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![Wench Film Festival in partnership with Alliance Française de Bombay presents FREAKS - a 1932 masterpiece for the next Cinéma de l’Étrange!
FREAKS (1932)
Before it became a cult classic, Freaks shocked audiences so deeply that it was banned in several countries and effectively disappeared from circulation for decades. Following its release, the film was withdrawn and heavily censored, and it remained banned in the UK for over 30 years. In the United States, many theatres refused to screen it, and it was effectively suppressed after a public backlash.
Directed by Tod Browning (Dracula), Freaks tells the story of a travelling circus and features performers with real physical differences rather than actors in makeup. Nearly a century later, it remains one of the most controversial, compassionate, and radical films ever made.
Join us for this rare big-screen screening of a film that challenged ideas of beauty, normality, and belonging long before Hollywood was ready.
The film will be followed by a discussion with Harish and Sumair - individuals who have spent their lives challenging society’s ideas of what is “normal" and moderated by Sapna
📅 Wednesday, 8 July | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay Auditorium, Churchgate (Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all 18+ ONLY
🔹 Registration mandatory | Limited seats
🔗 Register now: link in bio
#wenchfilmfestival #sapnabhavnani #horrorfestival #horrorinindia
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![Meet Harrish Iyer who will be part of our panel “Beyond the Freak Show: Rewriting the narrative of Difference!” After the screening of
FREAKS (1932)
Before it became a cult classic, Freaks shocked audiences so deeply that it was banned in several countries and effectively disappeared from circulation for decades. Following its release, the film was withdrawn and heavily censored, and it remained banned in the UK for over 30 years. In the United States, many theatres refused to screen it, and it was effectively suppressed after a public backlash.
Directed by Tod Browning (Dracula), Freaks tells the story of a travelling circus and features performers with real physical differences rather than actors in makeup. Nearly a century later, it remains one of the most controversial, compassionate, and radical films ever made.
Join us for this rare big-screen screening of a film that challenged ideas of beauty, normality, and belonging long before Hollywood was ready.
📅 Wednesday, 8 July | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay Auditorium, Churchgate (Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all 18+ ONLY
🔹 Registration mandatory | Limited seats
🔗 Register now:
https://forms.gle/6xrYwoMxTHoxWfkM7
#wenchfilmfestival #sapnabhavnani #horrorfestival #horrorinindia
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![Sumair Zubairy will be part of our panel “Beyond the Freak Show: Rewriting the narrative of Difference!”
FREAKS (1932)
Before it became a cult classic, Freaks shocked audiences so deeply that it was banned in several countries and effectively disappeared from circulation for decades. Following its release, the film was withdrawn and heavily censored, and it remained banned in the UK for over 30 years. In the United States, many theatres refused to screen it, and it was effectively suppressed after a public backlash.
Directed by Tod Browning (Dracula), Freaks tells the story of a travelling circus and features performers with real physical differences rather than actors in makeup. Nearly a century later, it remains one of the most controversial, compassionate, and radical films ever made.
Join us for this rare big-screen screening of a film that challenged ideas of beauty, normality, and belonging long before Hollywood was ready.
The film will be followed by a discussion with individuals who have spent their lives challenging society’s ideas of what is “normal.
📅 Wednesday, 8 July | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay Auditorium, Churchgate (Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all 18+ ONLY
🔹 Registration mandatory | Limited seats
🔗 Register now:
https://forms.gle/6xrYwoMxTHoxWfkM7
#wenchfilmfestival #sapnabhavnani #horrorfestival #horrorinindia
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![Wench Film Festival in partnership with Alliance Française de Bombay presents FREAKS - a 1932 masterpiece for the next Cinéma de l’Étrange!
FREAKS (1932)
Before it became a cult classic, Freaks shocked audiences so deeply that it was banned in several countries and effectively disappeared from circulation for decades. Following its release, the film was withdrawn and heavily censored, and it remained banned in the UK for over 30 years. In the United States, many theatres refused to screen it, and it was effectively suppressed after a public backlash.
Directed by Tod Browning (Dracula), Freaks tells the story of a travelling circus and features performers with real physical differences rather than actors in makeup. Nearly a century later, it remains one of the most controversial, compassionate, and radical films ever made.
Join us for this rare big-screen screening of a film that challenged ideas of beauty, normality, and belonging long before Hollywood was ready.
The film will be followed by a discussion with individuals who have spent their lives challenging society’s ideas of what is “normal.
