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In the Belly of a Tiger

In the Belly of a Tiger

Original name: In the Belly of a Tiger
English name: In the Belly of a Tiger
Year: 2024
Run time: 90 minutes
Language: Hindi
Type (Colour/Black & White): Colour
Country: India
Director: Siddartha Jatla
Producer: Sarada Vemuri, Fang Li
Cast: Lawrence Francis, Poonam Tiwari, Sourabh Jaiswar
Screenplay: Siddartha Jatla, Amanda Mooney
Cinematographer: Siddartha Jatla
Editor: Akhmad Fesdi Anggorro
Sound Designer: Resool Pookutty
Music Composer: Shigeru Umebayashi
Production Company: Bhairavi Films

Festivals:

  • Berlinale FF 2024

Director’s Selected Filmography:

  • 2024 In the Belly of a Tiger
  • 2017 Love and Shukla

Director’s Biography:

Siddhartha Jatla

Siddhartha Jatla is a cinematography graduate of FTII and son of Director Jatla Venkataswami Naidu. His debut film, Love and Shukla, inspired by the invisible struggle for privacy amongst India’s urban lower middle class, premiered at Busan IFF, and then screened at Shanghai, Tallinn Black Nights, Palm Springs and 40+ festivals around the world before releasing on Netflix and being sold to Panorama Studios. The film won the prestigious NETPAC award, SIGNIS award and also featured in BBC's critics entry, by FIPRESCI critic Gulbara Tolomushova for 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films of all time.

Synopsis:

An elderly couple must decide on a fateful night about who between them should go into the forest to get killed by the Tiger, so that their family can claim compensation from the government.