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TWO SHORES

While on a video call from California, an undocumented Indian construction worker is forced to watch helplessly as a violent crisis unfolds against his family back in Haryana. Trapped thousands of miles away by his lack of legal status, his desperate panic to reach them triggers a chain of events that puts him directly in the crosshairs of American immigration enforcement. Caught between two unforgiving systems, he faces the agonizing reality of a modern immigrant nightmare: being completely powerless to protect the ones he loves.

  • Gautam Chaudhary
    Director
  • Gautam Chaudhary
    Writer
  • DLC SUPVA
    Producer
  • Gautam Chaudhary
    Key Cast
    "Ankit"
  • Mitali Kanwat
    Key Cast
    "Sister"
  • Deepti Ahlawat
    Key Cast
    "Mother"
  • Krishan Malik
    Key Cast
    "Father"
  • Lakshay Saini
    Key Cast
    "ICE Agent"
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Drama, Social Realism
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 2, 2026
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English, Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Dada Lakhmi Chand State University of Performing Arts& Visual Arts, Rohtak, Haryana.
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Gautam Chaudhary

Gautam Chaudhary is an actor, director, and writer whose journey bridges a rural farming upbringing, a background in civil engineering, and over a year of raw street theatre in New Delhi. Pursuing his BFA in Acting from DLC SUPVA Rohtak, Gautam seamlessly blends structural precision with raw human emotion. Bringing hands-on experience as an executive producer, he possesses a proven ability to run a set, pairing an acute understanding of physical production logistics with deep creative vision. From facilitating dynamic performance workshops to penning and directing deeply grounded films like 'Two Shores', he is committed to building socially conscious narratives that look at life through a powerfully authentic lens.

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Director Statement

I come from a small village, from a family of farmers. Today, our homes are facing a quiet crisis, a severe lack of jobs that forces thousands of young people to migrate across dangerous borders, leaving behind everything they love just to keep their kitchens running back home.
'Two Shores' was born out of this desperate flight and the helplessness of watching our communities fracture. Having worked on construction sites during my time in civil engineering, I have seen the invisible, undocumented hands that build our modern worlds out of sheer love and duty for the families they left behind.
These men are honorable people pushed to the absolute edge, fighting for their basic survival and dignity on opposite sides of the globe, some defending their ancestral soil at home, others sweating on foreign concrete to feed them. Yet, the world routinely reduces their lives to legal labels, statistics, and arrests.
This film is an intimate look at the quiet, agonizing human cost that never makes the headlines. It is about the crushing guilt of being thousands of miles away when your family is in danger, the fake smiles put on during video calls to hide your own precarity, and the brutal shattering of a family's lifeline when the system catches up. 'Two Shores' is my tribute to the resilience of our youth forced adrift, and a reminder of the deeply human sacrifices made in the shadows.