24 May 2023
Pervasive. Perverse. Provocative. The rhetoric of violence has swept across India’s political landscape. Communal disharmony and hate-mongering have struck at the heart of the nation’s secular credentials. But is there no arc of redemption? This film captures two sides to the hate narrative. And shows the light of humanity puncturing its dark walls.
It was screened at the India Today Conclave, 2020.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury | Edited By - Valmik C. Puri
24 May 2023
Teenage Depression is the silent epidemic that is threatening India’s biggest asset: its youth. A conversation that hasn’t fully been prised open — hushed, misunderstood, overlooked: what is the nature of this beast? For this film, we spoke to a young adult who takes us through their experience with teenage depression: the signs, vulnerabilities, and the process of recovery. Before it’s relegated to a blind spot, find out what is at stake.
Film By - | Edited By - Valmik C. Puri, 16
24 May 2023
All National Borders are imaginary. But some are more imaginary than others” — Kai Friese
The world is facing its largest refugee crisis after WWII. Since 2015, 25.9 million refugees have been navigating imaginary borders — cutting across homeland, water, and identity. This short film presents a mosaic of political questions that underpin the global conundrum: national security, citizenship, health, nutrition, territorial integrity, systemic violence against the ‘other’, and the constitutive aporia of inclusion-exlusion.
It was screened at the India Today Conclave, 2019.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury | Edited By - Valmik C. Puri
24 May 2023
Citizenship. Climate. And the Collective Consciousness. The triangulation of the most urgent crises of the 21st century looms worldwide — weakening the stilts on which power, democracy, and the public are organised. This film captures the silhouette of this growing monster, the fire it breathes upon the political and natural order, and the consequences of the mercury rising.
It was screened at the India Today Conclave, 2019.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury | Edited By - Valmik C. Puri
1 May 2023
The rise of China and its race for global dominance is of ubiquitous concern. Its tech and trade wars, escalation on Taiwan, the Indo-Pacific & South China Seas, the Indian border, and elsewhere, are only indicative of President Xi Jinping’s larger ambition to replace US hegemony and “provide an alternate vision for humanity”. But what are the faultlines within China? Will its hubris cause its own collapse? This film was screened at the India Today Conclave, 2023.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury
1 May 2023
What happens when we defy the first principle of time? Stilt its movement and freeze our youth indefinitely? What does it mean to stay alive as the biologically undead? This film locates the confrontation of science and society on the shakiest battleground: the human body. With frontier technology now promising the possibility of eternal youth (and life), how should we rethink our human identity? This film was screened at the India Today Conclave, 2023.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury | Edited By - Pratik Purkayastha
1 May 2023
Plural. Protean. Cosmopolitan. Syncretic. The Future is Now. This is the India Moment, where all binaries dissolve. A renaissance that hurtles us into a future of exciting possibilities. This film captures the many facets of the India Moment — the confluence of science, tech, democracy, climate-consciousness, history, progressivism — its poetic and political churn. It was screened at the India Today Conclave, 2023.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury | Edited By - Pratik Purkayastha
16 December 2022
The Shiv Nadar Foundation & Shoma Chaudhury brings to you an exciting, roving, pop-up platform, that will provide keys to different worlds, celebrate the power of people, and map fascinating canvases of courage, creativity, and challenge. Physical. Digital. Nomadic. Ignition will bring together the young & the accomplished. Explore. Inspire. Unlock. Expand. Ignite.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury | Edited By - Valmik C. Puri
16 April 2020
Enquiry is an incisive and intelligent idea forum that creates a space for conversation beyond polarities. The intention of Enquiry is to seek perspectives about the shape of our future and our present from the keenest, most frontline minds across the world. Causes. Motivations. Emotions. Impacts. From intimate personal landscapes. To big global events. Enquiry believes in no right answers. Only in right questions.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury | Edited By - Valmik C. Puri