Fifty-six-year-old Perianayaki contends with the difficulties of fitting into her new home, especially at the local supermarket where she works. Eye-opening and brimming with compassion, the latest film from director Bala Murali Shingade is a slice-of-life character study that provokes questions about multiculturalism and our assumptions about the people we encounter in daily life.

Perianayaki

Working at the local swimming pool, Jeremiah is rejected by his co-worker crush. Unable to take rejection, Jeremiah’s deluded mind influences the visual genre tropes of film, from rom-com to psycho-drama to slasher-horror, as his ego leads us on a darkly comical journey.