A Yellow Bird (2016)

Evocative and provocative, this multi-layered relationship drama traces the twists and turns in the life of Siva (Sivakumar Palakrishnan), a criminal who has served time on smuggling charges. He has become so comfortable with prison life that when he is released, he finds it painful to adapt to the real world.

When his mother throws him out, he decides to go in search of his wife and daughter, who have been estranged since his imprisonment. In the process, he strikes a special bond with a destitute Chinese woman, Chen Chen (Huang Lu), he meets while working as a professional mourner but with whom he can’t share more than a kind of unspoken affinity because neither speaks the other’s language. When he becomes her protector after she starts working for a violent pimp. What will the future hold in store for Siva and Chen Chen?