Departure Lounge
Two strangers stuck overnight at Kochi airport agree to tell each other only the truth, until sunrise.
- Year
- 2022
- Runtime
- 12 min
- Language
- English / Malayalam
- Format
- Digital · 2K · 1.85:1
Awards & mentions
- Best Screenplay — Bengaluru International Short Film Festival, 2022
Departure Lounge
English / Malayalam · 12 min · 2022
A film by Aisha Menon
Directed by Aisha Menon · Produced by Micro Lens Films
Synopsis
A cancelled flight, a dead phone charger, and four hours until the first announcement. In the fluorescent quiet of the departure lounge, a software engineer returning home for a funeral and a nurse leaving for her first job abroad make a rule: no small talk, no lies, no names.
As the terminal empties around them, the conversation moves from the practical to the confessional. By the time the boards flicker back to life, both of them know more than they intended — and less than they need.
Screening history
- Clermont-Ferrand Short Film MarketMarket2023
- MAMI Mumbai Film FestivalShorts2022
- International Film Festival of KeralaShort Fiction2022
- Tampere Film FestivalOfficial Selection2023
Director's note
Aisha Menon
“Airports are the only places where everyone is between two lives. I wanted to write a conversation for that hour when the shops are shut and the announcements have stopped, and the only thing left to do is talk.”
A closer look
Stills · Departure Lounge
Credits
- Director
- Aisha Menon
- Writer
- Aisha Menon
- Producer
- Rohan Kulkarni
- Cinematographer
- Nayantara Bose
- Editor
- Arjun Das
- Sound Designer
- Faisal Khan
- Production Designer
- Tara Pinto
- Music
- Sanjay Warrier
- Shreya
- Anjali Nair
- Vivek
- Aravind Menon
Details
- Language
- English / Malayalam
- Runtime
- 12 min
- Format
- Digital · 2K · 1.85:1
- Status
- Archived
- Country
- India