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The Gatekeeper is a story of an old man, who is in charge of an isolated rail crossing in the city outskirt. Accepting the alienation, he tries to find tiny little moments to keep himself engaged in this uninterrupted land. The film unfolds a day in his regular life when loneliness makes him hallucinate about his childhood, in the interim period of two trains. But eventually his imagination breaks like a house of cards and reality prevails when the last train arrives.

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    • Author: Rocky Basilisk
    For me, about it, the poetry of this short film remains the powerful memory. An old man and a railway crossing. Trains,barriers, a boy with few coins. And routine. Few scenes are special - the tower of cards and the hand of old man posing coins in the hand of boy who, maybe, is just himself. In same measure, a film about India. In its essence and silence and loneliness. A place. A man in charge. A railway crossing. Trains and barriers. The result - a special poem about life.
  • Credited cast:
    Aniket Chaurasia Aniket Chaurasia - Child
    Bachan Pachehra Bachan Pachehra - The Gatekeeper
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