Placebo Trailer (2015)

Trailer for Placebo.

With an acceptance rate of just 0.1%, India’s most prestigious medical school is much more competitive than any Ivy League university. But for these students, getting in is the easy part. Questionable administrative policies, isolation, hazing and intense academic pressure can send students into a downward spiral that all too often ends up in tragedy. When a student at the school nearly loses his arm after punching through a glass window in an unexplained act of violence, the filmmaker decides to immerse himself in a year-long exploration of life inside campus. The result? A truly surreal portrait that taps directly into a state of mind. In this case, it's a state of collective madness—a spell that is only broken when another student succumbs to the academic pressure and does the unthinkable...