Come late August, and Mumbai boy Chaitanya Tamhane will pack his bags for Venice where he will wait for a judgment and his moment of glory. Tamhane (27) is the young filmmaker of the feature film, Court, that has been selected for the 71st Venice Film Festival in the Horizons section.

Set in Mumbai, the film initially focusses on the death of a sewerage worker and an ageing Folk singer who is purportedly charged for the worker’s suicide. The complexity of the film unfolds when Tamhane adroitly shifts his gaze to the lawyers and the judge as characters to be told through his camera.