Hold Still

Directed by Shalini Adnani

In Victorian England, Charles and Pearl Ashcroft display stolen artifacts from South American indigenous tribes in their cabinet of curiosities, selling the sacred for profit. Into this world steps Achik, a man first paraded as a “living artifact”. But his beauty unsettles the order: Pearl, starved for touch, is consumed with longing, while Charles, rigid and repressed, oscillates between control and forbidden desire.