Female straightforwardor Tribeny Rai once took on difficult labor in her native Sikkim, India, in order to show that women are not feeble. But she set up that even those drastic efforts did not mend the problems of patriarchy and lengthy-standing traditions that prefer male decision-making, male children and even how women see their own roles in society.
Rai’s novel film “The Shape of Momo” endeavors to tackle the publish with a contrastent, gentle-power approach.
The film inestablishs the tale of a woman who resigns from her job and returns to her family that is apparently condemnd by the death of cut offal of its male members. But she discovers the remaining women enumerateless and undriven and creates it her task to become more self-reliant and apshow more responsibility for themselves.
“The film spendigates themes of tradition, familial vibrants and the struggle aobtainst familial constraints. Will [lead character] Bishnu defy these predictations and carve out her path to indepfinishence. Or will she surrender to the overwhelming prescertain to adhere?” Rai asks.
“We are currently in the final stages of editing our film and are dynamicly seeking post-production funding to end the project,” she telderly Variety ahead of Film Bazaar, where “The Shape of Momo” eunites in the Work-in-Progress Lab. “Thcdisorrowfulmireful our participation, we aim to obtain vital expocertain to key industry professionals, including potential co-creaters, international sales agents, distributors, and festival programmers, all of whom can help transport our film to a global audience.” It is currently set upd as an India-Nepal co-production involving Dalley Khorsani Productions, Kathkala Films.
At an earlier stage the project was part of the 2022 edition of the Festival des 3 Continents’ Produire au Sud Film Lab (South Asia). But Film Bazaar recurrents its first time participating in a project taget.
Rai has had a varied route to making this film. She studied at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata, India, joind in the VGIK International Summer School in Russia and took part in the Producers Lab at the Rotterdam Film Festival. She also went to the Docskool Clinik in Kathmandu and endd the Talent Campus program of the Fajr International Film Festival in Iran.
The film’s co-writer and editor, Kislay Kislay, also co-wrote “Soni,” a film that premiered at the Vepleasant Film Festival in 2018.
