White Snow

A stirring and powerful political drama that follows a mother’s journey through the Kashmir Himalayan peaks to screen her son’s film, which has been banned by fanatics and the state for the absurd reason of causing social unrest.

  • Director

    Praveen Morchhale

  • With

    Madhu Kandhari, Bhavya Khurana, Kachoo Ahmad Khan

  • India 2025. 81min

  • Digital

  • Urdu with English subtitles

Praveen Morchhale (Widow of Silence) returns to the festival with his deceptively powerful political drama. Set in Kashmir, we follow the journey of filmmaker Amir, whose short film gets banned after a complaint from a local religious leader, eventually leading to Amir’s arrest. However, his elderly mother, Fatima, is unwilling to stand by while her son is being silenced and sets off on an arduous journey with her yak and an old cathode Philips TV and a DVD player to show his film in villages across the Himalayan mountains.