Listed by Gaurav Dhingra
Genre family, drama, period
Original Language English
Duration 97 (excluding credits)
Runtime 97 (excluding credits)
Completion Year 2026
Project Status Completed
Project Type Feature Film
Production Company Winter Hymns Films & Undercover Squirrel
Sales Agent Jungle Book Studio
Cast Anglong Konyak, Sobino Rengma, Douglas Henshall, Ganpai Konyak, Wanton Konyak, Amah Konyak
Director Theja Rio
Producer Nancy Nisa Beso
World Sales | Distributor | Executive Producer Gaurav Dhingra
Set in 1963, a village in Nagaland remains one of the last bastions of the headhunters. A former village chief and his son, the only two remaining people to follow their ancient faith, live in isolation as they struggle to exist in a changing world.
Set in the remote jungles of Nagaland near the Indo-Burma border in the early 1960s, ANGH follows Anghba, a former headhunter and the last surviving chief of an abandoned Konyak village, who lives in isolation with his ailing wife and his young, non-speaking son, Amao. Rooted in the oral histories and spiritual traditions of the Konyak people, Anghba holds fiercely to the beliefs and ways of life passed down through generations. But the world around him is changing. The arrival of an American missionary brings Christianity deeper into the hills, and neighbouring villages begin to embrace a new faith and a different future. Anghba, however, remains determined to preserve the traditions and beliefs that have defined his people for generations. As food grows scarce and illness settles over his household, the fragile balance of their world begins to shift. While Anghba retreats deeper into tradition, Amao becomes increasingly drawn towards the unfamiliar possibilities emerging beyond the forest. An intimate father-son story unfolding at a moment of profound cultural change, ANGH is a meditation on faith, identity, belonging and survival. Capturing a landscape, community, and history rarely seen in world cinema, the film reflects on the fragile space between preservation and change, as the boundaries between past and future begin to blur