This story is about a girl’s secret dream of being a performer. But she is not just an ordinary girl, since her job is assisting the actors and helping them get ready as well as doing other odd jobs around the theater. Her life is constantly surrounded by her dream, but unfortunately in a very different context.

A 13-year-old girl and a 30-something man are brought to a police station in Mumbai in the middle of the night by two strangers. Amidst questionable motives and unreliable narrators, a frustrated female constable investigates what happened that night, and what could’ve happened.

Reema Maya aka Reema Sengupta is an award-winning filmmaker, known for her socially relevant independent work and eclectic commercial work. Reema’s short film Counterfeit Kunkoo had its world premier at the Sundance Film Festival 2018, where it was the first Indian fiction short to be nominated in 16 years...

Maya takes her parents and sister to the desert in order to film them for an additional scene in her film. But the day of filming turns into a never-ending family argument, and it becomes unclear whether they will even manage to cooperate and become a team.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 8.4.92. From 2009 – 2010 she studied cinema in ”Hadarim high school” and worked on many film sets. From 2014 – 2019 she was a student in “Minshar school of art” in Tel Aviv. Since 2014 she has been working as a freelance editor. Most of her films she writes are about her family and in which she plays along with her real family members... In 2022 she directed and wrote the short film “Killing ourselves”, sponsored by “Gesher Film Foundation” and premiered at “Jerusalem film festival “ and won the Best Live Action Film...

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Except for mountain landscapes, magical rocks, and a few other kids, the village where Xiaohui lives with his grandfather and two cows has nothing to offer. The nine-year-old sorely misses his parents who work in the city. When grandpa has to sell a calf, the clever grandson tries everything to prevent the separation of mother and child. A soulful cry for love in times of capitalism.

Xinying Lao was born in Guangxi, China in 1997. Xinying Lao is a Chinese filmmaker and a third-year Graduate Film student at New York University. She is a director, writer, and editor. She has made several doc shorts and narrative shorts. She studied journalism as an undergraduate, which brought her into contact with people from different classes in society. In her films, she is dedicated to conveying the vulnerability that people are afraid to express in reality. Xiaohui and His Cows is her second-year film project at NYU.