Kontora

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Tittel: Kontora

Varighet: 2t 24min

Regissør: Anshul Chauhan

Guided by her grandfather's WWII-era diary, Sora searches for a mysterious trove in the wilderness of her hometown. Meanwhile, a mysterious mute and backwards-walking homeless man wanders into town who may be the catalyst to put her shattered relationship with her father back together.

DIRECTOR BIO Anshul Chauhan was born in north India in 1986. After attending military academy and graduating university with an Arts degree, he soon afterward found himself working as an animator starting in 2006 with Paprikaas Studios. His work included projects such as Farm Kids and Back at the Barnyard by Nickelodeon, as well as animation for the National award-winning Indian film Delhi Safari. In 2011, he relocated to Tokyo where he was employed by Polygon Pictures to work on projects such as the Emmy Award winning Tron Uprising by Disney XD, as well as the Transformers television series. Eventually, he found himself working at OLM pictures on the Pacman animated series by Bandai Namco before moving on to Square Enix. There, he worked on a number of large-scale animation projects including Final Fantasy 15 - both the game as well as the tie-in film KingsGlaive - Kingdom Hearts 3, and Gantz:0 among others. During the time he was employed as an animator, Anshul also pursued his personal passion as a director, resulting in the creation of his independent studio Kowatanda films in 2016, which has so far seen the production of two feature films that have won several awards and seen critical success at international film festivals.