Short film package- Best of Critics' Choice Awards 2024

Synopsis

Cabbage (Short film/Bengali/15 mins) Dir. Diggi Sisodia. A senior citizen couple’s dysfunctional marriage goes into a tailspin because of the Covid lockdown.

Giddh/ The Scavenger (Short film/Hindi/24 mins) Dir. Manish Saini. An old man is compelled to choose an unlikely means of earning a morsel, his hunger is fulfilled but soon his guilt catches up to create a dilemma.

Next, Please (Short film/Hindi/11 mins) Dir. Rishav Kapoor. A woman goes on a virtual reality date and is transported to a speakeasy bar from the prohibition era of Mumbai.

Nocturnal Burger (Short film/Hindi/27 mins) Dir. Reema Maya. A 13-year-old girl and a 30-something man are brought to a police station in Mumbai in the middle of the night by two strangers. Amidst questionable motives and unreliable narrators, a frustrated female constable investigates what happened that night, and what could’ve happened.

Scenes From A Pandemic (Short film/ English/22 mins) Dir. Tanmaya Shekhar. Spanning two years, Scenes from a Pandemic is the story of a young woman's relationships with her mother, her best friend, and her career during a tumultuous phase of life.