16 minutes to break your heart and stitch it back together with Urdu poetry.
Expecting their first child, a married couple struggles to find romance and connection while building a new life together in America.
Acting
Sanjana Shukla's silence speaks entire novels.
Cinematography
Long Island never looked this lonely and beautiful.
Writing
Urdu poetry as dialogue, dialogue as prayer.
Director
Saleem Nasir Gondal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film captures a specific Long Island South Asian immigrant community rarely depicted on screen—working-class, observant Muslim, navigating arranged marriage expectations in cramped apartments far from extended family.
Director Saleem Nasir Gondal expanded this from his own parents' experience; the Urdu poetry was his mother's actual writing, making Rahimah's creative stifling doubly autobiographical.
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