INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
Pankaja
Director
Anooya Swamy
Producers
Anooya Swamy
Archana Swamy
Nakirekanti Swamy
Vindhya Gupta
Cinematographer
Luke Kao
Editors
Anooya Swamy
Maria Belu Poncio
Sound
Anirban Borthakur
Website
Contact
Lights On
[email protected]
2026
India, United States
14 min
Color
The story follows Pankaja, a woman who, along with her daughter Lalli, desperately navigates the city slums and bureaucracy of Bangalore in a quest to locate her missing husband.
Directors' Biography
Anooya Swamy is a New York–based Indian filmmaker born and raised in Bangalore, pursuing her MFA in film/TV production at Tisch School of the Arts, where she served as Spike Lee’s assistant. She is an Ang Lee Scholar, a BAFTA Scholar, and a Sundance Ignite x Adobe fellow.
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Habibi
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Kleptomania
Norheimsund
Robin in the Hood
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SightNotSeeing
Stallion and a Crystal Ball
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The Weary Hours Of Two Lab Assistants
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Venezia Diorama
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Whispers of a Burning Scent
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