Ben Rekhi is an award-winning filmmaker of Punjabi and American descent. He produced the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Bomb the System, directed the SXSW Audience Award winner Waterborne starring Shabana Azmi, and wrote the English Dialogues for Ben Kingsley and Amitabh Bachchan in the Bollywood film Teen Patti. Rekhi returned to directing with The Ashram, a spiritual thriller starring Academy Award Winner Melissa Leo, Kal Penn, and Radhika Apte which was released by The Orchard, and his third feature Watch List, a crime thriller, was co- financed by Bron Studios (Joker) and executive produced by XYZ Films (The Raid). The film premiered at Deauville before being nominated for eleven Filipino Oscars, ultimately winning two. His next film The Reunited States, a documentary executive produced by Van Jones and Meghan McCain, released on Amazon before its nationwide PBS premiere. His documentary short The Breakthrough Group was qualified for the 2026 Oscars, and he is in post-production on Last Man In Tower, adapted from the book of the same name by Aravind Adiga who also wrote White Tiger, upon which the Netflix hit film is based. Breaking the Code, screening at IFFM 2026, is a documentary about his father Silicon Valley pioneer Kanwal Rekhi, is his sixth feature film.
