Land of Dreams

Ambarien Alqadar

2025 / 40 minutes
USA, India
Punjabi, Hindi, English with English Subtitles

Best Short Film — Winner

Filmed over a decade between Delhi and Philadelphia, Land of Dreams is an intimate portrait of Virender Rana, a taxi driver from India, chasing his dream of telling his story in America. While he points the camera at his own life and films a Bollywood style movie, the film follows his journey of coming to America, finding joy as part of a larger community of taxi drivers and laying roots as an immigrant. As he joins the elite Uber Black fleet hoping for his dreams to come true, he faces challenges of being an immigrant in post 9/11 America and gig economies. Land of Dreams is a letter of solidarity and hope to anyone who has searched for a home and a place for their dreams.