Directed By Samyuktha Movva
Canada | Narrative | 7 min
International Premiere
māyā follows a South Asian woman in her 60s as she prepares to celebrate her wedding anniversary, during which she is forced to reconcile with her long-held identity as a “wife.”
Through a telephone conversation between mother and daughter, the spell of the present day begins to unravel for both the Wife and the audience, as we begin to understand her as a woman trapped in an illusion more inviting than the truth of her reality.
Telugu, English
English
International Premiere
2022
7 minutes
Drama
Narrative
Canada
Samyuktha Movva
Samyuktha Movva is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada, striving to turn her childhood dreams into reality. In her work, she seeks to explore our complex experience of time, memory, beauty, love, and loss through intimate character studies that traverse language and culture. Her most recent short film, māyā, had its world premiere at the 26th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. Today, Samyuktha is developing her next short film and writing her first feature.
Samyuktha Movva
Samyuktha Movva
Uma Movva
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