Maamannan

Karathey Babu

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constantly struggles with the secret of his low-birth status and is disturbed by all of the discrimination levelled upon his class. It prevents him from pursuing a romance with Shiho, whom he meets at the temple where he resides, but who descends from a samurai family.

A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.

Ramnarayan Tiwari, a Brahmin (uppermost caste as per the caste system in India) is a peon in a government undertaking, where recently, a Dalit (lower caste), has risen to become a big officer. Tiwari burns with resentment towards this officer’s hierarchical superiority because he considers himself superior as per the religiously ingrained caste system. Tiwari is also frustrated as his promotion has been overdue for years. The officer’s bathroom’s drain has choked. Tiwari tries to look for the official sweeper, also a lower caste man. This role-reversal story is about how Tiwari’s need for promotion, and his caste prejudice towards the officer, counterbalance each other to solve the problem of the choked drain.

BISCUT (HOTSTAR-DISNEY RELEASE -2022) In an Indian village ruled by muscle and money, one man sparks a revolution without guns or bullets by betting his life on just the power of democracy. Biscut is the awe-inspiring story of Bhoora, a poor Dalit (lower caste) youth condemned to a daily struggle for survival, who turns a collective curse into a formidable force for change. BISCUT is the Hindi language word for a cookie or a biscuit.

"Buraku" or "Buraku-min" are the terms used for ethnic Japanese people who are believed to descend from the pre-Meiji castes. Today, neither "Buraku" nor "Burakumin" exist anymore in terms of laws and social systems. However, many Japanese people still have a deep-rooted sense of discrimination towards people who descend from those families. Why does something that should not exist continue to exist? How did this discrimination begin in the first place? This film takes a variety of approaches to unravel the history of accumulated discrimination and its intricately intertwined context, from its origins and evolution, vividly depicting the structure of discrimination that often remains hidden from the public eye.

Chandu(Sanjeev) is a happy go lucky youth who falls in love with a girl who ditches him and gets married to some one else. This is the same time when Anu(Chetana), who is the younger sister of Chandu’s ex, also falls in love with him. Upset by the games played by today’s generation girls, Chandu lays a challenge to Anu to get close to him physically to prove her true love. What will Anu do now? Will she go ahead and do the inevitable? To know these answers, you need to watch the film on the big screen.

Nasim lives with her mother, Naneh-Roghi, in a public house. A girl named Badri, who also works in the same house, is interested in Nasim. One day, Badri shows Naneh-Roghi a photo of a man named Mehrnia, who has promised to marry her. Naneh-Roghi confesses that Nasim is the result of her illegitimate relationship with Mehrnia, and in a meeting with Mehrnia, she asks him to bring some stability to Nasim’s life...

A cinematic setting of poems by Walt Whitman that span his whole life's work, commemorating his bicentennial year. Features the poet's Long Island native "personator" Darrel Blaine Ford, manifesting and reciting "Song of Myself," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun" and "Facing West From California's Shores." Filmed at the poet's birthplace, the Long Island shore, Manhattan, and where West meets East.

Rosa despises all the lies and faking among adults. But at her confirmation party, she realises that the truth can be even worse.

A group have signed up to a mysterious lottery with disturbingly high stakes, where their thirst for dominance blinds them to the risk they take.

The slice-of-life story of how an exterminator attempts to connect with his clients and the consequences of these connections.

Pressured by their peers, teen couple Raskal and Ole decide to have sex for the first time, resulting in a clearly unexpected pregnancy. These high schoolers tried to make it on their own with the support from a gang of misfits.

It reinterpreted the classic novel by parasitic simcheongjeon and Chunhyangjeon , a pub and a delightful fusion historical drama takes place in the background tonggwae .

During an experiment, an accident occurs at the Institute of Epidemiology. To prevent the virus of a deadly disease from penetrating the walls of the laboratory, five employees remain in quarantine. In this situation, people reveal themselves in the most unexpected ways.

Against the backdrop of a romantic Athenian Easter at a small neighbourhood in turn-of-the-century Athens, a sensitive young woman has eyes only for a handsome intellectual. Can the almond tree's sweet pale petals inspire a great romance?

In a mountain village, a dying woman reveals a secret to the priest and entrusts him with her two children, Dimitrakis and Annoula. Growing up, Dimitris leaves for Athens, finds a job, and shortly after, Anna arrives. He falls in love with Betty, while Stefanos is interested in Anna. Stefanos helps Dimitris to become a singer, but the revelation that the two children are not siblings, as Anna is the daughter of Mr. Pantelis, overturns everything and gives them the right to be together.

Suzie Berton

The last goodbye