cine pobre film festival Building bridges based on the belief that film becomes art only when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil & paper. Cine Pobre Film Festival is the 100% cartel-free intersection of culture and capabilities.

After Prayers

Italy

Simone Mestroni filmmaker

  • Added 5 years ago to SNEAK PREVIEWS

    For 30 years Kashmiri youths routinely engage Indian soldiers in stone-throwing riots.

    Here the vicious cycle of violence, nourished by new martyrs' blood, keeps perpetuating in the intimacy of ordinary life. Routine violence and muezzins' calls for prayers shape the time-flow of daily life in Indian Kashmir.

    From traumatic memories of a guerrilla's funeral to the present anti-India street-riots, throughout a maimed muhajideen's tale, people's destiny seems to be stretched between hope and anger, love and grief, poetry and brutality.

    Every milestone in people's stories -being it the first army crackdown in the valley or the decision to leave for Afghanistan to get guerrilla-warfare training- seems to happen in a mosque, just immediately after prayers.

    Almost 30 years have gone since the beginning of the armed struggle and notwithstanding a widespread frustration, the controversial dream of Kashmir's independence, along with the nightmare of the conflict, is still preserved alive.

    It is again after Friday's prayers that Kashmiri youngsters regularly engage Indian soldiers in stone-throwing riots, and it is ultimately here that the vicious cycle of violence, nourished by new martyrs' fresh blood, keeps perpetuating in the intimacy of ordinary life.