Baskaran left India and moved to Dubai. His ideia was to find a better life, but he goes back to his home country in a coffin. His wife and now widow, Sundari, rejects the theory that he killed himself. She asks her cousin, the filmmaker Jayakrishnan Subramanian, to investigate the cause of the death. The director embarks on an outer and inner journey into Baskaran’s past, who is just one individual from a mass of Indian blue-collar workers that the film lends a face to.
The Shadows of the Desert
2018
12 years
86 min.
Documentary
India, Germany
India, documentary, family drama
Colorido
Jayakrishnan Subramanian, Franziska Schöenenberger
Jayakrishnan Subramanian, Franziska Schönenberger
Christopher Aoun
Robert Vaklily
Maximilian Plettau
Nominal Film
Vedanth Bharadwaj, Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy
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