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Film

Char... The No-Man's Island

Sourav Sarangi, India, 2012

97 min.Documentary

Meet Rubel, a fourteen year old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh. He has to cross the river Ganga acting as the international border. The same river eroded his home in mainland India when he was just four. Years later a fragile island called Char was formed within the large river. Rubel, with his family and many homeless people decided to settle in this barren field controlled by the border police. He dreams of going to his old school in India but reality forces him to smuggle stuff to Bangladesh. After a scorching summer dark monsoon clouds roll on and the river swells up again. Char may disappear but we won't, smiles the boy.
Basic information Credits
Original title Char... The No-Man's Island
Danish title Char... The No-Man's Island
Director Sourav Sarangi
Screenplay Sourav Sarangi
Producer Sourav Sarangi
Director of Photography Sourav Sarangi, Rabindranath Das, Minarul Mondal
Editor Sourav Sarangi
Sound Sourav Sarangi, Kyohei Taguchi
Production country India, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Norway
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Companies

Production company Son et Lumiere
Co-production Stefilm International, Final Cut for Real ApS, Cinema Oslo
In collaboration with NHK, RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana)

Direction

Direction Sourav Sarangi

Script

Screenplay Sourav Sarangi
Expert Kalyan Rudra

Production

Producer Sourav Sarangi
Co-producer Stefano Tealdi
Co-producer Signe Byrge Sørensen
Co-producer Jon Jerstad
Associate producer Isabel Arrate
Associate producer Melanie de Vocht
Associate producer Ryota Kotani
Associate producer Hendel Lorenzo
Production manager Minarul Mondal
Technical support Ganesh Pandey
Technical support Sanat Paul
Consultant Nilanjan Bhattacharya
Location assistant Sangeeta Dutta

Cinematography

Cinematographer Sourav Sarangi
Cinematographer Rabindranath Das
Cinematographer Minarul Mondal
Cinematographer: Additional shoot Ajoy Noronha

Editing

Editor Sourav Sarangi
Assistant editor Koushik Chakraborty
Assistant editor Joydeb Naskar
Assistant editor Smritishekhar Mondal
Pilot editor Estephan Wagner
Pilot consultant Janus Billeskov Jansen

Sound

Recording engineer Minarul Mondal
Recording engineer Sumanta Samanta
Sound designer Sourav Sarangi
Sound designer Kyohei Taguchi
Sound mixer Abdul Rajjak
Sound mixer Shinichiro Ogata
Assistant sound mixer Kenji Nakano

Visual effects

Colourist Takehiro Akiba

Animation

Animation Suhrid Chandra
Animation Smritishekhar Mondal

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