Yakasi's Daughter

Film | 📅 Tuesday, 21 July 2026 ⏰ 6:30pm | 📍India International Centre, Lodhi Estate | 🎟️Free Entry

Date and Time: Tuesday, 21 July 2026, 6:30pm

Entry: Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

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Venue: C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003, India

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Event Description: Yakasi's Daughter

Fourteen-year-old Jariyum lives with her family on a remote river island in Assam, where annual floods, poverty and isolation shape everyday life. A member of the Mising community, she dreams of a future different from that of her mother, Yakasi, whose life has been marked by hardship and domestic drudgery. As Jariyum prepares to elope with her young fiancé in the hope of a better life, she finds herself confronting the realities of the world around her and the uncertainties that lie ahead. 

Year: 2025

Film Duration: 74 minutes

Language: Mising with English subtitles

Director: Jayanta Madhab Dutta

Cast: Rina Dole, Diganta Pegu 

Collaboration: FIPRESCI India

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