Premika Leo

Zena, a usually confident young queer woman with an anxiety-induced supernatural streak, is forced to face off with a meddling relative when she returns to her family’s mosque with her partner in tow to attend the funeral of a beloved community member.

Struggling to navigate adulthood and sexuality, Candy painfully returns to her childhood home. However after a moment of impossibility, Candy finds herself pouring her heart out to a group of dazzling strangers, who encourage her to come to peace with her journey.

In small-town Trinidad, Dhani is a dissatisfied man in his early 20s. He hangs out at bars with his high rolling friends, but he doesn’t belong. Dhani always leaves the party early so that he can work the nightshift with his feisty mother, Sumintra selling “Doubles” (the famous Trinidadian street-food). The two share the same dream of opening their very own brick-and- mortar restaurant. After getting humiliated by a girl and Sumintra getting robbed at knife point, Dhani has lost his patience. His land-developing friend, Philip, offers hundreds of thousands of dollars for their land. But, it’s Ragbir, Dhani's estranged father, a successful chef in Toronto, who owns the property. Against Sumintra’s wishes, Dhani decides to go to Toronto to confront Ragbir and get the land signed over to them.

Gyal explores the complex and layered history of heteropatriachal violence against Indo-Caribbean women and demands change.

Struggling to navigate adulthood and sexuality, Candy painfully returns to her childhood home. However after a moment of impossibility, Candy finds herself pouring her heart out to a group of dazzling strangers, who encourage her to come to peace with her journey.

Struggling to navigate adulthood and sexuality, Candy painfully returns to her childhood home. However after a moment of impossibility, Candy finds herself pouring her heart out to a group of dazzling strangers, who encourage her to come to peace with her journey.

Gyal explores the complex and layered history of heteropatriachal violence against Indo-Caribbean women and demands change.