Sister Midnight (15)

Hindi and English with English subtitles

Just arrived in Mumbai, living in a tiny shack with paper-thin walls, smart and uncompromising Uma and soft-spoken Gopal are trapped in a very new, very awkward arranged marriage. At first, Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her lack of domestic skills, her bumbling spouse and their nosy neighbours, but the nocturnal world of the city changes her. Transformed into a disturbing and ruthless figure, Uma succumbs to her most feral impulses. A fresh, funny, surreal debut from writer-director Karan Kandhari, this is an audacious, idiosyncratic story about a woman going against patriarchal norms wrapped up in visuals that echo a punk Wes Anderson.