Four Slippers

Young Rajat, caught fantasising in class, is humiliated by a sadistic teacher. Permanently welding education to a feeling of shame, this primal trauma hurls Rajat into a life of progressive social isolation and emotional corruption. Divided into four rhyming chapters, Anurag Kashyap's sharply analytical Four Slippers is a psychosexual portrait of a thinking, desiring individual lost to hatred and mobilised by dominant political sentiments. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)