Aakash Chhabra | India, Singapore | 2025 | 15 mins. | Punjabi | Filmmaker attending
Priya, 50, makes her maiden trip to the sea. At dusk, she stands at the shore and overlooks the vast horizon. In a distant part of the world, Raag, 20s, is in a taxi which passes through a metropolitan area. A fragmented voice-over unfolds the tender relationship the two share.
Aakash Chhabra
Aakash Chhabra is a writer-director from Panipat, India. An alumnus of the Red Sea Directors’ Program 2025 and CHANEL x BIFF Asian Film Academy 2024, his shorts have screened at Busan, Winterthur, Poitiers, Tehran and Kerala. His films, Mintgumri (2021) and A Winter’s Elegy (2022), received critical acclaim, and he holds fellowships from reFrame and Rough Edges.
Producer: Sanjay Gulati, Snigdha Sharma, Ridhima & Tulika, Fran Borgia, Thanikachalam SA, Mahima Chhabra
Writer: Aakash Chhabra
Cinematographer: Vignesh S
Editor: Vedant, Aakash Chhabra
Sound: Sethu Venugopal, Diksha Mishra
Cast: Sheeba Chadha, Lakshvir Saran
