Achal Mishra
Achal Mishra (b.1996) is a filmmaker and photographer from Darbhanga, Bihar.
His debut feature film Gamak Ghar (2019) premiered at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, where it won the Manish Acharya Award for New Voices in Indian Cinema. His medium-length film Dhuin (2022) won the Grand Prix at the Festival du cinéma de Brive. Both Gamak Ghar and Dhuin were shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2022. His latest, Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai (2024), documents two afternoons with the Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla.
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Dhuin
Directed by Achal Mishra • Drama • With Abhinav Jha, Bijay Kumar Sah, Prashant Rana • 2022 • 51 minutes
DHUIN is a stunning, novella-length portrait of a 25-year old street theatre actor (Abhinav Jha, in a breakout performance) who is desperate to leave his rural hometown of Darbhanga for Mumbai...
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The Village House
Directed by Achal Mishra • Drama • With Soniya Jha, Mira Jha, Abhinav Jha • 2019 • 91 minutes
The astonishing debut feature from 23-year old writer/director Achal Mishra. THE VILLAGE HOUSE is a lovely, luminous and gentle portrait of a large extended Indian family over several decades.
