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Songs of Forgotten Trees


Anuparna Roy | India | 2025 | 78 Mins | Hindi | Filmmaker attending

Sun, Nov 2 | 5:00 PM | Hermann Gmeiner Hall

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Thooya, a migrant and aspiring actress, survives the city 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 in a corporate job, the two women – seemingly from different worlds –  begin to share more than just a space. Amid the relentless pulse of Mumbai, they discover a silent empathy. But as personal histories, desires and wounds resurface, their delicate connection is tested. What follows is not a rupture, but a strange and tender unfolding – of selfhood, survival, and unexpected kinship.

Anuparna Roy

Anuparna Roy

Anuparna Roy is a filmmaker and writer from Narayanpur village, Purulia, West Bengal. A graduate in English Literature from Kulti College, she made her debut with Run to the River, which screened at Cheboksary, Gange Sur Seine, Stuttgart, Portobello and New Wave Kerala, and won Best Short at Sthree Film Festival. Her first feature, Songs of Forgotten Trees, was self-funded while she worked full-time in Mumbai. Her cinema focuses on Third World lives, marginal voices and female agency.

Producer: Bibhanshu Rai, Romil Modi, Ranjan Singh, Navin Shetty, Anuparna Roy, Sharib Khan, Vikas Kumar
Writer: Anuparna Roy
Cinematographer: Debjit Samanta
Editor: Ashish Patel
Sound: Arka Dey
Music: Nishant Ramteke
Cast: Naaz Shaikh, Sumi Baghel, Bhushan Shimpi, Ravi Mann

Venice International Film Festival 2025 – Best Director Award (Orizzonti Section) 

BFI London Film Festival 2025 

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