Official Selection Out of Competition · 43rd Edition
Pebbles
Director
P S Vinothraj
Country
India
Runtime
1 h 14 min
Language
Tamil
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
The inhabitants of the village Arittapatti in southern India depend entirely on agriculture, which has suffered terribly due to a long drought. The fields have become deserts and the skinny livestock eat the last leaves.One of the latter is Ganapathy, a chain-smoking drunk with a permanent frown. His wife has fled the home and his domestic violence, but he is determined to fetch her back from her village. He forces his young son to join him.
Cast
Chellapandi , Karuththadaiyaan
Screenplay
P.S. Vinothraj
Producers
Vignesh Shivan, Nayanthara
About the Director
A filmmaker from Tamil Nadu, India. he worked as a sales boy in a DVD shop in Chennai. During this time, he got introduced to a few people from the Tamil film Industry and eventually joined as an assistant director to Mr Sargunam, a Tamil Filmmaker. He then worked as an assistant director for a theatre troupe. He utilised his time during this venture to shoot a few short films after which he began writing the script for "Pebbles"
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