A rape survivor lives underwater for nine months. The moon is her only witness.
Olu is the tale of a girl who gets gang raped and sunk to the bottom of the backwaters where she can mysteriously survive and live for the next nine months -until she delivers her ‘baby from rape’.
Cinematography
Underwater sequences that reframe the womb as both prison and sanctuary.
Direction
Shaji N. Karun treats the fantastical with documentary-level gravity.
Director
Shaji N. Karun
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