Bad Girl
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| 10 EUR, reduced 5 EUR |
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| Entrance: Portal 5 |
| Varsha Bharath / India 2025 / 115 Min. / Dramedy/ Tamil with english subtitles/ FSK 12 |
| Belongs to: Box Office Around The World 2025 |
At the beginning of the film, Ramya is still in school. Her conservative parents allow at least that much for their rebellious daughter. But when she falls in love with a classmate from a different caste, the family conflict escalates. Ramya, the daughter of a Brahmin family, wants nothing more than to break out of the prison of traditions and rituals. She wants to dance, have fun, and love whomever she chooses.
As a student and later as a young woman, she remains true to her longing for freedom. She doesn’t care how often she provokes others or how many boundaries she crosses along the way. On her path to self-discovery, Ramya experiences intense stress, but also passionate affairs and strong friendships with women who walk beside her. In the end, a few girls at her old school whisper to her that she is secretly revered as a legend.
The genre blend from Tamil Nadu mirrors its protagonist’s defiance on a formal level. In BAD GIRL, Varsha Bhararth plays masterfully with the tropes of her homeland’s male-dominated superhero cinema and steers them decisively in a feminist direction. In one scene — admittedly, Ramya is drunk — she even throws a punch.
Trailer
Programme
20:00 Talk & tutorial “Indian Speed Dating” with Sharmila Samant (artist, Bombay), Belaku Chitra Nataka + Dorothee Wenner (curator) in english
21:00 Film
Participants
Sharmila Samant is a visual artist from Bombay, India. She graduated in Sculpture from the Sir J.J. School of Arts in 1989 and a Diploma in Interior Design and Decoration at the L.S. Raheja College of Architecture, 1990, a fellowship at the Kanoria Center for Arts, Ahmedabad, 1992-93 then a Residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, in 1998- 2000 which was followed by a residency at the Gasworks, London, 2001
She works with a variety of mediums and forms such as installations, performance, and photography. Globalization, identity and consumer culture are issues central to her works. Samant has worked with activist groups and communities engaging in both collaborative and participatory art projects expressing her deep sensitivity towards suppressed and marginalized voices.
She is the co-founder of a Mumbai- based collective called the Open Circle, which aimed to create a platform for meaningful dialogue among artists on an intercultural level and sought to address and engage with contemporary socio-political issues via an integration of theory and practice. Negotiating in both private and public spheres, Samant has engaged in collaborative and participatory art projects with various communities while exploring ideas of exchange, accessibility and authorship. Her installations and video works have been part of many prominent exhibitions in biennales, museums, artist-led spaces and alternative venues in India and abroad.
Samant has curated international events, screenings and exhibitions individually and in collaboration. Since 2011 she is an advisor to Art1st Foundation art1st.co.in, that has been working towards strengthening visual literacy, creative skills, cultural awareness and art pedagogy for children and educators.
She is on the academic council of the G5A Foundation for contemporary culture, Mumbai which supports contemporary art and culture, good governance and sustainability since 2013. She is on the advisory body of Arthshila, Patna based cultural initiative since 2017. She is also an advisor to Neekoee Foundation, that promotes visual art, performance practices and education, in Ahmedabad since 2020.
She was invited to join as the core faculty, at the Department of Art, Design and Performance of the Shiv Nadar University, to set up the MFA programme since 2013. She is co-initiator of the October School, since 2017. InOctober.org is a network of art universities/institutions that intends to consolidate and deepen research and education on relevant public issues and artistic phenomenon. It is a cluster of competence particularly for educational, research, and teaching skills in the field of contemporary public art. Since 2019, she is an artist, researcher at the Compound13 LAB, Dharavi , Mumbai
Dorothee Wenner is a freelance filmmaker, curator and writer based in Berlin.
Since 1990 has been working for Berlin International Filmfestival in various positions, currently as as the delegate for the festival for the Subsahara African region. In 2009, she joined the team of the Dubai International Film Festival as programmer for films from India/Africa/Germany until the festival’s closure. She has been member of the board and jury of the Lagos based African Movie Academy Awards since inception 2005. Her latest work as filmmaker is the webseries www.kinshasa-collection.com. Since 2020 she has been working as a consultant for film/cinema for the Humboldt Forum.
Together with representatives of the communities, she curated the “Box Office Around The World” festival 2025 for the third time.
Partners
With the kind support of IndoGerman Filmweek and Masalakraut.
