Kinshuk Surjan is an Indian filmmaker based in Brussels and in Bhopal, India.

His film Pola (2013) won the Indian National Student Film Award for Best Film & Best Script. During his master at DocNomads, his short film Divided Lines was screened at the 2015 Jihlava FF. His graduation film De Flandrien (2017) won the Wildcard of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund. All films were broadcast on CT1, WDR and VRT. His latest project Marching in the Dark was selected for CPH:Forum 2021. Currently, Kinshuk Surjan is working on a PhD in Arts at the RITCS/VUB. His doctoral research deals with the precarious situation - often leading to suicide - of peasant families in India. In Martha Balthazar's theatre performance Farmers' Psalm, he participates as an expert on the collapse of traditional agriculture.

Basic information

Name
Kinshuk Surjan
Title
Documentary maker
Expertise
agriculture, mental health
Country
Belgium
City
Brussel

Supported projects

Marching in the Dark

  • Healthcare
  • Agriculture
  • Politics

BHOPAL - Rural regions in India suffer a high suicide rate among farmers.