NYIFF 2026-Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code
Director: Ben Rekhi, Svetlana
Run time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Language: English

Synopsis:
A son retraces his father’s journey from Indian immigrant to Silicon Valley tech pioneer, uncovering a powerful story of migration, sacrifice and love that transcended borders and broke the glass ceiling of Indians in America.

Ben is an award-winning filmmaker of mixed Punjabi and American. After getting his start with the Coen Brothers in the camera department of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Rekhi was hired by George Clooney to shoot the behind the scenes for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Rekhi went on to produce the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Bomb the System, direct the SXSW Audience Award-Winner Waterborne, and write the English Dialogues for Ben Kingsley in the Bollywood film Teen Patti. In 2010, Rekhi joined film finance company IM Global where he was a producer on Plush for director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) and went on to oversee the Hindi-language film slate in India for Jason Blum. Rekhi returned to directing with The Ashram, a spiritual thriller starring Academy Award Winner Melissa Leo, Kal Penn, and Radhika Apte, and his third feature Watch List was a crime thriller co- financed by Bron Studios and executive produced by XYZ Films. His fourth film The Reunited States was executive produced by Van Jones and Meghan McCain, he is currently in post production on the adaptation of Aravind Adiga's Last Man In Tower, and on the awards campaign for his documentary short The Breakthrough Group.

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Host or Publisher Indo-American Arts Council