Baaram (2020)

Original title

பாரம்

Directed by

Priya Krishnaswamy

Genre

drama

Country

India

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly man in a rural Tamil Nadu village struggles with the emotional weight of caring for his aging father. The film follows their daily lives and the unspoken burdens between them.

slow-burnmelancholicgroundedthought-provokingintimateseriousquietpoignant

What happens

Baaram (transl. The Burden) is a 2020 Indian Tamil-language film written, directed and edited by Priya Krishnaswamy. Produced by Priya Krishnaswamy and Ardra Swaroop under their banner, Reckless Roses, it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil in 2019, the only Tamil film to win at the 66th National Film Awards. It also won the Special Jury Award at the Pondicherry International Film Festival, 2019, and the Best Feature Film award at the South Asian Film Festival, Montreal, 2021. Baaram was presented by Grass Root Film Company and Vetri Maaran, and released in Indian theatres on 21 February 2020. In March 2020, it began streaming on Amazon Prime Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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