Feature
Zero Bridge
Tariq Tapa
United States, 2008
Digibeta | 96min. | Colour | VOSC/VOSI
Tariq Tapa
United States, 2008
Digibeta | 96min. | Colour | VOSC/VOSI
Production: Hilal Ahmed Langoo, Josée Lajoie, Tariq Tapa
Distribution: Visit Films ([email protected] )
Screenplay: Tariq Tapa
Photography: Tariq Tapa
Editor: Josée Lajoie, Tariq Tapa
Music: Niyaz Ah. Patloo, Abdul Hamid, Majid Ah. Malik, Zahoor Ahmad, Danish Ali-Rather, Shervin Motaharian
Sound: Tariq Tapa
Actors: Mohamad Imran Tapa, Shah Nawaz, Mohsin Maqbool Zargar, Taniya Kha
In Kashmir, where each day is another lesson in survival, a teenage petty criminal’s last chance at escape is threatened when he faces a moral crisis over his latest victim. Zero Bridge is an audacious portrait of daily life in Kashmir. It was filmed entirely on location in Srinagar, with a strictly local cast of non-professional actors performing in their native Kashmiri language and with a technical crew of one: the director.
Tariq Tapa (New York City) enrolled in the Graduate Film Directing Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he made several short films, including Custody (2005). In 2006 he received a US Fulbright Scholarship to Kashmir where he made his debut feature film, Zero Bridge.
Venice Film Festival, 2008
Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2009
Los Angeles Film Festival, 2009
