The screening for Land of Gold will be shown at TIFF Bell Lightbox 3.
USA2022105 minutesEnglish, Punjabi, Spanish with English subtitlesToronto PremiereDrama, Family
Kiran, a first-generation Punjabi truck driver, is about to become a father, but he is preoccupied by questions and reflections on family, fatherhood, and responsibility. He embarks on one last work trip to clear his head, but what starts as a peaceful, meditative journey shifts abruptly when he hears pounding inside a shipping container and discovers an undocumented girl named Elena inside. After much convincing, he agrees to set out on a cross-country road trip in search of her family, as the pair bond over music, culturally specific food, and what it means to be seen as “other” in white America.
Nardeep Khurmi skillfully directs and performs in an impressive feature debut to create a profoundly poignant and timely look at solidarity, difference, and found family, while asking us to contemplate the bonds we create with strangers and the memories and traumas that both haunt us and shape us into who we are.
- Mariam Zaidi
Nardeep Khurmi
Caroline Valencia
Pallavi Sastry
Riti Sachdeva
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Tribeca Film Festival, 2022
Nardeep Khurmi
Nardeep Khurmi is an award-winning filmmaker whose narratives spotlight underrepresented communities. He hails from the ‘burbs of Philly by way of Switzerland and graduated from New York University. Land of Gold, his debut feature, is the recipient of the 2021 ATT Untold Stories grand prize and 2021 Fall ScreenCraft Film Fund.
10 Nov, 2022 6:00 pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox 3The screening for Land of Gold will be shown at TIFF Bell Lightbox 3.
RATED PG
Available captions will be updated closer to the festival dates.
Join us for a Q&A immediately after the theatrical presentation with producer Simon Taufique.
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