Gattu
Country
India
Director
Rajan Khosa
Year
2012
Run Time
90 min
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Maturity Rating
U
Awards/Main Selection
Jayanta Das 17th International Children's Film Festival in Hyderabad | Special mention Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk category 62nd Berlin International Film Festival | Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2012
Accessible From
15-25 November 2022 (10 days)
In a small town in central India, children and adults are equally obsessed with kite flying. The airspace is dominated by a black kite called Kali with mysterious origins. Gattu, a street kid, dreams of defeating Kali but always fails. He discovers that the local school has the highest roof in town and would give him an advantage. However, in order to enter the school, he pretends to be a school kid. But there is a problem: he is illiterate…
In collaboration with:
Dharamshala International Film Festival