Following the Venice selection of her debut feature “Songs of Forgotten Trees” in the festival’s Horizons section, Indian filmmaker Anuparna Roy reflects on the intimate journey behind India’s only entry in the official selection.
The drama, presented by Indian auteur Anurag Kashyap and repped by Celluloid Dreams, explores the lives of two migrant women navigating survival and connection in Mumbai.
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The film centers on Thooya, an aspiring actor who leverages beauty and wit to survive in the city, 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
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