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Complex analysis of family

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: The Cochin Film Society is screening Our Family, a complex analysis of the institution of the family. Made in Tamil by the much-acclaimed filmmaker duo Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar, the film challenges all notions attached to the family and gives it new dynamics.

The film is about the lives of a family of three generations of three trans-gendered women — Aasha, Seetha and Dhana — and their friend Pritham K. Chakravarthy, who used the medium of dance to capture the poignancy of “discovering gendered self in this polarised world of male and female”. The film employs free-flowing multiple narratives to get a glimpse of the community and their sensibilities that harbours on the notion that sense of belonging, family and community are transcendental.

Between them, the director-duo have won 21 national and international awards for their works, a majority of which are focussed on normality and deviance, on problematising of notions of self and the other.

Anjali Monteiro is professor and Jayasankar is professor and Chair at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

The film, along with the short video fiction Kadaltheerathu will be screened at Adhyapaka Bhavan on June 28, after the annual general body meeting of the Society. Kadaltheerathu, based on the famous short story of the same title by O.V. Vijayan, directed by Sherry won the best film at the First Kerala Video Festival in the fiction category. The society will screen Perfume: The Story of A Murderer, a film by Tom Tykwer, about a young man ending up murdering virgins to prepare rare perfumes.

The film will be screened at the Cochin Media School near South Overbridge on June 18.

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