COMPETITIVE PROGRAM ‒
SHORT LIVE-ACTION FILMS
The Blue bycicle
Голубой велосипед
Premiere: FAR EASTERN PREMIERE
Production country: India
Year of production: 2024
Length: 22 min.
Rating (age category): 6+
Film-category (genre): Children Drama
Director: Kamil Saif
Producer: Mimansha Punamia
Screenwriter: Kamil Saif
Composer: Keerthan Berny
DOP: Sonam Nurboo
Editor: Arjun Ashok
Production designer: Swaraj Chakraborty
Costume designer: Aditi
Make up artist: Bhaskar
Sound director: Tony Joppan
Cast: Anushree Gain, Abhinab Polley, Rwitoban Acharya, Jamshed Alam
Production company: SRFTI

On a frosty winter night, siblings Hasan and Khushbu escape from a refugee camp, driven by Hasan's dream of a blue bicycle he saw in the evening. Unprepared for the chaos and dangers of the city, they embark on a journey filled with challenges.
Selected festival history
2024
  • VGIK
  • BUFF
  • Kamil Saif
    DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
    Kamil Saif is a final-year student at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata, where he studies directing and screenwriting. He has a background in theater, having acted in various plays and served as a director for a group based in Delhi.

    DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
    Night of Separation, Last Rehearsal