Shape of Momo
Southeast Asian Premiere
Tribeny Rai India, South Korea 2025 114 min PG
When a young woman leaves Delhi and returns to her Himalayan hometown, she grapples with its increasingly suffocating expectations.
After quitting her job in Delhi, university-educated Bishnu returns to her Sikkimese home village only to confront mounting family anxieties, the pressure to find a suitable husband, as well as the ways in which her expectations of life clash with those of her family and community. Drawing from personal experience, Tribeny Rai crafts a nuanced, multi-generational portrait of women shaped by inherited expectations that often become constraints.
Shape of Momo offers an unflinching look at a young woman’s struggle for autonomy in a patriarchal rural environment. Rai’s restrained, observational style echoes Jia Zhangke, using cinema as a vessel to preserve voices too often silenced by beauty or nostalgia.
Synopsis Writer: Hsieh I-hsuan
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
6 Dec, Sat 9:00PM / 114 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 4
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7 Dec, Sun 2:00PM / 114 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 4
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Shape of Momo
Chhora Jastai
Tribeny Rai
India, South Korea
2025
Nepali
English
114 min
PG
Southeast Asian Premiere
Tribeny Rai
Tribeny Rai is a filmmaker from Sikkim, India. A graduate of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, she has been making short films and documentaries under her production house, Dalley Khorsani Productions, since 2015. Shape of Momo, her debut feature, was screened at the San Sebastián and Busan.
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