Ridham Janve | Germany, India | 2026 | 98 mins. | Gaddi, Nepali | Filmmaker attending
Sat, Oct 31 | 3:30 PM | Picturetime 2 (Football Ground)
After a successful hunting season in the Upper Dhauladhar mountains, a hunter hides most of his meat in a cave and returns home with the first load. The next morning he sets out again to collect the rest but when he reaches the cave, it’s empty. Guided by instinct, he begins a desperate search through harsh, high-altitude terrain to find the unknown rival. What starts as a simple quest for food becomes a confrontation of survival and morality, as man and nature merge in an elemental struggle.
Ridham Janve
Ridham Janve is an Indian writer, director and producer whose work explores landscape, myth, spirituality and moral uncertainty. His debut feature, The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain, premiered in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam and won awards at MAMI, Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His second feature, Hunter’s Moon, a spiritual western set in the Dhauladhar mountains, had its World Premiere at Shanghai International Film Festival 2026. He is also the founder of Mountain Motion Pictures.
Producer: Kartikeya Narayan Singh, Ridham Janve, Vivek Sadamate, Vikas Kumar, Sharib Khan, Harsh Agarwal, Stephen Zacharias, Aditya Grover, Priyanka Puranik, Jitendra Adappa, Michael Henrichs
Writer: Ridham Janve
Cinematographer: Mehul Bhanti
Editor: Amit Dutta
Sound: Bigyna Dahal, Alok Kotian
Music: Jered Sorkin
Cast: Chamel Singh, Saroj Kumari, Ajay Kumar, Lokendra Gurung
Shanghai International Film Festival 2026 – Golden Goblet Award for Best Screenplay
