
    November 16, 2018
    Co-world Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Athens Ethnographic Film Festival
    Athens
    Greece
    November 30, 2018
    European premiere
    Official Selection
  • Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival
    Kalamata
    Greece
    January 19, 2019
    NA
    Official Selection
  • Days of Ethnographic Film
    Ljubjana
    Slovenia
    March 7, 2019
    Slovenian
    Official selection
  • Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec
    Montreal
    Canada
    March 30, 2019
    Canadian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Royal Anthropology Institute Film Festival

    festival videolibrary
  • Censurados Film Festival
    Lima
    Peru
    March 27, 2019
    South American
    In(visible) Voices
  • Ethnografilm
    Paris
    France
    April 18, 2019
    French Premiere
    Offficial selection
  • Ethnocineca
    Vienna
    Austria
    May 26, 2019
    Austrian Premiere
    Award:Excellence in visual anthropology
  • Etnofilmfest
    Monselice
    Italy
    May 30, 2019
    Award: Best documentary
  • Vizantrop
    Belgrad
    Serbia
    June 14, 2019
    Equality and community
  • Faito Documentary Festival
    Faito
    August 4, 2019
    Youth jury award
  • Film Southasia
    Kathmandu
    Asian
    Best debut film
Director Biography - Simone Mestroni

Simone Mestroni has developed visual storytelling skills along with his fieldwork research on ethnographic aspects of Kashmiri conflict. While completing his PhD in anthropology he has been working as video operator with Donatello Conti and Giulio Squarci, and as fixer for Fausto Podavini for his photographic works in India. Mestroni's ethnographic book on Kashmir, titled “Lines of Control,” is going to be released by summer 2018 and will be used as textbook for academic courses in three Italian universities. In October 2017 his first documentary “After Prayers” has been awarded with the Wenner Gren foundation postdoctoral grant.

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