Widow of Silence
It packs an unsettling message of empowerment very rare in the social injustice genre.
Widow of Silence
Her husband arrested, his fate a mystery, a Muslim woman in war-ravaged Kashmir lives in a grueling legal limbo as a "half-widow," battling a cruel bureaucracy while trying to care for her daughter and mother-in-law. Through exquisitely composed visuals deeply influenced by the late Abbas Kiarostami, filmmaker Praveen Morchhale transports the audience into a world of breathtaking beauty and nihilistic bureaucracy rarely shown on screen.
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Runtime
85
Language
Urdu
Director
Praveen Morchhale
Writer(s)
Praveen Morchhale
FEATURED REVIEW
Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter
Social themes woven around peculiar local injustices can be the stuff of turgid drama, but this is not the case with Widow of Silence, brought to angry life by a wonderfully detailed performance by Delhi film and theater actress Shilpi Marwaha. In this Urdu-language drama set in conflict-ridden ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 7.10.20 - 7.30.20
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