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Forest Noon

The film is a conversation between two women, who grapple with the challenges of living in a rapidly changing world. Like the world around them, their conversation meanders from flowers, leaves, clouds to sex, death and finally, life. All this while, their phone on which they film each other, runs out of battery.

  • Lavanya Ramaiah
    Director
  • Radhika Prasidhha
    Director
  • Lavanya Ramaiah
    Producer
  • Radhika Prasidhha
    Producer
  • Lavanya Ramaiah
    Key Cast
  • Radhika Prasidhha
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    28 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 1, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Lavanya Ramaiah, Radhika Prasidhha

Lavanya Ramaiah is a film maker and a visual Artist. Her work explores the challenges and wonders of living as a woman in India. Her style is quirky and self reflexive, while she devises ways and means of making films with her friends in zero budgets!

Radhika Prasidhha started out as an actor and won a National Award in 2015 for the Tamil feature film, Kuttram Kadithal. Appa’s Seasons (2021) was her debut independent directorial short film. Begum Parvathi (2021) is her second short. She won the Riyad Wadia award for Best Emerging Indian Filmmaker at Kashish MIQFF 2021. She currently lives and works out of the coastal town of Pondicherry with her mother and their five rowdy cats.

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Director Statement

This film reveals our states of mind as we negotiated with the world, our loved ones and more importantly with ourselves, during the pandemic.

The film was shot during the lock down on a mobile phone. It was a sunny afternoon. Quite hot. Neither of us really had a film in mind. We just wanted to get-away from our homes for a while. So we snuck into a Scrub forest and started walking. The shooting was incidental.

We either forgot or lost the footage for a while, before rediscovering and putting it together, this year.

In the film, we attempt to sound profound and fail miserably. Maybe we were trying to cheer each other up, in times so uncertain. Or maybe we all cope by sharing our personal thoughts and views with the other - to piece together a collective truth in a world that constantly divides us.

In the end, the film is an attempt to feel and remember that we can just be here...living whatever we call as life.