
Handmade claymation short
The Seat of Troubles is an upcoming stop-motion-animated historical fiction short-film written, directed, shot, animated, and edited by Adi Chandra, Director of Cinema. Set in Chandra's fictional country of Ayistan during the mid-nineteenth century, the film chronicles the iconic sequence of events that catalysed a brutal war between a small island kingdom and a ruthless global empire.
Shubham Das, Under-Director, served in the production as the 3D art generalist. Arijit Majumder, Siddharth Nagaonkar, and Ashish Singh Rana too worked on the many assets in the short-film. The short-film voice-stars Ed Robinson, Nathan Luwa, Abdul Rahman Siddiqui, Pedro Baía, Adi Chandra, and Aishwarya Poddar.
Watch the trailer
The Seat of Troubles was officially announced on 31 October 2025 with the minute-long trailer on YouTube.