2026 Watch Series: Around the World in 365 Days: Entry 46 (India 🇮🇳 Film #1) Sundance Film Festival Online Series

Three and a half stars for the togetherness between the women, the impeccable cinematography and sound design (always love a film that makes us feel the environment), and for the killer title card.

I can’t express how beautiful and tender this film is. How it made me feel homesick for a home I’ve never fully known (aside from going back to Hyderabad every Holiday break growing up).

Hearing Telugu, even though I barely understand it, seeing a story take place during the festival (Sankranti) that always is right before my birthday, seeing a story about two women just existing and connecting without needing all the words, without needing to be perfect - I felt so held. It’s so hard to describe.

Raman has told such a beautiful, not often told story. And from the more technical standpoint? Cinematography was excellent, and so patient. Color grading was brilliant, and captured the festival so perfectly without needing a heavy hand.

My favourite film of the festival.

O'Sey Balamma (2026) is a quality start to something more, but as it stands, not a fully realized vision.

Wonderful characterization and staging and deeply, deeply humorous—maybe the very best of the Sundance short films??

buddy comedy sequel where they team up to kidnap her son to make him visit

Shatamanam Bhavati comes to Sundance

very sensory and shot very well

Those we let down even if not done with malice intent- made one think about priorities

Very pretty to look at and nice colors, I liked

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Film #27

This failed to interest me so much that I contemplated not rating it at all

2026 Ranked

Beautifully shot.

Awesome cool to see another side of India and the inner relationships between a lady and her house maid! Q and a with director he said it was inspired by his gma and her housemaid and that’s so beautiful that he sees these dynamics between them and shares such a cool story wow