On their way home from school, two adolescent girls leave behind the playground of their carefree childhood for an adventure in a mysterious desert where they must confront their fears.
Beautifully photographed in 16mm black and white, this lyrical experimental short eloquently explores the wondrous threshold between childhood and adulthood. Collaborating with her own family, IFFLA alum Terrie Samundra (Kaali Khuhi, Kunjo) intimately captures the joyous essence of adolescent friendship over the course of a transformative journey, speaking of a young soul’s primal connection to nature and the existential fear of growing up in an increasingly precarious world.
Terrie Samundra
Terrie Samundra is a director and screenwriter whose feature film Kaali Khuhi (a Netflix Original) was released in 2020. She is currently developing her sophomore feature, Betamax (Sundance Screenwriters Lab), with Suitable Pictures. Samundra’s short films have played to strong international film festival runs worldwide. She has worked as an episodic staff writer for Netflix and is currently in development of her own series, The Ballad of Pooja. Samundra is a professor at the American Film Institute and is represented by the Gersh Agency and Circle of Confusion.
