Towards tenderness | Vers la tendresse

Alice Diop / Documentary / France / French / 38:00 / 2016

9th March 2024 | 7 pm | Closing ceremony followed by screening of the film | CD Deshmukh Auditorium

An intimate exploration of a masculine territory in a French suburb, Towards Tenderness follows a group of vagrant men, while a universe is revealed where female bodies are nothing more than ghostly and virtual silhouettes.

Directors’ bio:

Editor Amrita David Amrita David is a screenwriter and editor known for Saint Omer (2022), Girls Will Be Girls (2024) and Acrobat (2011). Alice Diop is a French filmmaker whose works include documentaries about contemporary French society and the legal drama Saint Omer (2022).