Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Beauty

Torsha BANERJEE 2011 India Fiction color 11min Bengali, English DigiBeta
Beauty is a 16-year-old girl and a prostitute's daughter, surviving in a whore house. She is still untouched, unspoilt. Her realm is confined in a raggedy damp bathroom as her mother occupies the bedroom for her business. Lead by a pimp, one day a 19-year-old inexperienced boy turns up to her mother. Persuaded by the pimp, she sends him to her daughter, Beauty. In the deciding night of their lives, the two novices meet in the clogged diffusion of the bathroom and...nothing happens. A tender intimacy slowly grows between them. But does such tenderness really exist in a whore house? This is a story of survival in the world of Dream House.

Director

Torsha BANERJEE

Born in 1986. Living in Kolkata, India. BANERJEE was graduated from Calcutta University in literature. Currently she is pursuing her diploma course in film direction from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. She travels alone in across India for photography and ethnography to fuel her creative hunger. At other times she writes, paints and thinks.

Director's Statement ▾

Torsha BANERJEE

2011 Beauty

         Song of Butterflies

2009 Our Stories

         Ek Din Fatihma

Production & Sales Company /

Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute

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