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{{Infobox film
| name = Balekempa
| director = [[Ere Gowda]]
| producer = [[Vivek Gomber]], [[Chaitanya Tamhane]]
| country = India
| language = Kannada
| cinematography = [[Saumyananda Sahi]]
| editing = [[Saumyananda Sahi]]
| music = [[Benedict Taylor]], [[Naren Chandavarkar]]
| studio = [[Zoo Entertainment Pvt Ltd]]
| starring = Jnanesh, Bhagya Shree, Chandrashekar C.S, Nagaraju D.P
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''Balekempa''''' (translation: ''The Bangle Seller'') is a 2018 [[Kannada]] drama film written and directed by [[Ere Gowda]]. Produced by Zoo Entertainment Pvt Ltd, the film is about the relationship between a travelling [[bangle]] seller and his wife.<ref>{{cite news|title='Thithi' screenwriter Eregowda's BaleKempa will be a raw telling|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/kannada/2017/sep/26/thithi-screenwriter-eregowdas-balekempa-will-be-a-raw-telling-1662610.html|accessdate=2 March 2018|work=The New Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ere Gowda's next gets NFDC backing - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/movies/news/ere-gowdas-next-gets-nfdc-backing/articleshow/61819552.cms|accessdate=2 March 2018|work=The Times of India}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Sandalwood Scriptwriter Ere Gowda Talks About 'Balekempa'|url=http://www.desimartini.com/news/kannada/sandalwood-scriptwriter-ere-gowda-talks-about-balekempa/article69060.htm|accessdate=2 March 2018|work=Desimartini}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://pandolin.com/day-3-of-film-bazaar-at-iffi-2017/|title=Day 3 of Film Bazaar at International Film Festival of Indian 2017 - Pandolin|last=Pandolin|date=24 November 2017|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Film Bazaar at IFFI 2017 comes to a close|url=https://www.heraldgoa.in/IFFI2017/Film-Bazaar-at-IFFI-2017-comes-to-a-close/123109.html|accessdate=2 March 2018|work=oHeraldo}}</ref> The film was included in the list of the ten most notable films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ynaija.com/rotterdam2018-shape-water-balekempa-respeto-see-10-notable-films-iffr/|title=#Rotterdam2018: The Shape of Water, Balekempa, Respeto… See the 10 most notable films from the IFFR » YNaija|date=2018-02-17|work=YNaija|access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref>

==Plot==
Kempanna, the bangle seller, roams the countryside adorning the hands and faces of women with beauty products. Yet he seems to have little time for his own wife, Saubaghya. Indeed, the only activity that husband and wife do together is taking care of Kempanna's invalid mother. Otherwise, Kempanna seems to prefer the company of his childhood friend, Hanuma, in the quiet and private setting of Hanuma's farm. Meanwhile, Saubaghya’s only companion is the neighbour's teenage son Mahesha, who delivers the milk and can't quite control his hormones. The now long married couple’s inability to conceive is a concern for Saubaghya’s mother who goes to the local deity and prays for the boon of a child. However, without Kempanna’s participation, prayers have little effect.

When Saubaghya insists on getting a life insurance policy and disappears to her mother’s house, Kempanna has to face what is really wrong with their marriage. For behind every frustration there seem to lurk burning desires. Who is concealing the greater secret - husband, or wife? While society watches, will a child be born?

