SCHIRKOA: IN LIES WE TRUST

By Ishan SHUKLA

DISSIDENZ FILMS - as PROD

First film - Completed 2024

In a dystopian world where people are forced to wear paper bags over their heads, a newly appointed council
member sparks an accidental revolution.

Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2024
Bright Future NETPAC Award
Goteborg IFF 2024
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • First film, Science-fiction, Animation
    • Countries
    • INDIA, FRANCE, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 103 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ishan SHUKLA
    • Producer(s)
    • Bich-Quan TRAN (DISSIDENZ FILMS), Ishan SHUKLA (RED CIGARETTE MEDIA)
    • Synopsis
    • In a sophisticated near perfect society ‘Schirkoa’, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a mythical land without the bags start to float and a fresh council member sparks an accidental revolution…