Lakshmi crouches in the grass reaching for a scattered red cloth, a boulder and forest behind her.

Kannada · Short film · 2025

Flowers We Couldn't Touch

As conflict between the State and an armed resistance rages around them, a tribal girl and her mother fight to keep living on the forest land they call home

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Flowers We Couldn't Touch follows Lakshmi, a young tribal girl, and her mother as they try to survive in a forest home threatened by displacement. The oppression of the State and the violence of an armed conflict unfold in the background, while the film stays close to Lakshmi's innocence and her love for flowers — a quiet portrait of the ordinary lives caught in the shadow of a larger struggle

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