India, Sept. 21 -- Anghba, the last surviving chief of a deserted Nagaland village who lives with his ailing wife and son, is a witness to the region's transformation and must guard his age-old beliefs and customs from what he believes is the incursion of a missionary who threatens his community's existence.

Angh captures the haunting and intimate story of a father and son, the latter increasingly seduced by the comforts of the mission. Simultaneously, the film observes the process of conversion that reframes the local culture as primitive.

Made by Naga filmmaker Theja Rio and an adaptation of his own award-winning 2021 short film, the gripping, multilayered feature film, which captures a culture rarely depicted on screen, has taken a b...