Film By: Ritam Sarkar, Ayush Ray & Ria Sarkar
Mentored By: Sourav Sarangi
City: Kolkata
Set in a restless Kolkata, ‘In Search of Humans’ observes a city where digital and real worlds merge, dissolving the boundaries of public space and human emotion. Through fragments of protests, daily life, and screens projecting chaos, it reflects a time shaped by fear, surveillance, and disillusionment. A poem flows through these moments, weaving collective anxiety, loss, and fragile hope into the city’s pulse. Blending documentary, AI-generated imagery, Gaming graphics, and personal archives, the film reveals how people move within self-made boxes. Amid this fractured landscape, ‘In Search of Humans’ searches not for answers but for traces of empathy, tenderness, and resistance that still survive in silence.