If you'd like to attend our in-person screening at CAMPLE LINE on Sunday 23 January (6:30pm) you can book here
Tickets available on a sliding scale: £0 - £5
More information and guidelines on how to select a ticket price can be found here
Please note, if you are in a position to do so, choosing a ticket price of £2 or higher will help us to cover our baseline streaming costs
In a faraway village called birha, missing people, mothers and tired lovers yearn to see beyond the mist.
They meet each other in impenetrable silences and endless mourning. They curse the moon for witnessing their insomnias. birha situates itself in a season of waiting, climate of uncertainty: where only a loud screech can register distance between loved ones.
birha is the grief, agony and anguish of separation, derived from Punjabi Sufi Poetry. Guided by Shiv Kumar Batalvi's birha poetry, the film captures the pain, lamentation and yearning caused by separation. The film searches for missing people, who left their homes to work in faraway cities, and have still have not returned. The locations are not marked, characters are not named, birha situates itself in a season of waiting and a climate of uncertainty.
- Year2018
- Runtime80 minutes
- CountryIndia
- RatingPG
- DirectorEkta Mittal
- CinematographerParomita Dhar & Amith Surendran
- EditorAbhro Banerjee
- Sound DesignBigyna Dahal
If you'd like to attend our in-person screening at CAMPLE LINE on Sunday 23 January (6:30pm) you can book here
Tickets available on a sliding scale: £0 - £5
More information and guidelines on how to select a ticket price can be found here
Please note, if you are in a position to do so, choosing a ticket price of £2 or higher will help us to cover our baseline streaming costs
In a faraway village called birha, missing people, mothers and tired lovers yearn to see beyond the mist.
They meet each other in impenetrable silences and endless mourning. They curse the moon for witnessing their insomnias. birha situates itself in a season of waiting, climate of uncertainty: where only a loud screech can register distance between loved ones.
birha is the grief, agony and anguish of separation, derived from Punjabi Sufi Poetry. Guided by Shiv Kumar Batalvi's birha poetry, the film captures the pain, lamentation and yearning caused by separation. The film searches for missing people, who left their homes to work in faraway cities, and have still have not returned. The locations are not marked, characters are not named, birha situates itself in a season of waiting and a climate of uncertainty.
- Year2018
- Runtime80 minutes
- CountryIndia
- RatingPG
- DirectorEkta Mittal
- CinematographerParomita Dhar & Amith Surendran
- EditorAbhro Banerjee
- Sound DesignBigyna Dahal
