Festivals and Awards
35th Tokyo International Film Festival
27th International Film Festival of Kerala
– WINNER FFSI KR Mohanan Award (Certificate of Merit)
– WINNER International Jury Special Mention award for lead actors Manisha Soni and Muskan
Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival
SXSW Film & TV Festival 2023
- WINNER Audience Choice Award
18th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival
2023 BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival
14th Bengaluru International Film Festival
27th Roze Filmdagen – Amsterdam
– WINNER HIVOS Free To Be Me Award
Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2023
33rd Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, Toronto
14th Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
– Special Jury Mention
Frameline47 2023
AMOR Festival Santiago del Chile 2023
BlackStar Film Festival Philadelphia 2023
20th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart
Indian Film Festival Melbourne 2023
Cast
Manisha (Avni) Soni as Laila
Muskan as Roshni
Aakash Jamra as Shahrukh
Mahima Singh Thakur AS Preeti
Tanveer Ahmed AS Gupta
Paritosh Acharya AS Pankaj Parwana
Pallav Thudgar AS Gupta’s Man
Abdul Haque AS Guard
Harshita Narnaware AS Laila’s Sister
Sudipta Bhattacharya Saxena AS Mrs Joshi
Shivani Bajpaye AS Sandy
Suman Dhurve AS Suman
Akanksha Tyagi AS Announcer
Kartik Abhas AS Querier
Uday Singh AS Restroom Manager
Badal Singh AS Tea shop owner
Jeniffer Anthony AS Laila’s colleague 1
Vimal Dhakkad AS Laila’s colleague 2
Deepak Sahu, Abhishek Kamble AS Laila’s colleagues
B Meera AS Land lady
Ajay Patel AS Broker
Saraswati Sahoo, Zehra Bi, Pooja Gupta AS Khala’s neighbours
Adil Saifi AS Joshi’s son
Akshat Warware AS Waiter
Yash Kumar AS Lumpen 1
Arjun Prajapati AS Lumpen 2
Shubham Lariya (Titli) AS Suman’s friend
Soljar Baghmare AS Soljar
Chaitanya Deshmukh AS Neighbour 1
Jeenu Pawar AS Passerby
Julie AS Laila’s colleague 5
Vishnu Sahu AS Laila’s Brother
Brajesh Verma AS Driver
Sushil Kumar, Sushil Paraste, Ruchi Shewde, Geeta Dhurve, Seema
AS Neighbours
Annu Sarthi, Gayatri Sarthi, Mona Baghmare
AS Volunteers
Manoj Nigam, Pragya, Asfia Jamal, Asmi Saxena, Tavisha, Rolly Shivhare, Tultul Biswas, Jyoti Jagat, Madhu Dhurve, Sarthak Tomar, Seema Deshmukh, Rishi Sharma, Ravi Rathore, Kunwar
AS Audience
Credits
DIRECTION
Ektara Collective
SCRIPT
Rinchin, Maheen Mirza
EDITING
Paramita Ghosh
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Maheen Mirza
ART
Kanak Shashi
Madhu Dhurve
SOUND RECORDING
Priyanka Gaikwad
Sushil
PRODUCTION
Hassath
Sushil
SOUND DESIGN & MIX
Bigyna Bhushan Dahal
MUSIC
Aniket Mohite
Shital Sathe
Anubhuti Sharma
Devnarayan Saroliya
Priyanka Gaikwad
Madhu Dhurve
PRODUCERS
Ektara Collective
Lotus Visual Productions
reFrame Genderalities Projec
Reviews
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