Actor-producer Anshuman Jha‘s First Ray Films has come on board as a co-producer on “Error#404,” an Indian animated feature from Bauddhayan Mukherji and Monalisa Mukherji’s Little Lamb Movies, marking the primary foray into characteristic animation for each firms.
The movie is amongst 5 Indian tasks chosen for the MIFA Namaste India Pitch Classes on the Annecy Animation Festival 2026, the place it is going to be introduced to world producers, distributors and financiers this week.
Jha first encountered the undertaking on the 2025 Kerala Movie Market, the place director Farah Khatun – whose earlier credit embrace “Holy Rights” and “I Am Bonnie” – pitched the movie. First Ray Movies has now dedicated to backing the undertaking’s growth and worldwide rollout.
“Error#404” is ready within the dystopian island metropolis of Akara, the place a tyrannical ruler has banned the planting of timber. When ten-year-old Gauri stumbles upon a colony of ghosts clinging to the final surviving tree, she is charged with a harmful mission: defy the regime, plant timber, and save the ghosts from extinction – with a ragtag band of people, non-humans and fellow ghosts at her facet, armed with magic seeds from the underworld.
The movie claimed the Greatest Pitch prize at India’s Animela 2026 forward of its Annecy choice.
“The moment I saw the pitch at the Kerala Film Market and met Farah, I knew this was something special,” Jha stated. “It’s rare to find a story that’s imaginative, entertaining and socially relevant in equal measure. We’re excited to join Bauddhayan and Monalisa on this beautiful journey. I don’t know if films can change the world. I just hope that one day, when my daughter watches this, she’ll know her father tried to tell stories that cared about it. This one’s for her.”
“We’re delighted to welcome First Ray Films to the project,” Monalisa Mukherji stated. “Anshuman immediately connected with the emotional core of the film and understood its global potential. Having another like-minded creative producer strengthens our vision as we take ‘Error#404’ to Annecy and beyond.”
Little Lamb Movies’ earlier credit span “The Violin Player,” “Manikbabur Megh” (The Cloud & the Man) and “Whispers of Fire & Water.” First Ray Movies has constructed its slate round impartial Indian cinema, with titles together with “Lakadbaggha,” “Lord Curzon Ki Haveli” and “Bajrangi.”
