Sour Candy / Anaar Daana
India, 20', 2024
age recommendation: 9+
original language: Hindi
Guddal, a lively 5-year-old girl, loves eating the sweets from her grandmother’s jar. Her antics with her brother, Laddoo, often get her into trouble. One day, a sad incident at home comes to shake her idyllic world.
Nishi Dugar
The filmmaker and cinematographer comes from Jaipur in India. She has a BA in multimedia from Saint Xavier’s College in Kolkata and studied cinematography at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. She is also a member of the Indian Women Cinematographer’s Collective. Fascinated by film since childhood, she wants to tell stories about the intimate and delicate facets of human relationships. She returned to her roots in Rajasthan for her debut short film, Sour Candy.
Cast & Crew
- direction: Nishi Dugar
- screenplay: Nishi Dugar
- cinematography: Ashwin Ameri
- editing: Pavan Theurkar
- music: Dawn Vincent
- sound: Sudipto Mukhopadhyay, Dawn Vincent
- cast: Veda Agrawal, Lavya Jain, Manav Hinduja, Manjari Saxena
- producer: Nishi Dugar
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