AKASH SHARMA
FILMOGRAPHY
2017
WEDDING PREPARATIONS IN THE COUNTRY
In post-war Bosnia & Herzegovina, an old man is a factory worker and leads a lonely life. One day he remembers that he had to get married to a girl in the countryside many years ago, but he forgot about it. He now decides to embark on a journey to the countryside to meet the girl.
The Mute Call (Kos)
2015
'The Mute Call' is a film, which follows the daily and monotonous routine in the life of an Indian working class boy. It attempts to capture the absurdity of life in a rapidly corporatized society. We can’t do what we really want to as we are bound by societal pressure, and factors beyond our control.
BIO
Akash Sharma is an independent film director and editor based in Kolkata, India. He has studied filmmaking (MFA) in the Sarajevo Film Academy's film.factory program under the mentorship of Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr and German maestro Fred Kelemen. He has been tutored by the likes of Lav Diaz, Zeki Demirkubuz, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Jacques Ranciere, Abel Ferrara, Cristian Mungiu and Atom Egoyan. Akash also worked as 1st assistant director in India with filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta (on his second feature film, ‘Jonaki’), who won the best debut film award in Venice Days 2014 for his film 'Labor of Love'.