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Year
!Country!!Festival!!Category
!Result
!Comments
|-
| rowspan="14" |2018
|Brazil!
|[[International Film Festival in São Paulo]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://42.mostra.org/br/filme/9439-O-VENDEDOR-DE-PULSEIRAS|title=42ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema - Filme - O VENDEDOR DE PULSEIRAS|website=42.mostra.org|access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref>
|Competição de Novos Diretores
(New Directors Competition)
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |India
|[[Dharamshala International Film Festival]]
|
|
|
|-
|[[Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image]]
|Indiagold
|
|Indian Premier
|-
|Japan
|[[Fukuoka International Film Festival]],<ref>{{Citation|last=Ma|first=Ran|chapter=Programming China at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival|date=2017|pages=237–257|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=9781137554802|doi=10.1057/978-1-137-55016-3_12|title=Chinese Film Festivals}}</ref> Japan
|
|
|Japanese Premier
|-
|Poland
|[[Transatlantyk Festival]],Poland<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bolesławska|first=Beata|date=April 2018|title=Lisa Jakelski, Making New Music in Cold War Poland: The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956–1968JakelskiLisa, Making New Music in Cold War Poland: The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956–1968, University of California Press: Oakland, CA, 2017; 272 pp., 9 illus., 3 tables; 9780520292543, $65.00 (hbk)|journal=European History Quarterly|volume=48|issue=2|pages=368–369|doi=10.1177/0265691418765637x|issn=0265-6914}}</ref>
|New Cinema
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |Australia
|[[Asia Pacific Screen Awards]]
|[[Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing|Achievement in Cinematography]]
|{{good|Nominated}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/news-events/2018-apsa-nominees-announced}}</ref>
|
|-
|[[Indian Film Festival of Melbourne]]
|
|{{good|Nominated}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iffm.com.au/atoz-detail.php?filmid=24|title=Indian Film Festival Melbourne|last=Melbourne|first=Indian Film Festival of|website=www.iffm.com.au|access-date=2018-08-14}}</ref>
|Australian Premiere
|-
| rowspan="2" |South Korea
|[[Jeonju International Film Festival]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eng.jiff.or.kr/program/program_view.asp?MI_IDX=3820&sec1=180&sec2=374|title=JeonJu Intl. Film Festival|website=eng.jiff.or.kr|language=ko|access-date=2018-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501004835/http://eng.jiff.or.kr/program/program_view.asp?MI_IDX=3820&sec1=180&sec2=374|archive-date=1 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|World Cinemascape
|
|
|-
|[[Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival]]
|
|
|
|-
|Canada
|[[International Film Festival of South Asia]], [[Toronto]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iffsatoronto.com/shop/balekempa/|title=Balekempa – IFFSA Toronto|website=www.iffsatoronto.com|access-date=2018-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816025627/http://www.iffsatoronto.com/shop/balekempa/|archive-date=16 August 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|
|
|Canada Premiere
|-
|UK
|[[East End Film Festival]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/programme-archive/balekempa/|title=Balekempa - East End Film Festival|work=East End Film Festival|access-date=2018-04-30}}</ref>
|
|
|UK Premiere
|-
| rowspan="2" |USA
| rowspan="2" |[[New York Indian Film Festival]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iaac.us/nyiff2018/Schedule-May9.htm|title=NYIFF 2018|website=www.iaac.us|access-date=2018-04-30}}</ref>
|Best film
|{{good|Nominated}}
| rowspan="2" |US Premiere
|-
|Best director
|{{good|Nominated}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iaac.us/nyiff2018/nominations.htm|title=NYIFF 2018|website=www.iaac.us}}</ref>
|-
|Netherlands
|[[International Film Festival Rotterdam]]
|[[FIPRESCI Award]]
|{{won|place=1st|Won}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Balekempa|url=https://iffr.com/en/2018/films/balekempa|website=IFFR|accessdate=2 March 2018|date=16 January 2018}}</ref>
|"For its subtle and delightful portrayal of a universal theme against the background of a rich local culture."
|-
|2017
|India
|[[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]] Film Bazaar
|Work-in-Progress Lab
|{{won|place=1st|Won}}<ref>{{cite news|last1=Khajane|first1=Muralidhara|title=Balekempa bags Rotterdam Festival honour|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/balekempa-bags-rotterdam-festival-honour/article22647193.ece|accessdate=2 March 2018|work=The Hindu|date=4 February 2018}}</ref>
|
|}

==References==
<references />

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|tt7838150}}

[[Category:Kannada cinema]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:2018 films]]
[[Category:Indian drama films]]
[[Category:2010s Kannada-language films]]
[[Category:2018 drama films]]

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