Filmmakers Ambarien Alqadar and Shankey Srinivasan in person!

Preceded by short film DOS MUJERES

Filmed over nearly a decade, Ambarien Alqadar’s LAND OF DREAMS is an intimate portrait of Virender Rana, a taxi driver from India, who is chasing his dream in America.

The documentary follows Virender’s journey of coming to America as he finds joy being part of a large Sikh community, a community of taxi drivers, and filming a Bollywood-style movie. When he joins the elite Uber Black Fleet hoping for his dreams to come true, he faces the challenges of being a brown immigrant trying to lay his roots.

LAND OF DREAMS is a message of solidarity and hope to anyone who has searched for a land for their dreams and a home in a place where they were not born.

DOS MUJERES, Shankey Srinivasan

(USA, 2024, 17 min, Hindi and Spanish with English subtitles)

The short documentary examines the broken immigration system in the US through the eyes of two immigrant women – one Indian and one Mexican. All the cast and crew are local artists from the SF Bay Area.