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Shorts & Mid-length · India Premiere

Darshan

Directed by Alberto Allica

Screens as part of Programme 5: Weight of Identity.

Screening at DIFF 2026

Thu29 to Thursday 29 Oct · PictureTime 1
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Runtime
19 min
Year
2025
Countries
Spain, United Kingdom
Language
Hindi, Spanish
Subtitles
English
Premiere
India

Synopsis

Abhinav feels trapped by his tight-knit Hindu community in Madrid, but craves to go out raving with his friends in search of a different kind of ecstasy. When his guru announces a visit to bless his devotees on the same night as the most important party of the year, a strange series of events augurs the collision between his two worlds.

Director

Alberto Allica Alberto AllicaAlberto Allica is a London and Madrid-based filmmaker with a background in neuroscience. His documentary Under the North Sea screened at Clermont-Ferrand, followed by his fiction debut Niño. He received an ICAA grant for Darshan, which he is adapting into a feature.

Cast and crew

Producer
Jana Llopart, Clara Santaolaya, Nancy Ryan
Writer
Alberto Allica, Hitesh Hassani
Cinematographer
Carmen Pellón Brussosa
Editor
Andrew Cross
Sound
Oriol Bonals, Daniel Panayi
Music
Olivia Askew, Zebedee C Budworth
Cast
Yash Advani, Usha Jadhav, Deepak Hassani, Mohammed Azyane

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