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Directed by Uttera Singh

Cast: Uttera Singh, Geeta Agrawal, Sunita Rajwar, Sapna Sand, Badri Chavan, Rajiv Nema, Jhanvi Marathe.

Official Selection, 2025 Tribeca Festival
Official Selection, 2025 International Film Festival of India

Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.

Maitri, an aspiring travel blogger who shares a home with her mother in their Indian apartment block, is stuck. She is struggling to find an audience for her travel-centric YouTube channel, her mother disapproves of her career path, and she’s still working through unresolved grief after the loss of her father. Thinking it will make good content, Maitri tags along with her mother and their neighbors, trusted landlord Rajesh and his wife, to a temple during the Navratri festival. When Maitri is groped by Rajesh on the way to the festival, she feels shocked, furious and lonely and impulsively decides to take retributive steps, setting off a chain of events that rocks her tight-knight community.

Film Advisory Content: Sexual Assault

Credits
Writer: Uttera Singh, Adam Linzey
Producer: Uttera Singh, Muktesh Singh, Faissal Sam Shaib, Jan Bezouska, Akanksha Jain, Anirudh Singh, Jenna Cavelle, Pranav Soni
Executive Producer: Sunset Singh, Muktesh Singh, Siddharth Singh, Harshita Singh
Director of Photography: Adam Linzey
Editor: Faroukh Virani, Louis Innes, Vanessa Ruane
Production Designer: Madhusudan N
Composer: Raashi Kulkarni
Sound Designer: Jan Bezouska
Music: Raashi Kulkarni
Colorist: Natasha Leonnet
Costume Designer: Dipika Lal
Associate Producers: Louay Khraish, Alka Saini Verma, Anamika Singh, Tatiana Detlofson

Preceded By

HEADBANG

Directed by Anna Khaja

An American perspective on the hijab and female empowerment that resonates with universal questions of selfhood and freedom.

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