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Crossing The Desert

Reena Dutt
United States, 2025, 13 min.

In English.
Includes adult language.

Ignoring her mother’s warning, Antara uses Google Translate to come out to her grandmother in India. Facing mistranslation and renewed tensions, can mother and daughter love each other for who they really are, or just who they want the other to be?

Director's Statement

Dedicated to new and reimagined texts that catapult polarizing conversations through unexpected stories with the bodies, voices and life experiences of the under-heard.

Category: Dramedy, Festival Alum.
Themes: Culture, Family, LGBTQIA.

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