When Gopal, a teenager working at a plastics factory, finds a stray calf grazing on polythene bags, he brings the animal to the local cow shelter run by a Hindu volunteer organisation. Enticed by the sense of camaraderie the outfit offers, Gopal is swept into its increasingly confrontational activist operations. Unfolding like a coming-of-age story, Varun Chopra’s loosely fictionalised documentary Holy Cowboys is a topical, engrossing inquiry into the politicisation of compassion.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
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Film details
- Countries of production
- India, USA
- Year
- 2021
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 26"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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