Author: Surbhi Dewan

2010 | Animated Documentary | English | 26 mins The story of a young girl who is led to a distant land by the force of her visions and her mother’s spirit to discover the latter’s roots, and possibly her Read more

2006 | Documentary | English | 11 mins A visual representation of an inner feeling… made with stock home video, it expresses the filmmaker’s feelings towards her alcoholic father, the soundtrack being a telephone conversation.

2012 | Documentary | English | 26 mins Ruminations on the filmmaker’s brush with cancer and musings on love, death and memory

2017 | Documentary | English | 13 mins “Tungrus and the Chicken From Hell” is more than the simple tale of a pampered and unruly chicken; it’s a parable about a man reenacting memories of his village upbringing in the Read more

2021 | Documentary | Urdu | 16 mins ‘Playing at the Boundary’ (Khel Khel Mein) tells the story of three young people from the area of Lyari in Karachi, Pakistan – an area that is known for being one of Read more

2022 | Documentary | Hindi | 9 mins The film is about the relationship that a 13-year-old girl shares with water while living next to Ahmedabad’s largest landfill. This poorly planned area has contaminated borewell water and a poor water Read more

2018 | Documentary | English | 19 mins The film demonstrates the importance of a supportive environment for the young, grappling with gender and identity

2018 | Documentary | Hindi | 20 mins A journey with Anshuman, a transman, on the Delhi Metro, reclaiming public space and his self

2022 | Documentary | Malayalam | 20 mins The ancient temple percussion arts of Kerala contain the usage of instruments that are extremely loud. The artists who play them dedicate their lives for the preservation of these magnificent rhythmic arts Read more

2020 | Documentary | Assamese | 7 mins Debajit, a young man from a village in Lower Assam arrives in Guwahati with the hope of a better livelihood. The city unfolds as a space etched on a discursive landscape and Read more