The Field | |
Director: | Sandhya Suri |
Producer: | Balthazar De Ganay Thomas Bidegain |
Starring: | Mia Maelzer Ravi Choudhuri Vittha Nagnath Kale |
Cinematography: | Benoît Soler |
Editing: | Nicolas Chaudeurge |
Studio: | Film London Lionfish Films L'Homme du train |
Runtime: | 19 minutes |
Country: | France India United Kingdom |
The Field is a short drama film, directed by Sandhya Suri and released in 2018.[1] The film stars Mia Maelzer as Laila, a woman who works in the cornfields in the small agricultural town of Shahzadpur, Haryana, who has secret romantic interludes with her lover in the fields at night.[2]
The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best International Short Film.[3]
The film was a British Independent Film Award nominee for Best Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards 2018,[4] and a BAFTA Award nominee for Best Short Film at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards in 2019.[5]