Baksho Bondi (Shadowbox)

Directors Saumyananda Sahi and Tanushree Das, along with actor Tillotama Shome, discuss the film’s quiet yet powerful rebellion.

Tillotama Shome's towering performance holds the film together – especially one that luxuriates in what is left unsaid.

Tillotama Shome is luminous in Shadowbox by Tanushree Das and Saumyananda Sahi, that was in Berlin

The film is competing in the newly introduced Perspectives section, at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival

Directed by Tanushree Das and Saumyananda Sahi, Baksho Bondi had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Perspectives section.

Saumyananda Sahi and Tanushree Das’ debut feature hits a pitch-perfect balance between grim and gentle

A retired soldier’s descent into crisis and its rippling effect through a working-class Bengali family forms the emotional core of “Shadowbox” (“Baksho Bondi”), set to world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival‘s Perspectives strand.

The competition, which takes the place of the former Encounters section, comprises 14 debut feature films, competing for the Best First Feature Award at the film gala.