Kathmandu, June 2 -- 'A Shadow Grows Within the Void' is a domestic drama from first-time feature filmmaker Sandeep GN Yadav, which reveals the slow devouring of a woman's identity through patriarchal expectation and unappreciated devotion.

This is not a film of drastic turning points, as expected from the title. This is life as it unfolds, experienced as a challenging human journey filled with reflections on identity, confinement, and the impact of awareness, whether positive or negative.

Respectable middle-class Indian homes are known to have decent living situations, but this "respectable" life is more debilitating than empowering for the woman at the centre of this tale. A husband with a government job represents reliability and fin...