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Nihaarika Negi | India | 2026 | 30 mins. | Hindi, Kinnauri

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In Kinnaur, deep in the Himalayas, ecological damage erodes ancestral land and Indigenous traditions. A government-certified midwife, an 85-year-old grandmother and her granddaughter set out to find an endangered medicinal herb to save a pregnant woman’s life. Shot in an endangered language, the film features an all-Indigenous cast from the director’s community.

Nihaarika Negi

Nihaarika Negi

Nihaarika Negi is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, theatre, and XR. Her work draws on folklore and magical realism to explore fragile landscapes and the body. A Berlinale Talents alumna and USC Stark graduate, her writing includes The Threshold. She debuted with Labours Of (An)Other Solipsist.

Producer: Asawari Jagushte, Mathivanan Rajendran, Ishan Hendre, Varsha Panikar, Shilpa Kumar
Writer: Nihaarika Negi
Editor: Emily Packer
Sound: Ankita Purkayastha, Santwana Bayaskar
Music: Peter Lam

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