Stills from ‘Angamal’ and ‘Bad Girl’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The upcoming version of Melbourne’s Indian Film Festival is set to facilitate a stellar line-up of Tamil titles including feature films, documentaries and shorts.
The line-up is led by Vipin Radhakrishnan’s film AngmalGita Kalasam, Saran and Thandral Raghunathan starring. In the 1990s Tamil Nadu village, a remote stirring film examines the inconvenience and anarchy that arises when a son tries to “modern” his mother’s traditional methods to avoid social embarrassment. What begins as a simple act spiral in a sharp comment on shame, culture and control. The film has been selected for Best Indie Film, Best Actress and Best Director.
Then the waiter comes to Maran-made Dirty girl, Which has already created a wave in Tamil Nadu. The age of age, directed by Varsha Bharath, follows Ramya (Anjali Shivraman) on a chaotic journey from adolescence to adulthood. The story of Ramya, who was caught amidst parents, social expectations, uncontrolled crush and internal chaos, resonates with the realities navigating many young Indian women. The film is nominated for the best actress and best director.
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Filmmaker Vani Subramanian documentary title, Cinema PE CinemaWill also look at its Australian premiere at the festival. A tribute to India’s single-screen theaters and communal film-visible culture, which he nurtured, examines an extinct cinematic heritage through the film slowly memory, apathy and resistance.
Meanwhile, Tamil political plays of actor-director Lawrence Walin come from France in all ways, Little JaffnaStarring Welin, Vela Ramamurthy and Radika Sarathkumar. “The film follows Michael, a police officer tasked to infiltrate a Tamil separatist group in Paris. As he immerses himself in his world, he starts sympathizing with many people, which he was to expose, blurring the lines between duty, truth and related,” a press release.
Tamil slate also includes tender short film, FarewellSoham is coming from Britain by Kundu, starring Sameer Mahat and Vishnu Krishnan. “On the same day, two friends – one heart broke, the other is on the verge of marriage – odd grief, apathy, and a calm in their complicated past, yet in the journey of emotionally resonating,” readline reads.
The 2025 version of Melbourne’s Indian Film Festival (IFFM) will be held from August 14 to 24.
Published – July 30, 2025 03:30 PM IST