Goldfish deals with memory, music, mental health and identity. Anamika (Ana), the child of a mixed marriage, returns home to her estranged, elderly mother Sadhana. Ana returns to a neighborhood she barely remembers, and to a woman who sometimes doesn’t remember her. Mother and daughter, strangers for over a decade, find themselves thrown together once again into a relationship that has always been difficult and damaging. Some of it was a by-product of their circumstance, some of it was deliberate. Ana thinks that she will resolve the situation in a few short days but is instead drawn deeper and deeper into Sadhana’s life and its strange peculiarities – a best friend who is also her worst enemy, a married lover, and a musical apprentice. 

Ana is forced to become several things, all at once: she is daughter and mother, caregiver, secretary, detective, shield and scalpel. Ana begins to discover a woman she never knew at home, alive in memory, in anecdote, in the music she doesn’t understand. The film takes place over a single day, but that day is the distillation of the three months we see on screen, and of their whole lives.

Directed by Pushan Kripalani, this Indian-British-American production brings together powerhouse talents Kalki Koechlin, Deepti Naval and Rajit Kapur, with some extraordinary actors from the UK – Bharti Patel, Gordon Warnecke, Ravin Ganatra and Shanaya Rafaat – to tell a delicate, timeless story of a mother and a daughter, and of community.

Goldfish had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival and then played the Goa International Film Festival of India, among many others. US and Canadian theatrical run begins on August 25, when the film will also open day-and-date in India.