Siddharth

A spellbinding and gorgeously wrought tale of one father's journey across India in search of his son. Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the bustling streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory. When the boy doesn't come home for the Diwali holiday, Mehendra and his wife Suman slowly begin to suspect that he was kidnapped by child traffickers.

With few resources and no connections, Mehendra desperately travels to Punjab and Mumbai with the hope that whoever took Siddharth might return him unharmed.

Winner of the Best Film and Best Director Award at the South Asian International Film Festival. Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"A spare, lean and decidedly unsettling account of the ugly reality of child labor and child abduction in India." - Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer