Toronto Title ‘In Search of the Sky’ Tackles Mental Health Stigma in Rural India: ‘How Society Can Be So Ruthless’

In rural India, families with mentally challenged children face impossible choices between love and survival. Debut filmmaker Jitank Singh Gurjar’s “In Search of the Sky” (“Vimukt”) confronts this harsh reality through the journey of a couple who bring their mentally unstable son to the Maha Kumbh — a massive Hindu pilgrimage held every 12 years […]