Roundglass Sustain’s short film A Spring Against All Odds to be showcased at international film festival
The short film 'A Spring Against All Odds' by Roundglass Sustain has been selected for the Film SouthAsia festival in Kathmandu. The documentary explores the filmmaker's emotional journey and connection to nature while living in Delhi during a period of personal and societal crisis.
Why it matters
The film serves as a cultural reflection on how nature and urban environments intersect during times of collective trauma and environmental change.
Roundglass Sustain’s short film A Spring Against All Odds opens with a poignant couplet by 18th-century Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir: “My heart and my Delhi may both be in ruins; There are still some delights in this ravaged home.”
Centuries later, the words still ring true, setting the tone for this layered, deeply introspective film, one of the 48 films selected for Film SouthAsia (FSA), an international documentary film festival to be held in Kathmandu from November 27–29, 2026. Based on a story and script by Radhika Raj and directed and edited by Samreen Farooqui, both associated with Roundglass Sustain, the film captures the three years Radhika spent obsessing over the red silk cotton tree, or semal, outside her window in her Delhi home.
The film poster | Photo Credit: Designed by Hariom
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