"AN ECHO MEANT FOR ONE"
“Chuppi” is my first short film, a film that delves into the haunting stillness of a mind at war with itself.
Social & External
Tanmay
Teacher
Madman
Mother
In a remote Azerbaijani village, things take a turn for the worse on the wedding night when the firing of a gun, a local tradition, doesn't go according to plan.
Doretha goes out for her evening drink at her local watering hole when a news story dredges up old memories.
Living out of a motel, 15-year-old Tommy makes a drastic decision in order for her siblings to escape the heat before the summer’s over.
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
A woman wanders in a big and empty parking lots following a man who she seems to want to ambush. From her gestures something furious and menacing emerges. Everything seems to draw back to a woods beyond her abandoned home, a place that hides the true nature of her actions.
A retired teacher is sitting at a table outside a bar; it’s a beautiful sunny day. The waiter brings him breakfast. Soon after a young man arrives and the teacher invites him to sit, he was waiting for him. He is dark skinned. He comes from Mali. Well dressed, serene, ready for the “game” that the teacher is playing. It’s a puzzle game where one wins when completing a crossword. But there is a variable that makes this game impossible: guessing the solutions before the question is made. Nevertheless, the young man finishes the game. Or almost…
Roberta is a nine year old girl who wants to enjoy the last days of summer on the beach playing with her friends, while her father Donato forces her to stay at home to help with household chores. The distance between the two seems unbridgeable, but the discovery that Donato is much more fragile than it seems, will lead them to appreciate their time together.
A day where the void, superstition, anguish and fear will have the confirmation that a man without quality was looking for, for a long time.
A police officer haunted by the spirits of a serial killer's victims, must search to find the killer before he strikes again.
Eight year old Nicolas dreams of owning a Nikki doll, but when his dream becomes a reality it sends a shift through his home as his parents grapple with their beliefs of how their young son should express himself.
Set in a quaint town in Maharashtra - Palghar. We follow Jeet, a young documentary filmmaker as he spends the day with Mrs. Deshpande & Tulika, her young niece. Mrs. Deshpande is a widowed science professor grieving the death of her young son. The unlikely trio strike a friendship as they express some of their deepest fears. A few unexpected and uncomfortable conversations take place that changes their outlook towards life forever.
A little boy trying to beat a monster. A baseball team captain trying to win a game. Perhaps ...they're the same thing.
At the brink of their 30s, two gay exes fight for the ownership of their small apartment. As they reunite for this conversation, old memories challenge the future of their relationship.
A lonely Brooklyn photographer (Randy Harrison, "Queer as Folk") gets the courage to come out from behind his camera to capture his crush, but it turns out there is more to the picture than meets the eye.
A young criminal plans his first murder which will be carried out before an old man, his plan does not go as expected and takes a 180 degree turn.
Trapped in professional purgatory, four junior bankers must decide what they truly want before it's too late.
Mary Howell the Fourth is a chain-smoking promiscuous carpenter, famous in her small town for having recently and tragically dead parents. She's trying to hold it together for her two younger sisters, but grief is playing weird tricks on Mary. Those tricks are the three ghosts that share her name: her grandmother, great- grandmother, and great-great grandmother.
A Man's Cat observes and witnesses his descent into madness at the end of his seasonal depression during the last days of winter.
A young father, separated from his wife, takes drastic measures to see his newborn son, who he feels is being unfairly kept from him. However, alliances shift and feelings change as accusations fly in the course of a phone conversation.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
The human resistance works to convert a sentinel to their side. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Sanjay, a carefree young man, experiences mental and physical transformation to compete in an inter-collegiate bicycle race after his elder brother is unable to participate due to an injury.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.