Burning Butterflies (Shailik Bhaumik, India, 2024) 

Burning Butterflies uses transnational film tropes to push the boundaries of Bollywood horror, with visceral and often disturbing results.
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The film focuses on the fate of a young married couple, whose car breaks down on a deserted highway in Kolkata. When they are offered refuge at an isolated castle, the hosts push the couple’s marriage and morality to the limit. Through its fusion of differing global film traditions, Burning Butterflies seeks to fuse elements of Lovecraftian horror with jump-scare and gore elements, in order to keep the audience to the edge of their seats with bated breath. The film explores the uncertainty and absurdity of life unfolding in a dark reality.

Part of the Black Mandala Screening Season
 
Warning: contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised

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Streamed Screening
Saturday 26th October
​Includes pre-recorded director Q&A
Available to view for 24 hours