
Filmed for nearly a decade, 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 Sikh community and that 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 a brown immigrant on the streets of post 9/11 America. Land of Dreams is a letter of solidarity and hope to anyone who has searched for a home and a land for their dreams in a place where they were not born.
- Year2025
- Runtime40 minutes
- LanguagePunjabi, Hindi, English
- CountryUnited States, India
- PremiereTexas Premiere
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- AwardsSan Francisco South Asian Film Festival
- DirectorAmbarien Alqadar
- FilmmakerAmbarien Alqadar
Filmed for nearly a decade, 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 Sikh community and that 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 a brown immigrant on the streets of post 9/11 America. Land of Dreams is a letter of solidarity and hope to anyone who has searched for a home and a land for their dreams in a place where they were not born.
- Year2025
- Runtime40 minutes
- LanguagePunjabi, Hindi, English
- CountryUnited States, India
- PremiereTexas Premiere
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- AwardsSan Francisco South Asian Film Festival
- DirectorAmbarien Alqadar
- FilmmakerAmbarien Alqadar