ADVANCED CHEMISTRY, 2023
Narrative Feature
Logline: A scientist injects his best friend with a compound he's created to help her stop cheating on her wife, but when the wife finds her new fixation suffocating, the wife gets a dose too, which backfires as she falls for the scientist.
ZARI, 2024
Narrative Short
Logline: American-born Neelu feels like a fish out of water amidst preparations for her sister’s wedding in Mumbai, until she forges a brief and unexpected connection with Zeyb, a quiet sari store clerk who leads a secret life as “Zari” a beloved internet drag queen.
OSCAR’S RETURN, 2024
Documentary Short
Logline: Oscar Rodriguez is a free man after serving 25 years behind bars. He dreams of becoming a dog trainer, but when the fantasy of the free world clashes with reality, Oscar finds that he must choose between a life that confines yet sustains him, or one that scares but liberates him.
STALLED, 2023
Narrative Short
Logline: After being kicked out of his medical residency program, Imran finds himself stranded in the California desert, his car breaking down just hours before joining his family in Chaand Raat on the eve of Eid.
DAVE THE FIANCÉ, 2022
Narrative Short
Logline: When a life-changing accident leaves Dave in the hands of his soon-to-be father and brother-in-law, he must protect the family or risk destroying everything they have.
MILES OF SAND
Narrative Short
Logline: When a life-changing accident leaves Dave in the hands of his soon-to-be father and brother-in-law, he must protect the family or risk destroying everything they have.
Miles of Sand
A single mother in rural India pays a heavy price to repay her debts
After completing the Cannes Next Steps development program in Paris, award-winning Indian filmmaker Sonejuhl Sinha presents her latest work—a powerful exploration of motherhood, poverty, and the fight for personal agency in rural India. Here, the director—whose Stray Dolls feature won the Tribeca IWC award—explains the choices she made in creating this intensely emotional drama: