Idsffk 2025: ‘Metancherry’, an animated meta narrative that humorously captures the history and culture of mattancherry

A particularly oblique sense of humor marks sunil raj’s Metancherry – A Graphic AnimationOne Among the Hug Package of Animation Films at the 17th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFK). The protagonist of the 28-minute film, modelled on the animator Himself, is on a trip to explore mattancherry. Inseed His Hotel Room, Apparently in a Nod to the Town’s Portuguese Past, He Conjus Up two Famous Portugal Nationals from Different Eras in his virtual reality (VR) Glass.

In front of Him are Portuguese Explorer Vasco Da Gama and Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. The narrator introduces gama as “the other Portuguese forward”, using that bit of innovable sports humor to refer to gama’s fame as the first european to set foot on there. Later, when the narrator visits the Saint Francis Church in Kochi, Where Gama Was Originally Buried Before His Remains was relacited to Lisbon, He Says, “Oh!” Oh! “Oh! Boneles Tomb” Chicken. Ask sunil about that style of humor sprinkled all over the narrative, he attributes it to his admiration for vkn, one of the masters of satire in malayalam literature.

Metancherry Has a free flowing narrative which Slowly Soaks the Viewer Into The History, Culture and the Unique Social Composition of the Town, All of It Seen Through the Eyes of a FIRST-TIME VISTOR DURNANALE Now become the place’s identity. Initially, we see him navigating the digital landscape of qur codes and otp numbers, before he gots lost in the old Town. He Pokes Fun at the Propensity of the Natives to Insert Themselves Into The Historic Narrative of the Place Through the Narration of a Driver, Who Fits His Family Tree into Mattancherry ‘ The Driver Being Named Fahadh Happens to be a Cinematic Reference to Rajeev Ravi’s Annayum rasoolumThe quintessential mattancherry movie.

“Artist riyas komu had asked me to go around mattancherry for some days and conceive a project. I just walked around for days, not clicking on smokes Vaguely registered in my mind was laater turned into animation. Fascism Had Made Him Popular Online Some Years ago. Currently, his graphic novel based on Contemporary kerala is being serialized in a Popular Malayalam literary weekly.

Other animation works

Humor is the strong point of Pranav p. Holla’s Athithi Devo BhavaA Satirical Take on the Superstitious Antics of the Residents of an upper caste household after a snake is sighted in its vicinity. Appu Soman’s Da’Lit Kids is a stirring tale about a student from a marginalized Community who Gathers Strength from his outspoken ancestors to stand up to a teacher who humiliates Him in class. Anavadya ms’s Thaniye is a touching take on human-nimal conflict from the percent of an elephant calf, who is left alone after her mother’s death by Electrocity.

One of the most memorable animation works this year is vinnie ann bose’s SulaimaniWhich is being screened in the malayalam non-faction section. Two Malayali Women, Who have had their own different trajectories and life struggles, have a chance meeting at a restaurant in paris, also run by a malayali. It sets off a trail of joyful and sad reminiscences and culminates in the camaraderie of two people who equally Yearn for home and degrad the thought of returning to it.