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Leeches

India /SHORT - 27 minutes / Urdu,  Dakhani with English subtitles
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SYNOPSIS
Raisa lives with her Ammi and three younger sisters in Hyderabad's Old City. When Ammi promises her 13-year old daughter, Zainab, in marriage to a foreign businessman, Raisa decides to save her little sister at any cost.

In an old custom that has found new roots among poor families in Muslim ghettos, rich patrons pay for an arrangement brokered by efficient agents, while a pliant cleric draws up both marriage and divorce contracts simultaneously, so that the businessman is free to end the sham union whenever
he is ready to leave the city.

Desperate to find a way out for Zainab, Raisa hatches a dangerous and improbable plan involving an archaic remedy that claims to restore a girl's virginity.
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TRAILER
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SATURDAY, APRIL 22nd
REGAL ARBOR - AUSTIN, TX


11:00 am - 1:00 pm​
This short film will screen before the feature from Iran/Afghanistan PARTING.
​CAST
Sayani Gupta | Raisa
Mohammed Abdul Razzak | Nawaz
Preeti Golacha | Zainab
Manju Raval | Bilqis
Najma Nusrat | Ammi
Barkat Khan | Shafiq
Sherin Bhatt | Mariam
Agha Asker Hussain | Sheikh

CREW
Director - Payal Sethi
Writers – Payal Sethi, Samir Patil
Director of Photography - James Demetri
Composer – Tanuj Tiku
Art Director – Hiromi Sano
Editor – Vivan Chopra
Sound Designer - Udit Duseja
Producer - Payal Sethi, Apoorva Marur,
Amartya Shahani
Executive Producer – Hansdip Bindra, Samrat
Chakrabarti, Pooja Kohli
Co-Producer – Judith Marcellene, Purab Kohli

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  • FILMS
    • Shor Se Shuruaat
    • An Insignificant Man
    • Parting
    • Chronicles of Hari
    • Mukti Bhawan
    • White Sun
    • Phobia
    • Lipstick Under My Burkha
    • The Cinema Travellers
    • The Robe
    • Leeches
    • The New Machine
    • Foren
    • Me Chabbar Abu Chachu
    • Sameer And The Giant Samosa
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