SUNDAY SHORT: COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO

For today's Sunday Short, an incredibly moving film written, directed, and edited by Reema Sengupta that examines housing discrimination and TW: brings awareness to marital rape.

Counterfeit Kunkoo follows an Indian woman's struggle to rent an apartment in Mumbai. Despite having the money, she quickly learns that finding a place isn't that easy as unmarried woman. It's a harsh reality she's forced to reckon with at every turn throughout the film.

In an interview, Sengupta recounts how the film was inspired by her mother's similar experience. After 25 years of marriage, her father gave her mother until the end of the week to move out. It left her mother scrambling to find a place in a culture unwilling to rent to a now single woman.

It's a heartbreaking film and one I highly recommend checking out. You can watch Counterfeit Kunkoo in full below.

Counterfeit Kunkoo

Written, Directed, and Edited by Reema Sengupta

Logline: In a city that houses millions, Smita discovers a strange prerequisite to renting a house in middle-class Mumbai. She would make an ideal tenant, except for one glaring flaw—she is an Indian woman without a husband.