Tusharr Madhavv is an artist-filmmaker working across documentary, experimental film, photography, performance, and artistic research. His practice weaves personal memory, collective histories, and cross-disciplinary forms.

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He holds an MA in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; an MA in Artistic Research in and through Cinema from the Netherlands Film Academy; and is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD Arts at Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague. Alongside his artistic work, he teaches art students, drawing on extensive experience in filmmaking, editing, and research.

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His first feature, A Ballad of Maladies (2016), tracing art as resistance in Kashmir, won him the 64th National Film Award of India for Best Debut Director (Non-Fiction), as well as Best Film at the 10th IDSFFK and 11th Film South Asia.

Since 2018, Tusharr has pursued a sustained inquiry into the legacy of painter Jangarh Singh Shyam, supported by fellowships and residencies including Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. This research has generated Detour (2024) that received a fellowship grant from Field of Vision/Emergence Magazine (USA) and premiered at the 17th IDSFFK; the forthcoming feature Another World (Catapult Film Fund, DMZ Docs, India Foundation for the Arts), and his PhD project In Dots and Dashes.

Most recently, his experimental feature documentary Roohrangi (2025) premiered at the 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival. The film reimagines the forest as a site of lived queer histories and imagined utopias, interlacing intimacies of queer cruising with family history.

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His other works include Lonely Hearts Club (2022), a collaborative documentary-theatre performance, and Sylvanium (2024), a multimedia exhibition combining photography, video, and performance.

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Across these projects, Tusharr’s career is defined by research-driven cinema, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and engagement with art education.