Author: Surbhi Dewan

2020 | Fiction | Assamese | 8 mins The emotionless life of the city is seen to make people mentally distant from each other, even though they live in the same space. Frustrated with his monotonous and melancholic life in Read more

2005 | Documentary | Hindi | 19 mins One Show Less concerns itself with the increasing numbers of single screen cinemas that are shutting down, all over the country. The film focuses on one theatre, Usha Talkies (in Ahmedabad), whose Read more

2009 | Documentary | Spanish, Russian, Greek | 14 mins ‘Time Will Tell’ is about three international students in an American university who experience isolation, and nostalgia for their far away homes. Intimate memories, poetry, and their native tongues come Read more

2011 | Documentary | English | 16 mins Born in former Yugoslavia and belonging to mixed ethnicity families, they lived through a time of conflict and ethnic hatred. The historic city of Dubrovnik, Croatia offers this collection of personal narratives Read more

2018 | Documentary | English, Nepali | 34 mins Daughter Of Nepal is the story of Manushi Yami Bhattarai, the unassuming daughter of two formidable political leaders of Nepal. As her parents prepared to go underground for the Peoples’ War Read more

2018 | Documentary | English | 5 mins PuppyLove is a poetic meditation on dogs and how they enrich our lives. We spend an afternoon with James, artist and animal-lover, while he ponders on loves lived, imagined and idealised. A Read more

2020 | Fiction | Urdu | 15 mins A young woman living in isolation during the pandemic is surrounded by fears, both present and past. Will she make it through? Curator’s note: As we approach the end of our second Read more

2018 | Fiction | Hindi | 11 mins A bereaved son grapples with his loss and in turn understands his relationship with himself. Kashmir is an introspective dialogue between a person and a distant place you call home. Watch our Read more

2022 | Fiction | Malayalam | 6 mins During his morning rounds, a newspaper agent finds a boy putting kanuneer thuli (mucilage found on the tip of weeds in monsoon mornings in Kerala) in the eyes of a little girl. Read more

2012 | Experimental | Urdu | 23 mins The making of a film within the film brings into question the binaries of fact & fiction, life & narrative, individual & collective Karma. Until you find the sequence, its Jumbled Cans