Both a wicked satire of the sexual repression of the Assamese professional classes and the “slow” food movement, AAMIS is a titillating, brilliantly-written romantic thriller of erotic displacement and sensual obsession. Four years after his last film, KOTHANODI (IFFLA 2016), writer-director Bhaskar Hazarika returns to IFFLA with this sweet love story of a Suman, a PhD student doing his thesis on meat eating practices of Assam, who inducts married pediatrician Nirmali into his foodie “meat club.” What begins as a bourgeois hobby spirals out of control as Suman and Nirmali’s appetite for one another is sublimated into an exotic shared gluttony that becomes stranger and stranger… until they reach the ultimate taboo.

Lima Das as Nirmali brings to IFFLA audiences one of the most memorable Indian heroines in recent memory in a performance so self-assured and riveting it’s hard to believe this is her feature film debut and that in real life she’s an endodontist. As dark as it is funny, as depraved as it is romantic, you won’t want to miss AAMIS.

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Bhaskar Hazarika's debut feature, KOTHANODI, was a recipient of Asian Cinema Fund's Post-Production Grant and premiered at Busan International Film Festival 2015. KOTHANODI also screened at BFI London Film Festival, Goteborg Film Festival, and Jio Mumbai MAMI Film Festival among others. AAMIS is Bhaskar's second feature film.