Invisible Demons (2021)

In *Invisible Demons*, director Rahul Jain crafts a visually arresting and deeply unsettling meditation on pollution in Delhi, the capital of the world’s largest free-market democracy. Clocking in at just 71 minutes, the film feels both concise and, paradoxically, drawn out—a dissonance that left me simultaneously captivated and restless. The film is unapologetically graphic, using its visceral depiction of pollution to drive its point home. From images of smog-choked skies to trash-strewn rivers, Jain spares no detail in painting a grim portrait of a city suffocating under the weight of…