The Discipline

Directed by: Prahas N
Year of production: 2021 | Country: India | Language: Malayalam | Length: 23 minutes

A teacher disciplines her pupils when few unwanted incidents occur in a hostel of a residential school for children.
The film captures sequence of events happening in a residential hostel for children during late 1990’s in Kerala. The rigorous discipling in the hostel reveals absurd ideas of self-making process. The film explores paradoxes and ambivalences in the modernisation project in a post-colonial country.

Director Biography – Prahas N

Prahas is Malayali independent filmmaker from India. He graduated from K R Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kerala in Screenplay Writing and Direction. He has directed short films and documentaries.