Winner of Best International Feature and Nominated for Best Cinematography (Tahsin Rahman)
Q&A with Nuhash Humayun
Content Warnings – Horror, Mild gore
A modern revival of the mysterious and lurid plots of traditional South Asian folk tales told from generation to generation. Filled with nefarious jinns, fish-hungry wenches, sympathetic sirens and musings on the very origin of stories themselves, these ancient South Asian folk tales are reinvigorated, making sure they stay undead.
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A forgetful sweetshop owner is gifted more memories than he can handle by a sweet-toothed jinn. Will a young man win over a foulmouthed entity with his fish supper or will he become the main course? A young couple gets stranded in a picturesque but eldritch village that is the source of all myths. Guilty of gaslighting his suicidal girlfriend, an NGO worker and amateur filmmaker tries to make good by investigating a string of child disappearances along a haunted coastline…
The four short films comprising Pett Kata Shaw have been skilfully woven into an anthology film that is as beautifully executed in terms of cinematography, sound, locations, acting, and music, as it is unsettling, disturbing and haunting. Writer/director Nuhash Humayun sees himself as curator, rather than creator, of stories passed down the generations since time immemorial.
Pett Kata Shaw is a timely reminder that, even as we embrace new technology – as our smartphones get smarter, and our camera lenses can peer into ever deeper shadows – our age-old human frailties and fallibilities are as present as ever, as are those supernatural forces that have walked among us and preyed on us since we first emerged from the primordial slime.
Anna Taborska
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