This screening brings together four evocative short films, Kuchar, Warm Shadows, Embers, and An Orphanage of Memories, each tracing intimate journeys through memory, desire, and loss. In Kuchar, a young girl’s moment of awakening unsettles the quiet rhythms of a conservative home, revealing buried tensions between mother and daughter. Warm Shadows unfolds as a tender, fractured dialogue across time and distance, where questions of identity, choice, and queerness ripple through a mother-child relationship. With Embers, a filmmaker assembles a poetic archive of grief, weaving together image, sound, and memory to search for a shifting sense of self. An Orphanage of Memories follows a grieving widow in Kashmir whose fragile hold on the past takes root in a desperate act of preservation.

Across these films, personal histories become sites of quiet resistance, where the body, memory, and landscape hold what cannot always be spoken. Together, they offer a deeply introspective meditation on inheritance, absence, and the fragile ways we continue to remember.

Instructions

1) Limited seating is available.

2) Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

3) No late entries will be allowed. Please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start time of the programme.

4) When attending a programme at the G5A Warehouse, attendees agree to be photographed, videographed, or recorded for promotional use by organisers through both print and electronic media channels.

5) Please note that the information in the schedule is subject to change in case of unforeseen events.

6) We request you to bring warm clothes, as it gets chilly inside the black box due to temperature control requirements for technical purposes.

7) Food, beverages, and water are strictly prohibited inside the black box. Please do not carry them in your bags either.

8) Students must present a valid college ID at the box office. If a student ID card cannot be presented, the Regular Pass price of INR 250 will apply. This category of pass is only valid for students aged 21 and below.