South Asia Shorts Competition: Top 10

Jun 9

Exciting news: our first-ever South Asia Shorts Competition has found its Top 10.

Now, the decision moves into the judges’ hands as they choose which three scripts will advance to the final round.

Follow the judging live on our website and see how your favorite script is doing in real time. The race to the Top 3 starts now.

See the Top 10 below!

Shush.

Logline: When he wakes up from a coma to discover all communication has been outlawed, one teen finds safety in the caring arms of his grandma.

Logline: When a cinematographer’s tragic past mirrors the Himalayan folk tale he is filming, the story’s refusal to judge becomes his spiritual guide, leading him to confront his karmic guilt and seek a path to unconditional forgiveness.

The Evening Between Us

Logline: Hours before boarding a one-way flight, a grieving son receives a mysterious call that forces him to confront the father he blames, the mother he lost, and the cycle of regret passed down through generations.

Rent-a-dad

Logline: Longing for the father he lost contact with, a British-Indian man hires a washed-up actor to play him during a one-hour car ride, hoping to finally say everything he never could.

She

Logline: A woman shaped by the quiet discipline of societal norms carries a forbidden childhood attraction she learned to fear; when she meets the boy again, buried desire unsettles the delicate boundaries that have long defined her womanhood.

Voicemail

Logline: When a lonely father accidentally deletes the one voicemail that connects him to his daughter, he is forced to make the choice of choosing the memory of her and the girl herself.

Domestic Bliss

Logline: Two lovers are torn apart by their separate believes in an everchanging world.

Kampan - The Trembling

Logline: A fearless Indian journalist's hands begin to tremble uncontrollably while writing her new work on the state of governance. Through persistent advice, she’s led to a mysterious treatment centre which promises to heal her. But is she really healed?

The Unfulfilled

Logline: A celebrated cricket legend’s seemingly perfect life begins to unravel after his retirement, as unsettling encounters force him to question the reality of his achievements and confront the truth he has long avoided.