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Shorts & Mid-length · Filmmaker Q&A · Asia Premiere

Termite

Directed by Shaunak Sen

Screening at DIFF 2026

Thu29 to Thursday 29 Oct · PictureTime 2
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Runtime
31 min
Year
2026
Country
India
Language
Hindi, Tamil, Urdu
Subtitles
English
Premiere
Asia

Synopsis

In the busy lanes of 1990’s Delhi, two middle-aged men – a termite exterminator and a photocopy shop owner, have established a unique high-functioning domesticity in their tiny room. This tranquil companionship is suddenly threatened when an eccentric old man arrives with a strange request – a marriage proposal for his daughter.

Director

Shaunak Sen Shaunak SenShaunak Sen is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker based in Delhi. His film All That Breathes was nominated at the 2023 Academy and BAFTA Awards and won a Peabody Award, alongside honours at Cannes, Sundance, BFI London, IDA and 24 other festivals. He has served on juries at Sundance, Berlin and Zurich. His fiction…

Cast and crew

Producer
Dimpy Agrawal, Meena Agrawal, Aman Mann, Narayan Krishnaswamy
Writer
Shaunak Sen, Pew Banerjee
Cinematographer
Ben Bernhard
Editor
Manas Mittal
Music
Alokananda Dasgupta
Cast
Koumarane Valavane, Faisal Malik, Vipin Sharma, Shilpa Shukla

Festivals and awards

  • Toronto International Film Festival 2026 – Short Cuts Competition (World Premiere)

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