The Adamant Girl

Section: Competition
Title: Kottukkaali
Director: Vinothraj Palani
Cast: Soori Muthuchamy, Anna Ben
Duration: 1h 41m
Country: India
Language: ta
Year: 2024

When a 21-year-old girl falls in love with a boy from an oppressed caste, her infuriated family believes that she is possessed by his love spell. They ruthlessly drag her to a distant village shaman to break the spell by sacrificing a rooster. The girl's innocent future is now dictated by the violent misogynistic patriarchs and their regressive ideologies. This one-day travel exposes the dangerous influence of caste, religion and chauvinism on an average Indian family. Will the girl and the rooster survive this lunacy?