2026 / 28' / English / India
✦ Intersectional
Through landscapes and nocturnal glimpses of men claiming public space, a Kashmiri woman narrates her lifelong negotiation with fear, curfews, and gendered restriction. The film is a quiet meditation on how the smallest desires expose the vast inequalities that shape women’s freedom.
Director(s) : Muntaha Amin
Producer(s) : Bitchitra Collective
Cinematographer(s) : Mir Musavir Shabir, Attaul Munim Zahid
Writer(s) : Muntaha Amin
Editor(s) : Attaul Munim Zahid
Voiceover Artist: Aiman Khan
Sound : A. Bhaskar Rao
Music : A. Bhaskar Rao
Muntaha Amin is a researcher and an independent woman film practitioner. She identifies as a Kashmiri Muslim Woman and tells stories from living this triply marginalised identity. She works as a narrative editor, cultural consultant, and film practitioner on freelance film and multimedia projects. She has done her Masters in Mass Communication from AJK, MCRC Jamia Millia Islamia and BA Honors English Literature from Ramjas College, University of Delhi.
Siege in the Air, her debut short, premiered at various international film festivals including the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, IDSSFK Kerala, Kolkata People’s Film Festival, 2023 New Castle University’s Memory Studies Conference, etc. The film received the Tareque Masud Best Debut Film award at Film South Asia 2024, Best Documentary Award at the Himachal Short Film Festival (2022) and was long-listed for the Toto Awards 2023
Muntaha wants to be a storyteller in whatever medium allows her to be. She believes “when forces are hell-bent on erasing the mere existence of certain communities altogether, remembering and telling one’s stories become all the more urgent and necessary.”
