Report to Mother

Directed by John Abraham

1986 · India · Malayalam · Asian Cultures, Biography + History, Drama, Experimental + Avant-Garde

TIFF Classics

Tickets on tiff.net ↗Log / review on Letterboxd ↗★ 7.7 on TMDB

Synopsis

North American Premiere of 4K restoration!

A daring clarion call and one of the most significant works of Indian political cinema, John Abraham’s extraordinary final film Amma Ariyan (Report to Mother) follows a young man in 1970s Kerala as he journeys — with a progressive swell of companions — to inform a mother of her son’s death, amid widespread unrest.

Programming note from tiff.net. Matched to TMDB on title and director (Report to Mother, 1986).

Showtimes

Sun Sep 13

3:30 PM

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