MUMBAI: PVR INOX Pictures is proud to present Sorry, Baby, a Sundance award-winning film that marks the fearless debut of writer-director-actor Eva Victor. Acquired by A24 after its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the film is an emotionally layered and darkly funny portrait of trauma, healing, and the mess in between. Produced by Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, and Mark Ceryak for Pastel, Sorry, Baby has quickly emerged as one of the year’s most distinctive voices in independent cinema.
The cast includes Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, Louis Cancelmi, John Carroll Lynch, and Kelly McCormack. With cinematography by Mia Cioffi Henry, editing by Alex O’Flinn and Randi Atkins, and an original score by Lia Ouyang Rusli, the film offers a formally bold and emotionally resonant viewing experience.
The synopsis reads: In a small New England college town, a once-promising academic named Agnes is frozen in time, emotionally stuck after a devastating betrayal. While her friends move forward, Agnes lingers in the wreckage of her past. Told in five time-jumping chapters, Sorry, Baby follows her through awkward therapy sessions, uncomfortable encounters, moments of absurdity—and a tender connection with a new friend as she gropes toward something like healing.
I found myself writing the film I felt I needed when I found myself in a similar crisis to Agnes,” says Eva Victor. “What interested me most was digging into that feeling of being stuck, seeing people you love moving on, while you’re still caught thick in the bad thing that happened to you.”
She further added, “I wanted to write a love story about how sustaining this kind of friendship can be—the kind of love where you just sit with someone and listen and watch over them as they go through the most intense thing imaginable.”
Explaining her approach to tone and humor, Victor said, “The funny moments in the movie never undermine Agnes’s experience or trauma. The comedy is always at the expense of those in power—or it’s highlighting the absurdity of what she is going through.”
Sorry, Baby is a poignant exploration of how we rebuild ourselves—not in grand, heroic arcs, but in quiet, fumbling steps. With disarming humor and vulnerability, Victor delivers a film that speaks as much to our pain as to the possibility of soft, human survival.
Coming soon to cinemas across India from PVR INOX Pictures!
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