New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- Baksho Bondi (Shadowbox), a Bengali film shot and written by Saumyananda Sahi and directed by Sahi and Tanushree Das, premiered at the 75th Berlinale on 16 February. The film, rooted in Barrackpore in West Bengal, starring Tillotama Shome, will compete as part of the Perspectives section, a new category for fictional feature film debuts. Das, an editor, and Sahi, a cinematographer, put this film together with an army of producers, 17 including Shome.

Baksho Bondi trails Maya (Shome), a working woman threading through multiple jobs as her husband (Chandan Bisht), an ex-soldier suffering from PTSD, is suddenly not only missing, but a suspect in a murder investigation. This synopsis, though, is a misdirection, because ...