Author: Surbhi Dewan

2010 | Documentary | 45 mins. An exploration of blues notes in folk music across India.

2008 | Documentary | 30 mins. A film exploring the connections between the American blues music and folk music from North East India.

1997 | Documentary | 30 mins. The film takes viewers through the lives of women across three generations. Set against the backdrop of the Himalayan districts of Kumaon and Garhwal, it addresses the evolving aspirations, apprehensions, and roles that women Read more

2024 | Fiction | 16 mins. During a visit to India, 11-year-old Radha grapples with their gender identity as their family subjects them to manipulative orthodox rituals, believing these will dispel an alleged ancestral curse affecting Radha's thoughts.

2015 | Experimental Short | 18 mins. Elliptical sequences combine to form a filmic tone poem: the expanded sense of time during a rural summer dusk; the trudging of two scientists who place cameras in the forest for animal observation; Read more

2018 | Experimental Documentary | 23 mins. Namdeo has learnt to live off the forest from his father. He stares at the treetops, searching for honey. The wind blows and afternoon descends on the small village by the jungle. Women Read more

2017 | Fiction | 13 mins. Kaki is a 70 year old widow who lives with her Nepali domestic help, Malti, in Bombay. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Read more

2025 | Documentary | 8 mins. Rohtak, a busy city, now has a new 4.5-kilometer elevated railway track. It’s an impressive structure that promises faster travel and economic growth. But beneath the joy, there’s a sad truth: this track was Read more

2025 | Documentary | 8 mins. Deewar Nāma (Chronicles of the Walls) explores Mumbai’s walls as living storytellers — canvases of memory, protest, and change. Through artists, commuters, and anonymous voices, the film reveals how every brushstroke resists time, control, Read more

2025 | Documentary | 8 mins. In Agra’s bustling Sadar Market, a group of children who sell balloons takes us along as they navigate between work and play, hostility and joy in an urban space designed to exclude them. Through Read more