Clean Linen

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
Price range: $

DIRECTORS NOTES - Zia Mandviwalla "Having grown up in the West in an Indian family, I know what is to inhabit the disparate worlds that exist inside and outside the home. Straddling two cultures is not unique to my childhood. In...

New Zealand Production

Short 2007 Drama 14.50 minutes

9 year old Raj will never forget the summer of ’82. Days are spent doing household chores with his sister Renu, and secretly watching their Dad’s adult videos. When caught by their mother, Raj blurts out the truth about the video tapes without thinking of the consequences. Clean Linen is Raj’s story about the pain of growing up, and realising that some family secrets won’t come out in the wash.