Filmmaker · Writer · Director

The quiet
violences of
ordinary life.

A body of work from Assam — features, shorts, and stories shaped by hills, rivers, and the small, irrevocable choices people make in them.

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National Film Award

08+

Films directed

20+

Festival selections

2006

Working since

About

A filmmaker from the Northeast.

Khanjan Kishore Nath is a National Film Award–winning filmmaker from India. He won the Rajat Kamal at the 68th National Film Awards for his short fiction Kachichinithu (The Boy with a Gun).

He studied Mass Communication at Rajiv Gandhi University and filmmaking at the Zee Institute of Media Arts, Mumbai. His debut feature Chor (The Bicycle) travelled the festival circuit; his second feature Ata Nirjon Duporiya released theatrically.

He is a recipient of the Asia Pacific Script Lab 2019 for The Lost Path, released as Kangbo A Loti.

Selected achievements

2022
National Film Award — Rajat Kamal
Best Short Fiction Film at the 68th National Film Awards, India — The Boy with a Gun
2024
Prag Cine Award — Nominee
Best Director — Ata Nirjon Duporiya
2019
Best Indian Short Fiction
Kautik International Film Festival — The Boy with a Gun
2019
Asia Pacific Script Lab
Selected for the script "The Lost Path"
2012
International Film Festival of Rotterdam
Official invitation — The Bicycle (Chor)
2011
Film Bazaar — IFFI
Selected project — The Bicycle (Chor)

Currently — In pre-production

Love you Messi

An eight-year-old football-obsessed disabled boy from a remote hilly village in Northeast India travels thousands of kilometres to see his hero Lionel Messi, only to confront betrayal, loss, and the harsh realities of a world far bigger than his dream.

2027·Feature·100 min·Karbi·Drama / Sports / Coming of Age

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