Author: Surbhi Dewan

2015 | Documentary | Bengali | 15 mins The filmmaker’s personal experience of loneliness in a crowded city like Kolkata.

2013 | Fiction | Arabic | 28 mins Inspired by a day in the life of Palestinian painter Ismail Shammout, ‘Ismail’ tells the compelling story of a young man struggling to support his parents after their expulsion to a Refugee Read more

2018 | Fiction | Hebrew | 12 mins A coincidental meeting between an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy leads them to discover that reality is different than what they have been told.

2023 | Animation | English | 5 mins As Saamidah, a young Palestinian-American girl, anxiously starts her first day of school, she finds her identity in question when faced with a world map that doesn’t include her homeland

1981 | Documentary | No Dialogue | 6 mins One day, at the stroke of evening, on Emeryville beach in San Francisco, where unidentified artists leave, without anyone knowing, sculptures manufactured with items that have washed ashore from the sea.

2023 | Documentary | English | 18 mins A coop of egg-laying hens whose free-range lifestyle creates challenges; a coop of wild rescue roosters who just might kill each other; a coop of newborn baby chicks for whom daily survival Read more

2017 | Mock Documentary | English | 8 mins There was never a good war, or a bad peace. But there has always been…good chicken. A mock documentary following the exploits of drunken revelers as they go to war with Read more

2022 | Fiction | Hindi, English | 15 mins After a terrible mishap, astronaut Iqbal Ali (Ali Fazal) is stranded and adrift in space. When he buzzes mission control, the signal gets lost. It’s picked up thousands of miles away Read more

2023 | Fiction | Hindi | 12 mins It all begins at a midnight bus stop, where a girl finds herself unsettled due to a stranger boy’s attempts to comfort his girlfriend over a phone call. When his efforts prove Read more

2022 | Fiction | English | 5 mins A short film about domestic abuse in older adults. It has been co-produced by a team of professional artists, partners in health and social care and a group of women who have Read more