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This is an indie short film that won a British film award. The screenplay was written by Bart Gavigan, who has done a few Christian themed films, such as Luther and End of the Spear. It is directed by Samir Mehanovic, who is a Bosnian-British director. Unlike Gavigan's other films, this film has no explicit Christian themes and religion is further in the background than in his other screenplays he has written.
The film is about Anant, a young boy that lives with his mother in Jharia, also known as "The Mouth of Hell", an exhausted coal mining village in West Bengal, India, where children work to glean lumps of coal from an abandoned coal mine. Jharia is known as "the Mouth of Hell" by people in West Bengal, because it's a scarred landscape with perpetually burning fires and smoke. Anant's mother is dying from lung disease, and the film is about Anant's attempts to do the right thing despite the adult world often not understanding his intentions. At the end of the film, Anant light's his mother's funeral pyre, while a Hindu priest chants, "... we take nothing with us to the next life but our deeds. This is the beginning of wisdom". Concluding in this way, I think the film is inviting the viewer to focus on the impermanence of life and their own deeds.
The film is about Anant, a young boy that lives with his mother in Jharia, also known as "The Mouth of Hell", an exhausted coal mining village in West Bengal, India, where children work to glean lumps of coal from an abandoned coal mine. Jharia is known as "the Mouth of Hell" by people in West Bengal, because it's a scarred landscape with perpetually burning fires and smoke. Anant's mother is dying from lung disease, and the film is about Anant's attempts to do the right thing despite the adult world often not understanding his intentions. At the end of the film, Anant light's his mother's funeral pyre, while a Hindu priest chants, "... we take nothing with us to the next life but our deeds. This is the beginning of wisdom". Concluding in this way, I think the film is inviting the viewer to focus on the impermanence of life and their own deeds.
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