Directing

Aakash Chhabra

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Directing

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8 titles

Aakash Chhabra is an independent writer, director and producer based in India. He is an alumnus of the Red Sea Director's Lab 2025 led by Spike Lee, CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy 2024 - MPA Award, Torino Film Lab X The Lodge 2024 and Produire au Sud 2022. His work has been featured on Nowness Asia, Oberhausen Channel, Sight & Sound, and Platform Magazine.

Known for

Behind the camera

Indications poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Indications

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Mintgumri poster
NR

When Raag returns to his hometown after a long absence, he attempts to rekindle his friendship with his ailing grandfather, by dressing him up in the clothes he was wearing on the day they last met.

Mintgumri

2021

Mintgumri poster
NR

When Raag returns to his hometown after a long absence, he attempts to rekindle his friendship with his ailing grandfather, by dressing him up in the clothes he was wearing on the day they last met.

Mintgumri

2021

Warm Shadows poster
NR

An interlude of silence, longing and separation between a mother and a son.

Warm Shadows

2025

No artwork available
NR

Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the love of his life and losing his front teeth in a physical altercation.

I'll Smile in September

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No artwork available
NR

Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the love of his life and losing his front teeth in a physical altercation.

I'll Smile in September

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A Winter’s Elegy poster
NR

In the cast-off town of Panipat in North India, the history of fabric is fused with that of its migrants. With everyday images from in and around the harrowing industrial wasteland on a single winter day, the film essay ruminates on the memory of clothes and the desires of women who work all day in the ultraviolet lights longing for sunshine.

A Winter’s Elegy

2022

A Season of Mangoes poster
NR

A young man struggles to keep his grandmother from losing her memories and realises that time is a lie.

A Season of Mangoes

2022