Songs of Forgotten Trees

Directed by Anuparna Roy (অনুপর্ণা রায়)

2025•77 min
Genre
Drama
Language
Hindi

Synopsis

Migrant and aspiring actress Thooya navigates Mumbai by leveraging beauty and wit, occasionally trading intimacy for opportunity. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s upscale apartment to Swetha, a fellow migrant working a corporate job, the two women from seemingly different worlds begin sharing more than just living space. Amid Mumbai’s relentless pulse, they discover silent empathy, though personal histories and wounds test their delicate connection in a strange and tender unfolding – of selfhood, of survival, of unexpected kinship.

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Selected Awards

Winner

Venice Film Festival

Orizzonti Award for Best Director (2025)

Footnote

  1. First

    Anuparna Roy became the first Indian filmmaker to win Best Director in the Orizzonti section — the only Indian film selected for the section that year

Main Cast

Naaz ShaikhNaaz ShaikhThooya
Sumi BaghelSumi BaghelShweta
BSBhusan Shimpi
RMRavi S Mann
PPPritam Pilania
LSLovely Singh

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