
Directing
Don Palathara
Born 1986-08-22 · Kerala, India
Don Palathara is a film director, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker from Kerala, India.Known for working on shoestring budgets and new or inexperienced actors, his films are expositions of local Kerala culture and study on the human nature. Palathara's films, gained accolades at several international film festivals, including the 42nd Moscow International Film Festival and the 25th International Film Festival of Kerala.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
5.5Sony is a kind man, a good Christian. He is always willing to lend his fellow villagers a helping hand, assist struggling children with their school lessons or organise volunteer activities. When an outcast family is struck by tragedy, he negotiates with the Church to rehabilitate them financially. Sony is not just the connective tissue, but the beating heart of this small Catholic village. Under his genial exterior, however, lurks something dark.
Family
2024
5.5Sony is a kind man, a good Christian. He is always willing to lend his fellow villagers a helping hand, assist struggling children with their school lessons or organise volunteer activities. When an outcast family is struck by tragedy, he negotiates with the Church to rehabilitate them financially. Sony is not just the connective tissue, but the beating heart of this small Catholic village. Under his genial exterior, however, lurks something dark.
Family
2024
8.0Thomas Ittikkora is dead. Family and friends gather at his home for the pre-funeral ceremonies.
The Corpse
2015
8.0Thomas Ittikkora is dead. Family and friends gather at his home for the pre-funeral ceremonies.
The Corpse
2015
5.0A slow burning film dealing with tensions between a father and a son set in the highlands of Kerala
Seed
2017
5.0A slow burning film dealing with tensions between a father and a son set in the highlands of Kerala
Seed
2017
NRAt Chottanikkara temple, the ritual of Guruti is performed every Friday and Tuesday evening. Devotees believe that mental health issues can be healed during the ceremony.
Guruti
2022
NRIn Kochi, the lives, work, and relationships of a bunch of young people overlap as they try to navigate their role in the film world.
The Uncertainty Principle
2026
NRIn Kochi, the lives, work, and relationships of a bunch of young people overlap as they try to navigate their role in the film world.
The Uncertainty Principle
2026
NRIn Kochi, the lives, work, and relationships of a bunch of young people overlap as they try to navigate their role in the film world.
The Uncertainty Principle
2026
5.3Kora and his brother Onan gather four men to go on a gaur hunt in order to make some quick money. Their journey progresses through their dreams, desires, fears, fantasies and struggles. Distanced from their families and loved ones, sharing stories help them remember and appreciate their inescapable pasts and make bonds. When the real and imagined nature turn out to be larger than their will and strength could handle, they learn the harsh realities of the endeavor they have taken up.
1956, Central Travancore
2019
5.3Kora and his brother Onan gather four men to go on a gaur hunt in order to make some quick money. Their journey progresses through their dreams, desires, fears, fantasies and struggles. Distanced from their families and loved ones, sharing stories help them remember and appreciate their inescapable pasts and make bonds. When the real and imagined nature turn out to be larger than their will and strength could handle, they learn the harsh realities of the endeavor they have taken up.
1956, Central Travancore
2019
7.0Maria, a young journalist, and Jithin, an aspiring actor, are in a live-in relationship without the knowledge of their parents. Set in the backdrop of the covid pandemic, this relationship drama reveals the nuances of an intense dispute and unreasoned maneuvers that the couple adapt in the intimate relationship.
Joyful Mystery
2021
7.0Maria, a young journalist, and Jithin, an aspiring actor, are in a live-in relationship without the knowledge of their parents. Set in the backdrop of the covid pandemic, this relationship drama reveals the nuances of an intense dispute and unreasoned maneuvers that the couple adapt in the intimate relationship.
Joyful Mystery
2021
NRThe filmmaker spends a few weeks with his grandfather and records their time together.
Grandpa
2021
6.7Chris, a young, independent filmmaker from Kerala gets inspired by Louis Malle’s 1969 documentary Calcutta and aspires to recreate the modern version of the documentary himself. He moves to Kolkata with his wife Anita, who is also a movie actress, to work on his documentary. While the shoot of the documentary is already progressing, Corona virus outbreak starts in India and his producer withholds the funds that he had agreed to release earlier. As the government imposed lock-down starts, Chris is stuck inside the rented apartment in Kolkata with Anita. To overcome the pent up frustrations, Chris decides to make a film about his own marriage without the knowledge of Anita.
Everything Is Cinema
2021
6.7Chris, a young, independent filmmaker from Kerala gets inspired by Louis Malle’s 1969 documentary Calcutta and aspires to recreate the modern version of the documentary himself. He moves to Kolkata with his wife Anita, who is also a movie actress, to work on his documentary. While the shoot of the documentary is already progressing, Corona virus outbreak starts in India and his producer withholds the funds that he had agreed to release earlier. As the government imposed lock-down starts, Chris is stuck inside the rented apartment in Kolkata with Anita. To overcome the pent up frustrations, Chris decides to make a film about his own marriage without the knowledge of Anita.
Everything Is Cinema
2021
NRA life in the day of a south indian cow.
Ammini
2021