📅 Wednesday, 8 July | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay Auditorium, Churchgate (Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all 18+ ONLY
🔹 Registration mandatory | Limited seats
🔗 Register now:
https://forms.gle/6xrYwoMxTHoxWfkM7
#wenchfilmfestival #sapnabhavnani #horrorfestival #horrorinindia
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![We are stoked to bring a special screening of
FREAKS (1932)
Before it became a cult classic, Freaks shocked audiences so deeply that it was banned in several countries and effectively disappeared from circulation for decades.
Following its release, the film was withdrawn and heavily censored, and it remained banned in the UK for over 30 years. In the United States, many theatres refused to screen it, and it was effectively suppressed after a public backlash.
Directed by Tod Browning (Dracula), Freaks tells the story of a travelling circus and features performers with real physical differences rather than actors in makeup. Nearly a century later, it remains one of the most controversial, compassionate, and radical films ever made.
Join us for this rare big-screen screening of a film that challenged ideas of beauty, normality, and belonging long before Hollywood was ready.
The film will be followed by a discussion with individuals who have spent their lives challenging society's ideas of what is "normal.
📅 Wednesday, 8 July | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay Auditorium, Churchgate (Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all 18+ ONLY
🔹 Registration mandatory | Limited seats
🔗 Register now:
https://forms.gle/6xrYwoMxTHoxWfkM7
You Don’t Want to Miss This One 🖤
this clip was taken from youtube shorts no infringement intended :)
#wenchfilmfestival #sapnabhavnani #horrorfestival #horrorinindia
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![Thank you for the full house on June 10th. Our genre community is the best in the world.
Stay tuned for July. We have something special.
Reel by Vishwajit
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![Landfills of Desire (7 mins)
On the still waters of Dal Lake, a Rantas (Kashmiri Witch) glides alone through the night. Neither living nor dead, she searches for what cannot be returned - herself.
🎥 Genre: HORROR
📅 Wednesday, 10 June | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay Auditorium, Churchgate (Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all 18+ ONLY
🔹 Registration mandatory | Limited seats
🔗 Register now: https://forms.gle/f8qVwKtDoQDEbVkGA
Post Show QnA
Landfills of Desire Credits
Rantas
Her Form - Sapna Moti Bhavnani
Her Voice – Toby Poser
Cinematographer
Viraj Sinh Gohil
Sound Design
Bombass
Hair and Makeup
Mad O Wot Hair
Credits
Bhoomi
Grade
Vikas Prajapati
(Mantra Pixels)
Executive Producer
David Clair
Producer
Wench Films
Writer | Editor | Director
Sapna Moti Bhavnani
Special Thanks to Last Ship Residency, Khajuraho
And
the lovely people of Kashmir
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![It was wonderful to be on a panel at the Bharat Pavilion at #cannesfilmfestival
and having the lovely Faith Elizabeth, founder of She Squad and Yes She Canens, made it even better.
Faith, Heidi and Sapna are busy cooking up new ideas to bring to India and the rest of the world. Stay Tuned :)
#wenchfilmfestival #sapnabhavnani #horrorfestival #horrorinindia
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![Wench Film Festival in partnership with Alliance Française de Bombay presents a collection of 3 horrific shorts for the next Cinéma de l'Étrange!
In Alphabetical Order -
Landfills of Desire (7 mins)
On the still waters of Dal Lake, a Rantas (Kashmiri Witch) glides alone through the night. Neither living nor dead, she searches for what cannot be returned - herself.
The Last Ride (23 mins)
In Mumbai, a migrant ride-share driver’s desperate theft takes a terrifying and unexpected turn when his final passenger turns out to be a demonic witch.
Uninvited (6 minutes)
Alone on a stormy night, Sonam begins to sense she’s not as alone as she thought. Strange sounds, vanishing figures and a relentless presence close in until terror finally comes face to face. Uninvited is a chilling horror thriller that turns an ordinary night into a nightmare.
🎥 Genre: HORROR
📅 Wednesday, 10 June | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay Auditorium, Churchgate (Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all 18+ ONLY
🔹 Registration mandatory | Limited seats
🔗 Register now: https://forms.gle/f8qVwKtDoQDEbVkGA
Post Show QnA with all the filmmakers!
#wenchfilmfestival #sapnabhavnani #horrorfestival #horrorinindia #bloodstream
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![We just returned from a glorious trip to Cannes. So much going on and we are so happy to be in the center of all things Genre 🖤
We have a lot of things cookings at the moment besides the festival and we are stoked about it.
