The Shameless
- In theatres10.04.2025
- Production year2024
- CountrySwitzerland, France, Bulgarie, Taiwan
- Length115 min.
- LanguageHindi
- ProductionUrban Factory, Klas Film, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Hous on Fire
- DirectorKonstantin Bojanov
- CastAnasuya Sengupta, Omara, Auroshikha Dey, Rohit Kokate, Kiran Bhivagade, Tanmay Dhanania, Mita Vashisht
- Age restriction16
- Festivals
Nom. Suisse Film Prize, Best Camera 2025
Journée de Soleure Panorama 2025
Cannes, Un Certain Regard, Best Actress 2024
GIFF, Geneva International Film Festival 2024
Nom. European Film Prize 2024
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Story
Renuka flees from a brothel in Delhi in the middle of the night after stabbing a police officer. She takes on the name of a Hindu goddess and is forced to go into hiding in a community of prostitutes in a small town in northern India. There she meets Devika, a young woman who dreams of becoming a rapper but is condemned by her caste to a life as a devadasi sex worker.
Renuka has long since broken away from the patriarchal mindset of Indian society, even if she earns her money there to make ends meet. Devika is forced to live within these structures and to submit.
A forbidden romance develops between Renuka and Devika, leading to conflict.
Can the two women break out together? Can they break free from the violent forms of male control and social reality? And where will their journey take them?
In Konstantin Bonjanov’s thriller, the heroines are deeply disillusioned with the opposite sex, freeing themselves from its presence in their lives and allowing themselves to be shameless women who take no account of anyone or anything, even killing those who, as shameless rulers, leave them no other choice.
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