filmbriefs
Actor · 1966

Sarita Choudhury

3
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13:00
average
39 min
in total
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Mississippi Masala

Mira Nair · 1991

Mississippi Masala (1991), directed by Mira Nair and written by Sooni Taraporevala, follows Mina, a Ugandan Indian woman raised in exile in rural Mississippi, as she begins a relationship with African-American carpet cleaner Demetrius Williams. The film traces the collision of inherited trauma, cultural expectation, and personal desire, moving between Greenwood, Biloxi, and Kampala. It avoids moral simplification, grounding its exploration of race, memory, and belonging in specific places and quiet, accumulative moments.

13:00

After Yang

Kogonada · 2021

A quietly devastating science fiction drama in which a family attempts to repair their malfunctioning android son, uncovering layers of memory, loss, and care. Set in a calm, unspecified future, it avoids genre spectacle in favour of domestic intimacy, using restraint as both aesthetic and ethical principle.

13:00

The Green Knight

David Lowery · 2021

David Lowery’s The Green Knight reimagines the 14th-century poem as a visually dense, deliberately paced speculative fiction film. Dev Patel stars as Gawain, whose year-long journey to keep a supernatural bargain unfolds through ritualised encounters, practical effects, and a refusal of narrative resolution. Shot in Ireland with hand-painted sets and wood-grain prosthetics, it privileges texture over exposition and ambiguity over catharsis.