Follow our journey as we launch India’s first Horror Vertical Soon 💋
Have a vertical? Pitch it to us !
We have distribution locked 😺
LET’s GO
“Credit the Marché for making genre filmmaking a centerpiece, ever since it introduced the influential Frontières Platform in 2017 and launched the Fantastic Pavilion three years ago. ‘Genre is no longer a sidebar conversation at Cannes — it’s a pillar.’”
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![EXCLUSIVE.
Announced at Cannes - Wench Film Festival is now the FIRST film festival to officially tie up with Bloodstream.
This means Wench now has its own dedicated channel on the app, creating a new pipeline of distribution and visibility for our filmmakers beyond the festival circuit.
Independent horror from India deserves to travel further, screen louder, and live longer.
This is just the beginning.
Wench x Bloodstream 🩸
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![Felt fabulous to attend our first @melies_federation meeting and meet our tribe in person at the Fantastic Pavilion 🖤
#wenchfilmfestival #sapnabhavnani #horrorfestival #horrorinindia
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![About last night !
Sugar Rot ❤️
Reel by Vishwa Kumar
#wenchfilmfestival #sapnabhavnani #horrorfestival #horrorinindia
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![🎬 India Premiere | Cinéma de l’Étrange
Sugar Rot
An exclusive India premiere at Wench and a fiercely DIY, award-winning indie that doesn’t hold back.
After a brutal assault by an ice cream man, punk girl Candy becomes host to a mutant baby. As her body begins to transform into ice cream, the world around her stops seeing her as human, only as something to consume.
Fuelled by a blistering punk soundtrack and drenched in grotesque body horror, Sugar Rot is wild, confrontational, and unapologetically feminist.
🎥 Genre: HORROR
⏱️ Duration: 1h 20 mins
📅 Wednesday, 13 May | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay, Churchgate
(Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all 18+ ONLY
🔹 Registration mandatory | Limited seats
🔹 Preference to AF Members & Students
🔗 Register now: https://forms.gle/mW5NcPbVTMavHcvg7
🖤 Presented by Wench Film Festival & Alliance Française de Bombay
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![🔊 Registrations Open soon!
Sugar Rot (2025) is an extreme, punk-rock body horror film directed by Becca Kozak that serves as a divisive, avant-garde feminist critique of objectification. The microbudget film features intense, stylized gore, focusing on a woman whose body turns into literal candy after a sexual assault, highlighting themes of consumption and societal pressure.
18+ Only
📅 Wednesday, 13 May | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay Auditorium, Churchgate (Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all 18+
WAIT FOR THE LINK !
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![Wench Film Festival in partnership with Alliance Française de Bombay presents The Empire - A 2024 apocalyptic science fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruno Dumont. It is a parody of the Star Wars franchise and Hollywood blockbusters in general, set in Dumont's home region of northern France.
🎥 Genre: Sci FI
⏱️ Duration: 1h 50 mins
📅 Wednesday, 8 April | 6:30 PM
📍 AF Bombay Auditorium, Churchgate (Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines)
🔹 Free & open to all
🔹 Registration mandatory | Limited seats
🔹 Preference to AF Members & Students
Register via the link in bio. 🔗
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![Day 4.
We closed with Mother of Flies.
Naturally.
Projector off.
Banners down.
Team horizontal.
Teardown is ugly.
Joy isn’t.
That’s a wrap.
PS - We taking March off! See you April 10 for our monthly screening at AF de Bombay Churchgate!
#WenchFilmFestival #indianhorror #MumbaiEvents #horrorfilmfestival #alliancefrançaise
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![Day 3. India Focus.
The crowd said “full house.”
Our bodies said “please sit down.”
No seats. No voice.
Still standing. Somehow.
Dont miss CLOSING DAY
starts at NOON TODAY!
Schedule Link In bio
#WenchFilmFestival #indianhorror #MumbaiEvents #horrorfilmfestival #alliancefrançaise
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![Day 2: no cooling down.
Winners announced.
Islander stirred the room.
International Shorts brought the chaos.
Asia block came in sharp.
We came for films.
We stayed for the conversations after.
#WenchFilmFestival #bodyhorror #MumbaiEvents #horrorfilmfestival #indianhorror
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![BLOODTHIRSTY Winner: Mother of Flies - The Adams Family 🏆
Deliciously deranged.
Beautifully unholy.
Some films sip blood.
This one bathed in it.
