Two revelatory tales set in the Northeast — one centred on threatened floating homes, the other about life in a ‘rat-hole’ — bagged top prizes at the 14th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, Animation and Short Films.
Bengaluru-based filmmaker Chandrasekhar Reddy’s 88-minute documentary, Fireflies in the Abyss, about the horrors of rat-hole coal mining in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills, bagged the Golden Conch for the best feature-length film in the festival’s national competition.
Young Manipuri director Haobam Paban Kumar’s Phum Shang (Floating Life), about. . .