Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal have come aboard as producers on “Secrets and techniques of a Mountain Serpent” by their banner Pushing Buttons Studios, with the characteristic set to make its world premiere on the Venice Movie Competition.

The movie is directed by Nidhi Saxena, who received Venice’s Biennale School Fund grant for the mission. Saxena beforehand helmed “Unhappy Letters of an Imaginary Girl,” which premiered on the 2024 Busan Worldwide Movie Competition.

“Secrets and techniques of a Mountain Serpent” is co-produced with Forest Flower Movies, the banner of Cannes Digital camera d’Or winner Vimukthi Jayasundara. Set in a distant Himalayan city throughout the Nineties, the intimate drama follows Barkha (Trimala Adhikari), a schoolteacher whose husband is stationed on the border. In an setting the place most males are absent and silence permeates each day life, Barkha turns into drawn to Manik Guho (Adil Hussain), a mysterious outsider who disrupts the fragile equilibrium of ready, restraint and native mythology.

Chadha and Fazal launched Pushing Buttons Studios to champion genuine, emotionally pushed storytelling. Their “Women Will Be Women,” directed by Shuchi Talati, received two awards at Sundance final 12 months.

“We have been instantly drawn to Nidhi’s lyrical imaginative and prescient. This can be a story rooted in delusion and but is startlingly related right now. At PBS, we imagine in backing storytellers who take inventive dangers and Nidhi has crafted one thing singular, poetic, and soulful,” Chadha and Fazal mentioned.

Saxena, who additionally wrote the screenplay, added: “This movie is about girls selected to threat all the things and observe their wishes, shedding the burden of moralities imposed upon them by the world. I used to be on the lookout for kindred collaborators and this appears like a gathering of minds and hearts. It additionally appears like we not must borrow males’s voices to inform our tales. We’ve our personal voice, which is powerful, with femininity.”

The manufacturing has accomplished principal pictures and is presently in post-production forward of its Venice bow.