One in seven Indians aged between 15-24 have undergone a depressive episode. This movie captures the voice of India’s youth who are battling a silent epidemic — teenage depression. What are the triggers, the signs, and the stigma? What is the popular perception and how to puncture it? This film was screened at the India Today Conclave, 2023.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury | Edited By - Valmik C. Puri
Intense. Gifted. Myriad. National award-winning actor Raj Kummar Rao plays a lover to a poltergeist, a closeted homosexual in a police uniform, and a British terrorist with bloodshot eyes with equal conviction. This film celebrates his journey on screen, his knife-sharp draft, and his distinctiveness in a world driven by factory settings. It was screened at Ignition (Gurgaon edition). Presented by The Shiv Nadar Foundation.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury
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
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
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
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
The truth is uncomfortable but it is also what keeps us safe. This film spotlights what it takes to tell the truth, and the tribe of journalists or truth soldiers, who speak it fearlessly. It was screened at the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury, Era Namjoshi, Fariz Nazeer
This film celebrates the modern-day heroes of investigative journalism — who solve mysteries like sleuths, speak truth to power, and slay the demons of our political systems. By running through walls and penetrating fortified territories, they bring to us the truth that liberates us from the maze. This was screened at the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury, Gautam and Nobin, Rocket Science Animators
The health of our democracies, ecosystems, and civic society depends on the arduous business of truth-telling. This film highlights the extraordinary task performed by reporters, photographers, and journalists who push themselves every day to conflict-ridden frontiers of the world and tell difficult stories. It was screened at the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury, Era Namjoshi, Fariz Nazeer
The health of our democracies, ecosystems, and civic society depends on the arduous business of truth-telling. This film highlights the extraordinary task performed by reporters, photographers, and journalists who push themselves every day to the conflict-ridden frontiers of the world and tell difficult stories. It was screened at the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism.
Film By - Shoma Chaudhury, Era Namjoshi, Fariz Nazeer
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
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
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
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
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