She is best known for her movie Village Rockstars, which won National Award for the Best Film. Village Rockstars became the first film from northeast India to be selected for the Toronto International Film Festival and the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain in 2017. 36-year-old Rima Das won India's National Best Film and Best Editor Awards in April, 2018. She made her first short film, Pratha, in 2009. In 2013, Das started work on her first feature film Antardrishti. Completed in 2016, Antardrishti was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the Mumbai Film Festival and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.