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A Cold Summer Night

India
2018 — 21' / Color

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Synopsis

21st May 2017, Mapusa-Goa, India.
An ordinary night starts to turn wildly dramatic for Ketan, a Maharashtrian migrant, when an anonymous attack on his car congregates excessive attention in the Conformist Goan neighbourhood. Dreadful coldness knocks when the entire locality is calling out to Ketan and he’s stuck with his paramour in his small rented room while his pregnant wife is away at her parents house.

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Directors' Biography

Yash Sawant born in Goa-India in 1997, Yash Sawant has a background in Painting. He dropped out of Bachelors in Fine Arts Painting in 2015 to learn and devote all his time in self-studying Cinema. Soon he DP’d on a Konkani feature film in 2016 called ‘Welcome Millions’ and also ended up editing the film after a couple of editors were replaced. ‘A Cold Summer Night’ is his debut short film as a writer/director.

Directors

Yash Sawant

Producers

Arvin Vaz

Cinematographers

Yash Sawant

Editors

Yash Sawant

Sound

Bikal Pradhan

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