Feature Narrative Competition | India, Sweden | Hindi | 109 min
On the outskirts of a decrepit village called Tumbbad lives Vinayak, who is obsessed with a mythical ancestral treasure. He suspects the secret lies with his great-grandmother, a cursed witch. What starts with a few gold coins quickly spirals into a reckless, perpetual yearning, spanning decades.
Rahi Anil Barve, born in 1979, won the Best Short Fiction Film Award at the 2008 Mumbai International Film Festival with his first short film Manjha, later chosen by acclaimed director Danny Boyle as a special feature for the BluRay release of his Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Tumbbad is his debut feature film. Adesh Prasad joined the team of Tumbbad as a co-producer, co-writer and co-director after having worked as the editor for Ship of Theseus (2012). He is currently writing his next feature, Baatuni (Chatterbox), while developing future projects for Sohum Shah Films, a company that he runs along with producer-actor Sohum Shah.
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