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A brace of films exploring important subjects are in contention from India in the best live action short film category at the 96th Academy Awards.

Reema Maya’s “Nocturnal Burger,” an investigation of child abuse at a dysfunctional police station in Mumbai, had its world premiere at Sundance. It has since traveled to more than 50 film festivals globally and won 34 awards including the Oscar-qualifying Golden Chair for best international short at KortfilmFestivalen, Norway.

The cast includes Bebo Madiwal, Millo Sunka, Trupti Khamkar, Shrikant Mohan Yadav, Pushpendra Singh, Somnath Mondal, Vicky Shinde and Mukesh Pachode.

“The journey of this film started from a very unfortunate true incident a few years ago. Everything that happened that night stayed deep inside me, and ‘Nocturnal Burger’ is the first outlet it has had. It is an exploration of abuse and trauma; fantasy and escapism. It talks about the omnipresence of sexual abuse even in our public spaces,...

There are certain short films you watch that leave you with an instinctive feeling of dread. Sometimes, these stories also reveal their potential to be full-length features. But then you run into the possibility of losing the precise feeling such films tend to evoke. Reema Maya’s “Nocturnal Burger”, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and is now screening at the Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, is one such film.

Nocturnal Burger is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

The story unfolds over the course of one night at a dysfunctional police station in Mumbai. This is when a visibly distraught yet unyielding Simi (Millo Sunka) comes to the authorities to lodge a complaint. She brings along a 13-year old girl, Minu (Bebo Madiwal), and a 30-year-old school teacher Sanu (Somnath Mondal). Simi is adamant on filing a case against Sanu who was forcing upon the...

Award-winning filmmaker Reema Maya’s (aka Reema Sengupta) short film ‘Nocturnal Burger’ will have its World Premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film festival 2023 in the ‘Short Film Section’ on 21st January 2023. Reema’s last short film ‘Counterfeit Kunkoo’ had its World Premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film festival as the only short film from India at the festival and the first Indian fiction short to be selected there in 16 years. It has since been selected at 120+ international film festivals and won 40 awards. It was also showcased in Sundance 2022 as part of their 40th Anniversary program. The film was also featured on Criterion, Mubi, Nowness and was awarded Vimeo Staff Pick – Best of Month.

The 28-minute short film is about a 13-year-old girl and a 30-year-old man who are brought to a police station in Mumbai in the middle of the night by two strangers. Amidst questionable motives and unreliable narrators, a...