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CycleMahesh
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CycleMahesh

CycleMahesh

Suhel Banerjee
India
2024
60 min
World Premiere
Envision Competition
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

When a lockdown is announced in India, 22-year-old Mahesh finds himself stranded and decides to travel home on a rickety bicycle. He covers about 2,000 kilometers in seven days. It turns him into a national media hype.

Politicians promise better living conditions, neighbors joke about sending him to the Olympic Games, a filmmaker from Mumbai decides to make a film about him. But nothing comes of any of it, and before long he is just a poor plumber again.

In a blend of fiction and non-fiction that leans on the work of Abbas Kiarostami—in more impressionist scenes the young worker is played by an actor—CycleMahesh paints a picture of the lack of choices Mahesh faces in life, just like millions of other workers in India. Meanwhile, this is a film about filmmaking, constantly reminding the audience that Mahesh himself has a hand in the production.

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Tickets & Times
Fri, november 15
Press & Industry screening , Passholders only
13:00 – 14:03
Pathé City 5

Sat, november 16
Part of Machine Boys & CycleMahesh
21:00 – 22:23
Tuschinski 5
Film fully subtitled in English

Sun, november 17
Part of Machine Boys & CycleMahesh
18:15 – 19:43
Het Documentaire Paviljoen: De Spiegel
Film fully subtitled in English

Tue, november 19
Part of Machine Boys & CycleMahesh
20:45 – 21:56
Pathé Noord 4
Film fully subtitled in English

Wed, november 20
Part of Machine Boys & CycleMahesh
15:30 – 16:58
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Fri, november 22
Part of Machine Boys & CycleMahesh
09:30 – 10:41
Pathé City 2
Film fully subtitled in English

Sat, november 23
Part of Machine Boys & CycleMahesh
11:00 – 12:11
Pathé City 1
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
60 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Hindi, Odia, Marathi
Director
    Suhel Banerjee
    Suhel Banerjee
Production
    Teesta Setalvad
    Teesta Setalvad
Cinematography
    Prateek Pamecha
    Prateek Pamecha
Editing
    Suhel Banerjee
    Suhel Banerjee
Sound Design
    Bigyna Dahal ,
    Piyush Shah
    Bigyna Dahal ,
    Piyush Shah
Music
    Vishesh Kalimero,
    Rahul Jigyasu
    Vishesh Kalimero,
    Rahul Jigyasu
Screenplay
    Suhel Banerjee,
    Gurleen Judge
    Suhel Banerjee,
    Gurleen Judge
World Sales
    Suhel Banerjee
    Suhel Banerjee
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Suhel Banerjee
    Suhel Banerjee
Screening copy
    Suhel Banerjee
    Suhel Banerjee

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