In the first-ever Indian retirement complex in the U.S, a tight-knit group of Indian immigrants forge a resilient community, navigating family tensions, cultural longing and the realities of growing old together. Told through the lives of several residents, this is a story of the first generation of Indian immigrants growing old in America.
Sarita Khurana is an award-winning film director and cultural producer. Khurana’s feature film, ‘A Suitable Girl’, world premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival documentary competition section, and won the Best New Documentary Director prize.‘A Suitable Girl’has screened worldwide at festivals including Hot Docs, Sheffield, Mumbai Film Festival, AFI Docs, and is distributed by Amazon (USA) and Netflix (worldwide). Her most recent film, ‘The Last Resort’, recently won Best Documentary at ISAFF in Canada, and her short ‘Crossroads’, about the Fed Ex mass shooting in Indianapolis, was Emmy-nominated as part of the series, ‘Asian American Stories Of Resilience And Beyond’ (2022), coproduced by PBS/World Channel, Asian American Documentary Network, and the Center for Asian American Media. She holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) is the oldest, most prestigious film festival screening premieres of feature, documentary and
short films made from, of, and about the Indian subcontinent in the Independent, arthouse, alternate and diaspora genres.
