Making Sense of Cinema

Koel Sen is a filmmaker, artist and producer based in India. Her work blends original and found footage, personal archives, text, and stills to explore collective memory, marginalised histories, and women’s roles in political movements. An alumna of FTII, India and La Fémis, Paris, her films have screened at global festivals and art platforms. Her short documentary Bahava won the Emerging Talent Award at IAWRT Philippines and screened at the Grenoble Indian Film Festival.

Her short fiction Valay premiered at IDSFFK, Kerala. A Berlinale Talent 2023, Koel developed her debut feature documentary In the Light of Darkness at the Doc Station. She has been an artist-in-residence at ADKDW, Cologne and was awarded the maecenia Grant for women artists in Frankfurt (2023).