Haobam Paban Kumar
Screening & Talk
Haobam Paban Kumar is a prominent voice emitting out of the restive northeastern Indian state of Manipur, India dabbling in both non-fiction and fiction storytelling. His film AFSPA 1958 was awarded the Golden Lotus for Best Documentary at the 56th National Film Awards 2008.
A CRY IN THE DARK is another film screened at the 31st Toronto Film Festival 2006 and MOMA New York 2007. After nearly a decade of documentary filmmaking, he made his critically acclaimed feature film Loktak Lairembee (Lady of the Lake) which featured at the 67th Berlin Film Festival 2017 and 21st Busan International Film Festival 2016.
