there are no children here (2022)
Sixteen year old Saima is excited to attend her cousins multi-day South Asian wedding with her family. While attending the dholki at her cousins house, Saima experiences a sudden, traumatic event, and she turns to the women in her life for guidance before the wedding the next day. What follows is the realization of what it means to be a woman in her world.
15 min | Colour | Urdu, English | 1:33:1
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Shehrezade Mian
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Seemal Zaman
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Bertha Lee, Natalia Orasanin
Festivals
Cinefest Sudbury (2022)
Reelworld Film Festival (2022)
Vancouver Asian Film Festival (2022)