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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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