Anu (2023)

A recently widowed woman moves from India to New Zealand and, stuck in hotel quarantine, has to carry out the Hindu funeral rite meant to grant the departed's soul salvation with only what she has on hand. Pulkit Arora wrote and directed it out of his own grief and displacement, and the restraint shows: there is no music and very little dialogue across its 14 minutes. It won the Audience Award at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Choose it for anyone who has grieved far from home, or without the rituals and the people they needed around them. It streams on Shortverse.