Director: Jijo Jessy Kuriakose.
Year: 2024 
Country: India
Language: Malayalam
Status: The film is with us

Against the sensory landscape of central Kerala, Johnny, a soon-to-be priest must navigate his way out of his dissonant life towards self-discovery. The film reanimates Malayali gay desire through an expressionistic use of Christian music, intimate tastes and unabashed touches, while depicting delicate specifics of same-sex fondness. Resisting the popular narratives, the film discusses plural possibilities of romantic relationships while depicting intersections of faith versus sexuality, besides the regional specifics of gay intimacy. Interspersing semi-autobiography with fiction, ‘Velipa?du-The Revelation’ is a bitter-sweet rhapsody 

that sings of love and faith– both lost and regained like some Miltonic Paradise.