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Stills from ‘Angammal’ and ‘Bad Girl’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The line-up is led by Vipin Radhakrishnan’s movie Angammal, starring Geetha Kailasam, Saran, and Thendral Raghunathan. The stirring movie, set in a distant Nineteen Nineties Tamil Nadu village, examines the discomfort and chaos that arises when a son tries to “modernise” his mom’s conventional methods to keep away from social embarrassment. What begins as a easy act spirals into a pointy commentary on disgrace, tradition, and management. The movie has been chosen for Best Indie Film, Best Actress and Best Director.
Then comes the Vetri Maaran-produced Bad Girl, which has already created ripples throughout Tamil Nadu. The coming-of-age characteristic directed by Varsha Bharath follows Ramya (Anjali Sivaraman) on a chaotic journey from adolescence to maturity. Caught between overbearing dad and mom, social expectations, unrequited crushes, and inner chaos, Ramya’s story resonates with the realities of many younger Indian girls navigating id, love, and psychological well being. The movie has been nominated for Best Actress and Best Director.
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Filmmaker Vani Subramanian’s documentary title, Cinema Pe Cinema, may also see its Australian premiere on the competition. A tribute to India’s single-screen theatres and the communal movie-watching tradition they nurtured, the movie gently examines a fading cinematic heritage via reminiscence, nostalgia, and resistance to erasure.
Meanwhile, all the best way from France comes actor-director Lawrence Valin’s Tamil political drama, Little Jaffna, starring Valin, Vela Ramamoorthy and Radikaa Sarathkumar. “The movie follows Michael, a police officer tasked with infiltrating a Tamil separatist group in Paris. As he immerses himself of their world, he begins to empathise with the very folks he was meant to show, blurring the traces between obligation, fact, and belonging,” reads a press launch.
The Tamil slate additionally consists of the tender brief movie, Farewell, coming from the UK by Soham Kundu, starring Samir Mahat and Vishnu Krishnan. “In a single day, two mates—one heartbroken, the opposite on the verge of marriage—confront grief, nostalgia, and their tangled previous in a quiet but emotionally resonant journey,” reads the logline.
The 2025 version of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) will probably be held from August 14 to 24.
Published – July 30, 2025 03:30 pm IST
