French sales outfit Celluloid Dreams has boarded world sales rights to “Songs of Forgotten Trees,” the debut feature from Indian filmmaker Anuparna Roy that will bow in Venice’s Horizons section.
Variety is exclusively debuting the film’s first clip.
The Mumbai-set drama follows Thooya, a migrant and aspiring actress who navigates the city by leveraging her 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 to share more than just living space. Amid Mumbai’s relentless pulse, they discover a silent empathy, though their delicate connection
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