Nasir. 2020. India. Directed by Arun Karthick. In Tamil; English subtitles. 80 min.
Based on a short story by writer Dilip Kumar, Arun Karthick’s sophomore feature follows one day in the life of Nasir, a Muslim man who works at a sari shop in the Tamil city of Coimbatore. Shot with a digital Bolex camera with a Super 16 sensor, beautiful, celluloid-like images of small and mundane details form a collage of life that unfolds in a poetic rhythm. Despite having to make ends meet and care for a nephew with special needs, Nasir attains an internal peace…until the undercurrent of sectarian hate boils out of control.