Parallax boards trans drama 'Aman' ahead of Toronto premiere
A 16-minute drama about a trans man who discovers he is pregnant on the eve of his gender-affirming surgery has secured worldwide sales representation before its first screening. Parallax Films has boarded Aman for global sales, as reported by Variety on 13 September.
Written and directed by Rahul Roye, the film is a U.K.-U.S.-India-France co-production shot in Hindi and Bengali. A co-production means companies from different countries shared the production work and costs. The run time is 16 minutes.
The film will have its world premiere in the Short Cuts competition at the Toronto Film Festival. Short Cuts is Toronto's competitive section for short films. Aman is listed in Short Cuts Programme 06, part of a 2026 line-up of 45 short films from 30 countries, according to TIFF.
After Toronto, it will travel to the BFI London Film Festival for its European premiere. It will play in the festival's competition section, which selects 10 shorts from across the world. The London slot is listed as the Short Film Competition for Best Short Film at the 70th edition, according to the BFI.
Kabir Maan, a transgender activist, stars in the title role. Maan is new to acting. He appears opposite Sirat Taneja, Guntaj Deep Singh and Satakshi Nandy, with Taneja previously seen at Toronto in Deepa Mehta's documentary I Am Sirat.
The producers are Apoorva Bakshi for Awedacious Originals, Elle León Nostas for Aymara Films, Neeraj Churi for Lotus Visual Productions, and Tushar Tyagi and Abid Aziz Merchant. Nikkhil Advani and Dominique Welinski serve as executive producers. Support came from the Sumitra Gupta Foundation for the Arts, the Keshav Suri Foundation and the Kashish Q Drishti Film Grant presented by the Kashish Arts Foundation.
Parallax Films is an international sales agent rooted in Sinophone cinema with teams based in Asia and Europe. A sales agent sells screening rights to distributors and platforms territory by territory. It is Roye's third short film, following Man & Wife and A Lullaby for Yellow Roses.
What makes this stand out on the autumn calendar is the back-to-back festival path. Short films often rely on festivals to reach buyers, programmers and wider audiences. A world premiere at Toronto followed quickly by a competitive European premiere at London puts Aman before two different festival crowds in rapid succession.
