Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night

A lesbian filmmaker returns to her hometown in India to confront her mother's death and interview the parents of other gay and lesbian children.

An Indian lesbian attempts to come out to her family but she is unable to do so.

What does an Indian lesbian do when her family puts pressure on her to get married? What does her matrimonial advertisement look like? Sum Total answers these questions through a short poetic film that addresses issues of identity, self-representation, and hetronormativity.

As “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” dominates the pop charts, Maya writes in her diary everything that rocks her teenage world, from the assassination of Indira Gandhi and her parents’ divorce, to the latest pimple that made its appearance. But suddenly not much else seems to matter when a new girl arrives at school. A delightful and intimate exploration of youthful obsession, budding sexuality and what it means to be a teenager, which all too often sucks, big time.

Our Bodies Ours is a short poetic animated film that explores the nuance and beauty of trans becoming from a diasporic lens. Leaning on the music of lyric, it reframes gender-affirming care as an intricate, intimate and meandering act. What does it take to stitch our bodies into their true and ever-changing shapes, to migrate between who we are and who we may become?

A lingering haiku poem of migration, separation, and dislocation.