Priya, 50, makes her maiden trip to the sea. At dusk, she stands at the shore and overlooks the vast horizon. In a distant part of the world, Raag, 20s, is in a taxi which passes through a metropolitan. A fragmented voice-over unfolds the tender relationship the two share.
Aakash Chhabra is a writer and director based in Panipat, India. He is an alumnus of the Red Sea Director's Program 2025 led by Spike Lee, CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy 2024 - Motion Picture Association Award, Busan Asian Film School (AFiS) 2022 - Best Project Award, Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute 2020 and Locarno Documentary Summer School 2019. His shorts have screened at festivals in Busan, Winterthur, Poitiers, Tehran, Kerala, Oberhausen and Dharamshala. His debut short MINTGUMRI (2021) was nominated for the FCG Critics' Choice Awards 2022 while his short documentary A WINTER’S ELEGY (2022) featured on the Sight and Sound Magazine's list of Best Video Essays 2022. ERRANDS (2024) was produced by the Busan International Film Festival while WARM SHADOWS (2025) will premiere later this year on Nowness. He is presently working on his feature-length debut I’LL SMILE IN SEPTEMBER which was developed at the Torino Film Lab - Red Sea Lodge 2024, Autumn Meeting 2024 and Produire au Sud Nantes 2022. It has participated in the Asian Project Market 2023, NFDC Film Bazaar 2024, QCinema Project Market 2024 and Red Sea Souk 2024. He is a recipient of the reFrame Genderalities film fellowship 2021-22 and the Rough Edges Uncode Fellowship 2022-23. 
The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) is the oldest, most prestigious film festival screening premieres of feature, documentary and
short films made from, of, and about the Indian subcontinent in the Independent, arthouse, alternate and diaspora genres.
