Movie Details
Impasse
Date and Time: Sat, Jun 01, 9:15 PM
Location: Theatre 3, Village East by Angelika, New York, NY
Director: Tuhin Basu
Starring: Aditya Ravi, Shlesha Shastry, Manohar Iyer
Run time: 23 minutes 48 seconds
Language: Tamil
Year Made: 2021
Country: India
With: Showing with Sahela, https://www.nyiff.us/film/Sahela_219/
A dutifully married but closeted gay rickshaw driver in Mumbai is confronted by the duality of his life when he is forced to have a second child and move back to his village.
Director : Tuhin Basu
Tuhin Basu is a storyteller of South Asian descent, passionate about narratives that are personal but also rooted in generational and cultural traumas. His feature screenplay Scorched was a Finalist at WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab 2023 and Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival 2022. He has also worked in the Hindi film industry in Mumbai, India in various roles in the direction department for films, web series and ad films. He has also written and directed short films that went onto various film festivals across the globe, including the International Film Festival of South Asia, Toronto, Independent Shorts Awards, Los Angeles, and Mumbai Film Festival to name a few. His latest work as Assistant Director was for an upcoming Netflix series produced by Tiger Baby Films, Mumbai. A recent screenwriting alumnus of UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, Tuhin currently works as a writing assistant on a scripted series.
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