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Court (2015)Marathi
Directed by Chaitanya Tamhane
Why this film belongs here
A folk singer is prosecuted on absurd charges, and the film tracks the case through endless adjournments and procedural non-events — Tamhane, like Puiu, understands that institutional cruelty rarely looks dramatic; it looks like paperwork. This is the closest tonal and structural match anywhere in Indian cinema to Puiu's vision of bureaucracy as slow violence.