Shashank Walia

Panelist, Director at DIFF 2026

Shashank Walia studied cinematography at the Film and Television Institute of India and filmmaking at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre. His debut short fiction, In the Month of Love, which he wrote and directed, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at festivals including Kyiv, St. Petersburg and Mumbai. As a cinematographer, his recent credit includes Gurvinder Singh’s Rehmat, which premiered at Locarno. He also co-directed the short documentary Somewhere Nowhere for PSBT. Birds in the Dark is his debut feature.