White Elephant

Set in 1996, in a majority-minority neighborhood, 16-year-old Pooja finds herself torn between her crush on a white boy, and her Brown and Black friends. Her pursuit takes a violent turn, making her quest for love, a question of self
It’s 1996. Pooja is a teenage girl with a crush on a white boy, just like the ones in the movies she loves. But having grown up in a mostly Black and Brown neighbourhood, there is a hostile cultural divide between their friends. But, this isn’t a love story – this is a self-love story.