''Nine Hills One Valley'' is a 2021 Indian
Manipuri-
Tangkhul bilingual film conceptualized and directed by
Haobam Paban Kumar
Haobam Paban Kumar is an Indian filmmaker from state of Manipur. Kumar's films and documentaries have been screened in several places across the globe.
Kumar's debut feature film '' Loktak Lairembee'' (Lady of the Lake) won the National Film Aw ...
. It is produced by Warepam Jhansirani and Haobam Paban Kumar for Oli Pictures. The movie was among 19 feature films selected for Film Bazaar Recommends (FBR) section of the Film Bazaar 2020. It was premiered at the
16th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2021, Indonesia. The film was certified by
Central Board of Film Certification
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is a statutory Motion picture content rating system, film-certification body in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of ...
(CBFC) in 2020.
''Nine Hills One Valley'' has been selected for many international film festivals in India and abroad, which include 16th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2021, Indonesia, 5th Ottawa Indian Film Festival Awards (OIFFA) 2022, Canada, 27th Kolkata International Film Festival 2022 (Asian Select Category), 22nd Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2022 (India Gold section), 1st International Tribal Film Festival (ITFF) 2022, Arunachal Pradesh,
1st Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival
The 1st Eikhoigi Imphal International Film Festival took place from 2 to 6 April, 2022 at Imphal, Manipur. The festival had screened 19 films from India and abroad with Manipur State Film Development Society, Palace Compound as its venue. A total ...
2022, Manipur, 13th Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2022, 44th Moscow International Festival 2022, 13th Annual Chicago South Asian Film Festival 2022, 15th International Film Festival ''East & West'' 2022, Orenburg, Russia, 12th Indian Film Festival of Bhubaneswar 2023.
Plot
The film centres around Ahum, a tribal from the hills who is going to Imphal city in the valley to meet his daughter. She is to leave for New Delhi in search of a job. During the course of the journey, he encounters different people and their stories, gradually exposing the cruelty of ethnic conflicts.
Cast
* Shang Anam Ahum
* Thanreingam Ngalung
* Lakreiphi Ahum
* Tennoson Pheiray
* Agui Kamei
* Aimol Villagers
* Kharampu
* Makhan Villagers
* Borun Thokchom
* Shananda Phurailatpam
* Chongtham Belmond
* Pao Neo Mate
*
Haobam Paban Kumar
Haobam Paban Kumar is an Indian filmmaker from state of Manipur. Kumar's films and documentaries have been screened in several places across the globe.
Kumar's debut feature film '' Loktak Lairembee'' (Lady of the Lake) won the National Film Aw ...
* Laishram Devakumar
* Veinen Lhungdim
Accolades
''Nine Hills One Valley'' received Special Mention Award in the Film Bazaar Recommends Section of the Film Bazaar 2020 held in January 2021. The citation for the award reads, "A jury special mention goes to a film that aptly blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary to embark on a journey through a landscape of many identities and conflicts. Through the journey of its protagonist and through the language of cinema, the director gives word to the unspoken and searches for a space of reconciliation. The special mention goes to Nine Hills One Valley by Haobam Paban Kumar".
The film won 2 awards at the 14th Manipur State Film Awards 2022.
References
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2020s Meitei-language films
2021 films
Cinema of Manipur