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June 7, 2026 at 6:30:00 PM
AFS Cinema
How To Not Have Sex
India | Narrative Feature
2026 | 99 mins | Hindi, English
Official selection - New York Indian Film Festival
Nominations for Best Debut Film and Best Screenplay
Three high school friends—Jai, Vikram and Amrita—come together after 10 years for their school reunion and are faced with an uncomfortable truth. Vikram, who used to love Amrita in high school, resents the fact that she left him towards the end of high school and started dating his best friend Jai. But he never understood why their relationship abruptly ended after school. Ten years later, the three friends meet at Vikram’s place, where Vikram
engages them in a conversation to find out about what had happened between them in high school. But Jai's version of the incident is completely different from what Amrita reveals in the end. As the difficult conversations unfold and layers of denial are peeled, we discover the thin lines that lie between misogyny, sexual consent and persuasion.
Restoration Process
About the Artist
Trailer
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Credits
Director:
Sudharshan Narayanan
Writer:
Anshulika Dubey
Producer(s):
Anshulika Dubey
Abhiram Deshpande
Film Editor:
Aakash Prabhakar
Nishank Verma
Amrita Bagchi
Thank you to our community partners for this screening!
This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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