White Snow (Praveen Morchhale) India |

White Snow
Praveen Morchhale
India. 2025. 81 min

A young filmmaker, Amir’s film is banned from screening in the very remote mountain region on a complaint of the religious head of the town, after the film’s first screening in a community hall of the town. Amir’s only fault is that he has shown in the film the post-partum blood after a child’s birth. He is later arrested and put in custody on the pretext of the absurd reason of trying to create social unrest, though the real reason was very different. Seeing no hope, his mother Fatima risks her life and leaves home with a small TV and DVD player keeping them on a Yak (mountain animal) to show the film to people in remote villages to fulfil Amir’s dream. During her arduous journey, she meets many people who try to help her, but their own limitations do not permit them to screen her films. Resilient Fatima keeps traveling and quietly observes people’s kindness and social and economic conditions. Gradually the tiring journey, hopeless situations, and unsuccessful efforts break her mentally and physically and bring her close to madness. A surprise heart-breaking incident makes her a free soul in the end.

PRAVEEN MORCHHALE

Praveen Morchhale, a Kim Ji-Seok Award-nominated director at Busan IFF 2018, recipient of the National Awards of India 2018 and UNESCO-Gandhi Medal Award 2018 is known for his subtle, visualpoetic cinema. His films Widow of Silence (2018), Walking With The Wind (2017) have been invited toprestigious festivals like Rotterdam, Busan, Sao Paulo, Goteborg, Seattle, Camerimage, and otherfestivals in competition and have won awards. His feature films were released in theatres in many countries.