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LOVERS IN THE BLUE NIGHT

Anuparna Roy

With

Neelima Sharma (Ameena), Pritam Pilania (Karim), Bhushan Shimpi (Sukka), Jatin Sarin (Omran), Kajal Keshav (Sukka’s wife), Vinod Suryavanshi (Paule)

Country

India, USA, UK

Duration

107′

Language

Hindi (with some Sylheti Bengali and Marathi)

SCREENINGS

Press screening: Thursday 10 September – 19:30 – Sala Volpi
Press screening: Thursday 10 September – 21:30 – Sala Casinò
Official screening: Friday 11 September – 17:30 – Sala Darsena (followed by Q&A)
Additional screening: Saturday 12 September – 16:30 – Sala Astra 2
Additional screening: Saturday 12 September – 17:00 – Sala Astra 1

PRESS CONFERENCE

TALENTS

available in Venice: Anuparna Roy

WORLD SALES

TBA

SYNOPSIS

In chaotic Mumbai, four migrants search for love and belonging in a city that leaves little space for either. Karim, a quiet gay man, lives with Ameena, a bar executive he married out of pity after their village was swallowed by floods. Ameena longs to be loved and clings to mysterious letters that promise the tenderness life has denied her. Sukka, a small-time thief desperate to rise above the weight of caste, becomes Karim’s forbidden desire, pulling him into a secret world of longing and risk. As their fragile lives intersect through moments of need, secrecy, and betrayal, each is forced to confront the cost of wanting more than mere survival. When Ameena mistakenly believes the bar’s pimp, Omran is the writer of the letters and begins to fall for him, the misunderstanding unexpectedly awakens a tenderness in the pimp’s own lonely life, setting all four on a path where love, illusion, and survival collide.

Distribution

PRODUCTION

KHAN & KUMAR MEDIA (India)
AMMI MEDIA (USA)

CO-PRODUCTION

LOTUS VISUAL PRODUCTIONS (UK)