Writer-director P.S. Vinothraj’s
Pebbles is a film born out of a trauma that he was witness to. In 2015, his sister s husband threw her out of their house and she walked 13 kms to her mother’s house, carrying her two-year-old child.
Pebbles makes the husband walk and a young boy stalks him, taunting him with his silence and gaze that’s a mix of anger and raging indifference.
P.S. Vinothraj’s debut film, which won the prestigious Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in February this year, is a harsh, relentless, bare-foot trudge through a pale, malnourished land that seems stunned by the complete lack of water. It s dry to the bone and is slowly shedding itself, turning first to pebbles and then to sand.
Koozhangal Is a Masterful Film About the Mutation of Misery
The film, which won the top prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, unfolds as a day in the life of a village, where rains have evaporated, turning farmers into hunters.
A still from Koozhangal.
Film08/Feb/2021
A drunk man, a bleak village, a reluctant son â and a long journey to the wifeâs home, asking her to return. The first half on a local bus, the other half on foot â barefoot, in punishing heat, a journey that doesnât seem to end. The father and son barely talk; they walk, and walk, and walk some more. The setting, a hamlet in Tamil Nadu, resembles a desert: barren lands, despairing trees, stale trails. Vinothraj P.S.âs debut,