NYIFF 2025-A Fly On The Wall

A Fly On The Wall
Director: Nilesh Maniyar, Shonali Bose
Run time: 1 hour 22 minutes
Language: English
Year Made: 2024
Country: India

Synopsis:
A friendship walks the distance between life and death in Nilesh Maniyar and Shonali Bose’s “A Fly on the Wall.” Loved ones , pour in from different parts of the world to raise one last toast with Chika Kapadia. In the coming week he has an appointment at Dignitas for physician assisted suicide, as he chose not to be tied to tubes and wires in his last moments.

A film maker friend tasked with shooting Chika’s countdown to death, records her own feelings too. Thus weaving a tale of dignity in death through the lens of friendship. Ironically, the locale is beautiful Switzerland - the backdrop of many a blockbuster Indian film.

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 Premier 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 was the first episode of 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 and was at Berlin and TIFF amongst many other festivals and awards.

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