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AFS Cinema

Virtual May 3 - May 5, 2024

Shera

Texas Premiere

Shera

India | Short

2023 | 20 mins | Kumaoni

Winner Best Film - Bulbul Children's International Film Festival, Selections - LA Shorts International Film Festival

When MONU’s (11) parents decide to migrate from their remote Himalayan village to the city, he realizes that he may never be able to see SHERA, the elusive leopard that lives in the forests around his village. Everyone in the village seems to have seen him but MONU. As the day of departure nears, MONU grows despondent but his best friend RAJU is determined to give him the best parting gift he can think of – a view of SHERA.

About the Artist

Arun Fulara

Arun Fulara is a writer and filmmaker based out of Mumbai, India. His short films SUNDAY (2020), MY MOTHER’S GIRLFRIEND (2021), and SHERA (2023) have travelled travelled widely to festivals to more than 150 festivals around the world and won over a dozen awards at festivals internationally. He previously assisted acclaimed filmmaker Devashish Makhija on award winning films like AJJI & BHONSLE. He’s also a published writer, his short story, THE LEOPARD OF BAGESHWAR, was published by Juggernaut in 2017 and a picture book based on his short film SHERA is on the anvil. He’s currently working on multiple projects, including his debut feature film – MY HOME IS IN THE HILLS – a coming-of-age drama set in a north Indian Himalayan village, and steeped in magical realism in the context of migration.

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Trailer

Credits

Crew:

Director:   

Arun Fulara

Writer:

Arun Fulara

Producer(s):

Sharib Khan, Vikas Kumar

Film Editor:

Vivekanand Daakhore

Featured Cast:

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Sagar Kumar, Parth Pandey, Arushi Nagarkoti, Chia Joshi, Madan Mehra, Bijli (The Goat), the villagers of Mayoun.

Thank you to our community partners for this screening!

This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

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