Important note: This showcase is the second part of a wider spotlight on South Asian documentary filmmaking. If you book at ticket at the first event HERE, you will automatically be issued a ticket for both New Stories, Emerging Authors: Showcase of Work in Progress from Bangladesh and this event. The total duration is 90 minutes and they will run from 15:00 - 16:30.
DocedgeKolkata presents four curated projects (WIP) along with Directors and Producers to the industry, professionals and experts in the field from the UK during Sheffield DocFest 2026 for feedback, partnership and co production opportunities.
Participating projects include:
Silver Linings
Directors: Kanishka Sonthalia & Siddesh Shetty
In India, men and women above sixty are stepping into speed-dating halls and friendship clubs, refusing loneliness as their future. But in a culture where family shapes decisions, choosing love again can threaten long-held relationships with children, relatives, and society. Silver Linings follows those navigating desire, judgment, and the wit and warmth of wanting love again.
In Between Rains
Director: Sudarshan Hake
One brother longs to return to his village. The other struggles to survive in it. Home exists only in the space between them.
God Lives Here
Director: Samiran Deka
As ecological insecurity unfolds deepest anguish, the village faces a transformative change that ravages lives, contagious forces mute all the voices of descent except a folk theatre artist who rejuvenates the power of nature God.
Every Home Ablaze
Directors: Sadia Rao & Karanjit Singh
Three teen boys make sense of their town’s opioid epidemic in India by fictionalising local stories online. As their practice grows, they confront their community’s collective grief and the tensions between them.
Supported by the British Council
