Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Blood Brothers (2007)

Blood Brothers poster
Directed by
Vishal Bhardwaj
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
13 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two brothers deal with HIV and its effect on their relationship. The film follows their struggle with the disease and the social stigma around it.

somberintimateslow-burnemotionalseriousgroundedrealistic

What happens

Blood Brothers is a 2007 short film on HIV-AIDS directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. The film, written by Matthew Robbins, is one of the short films made on HIV-AIDS on behalf of the Bill Gates foundation. It was released as one of the four segments of the anthology film AIDS JaaGo (AIDS Awake), with Positive (2007 film). Blood Brothers features Siddharth, Pavan Malhotra and Ayesha Takia in lead roles. Vishal chose cinematographer Guillermo Navarro to shoot his film. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?