Aamis

How Netflix's Spanish thriller The Platform explores panic buying, daily wage earners' plight during a lockdown

The Platform is set in a confinement where food is distributed vertically, very similar to the socioeconomic hierarchical distribution highlighted by the lockdown.

Best Indian Films 2019: Poetry and courage across languages, from Assamese to Hindi, Khasi, Malayalam and more 

2019 was a year in which small films in the Assamese and Khasi languages drew eyeballs, and the Kerala-based film industry aka Mollywood outdid itself.

Aamis movie review: Bhaskar Hazarika’s delightfully simple yet deranged Assamese food film

Aamis remains both surprising and bizarrely enjoyable for longer than it has any right to be

Anurag Kashyap to present Bhaskar Hazarika's Aamis, set in Assam; film to release in India on 22 November

Aamis premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and won the Best Director and Best Actress award at Singapore South Asian International Film Festival.

Aamis director Bhaskar Hazarika on spinning a brilliant tale of love, desire and sin in his critically lauded film

Aamis is a must-watch that will have you questioning everything you have ever believed about love. The film is an excellent study of social structures and aberrations, of norms and penalties, and of desire and its costs. But more than anything else, the film — and Bhaskar Hazarika — ask a simple and yet potent question: How can something that feels so good be wrong?