For its 36th edition, FIDMarseille remains true to its mission: to spotlight independent cinema that is attentive to the echoes of the contemporary world and to the stories that reveal its fractures, both intimate and collective.

Badnam basti, Infamous Neighbourhood

Prem Kapoor

India, 1971, Black and white, 108’

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Considered to be India’s first queer film, this musical melodrama of rare formal inventiveness wraps its arabesques around a love triangle between two men and a woman.

Technical sheet

  • Script:
    Prem Kapoor
  • Production:
    (NFDC - National Film Archive of India)
  • Contact:
    Gesa Knolle (Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.)