Kavitha Lankesh’s Gauri, the eponymous documentary film about her sister and slain journalist Gauri Lankesh, won the “Best Long Documentary Award” at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal this year, its second international award so far.
The citation for the award reads: “A brave and uncompromising pulse-taking of the current crisis in Indian politics, focusing on the 2017 political assassination of trailblazing Bengaluru journalist Gauri Lankesh. A “J’accuse” docu-thriller directed and narrated with verve by Gauri’s sister, Kavitha Lankesh”.
Gauri Lankesh was shot dead at her Bengaluru residence in 2017 by a man who said he was following orders to kill Lankesh with the purpose of “saving his religion“. At the time of her death, Lankesh’s weekly magazine had come under attack for her views against the communal politics of the Sangh parivar in Karnataka.
— source thewire.in | 17/May/2023