Sankhajit Biswas

Sankhajit Biswas has studied Film Editing at SRFTI (2002-05). He has participated at the Berlinale Talent Campus 2010. He has edited many films, both fiction and documentary, that have been screened and awarded at major international film festivals including Berlin, Toronto, Moscow, BFI London, Goteborg, IDFA, DokLeipzig, Busan, Hong Kong, Asia Pacific Screen Award, Museum of Modern Arts (MOMA) New York, Film Southasia, IFFI Goa, Jio MAMI, IFF Kerala and many more. Eight of his edited films have won National Film Awards of India and twelve have been selected for Indian Panorama including two as Opening Films.

He has also edited films from Malaysia, Nepal and Bangladesh with renowned directors.‘Dui Dhuranir Golpo / In-between Days’ (2012), his debut documentary as director, has been screened at CPH:DOX (Denmark), Yamagata (Japan) and DocPoint Helsinki (Finland); and won ‘Best Documentary Award’ at Kolkata International Film Festival 2014. ‘The Wind in the Maruwa Field’ (2016), produced by Films Division, Govt. of India was selected for the prestigious Indian Panorama and screened at IFFI Goa. ‘Hridoy Bosot’ / ‘A Home for My Heart’ (2022), his first feature length documentary was screened at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, IDSFF Kerala, Liberation Doc Fest, Dhaka and won Jury’s Special Mention at Signs Film Festival, Kerala.