Jury Citation-
Selected as the top film of the 2026 Wench Festival, Mother of Flies feels deeply aligned with what Wench stands for: bold, woman-led horror that isn’t afraid to get intimate, messy, and emotionally honest. In its meditation on death, care, and transformation, the film embraces horror as a space for grief, truth, strangeness, and storytelling that refuses to play it safe.
Thank you to our Jury
Abby Wright
Kaizad Gustad
Mo Moshaty
Thank you Joe from Yellow Veil for your support.
Toby visited India for our 24 edition and won best film then as well! Slide 5!
You can catch
🔊 Mother Of Flies
🗓️ Sun Mar 1
📍 Alliance Française de Bombay in Churchgate
⏰ 6pm 🪳🪰💓
#WenchFilmFestival #bodyhorror #MumbaiEvents #horrorfilmfestival #indianhorror
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![DWARVES Winner: Barlebas 🏆
Directed by Malu Janssen
(from the @fantasiafestival Born of Woman 2025 block)
Small in duration.
Absolutely not small in power.
Special Mentions:
Foreigners Only — Nuhash Humayun
Moti — Yash Saraf
Short films. Sharp teeth.
Jury
Leila Taylor
James McNally
Sara Lopo
Sultan Barodawala
Citation
With 34 incredible short films to choose from, electing one winner was no easy task. After carefully reviewing and discussing them all, the jury has decided to award the one title that stood out for its stark black and white cinematography, its incredible use of sound, and a uniquely restrained portrayal of a witch trial - the winner is Barlebas by Malu Janssen.
We would also like to give a special mention to two films that managed to surprise and have stuck with us. The first one is Moti by Yash Saraf for its unexpected tenderness in such a surreal setting, and the second is Foreigners Only by Nuhash Humayun for its humorous and satirical tone in portraying the worldwide relatable housing crisis.
You can catch
🔊 Barlebas
🗓️ Sun Mar 1
📍 Alliance Française de Bombay in Churchgate
⏰ 5pm 🪳🪰💓
#WenchFilmFestival #bodyhorror #MumbaiEvents #horrorfilmfestival #indianhorror
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![ELVES Winner: Dhet! 🏆
Under 10 minutes.
Overdelivered.
Special Mentions:
Wall Udder - Alexandra Hayden
Whodunnit - Aditya Nair
Short runtime. Long impact.
Jury
Claire Donner
Shannon Hanmer
Simon Laperrière
Citation
We, the jury, are proud to give the Elves Award to Ummid Ashraf’s impressive DHET!.
Taking the audience straight into the nights of Dhaka, this wonderful film turns an urban landscape into a frightful maze. Directed with expertise, the short quickly becomes a suspenseful adrenaline rush - with one truly effective jump scare!
We are also happy to give a Special Mention to Aditya Nair’s WHODUNIT and Alexandra Hayden’s WALL UDDER.
While very different, those two films are not afraid to storm normality with weirdness, humor and passion.
#WenchFilmFestival #bodyhorror #MumbaiEvents #horrorfilmfestival #indianhorror
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![Tonight we give the Silver Méliès Award to Coyotes Directed by Said Zagha.
A film so powerful it didn’t even need to screen to win.
No NOC.
No screening.
Still took the stage. 🏆
Congrats @said.zagha
Jury Citation-
"For the Méliès d’argent Award - Best European Short Film, we wanted to highlight the best short film within the fantastic genre. The award goes to a poignant story about oppression with a palpable tension that reminds us that humans can also be hunted just as animals."
Thank you to our Jury
Leila Taylor
James McNally
Sara Lopo
Sultan Barodawala
#WenchFilmFestival #bodyhorror #MumbaiEvents #horrorfilmfestival #indianhorror
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![When a Kashmiri witch and a red mask go to a bar…
…it’s not a joke. It’s Day 1 at Wench.
Dont miss Day 2
starts in an hour!
Schedule Link In bio
#AFBombay #WenchFilmFestival #bodyhorror #MumbaiEvents #horrorfilmfestival #indianhorror
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![It doesn't start without the blessings of our fairy Godmother - the incredible Uma da Cunha!
One hour to fest 💀
#AFBombay #WenchFilmFestival #bodyhorror #MumbaiEvents #horrorfilmfestival #indianhorror
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![Filmmakers in Mumbai - this is your roll call.
Award Ceremony
🗓 Friday, 27 Feb
🕔 5PM
📍 Alliance Française, Churchgate
If your film screened, you should be in the room.
Come dressed in Black. Come loud. Come claim your moment. 🏆
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