Ramachandra Borcar

Movies

Multiverse
Original Music Composer
Four brilliant university students are forced to confront themselves in terrifying ways when their Quantum Physics experiment leads to an entangled parallel existence that leaves them questioning who they are and what is real.
Mont Foster
Original Music Composer
Having recently suffered through hardship, Mathieu and Chloé travel to their country house to mend their wounds and reconnect. But their peaceful retreat is soon disrupted by curious incidents that cause Chloé’s already fragile mental state to further deteriorate. As she becomes more and more convinced that a real danger lurks in the surroundings, her world drifts into nightmare while Mathieu feels he is powerlessly witnessing his wife’s descent into madness.
Dope Is Death
Original Music Composer
The story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 — a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.
The Far Shore
Music
Navigating the treacherous social tides of high school, Marine is cut adrift by Océane, her older sister who’s caught in the thrall of an older man. Meanwhile, their mother struggles to keep her head above water.
Ziva Postec. La monteuse derrière le film Shoah
Music
This film tells the life story of Ziva Postec, emphasizing the period when she was editing Shoah from 350 hours of footage.
Origami
Music
David is travelling. He's on a unique trip that doesn't take him from one place to another but from one moment in time to another. Seeking to understand the strange power he has to move around in his own timeline, David will eventually have to confront the disassembled chronology of his own life as well as his repressed past.
Charles
Music
Charles lives with his obese mother, and takes care of everything in the house. Constantly laughed at by his classmates, he takes refuge in a dream world populated by frogs. They help him through hard times that are about to get worse.
The Saver
Music
When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a janitor another as a cook. Juggling life and work and the discovery of the book, ‘50 Ways to become a Millionaire: All you need to do is save,’ Fern decides to do just that, replacing her grief with the quest to become a millionaire. Written, directed and edited by award-winning filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge, Stay), The Saver stars the newly discovered Imajyn Cardinal and is based on the young adult novel by Edeet Ravel.
Focus
Sound Designer
A 1-minute cart ride through the mental shopping mall of attention deficit disorder. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, hand-drawn without a light table, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
All Yours
Original Music Composer
A penniless Argentine male escort meets a solitary, lonely Belgian baker who wants to help him leave the world of prostitution, explores intimate gay relationship.
Okpik's Dream
Original Music Composer
Harry Okpik dreamed of becoming a dog musher. But when government agents shot his and thousands of other Inuit huskies across the Canadian Arctic, 11-year-old Harry saw the sky turn red and thought his dream forever destroyed. Now, fifty years later, Harry Okpik reflects on the tragedy of the Dog Slaughter and the accident that led to the loss of his leg. Follow Harry through the arctic seasons as he cares for his huskies and prepares for Ivakkak - a 600 km dog sled race across the Canadian Arctic. It is a race with the greater purpose: to bring back the nearly eradicated Inuit husky and a lost way of life.
All the Rage
Sound Designer
A mink walks into a fur store. Fantastic Mr. Fox meets The Shining in this stop-motion cautionary tale of what happens when we don’t think enough about what we buy. Inspired by found sound of two dogs growling, proudly animal-friendly, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
End of Message
Sound Designer
Voicemails get lost and found in space in this thoughtful commentary on the fractured act of communication and the spaces between people trying to express themselves. Inspired by found sound of missed voicemails, animated in inky black and electric colour, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship, in collaboration with the Mexican Film Institute.
Mud
Sound Designer
Children guide the audience through a vision of shifting digital polygons in this CGI take of the beloved NFB classic Helicopter Canada. An expression of the experience of wonder and discovery, carved from pixels and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
A Little Craving
Sound Designer
In this surrealist stop-motion animation, two disembodied wigs give in to their desires and grow themselves into something a little more whole. Inspired by found sound of two dogs growling, decadently delicious, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
The Roommate
Sound Designer
Fed up with her roommate’s incessant shopping and hoarding, a girl takes matters into her own hands in this comical take on vlogging and the art of co-habitation. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, nourished with Saturday morning cartoons, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
Sweet Talk
Sound Designer
Oil-covered fish meet skateboards and the War on Terror in this razor-sharp satire of media, government, and the tycoons who take advantage of the system. Inspired by found sound of kids talking about oil and gas, hand-drawn with love and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship, in collaboration with the Mexican Film Institute.
The Midway
Sound Designer
Children wait their turn for a once-in-a-lifetime roller coaster ride. A loving and poignant meditation on childhood and the passage of time. Inspired by found sound of a theme park in the distance, lyrically rendered in pencil and paper, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
Amsterdam
Original Music Composer
Three friends go on a fishing trip. Well ... that's what everyone believes.
Gerontophilia
Music
Lake is in a straight relationship with Desiree but finds himself becoming attracted to men at the pool. When he cannot control his desires any longer, he starts working at an adult home and begins a relationship with a much, much older man.
Nicky Deuce
Original Music Composer
Teen Nicholas Borelli gets the surprise of his sheltered life when he ends up spending the summer with a cast of eccentric relatives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Goon
Original Music Composer
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling, is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate, his best friend, Pat, convinces him to give it a shot, and Glatt becomes a hero to the team and their fans, until the league's reigning goon becomes threatened by Glatt's success and decides to even the score.
Operation Casablanca
Original Music Composer
Mistaken for a dangerous Islamist, Saadi - a regular guy who happens to be an illegal Arab immigrant - sets out on the most dangerous day of his life. A satirical and thrilling comedy where a wrongly accused suspect gets mixed up in a worldwide terrorist plot.
Fallen
Music
One night, Matiss Zelcs, an employee of the Latvian national archive in Riga, notices a woman on a bridge. After passing by her without preventing her suicidal fall into the depths, a sensation of failure and guilt changes his life. He cannot forget her. Driven by a feeling of remorse and the fever of illusion, he roams through the city night and day looking for traces of her existence. This journey through the tumult of his conscience leads him deeper into his own loneliness and the depths of his soul, as he gets more and more entangled in the destinies of the woman and of the people who were attached to her. He finds himself confronted with the pain of yearning and guilt, the cruelty of love and desire, and the search for forgiveness, release and salvation.
The Family of the Forest
Original Music Composer
In the heart of the Boreal forest lives a family renowned as much for their gourmet forest pickings as for their life of self-sufficiency.