Not Today (Virtual screening)

Friday, February 18, 2022 @ 12:00am

NJ Film Festival

Available online for 24 hours on February 18 starting at midnight

Not Today - Aditya Kripalani (Singapore, Singapore) - In this tense and gripping feature film, a 24-year-old from a traditional Muslim family in Mumbai goes to work secretly as a suicide prevention counsellor. On her first day, she encounters a 52-year-old man, standing atop a high-rise, wanting to jump. In trying to bring him down, she is forced to confront why she became a Suicide Prevention Counsellor in the first place, and also share a lot of herself to get him to share and open up. In English and Hindi, subtitled. 2021; 93 min.