Feature Film
India
In the wake of her father's early death, a young girl takes her goldfish where her father always promised to take her, The Grand Canyon, despite the pursuit of her tormented uncle and high-strung mother.
Magical realism for adults
Flagstaff, Arizona, 2008. Eight-year-old India has just lost her father, and she is not taking it quietly. She is restless and stubborn and hungry for the kind of adventures he used to promise her, and her mom, Luciana, is too worn out to give her any. So India takes matters into her own small hands. Her pet goldfish has spent his entire life watching the world go by from a bowl on the dresser, and she decides he deserves to see something wonderful before it's too late. Destination: the Grand Canyon.
She sneaks onto a city bus with the fishbowl in her lap, and the farther she gets from home, the more the journey takes on the color of her imagination, until an ordinary runaway's bus trip starts to feel like the grand adventure she has always wanted. Along the way there are ghost towns, magic jelly beans, a candy man, and a boy named Rocket who is almost certainly lying about his name. Meanwhile Luciana and India's gentle, rattled uncle Marcello are chasing her across the state, each of them slowly learning how to love a person without holding on so tightly it hurts. India is a warm and funny film about grief and imagination, and about a little girl who just wants to give her goldfish, and herself, one real adventure.