LumoTV Screening: My Mother’s Spices and Ode to Seventeen

Duration: 1 hour
Warning: Ode to Seventeen contains frequent strong language and features intense themes related to mental health. Viewer discretion is advised.
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A double-bill screening of two recent short films from LumoTV.

My Mother’s Spices: After her mother is hospitalised, a deaf British-Sri Lankan woman returns to her quiet childhood home, where re-creating a sacred family recipe forces her to confront the cultural fractures and deep-rooted love that bind them together. Can the space between generations truly close, or will it always hold a silence only love can fill? Starring Ruchika Jain and Sankeetha Gathani and written and directed by Nadia Nadarajah, a Slick Films production for LumoTV.

Ode to Seventeen: A vulnerable 17-year-old Hana waits at a London bus stop at midnight, grappling with her identity and a fading sense of safety. When an oddly familiar older woman joins her, a raw, emotional dialogue unfolds. Hana soon realises the stranger holding her together is her 27-year-old self. Together, across a decade of time, they begin to piece their broken selves back together like Kintsugi.