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KITE

By Leena MANIMEKALAI

Female director - Completed 2025

Kaathadi (Kite) is a hybrid cinematic memoir where a queer Tamil woman turns the lens inward, weaving poetry, dance, theatre, painting, and documentary into a visceral journey of radical self-love — confronting rage, desire, and inherited trauma to break free from the chains of her past.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Female director, Experimental
- Countries
- INDIA, CANADA
- Languages
- TAMIL
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 60 mn
- Director(s)
- Leena MANIMEKALAI
- Writer(s)
- Leena MANIMEKALAI
- Producer(s)
- Leena MANIMEKALAI (KARUVACHY FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Kaathadi/Kite is a hybrid film about a Tamil queer woman turning the lens on herself, becoming the text, decoding her search for radical love that can free herself from the bondage of the past. It unravels a love memoir from the author's life woven of poetry, dance, movement theatre, painting and documentary as embodied memory, battling various emotions from rage to violent delights in order to break the chains of generational gendered trauma.