Private Project

Karken

A rural medical officer abruptly leaves his professional duty to pursue his passion for acting, but learns the price of following dreams that defy social structures, as viewers are entangled in a formal dynamic of identity, performance & language.

  • Nending Loder
    Director
  • Nending Loder
    Writer
  • National Film Development Corporation of India, Ltd.
    Producer
  • Nending Loder
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature
  • Genres:
    Drama, LGBTQ, Thriller
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 31 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 30, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    94,100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English, Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • World Premiere at 55th IFFI, Goa
    Panjim, Goa
    India
    November 22, 2024
    World Premiere
  • Manipur Premiere at 2nd Eikhoigi Imphal Intl Film Festival, India
    Imphal, Manipur
    India
    February 7, 2025
    Manipur Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Maharashtra / Pune Premiere at 23rd PIFF, India
    Pune, Maharashtra
    India
    February 15, 2025
    Maharashtra Premiere
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • National Film Development Corporation of India, Ltd.
    Distributor
Director Biography - Nending Loder

Nending has acted in three major feature films and many short films before. He hails from Ziro which is a picturesque valley in the North-Eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. He belongs to the Apatani scheduled tribe. After graduating college, in 2017, he took a few acting classes for film and television and auditioned for movies in Mumbai, India. That is also where he also developed an interest in screenwriting. His dream, through cinema, is to preserve his mother tongue which is among the many other endangered languages in India. He loves dancing, reading, cycling and hiking through his ancestral forest land.
KARKEN is his directorial debut.

Add Director Biography
Director Statement

As Hamlet said,"To be or not to be". Even if someone's life looks perfect from the outside, inside there is always a commotion going on. The director wants to showcase the Buddha's worldly winds striking a perfectly built life of a man when he goes in pursuit of his passion and dreams. The director also wants to highlight the issues of LGBTQ in a small town where no one talks about it.