Sep 30 2025 to Sep 30 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

82 minutes | English | 2024 | India

What does it mean to face the end on one’s own terms—and in the company of friends?

A Fly on the Wall, directed by Nilesh Maniyar and Shonali Bose, traces the final chapter in the life of Chika Kapadia, framed through the intimate lens of friendship. In a quiet Swiss town, loved ones gather from across the world to raise a last toast, while a filmmaker friend documents the delicate passage between celebration and farewell. What unfolds is a tender meditation on choice, companionship, and the courage to define one’s own ending.

Layered with memory and emotion, the film draws viewers into a journey where the everyday collides with the profound, and where the act of bearing witness becomes as significant as the story itself.

After the screening, directors Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar will be present for an in-person discussion with Sandhya Kumar, followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Check out the trailer here

In collaboration with:

Speakers

Shonali Bose & Nilesh Maniyar
Directors
A Fly on the Wall marks the fourth collaboration of Directors Nilesh Maniyar and Shonali Bose. Their decade long journey of filmmaking together began with the landmark feature film Margarita with a Straw starring Kalki Koechlin – Co-written, Co-directed and Co-produced by them. It had its World Premiere at TIFF where it won the NETPAC Jury award and went on to screen in over a 100 film festivals winning 48 awards. This was followed by The Sky is Pink starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Farhan Akhtar Co-written by them and directed by Shonali which was the only Asian film in the Gala section at TIFF. Nilesh wrote Raatrani, directed by Shonali, starring Fatimah Sana Shaikh, which headlined Modern Love Mumbai on Prime Video. Nilesh has directed a documentary – Black Sunshine Baby – streaming on Netflix  and is in development on a Series and a Feature as a Director. Shonali’s debut feature Amu won 2 National Awards, the FIPRESCI prize and was at Berlin and TIFF amongst many other festivals and awards. Her new show Ziddi Girls of which she is the Lead Director released on Prime on Feb 27. They are both in development independently of each other on OTT Series and feature films.

Sandhya Kumar
Sandhya Kumar is a filmmaker and editor based in Bangalore. A graduate of San Francisco Art Institute and Jamia Millia University, New Delhi, her work is inspired by the desire to make visible the poetry of everyday life.  She has received film grants from the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) and the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) and has been an ATSA fellow at ARThink South Asia. Sandhya is a trustee of Vikalp Bengaluru; a filmmakers’ collective committed to creating platforms for documentary films to reach wider audiences.