Director: | Shehrezad Maher |
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Production: | Fae Pictures (Lindsay Blair Goeldner, Shant Joshi), Meetra Javed |
Running Time: | 19’ |
Language: | English, Urdu |
Country: | USA |
Year: | 2025 |
Main Cast: | Sathya Sridharan, Balinder Johal, Sara Haider, Rajesh Bose, Chris Thorn, Salwa Khan |
Screenplay: | Shehrezad Maher |
Cinematographer: | Dustin Lane |
Production Designer: | Ana Novačić |
Costume Designer: | Katharina Windemuth |
Music: | Zubin Hensler |
Sound: | Boris Krichevsky, John Dykstra, Eli Cohn |
Visual Effects: | Michael Hearty |
The Curfew

Synopsis
When Ayaan becomes a temporary caregiver for his grandmother, they find themselves adrift in the gulf of a language barrier. In the silence, spectres of a colonial past shift how he sees strangers and himself.
Director’s Statement
I grew up in a fraught post- colonial society in Pakistan, studying dusty English novels and whitewashed history books within the slowly deteriorating walls of British colonial architecture.
The Curfew explores how colonial legacies mutate across generations and geographies — how a distant, inherited past can quietly infiltrate the rhythms of a life built elsewhere.
Production/distribution
PRODUCTION 1:
Fae Pictures - Lindsay Blair Goeldner, Shant Joshi
129 Carlton Ave, Apt 3B
11205 Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
Tel: +1 917-436-3564
E-mail: lindsay@faepictures.com, shant@faepictures.com
Web: http://www.faepictures.com/
Social Media: @faepictures – Instagram
PRODUCTION 2:
Meetra Javed
20 Grand Ave, Unit# 306
11205 Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
Tel: +1 631-880-1020
E-mail: jmeetra@gmail.com
Web: http://www.meetrajaved.com/
Social Media: @meeetraaa – Instagram
PRODUCTION 3:
Baby Daal Productions - Fawzia Mirza, Andria Wilson Mirza
1110 N Virgil Ave, #110
90029 Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
Tel: +1 902-476-3331
E-mail: info@babydaalproductions.com
Web: http://www.babydaalproductions.com/
Social Media: @babydaalproductions - Instagram
PRESS OFFICE:
Shehrezad Maher - Fae Pictures
417 Suydam Street, Apt 3°
11237 Brooklyn, NY, United States of America
E-mail: shehrezad.maher@gmail.com