Ankur Hooda

Director, Panelist at DIFF 2026

Ankur Hooda is a 25-year-old self-taught filmmaker, writer and producer. After spending his formative years in a small village in Haryana, he went on to study Advertising in Mumbai while interacting with the filmmaking medium parallelly. He is primarily interested in humanist themes, spatial identities, and the anthropology of rural life amid rapidly changing regional landscapes. The Calf Doll is his debut feature film.