Songs of Forgotten Trees

In the restless sprawl of Mumbai, Thooya, a migrant and aspiring actress, navigates the city with beauty, wit, and uneasy compromises. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s sleek apartment to Swetha, a corporate professional new to the city, two seemingly different lives begin to overlap.

As the women share space, silence, and the weight of their private struggles, a quiet, unexpected empathy emerges. Their bond is personal, but also deeply political—born not of drama, but of mutual recognition and the fragile intimacy that arises between women navigating the metropolis that never sleeps.

Through measured pacing and understated storytelling, Song of Forgotten Trees examines womanhood, survival, and desire in a society where women are often erased, objectified, or filtered through a male gaze. The title, evoking the endangered hollong tree, underscores the weight of disappearance and the void left behind. In this quiet, profoundly empathetic story, two women forge a kinship that defies expectation, claiming space to simply be themselves in a world that refuses to see them.

ANUPARNA ROY
Anuparna Roy is a filmmaker and writer from West Bengal, India. She graduated in British English Literature from Burdwan University and began her career as an assistant director on short films. Her debut short, Run to the River (2022), screened at multiple international festivals, earning several awards. Her first feature, Songs of Forgotten Trees (2025), won the Best Director Award in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival.

Sun Apr 26, 2026 | 21:00
Stadtkkino
Red Lotus 2026

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India 2025
78 Min | Color | HIndi with English subtitles

Directed by Anuparna ROY

Songs of Forgotten Trees © Celluloid Dreams