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Cutie and the Boxer: Pugilistic Painting
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Ushio completes a boxing painting as Noriko photographs him.
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Video description: Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. When the youngest daughter turns the camera towards her family, the personal becomes political as power structures within the family become visible, and eventually unravel. Cruel and comic in equal measure, the film examines the vagaries of affection across generations, tied together by something stranger than love.
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