Leena Manimekalai

Leena Manimekalai

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Leena Manimekalai is an independent filmmaker, poet and an actor. Her works include five published poetry anthologies and a dozen films in genres, documentary, fiction and experimental poem films. She has been recognised with participation, mentions and best film awards in many international and national film festivals.

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Maadathy 2019 (6.5)

This film is a tale about a young girl who grew up in the slave caste group and how she came to be immortalized as their locality, Maadathy.
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Goddesses 2007 (7)

Lakshmi is a professional singer and dancer at funerals. Krishnaveni makes her living by burying and cremating unclaimed dead bodies from the rivers and streets. Sethuraku never went to school and instead took to the sea at an early age.
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Is It Too Much to Ask? 2017 (6.5)

This short film follows the journey of two friends Smile and Glady - looking for a rental apartment in Chennai and the obstacles and social stigma they encounter in not just looking for a home but being single and the fact that they are transgender women.