Locked In

Brandt Point is a summer getaway, an island off the coast that's only humming with business three months a year -- but every year during those three months, a fresh cluster of summer romances explodes into brief but passionate life...

AN ADVENTUROUS UNSUSPECT-ING YOUNG GIRL RUNS AWAY FROM HOME STRAIGHT INTO THE CITY'S DANGER ZONE.

-Orphan, Oskar lives with Elvis and Fanny Egger, his guardians. Oskar is waiting for one thing, the majority, to finally be able to go to Zimbabwe and start a new life. While Oskar strives to raise money to get there, Elvis embraces Oskar's success and requires him, no matter what, to graduate. The balance of power is becoming more and more tense, swinging into a violence that will push Oskar to definitively abandon childhood, and Elvis, to fall the mask of his ambition and his madness.

On February 21, 2011, two young girls committed suicide together in Nandigram, one of the interior villages in West Bengal. As the story unfolded we came to know of their love affair, and non-acceptance of the village community as well as their families. To deal with 'abnormal' relationship, one of the girls was married off in a haste. Under the societal pressure, the two girls committed suicide. But their death did not end societal non-acceptance. After their death their bodies lay in the police morgue for several days unclaimed by their families. One of the girls left a letter telling their story of love and loathing and asking their parents to cremate them together. The parents rejected their wish and the unclaimed bodies were disposed off by the police, unattended, uncared for. Debalina's film '... ebang bewarish' (...and the unclaimed), talks about these two unclaimed dead bodies and many more dead and living ones. The central question being non-acceptance of non-normative persons, the film brings out pain and desolation of such persons who are 'unclaimed' by their loved ones and by the society at large. Four protagonists narrate their stories of living as misfits. The film explores the connection of these tales of living persons with the dead ones. 'If we want to keep the dead alive within us, then their death is also a part of our living, don't you think so ?' The film is a tribute to life, non-normative or not, and also to death, when that is the only way to live! This documentary, while centering on the suicide of Swapna and Sucheta, also tells the stories of four different individuals who, because of their otherness, their gender or sexual preferences, have to through their unique struggles, yet similar to that of Swapna's and Sucheta's life.