Kannan Iyer
A short film exploring two stories about love, loss and reunion set inside a café in Kolkata, India.
A popular magician seeks help from a psychiatrist to protect him from a witch that has haunted him since childhood.
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.
