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KANYA

By Apoorva SATISH

Drama - Completed 2020

A coming-of-age drama about an adolescent girl growing up between the values of occidental and traditional cultures, whose aspirations of becoming a competitive swimmer take an unexpected turn when she gets her first period.

Festivals
& Awards

Busan - BIFF/APM 2020

Sonje Award Nominee

Raindance Film Festival 2020

Official selection - Altered States

Interfilm - International Short Film Festival 2020

Best Sound Design Winner

Dharamshala International Film Festival 2020

Official selection

Bogotà Short Film Festival 2020

Official selection

Pragueshorts 2021

Official selection

Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021

Official selection

Watersprite Film Festival 2021

Watersprite Award for Best Social Impact

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- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama, Family, Female director
- Countries
- CZECH REPUBLIC, INDIA
- Languages
- TAMIL
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 15 mn
- Director(s)
- Apoorva SATISH
- Writer(s)
- Apoorva SATISH, Vidhya IYER
- Producer(s)
- Michal SIKORA (LONELY PRODUCTION)
- Synopsis
- Kanya intimately explores the inner dissonance of an adolescent girl who is experiencing puberty in a traditional Indian family. Kanya is a successful swimming champion with a promising career in sports. Her world collapses when she gets her first period and her family demands that she accepts the traditional status of a woman. Kanya‘s natural maturing along with her physical and psychological transformation are neglected by her close ones who also curb her freedom. On the outside, Kanya yields to all the demands and accepts her fate without objecting. However, she experiences deep trauma within. Kanya‘s inner disharmony escalates, leading her to finally muster the courage to revolt against the system that clearly defines and sets the standards of the conventional status of a woman.

KANYA

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