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.
Director: Atanu Mukherjee
Atanu Mukherjee is an alumnus of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Kolkata.
He has directed a documentary 'My House Is Not So Far' funded by PSBT and Doordarshan India 2010.
He has also written, directed and edited short films Ekanko (The Monologue) 2009 and Stray Dogs 2013, which won Best Short film in Cinema City Film Festival 2014 Serbia and was a part of International Documentary And Short Film Festival Kerala 2014 in Competition Section.
One of his recent works as a Writer & Director is a short film named 'The Gatekeeper', which was a part of 'Shuruaat Ka Interval' and got a theatrical release in PVR Directors Rare on 15th August 2014.
He has also worked as an editor on feature film Monsoon Shooutout, which was a part of Cannes film Festival 2013.
He also edited three other feature films Achal (The Stagnant), Blemished Light & Shortcut Safari.
