PINE CONE*

Dir: Onir

105 min | 2023 | India | Hindi | World Premiere

Pine Cone features three stories from the life of filmmaker Sid Mehra, as he negotiates relationships in his search for love. The stories are in reverse chronological order – 2019, 2009, and 1999. A human being is a human being, and love is love, and Sid while proudly gay, is not defined by it. It is about a man who refuses to apologise for who he is, a man determined to live life in full – the prejudices of the world be damned!

Onir is a national award winning Indian filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor. He debut film My Brother...Nikhil (2005) is considered to be one of the first mainstream Hindi films to have the lead protagonist as Gay. He won the Indian National Film awards for Best Film (Hindi) for the anthology I AM in 2011.Onir has received the Diversity Award from Film Victoria Australia and La Trobe University at IFFM 2019. His latest film Pine Cone, which is his seventh fiction feature, is loosely based on his biography I Am Onir and I Am Gay published by Penguin Viking.