Sister Midnight | Reel Lives
Date: 10 June 2025
Venue: Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry, Derry, BT48 6HJ
A newly arranged marriage. An oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls. They are awkward and alone-together.
Unpredictable Uma (Radhika Apte) does her best to cope with the heat, her total lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbours and her bumbling spouse until the nocturnal world of Mumbai and its inhabitants lead her to face her own strange behaviours.
Karan Kandhari's BAFTA-nominated feature directorial debut, is a wickedly funny genre-bending delight, combining physical comedy, surreal horror and furiously feminist energy with a livewire central performance from Radhika Apte. Featuring vibrant visuals, a stand-out soundtrack and joyously inventive writing, Sister Midnight is strikingly distinctive and wildly entertaining.
Karan Kandhari | United Kingdom, India, Sweden | 2024 | 107 mins | 15 | Subtitled