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Indraadip Dasgupta’s Grihapravesh (2025) is billed as a tribute to filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh. The premise also has promise: a chamber drama soaked in the emotional turbulence of a woman wronged by fate, yet stoically carrying the weight of duty. But the film ends up as an overly sentimental patchwork. It tries to honour an auteur’s legacy but never quite taps into the heart of what made his cinema so powerful.

The story revolves around Titli, a young woman left adrift emotionally and socially after her husband walks out just a week into their marriage. With nowhere else to go, she continues to live with her ageing in-laws — played by Kaushik Ganguly and Sohini Sengupta — assuming the roles of caregiver, daughter, and emotional anchor in their lives. There’s a quiet grace with which Titli inhabits her grief, never allowing self-pity to eclipse her sense of responsibility.

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A city enjoying a spectacular growth spur and a metropolis dying out as we speak. A star looking for a way out from a deadly trap and a teenager determined to have a say in her own future. Japanese feel-good movies and terrifying horrors. As always, Five Flavours offers a full spectrum of moods, emotions, and themes. We announce the complete program of the Festival and kick off tickets sales!

Five Flavours Asian Film Festival is the annual review of the best cinema from East, Southeast, and South Asia organized in Poland. Since 2006, it presents the premieres of the newest, carefully selected films from the region, the classics from Asian archives, retrospectives of selected filmmakers, and reviews of national cinemas.

This year’s selection includes 39 meticulously chosen films, 30 of which will be available online, on the territory of Poland only. After the success of last year’s hybrid edition, Five...