Shalini Adnani

A man is summoned from Mumbai to his village to deal with a termite infestation threatening to destroy his childhood home.

After years apart, 12 year-old Maya returns to India with her mother to reunite with her father - a sandmining business man. Immersed in a world where labour, legacy and extraction collide, she forms a fragile bond with Kiran, a young worker. After a tragic event, a police investigation turns Maya into a key witness, with her father relying on her to absolve him. Torn between loyalty and a growing unease she cannot name, Maya begins searching for the truth. As her mother quietly unravels, Maya uncovers a pattern of silence, exploitation and repeated harm forcing her to confront her father's deception and the family's complicity she must choose to break.

In Victorian England, Charles and Pearl Ashcroft display stolen artifacts from South American indigenous tribes in their cabinet of curiosities, selling the sacred for profit. Into this world steps Achik, a man first paraded as a “living artifact”. But his beauty unsettles the order: Pearl, starved for touch, is consumed with longing, while Charles, rigid and repressed, oscillates between control and forbidden desire.

Issa, a 9-year-old Gujarati immigrant, has recently arrived to Mexico City with her father Rahul who encounters an opportunity to act in a local television commercial looking for an 'exotic' look.

A man is summoned from Mumbai to his village to deal with a termite infestation threatening to destroy his childhood home.

A man is summoned from Mumbai to his village to deal with a termite infestation threatening to destroy his childhood home.

After years apart, 12 year-old Maya returns to India with her mother to reunite with her father - a sandmining business man. Immersed in a world where labour, legacy and extraction collide, she forms a fragile bond with Kiran, a young worker. After a tragic event, a police investigation turns Maya into a key witness, with her father relying on her to absolve him. Torn between loyalty and a growing unease she cannot name, Maya begins searching for the truth. As her mother quietly unravels, Maya uncovers a pattern of silence, exploitation and repeated harm forcing her to confront her father's deception and the family's complicity she must choose to break.

After years apart, 12 year-old Maya returns to India with her mother to reunite with her father - a sandmining business man. Immersed in a world where labour, legacy and extraction collide, she forms a fragile bond with Kiran, a young worker. After a tragic event, a police investigation turns Maya into a key witness, with her father relying on her to absolve him. Torn between loyalty and a growing unease she cannot name, Maya begins searching for the truth. As her mother quietly unravels, Maya uncovers a pattern of silence, exploitation and repeated harm forcing her to confront her father's deception and the family's complicity she must choose to break.

In Victorian England, Charles and Pearl Ashcroft display stolen artifacts from South American indigenous tribes in their cabinet of curiosities, selling the sacred for profit. Into this world steps Achik, a man first paraded as a “living artifact”. But his beauty unsettles the order: Pearl, starved for touch, is consumed with longing, while Charles, rigid and repressed, oscillates between control and forbidden desire.

In Victorian England, Charles and Pearl Ashcroft display stolen artifacts from South American indigenous tribes in their cabinet of curiosities, selling the sacred for profit. Into this world steps Achik, a man first paraded as a “living artifact”. But his beauty unsettles the order: Pearl, starved for touch, is consumed with longing, while Charles, rigid and repressed, oscillates between control and forbidden desire.

Issa, a 9-year-old Gujarati immigrant, has recently arrived to Mexico City with her father Rahul who encounters an opportunity to act in a local television commercial looking for an 'exotic' look.

Issa, a 9-year-old Gujarati immigrant, has recently arrived to Mexico City with her father Rahul who encounters an opportunity to act in a local television commercial looking for an 'exotic' look.