Private Project

Starling's Nest

A woman living in the heart of Ahmedabad does everything that’s routine. Her husband leaves every morning and comes back in the evening. Her present is stuck and stretched between ‘what was’ and ‘what will be’. Starling’s Nest explores her pursuit of meaningless hope and the paradoxical institutions that are still present amongst us. Between all of this, she explores - the place where she has been living in, the people she has been with, and more so, the person she truly is.

  • Shreyas Dasharathe
    Director
  • Shreyas Dasharathe
    Writer
  • National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
    Producer
  • Jazeela Basheer
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 21 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 1, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • 15th Mumbai International Film Festival
    Mumbai
    India
    January 29, 2018
    Official Selection - Prism National (Non-competition)
  • Signs Film Festival 2017
    Kochi
    India
    Official Selection - Fiction Focus
Director Biography - Shreyas Dasharathe

Shreyas Dasharathe comes from the city of Pune and is currently a student of film at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He has worked as a short film club curator, a content writer, and a feature film assistant director before getting into NID. Starling’s Nest is his first short film as a director before which he has worked as a writer on some small scale independent projects. He is interested in exploring cinema and its form in entirety. He would like to explore the possibilities of telling stories that are unusual and tend to be absurd but honest.

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