Titli

Kanu Behl's 2014 Indian film is about a family that hijacks cars on the edges of Delhi. Titli is the youngest of three brothers and wants out; he is saving to buy a parking lot of his own. To hold him his brothers decide to marry him off, and his bride Neelu has an escape plan of her own. The two are enemies at first and then find a common interest. The film shows violence as a language that has become ordinary inside a family; beatings, threats and control are part of daily life and nobody finds them unusual. The story keeps breaking the hope of escape, and it remains unclear at the close how much Titli has changed. It screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. Who it's for: viewers who can take Indian independent cinema and hard family drama. Who it's not for: anyone who would rather not approach domestic violence; the film shows it at length.