Comfort Food (2026)

15 min   |   English   |  Dir. Reena Dutt

After the death of her husband, Lisa, an Indian-American activist chef from Oakland, meets Anni—her estranged mother-in-law, a Japanese-American Southerner whose grief has hardened into isolation. Over the course of a brief visit, the two women are forced into uneasy proximity as loss, resentment, and cultural difference surface.

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Comfort Food is an intimate dramedy about grief, inheritance, and identity—examining how the ways we survive loss can both divide and connect us. 

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An AFI DWW+ film.