Across the shifting seasons of rural Nepal, a
woman's life unfolds through childhood, adulthood,
and old age, as symbols of innocence, pain, and
choice trace her silent journey toward death,
witnessed not by fear, but by grace.

The Silent Pyre follows Geeta, a woman whose life
unfolds across three stages: childhood, adulthood,
and old age. Through fleeting moments and long
silences, the film captures how trauma, memory, and
resilience intertwine across a lifetime.
Young Geeta is assaulted and everything changes for
her. She gets a scar and a trauma that follows her
throughout her life, akin to death. As an adult, Geeta
is attracted to a teacher who demands physical
intimacy. When she hesitates, she is assaulted again,
not physically but emotionally she is discarded, and
her rekindled trust is shattered.
Anchored by three symbolic threads - a swing, a scar,
and an anklet - Geeta's journey becomes a
meditation on how pain does not vanish but
transforms. As she nears the end of her life, the
presence of death, imagined not as a taker but as a
silent observer, lingers in the margins of each frame.
A quiet reckoning with loss, womanhood, and the
sacred weight of survival, The Silent Pyre is told with
poetic realism and visual intimacy. It is a cinematic
elegy.