Saturday, February 1, 2025

Bokshi (2025) Rotterdam 2025


Influenced by a teacher in a school and one of the students, a young woman goes on a journey across India in the hope of finding clues as to what happened to her mother. She finds herself in the middle of a mystical group centered around the worship of the earth mother.

Women’s empowerment meets folk horror in a personal film from director Bhargav Saikia. It’s a film that feels lived and that is coming from a personal place. Its so personal that a couple of times I had the feeling that bits were being pulled from real life.

The one problem with the film is that I’m not certain there is enough here to sustain 166 minutes. While nothing here is bad the low key nature  of the film makes the film long in the second hour. It’s not fatal but I found I was less connected to the film.

My quibble aside, BOKSHI is worth a look for anyone who love folk horror films.

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