A Rifle and a Bag is an unusual film made in unusual conditions. The documentary explores the lives of two surrendered Naxalites who are navigating a world that they had sworn to transform. Somi and her husband Sukhram have given up arms to live in a village in central India and raise their two sons. But the non-revolutionary path sometimes makes them wonder if they made the right decision.
A Rifle and a Bag provides an impressionistic and sensitive portrait of Somi and Sukhram’s attempts to earn a living, secure their elder son’s education, and procure the right caste/tribal certificate that will ease their children’s futures.
About The Filmmakers
Arya Rothe is an Indian documentary filmmaker. She studied at FAMU in Prague before enrolling at DocNomads. She graduated in 2016. Her graduation film, Daughter's Mother, premiered at DOK Leipzig 2018. Her short documentary film Casa da Quina (2015) had its World Premiere at DocLisboa and won the Special Mention Jury Award at the International Film Festival FILMADRID in Spain. She is a Co-founder of NoCut Film Collective.
Cristina Hanes is a Romanian film director and producer. She co-founded NoCut Film Collective in 2016. Hanes’s short documentary film António e Catarina (2017, 40 mins, Portugal) won the Pardino D’oro Award for Best International Short in Pardi di Domani at the 2017 Locarno Festival and was screened in over 25 film festivals around the world. She is an alumna of DocNomads MA and Aristoteles Workshop. She completed her BA in the field of Cinematography in 2013 in Cluj- Napoca, Romania.
Isabella Rinaldi is an independent filmmaker from Rome, Italy, and co-founder of NoCut Film Collective. She graduated from the DocNomads Master Course after getting her Bachelor's Degree in Film Studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. She directed and produced several short films, screened in international festivals, and a video installation for the MAO Museum of Ljubljana. She is currently directing one episode of the documentary series, Borderline, produced by Off World production based in Belgium.
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