Mumbai, India — July 13, 2026 – Production Company “hallucinogen” has released the official trailer for his short film, The Dead Sing for the Living, directed by Rahul Bhushan, following the film’s Official Selection at the Regina International Film Festival & Awards (RIFFA), Canada.
Conceived as an act of remembrance, The Dead Sing for the Living brings together Palestinian poet and musician Shadi Zaqtan.
Structured as a ritual of remembrance, the film unfolds through a haunting invocation of names and a poetic catalogue of destruction: homes, hospitals, schools, trees, birds and dreams.
Shot on ARRI 16mm, the film embraces the physicality of celluloid as both an aesthetic choice and a metaphor. Every grain, scratch and imperfection becomes part of an archive resisting erasure.
The film features original music by Tajdar Junaid, original artwork by artist and activist Orijit Sen, and is presented by Payal Kapadia.
The newly released trailer offers the first public glimpse into the film’s visual language ahead of its international festival journey.
The film arrives amid a continuing global conversation on Palestine, one that has prompted artists and cultural figures including Javier Bardem, Greta Thunberg, Susan Sarandon, Annie Lennox, Brian Eno, Roger Waters, Peter Gabriel, Bella Hadid, Tilda Swinton, Steve Coogan, Charles Dance, Ralph Fiennes, Mark Ruffalo, Dua Lipa, Macklemore, Massive Attack, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Miriam Margolyes and many others, to speak publicly about the human cost of this war.
Trailer: