An Engineered Dream
Directed By Hemant Gaba
Edited By Saba Rehman
Produced By NHK, Japan for Asian Pitch
Synopsis
An Engineered Dream follows the lives of four teenagers who travel from different corners of India to Kota, a coaching city
where they cage themselves in cubicle-sized rooms in order to prepare for one of the toughest undergraduate engineering exams in the world with an acceptance rate of less than 1 percent.
Festivals and Screenings
1. National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film in 2021
2. Jury Award / Second Best Long Documentary award at International Documentary and Short
Film Festival of Kerala; 2018 (an Oscar qualifying Indian documentary film festival)
3. First Special Mention Award at Film Southasia, Nepal 2019
4. Best Documentary Award at Independent Film Festival of Chennai, 2020
5. Nominated for Golden Kapok Award at Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
China, 2018
6. Nominated for Youth Award and Audience Award at Vesoul International Film Festival of
Asian Cinemas France, 2019
7. Kolkata International Film Festival; Documentary Section, 2018
8. Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Indonesia (Asian Perspectives Section), 2018
9. River to River Florence Indian Film Festival Italy (Documentary Competition), 2018
10. Indian Documentary Film Festival of Bhubneshwar, 2018
11. Kolkata People’s Film Festival, 2019
12. Lakeside Doc Festival India, 2019
13. Habitat Film Festival New Delhi, 2019
14. SIGNS Film Festival Kerala, 2019
15. South Asian Short Film Festival Kolkata, 2020
16. Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival Germany, 2020
An Engineered Dream was also aired on television channels in several countries - Japan (NHK),
Australia (SBS), South Korea (KBS), Singapore (Channel News Asia), Canada (Knowledge Network),
Taiwan (PTS), India (History TV18), China (CCTV9), Hong Kong (Now VOD).