Siddhant Sarin is a national award-winning filmmaker & educator from India. A co-founder of Docustan, his films explore the quotidian lives of people through observational methods.
With an intimate and delicate approach, he traverses the interplay between individuals’ internal and external worlds. He received support from the Asian Cinema Fund (Busan), Docedge, EIDF, and the Lithuanian Film Centre for his national award-winning film Ayena (Mirror). His films Ayena (Mirror), Mum, and A Happy Place have earned acclaim at festivals such as the Krakow Film Festival, Guanajuato IFF, DOK.fest Munich, Fipadoc, DokuBaku, IDSFFK, Caminhos do Cinema Português, Kino Pavasaris, among others.
He represents his production company Téh Films, which brought together the world’s first Indian–Lithuanian–South Korean co-production team for his debut feature Ayena (Mirror). Ayena (Mirror) is showcased on Channel 4 in the UK and DAFilms worldwide. A scholarship graduate of the DocNomads Master’s Program, he previously studied cinematography at DFFB (Berlin) and FAMU (Prague). Before pursuing filmmaking, he completed his law degree at the Government Law College, Mumbai. He envisions author-driven works that are both reflective and socially resonant.
