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Kantatar (2005)

Kantatar poster
Original title
কাঁটাতার
Directed by
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Genre
drama
Country
India
Runtime
1h 59m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows people living in a state of permanent displacement. It shows their complex situation through a deceptively simple style.

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What happens

Kantatar (Bengali: কাঁটাতার, Barbed Wire) is a 2005 Bengali film directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, featuring Sreelekha Mitra, Sudip Mukherjee, and Rudranil Ghosh. It received NETPAC Award at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, 2007 for its deceptively simple style with which the complex situation of people trapped in a state of permanent displacement is exposed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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