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- The film observes the institution of marriage through the perspective of three brides in India.
- A land where the soil has started to breathe again. A village that does not exist on the map. A people.who celebrate life. A no-where; no-where land - When a small farming community in South India decided to switch from their decades-old practice of chemical agriculture to organic farming; little did they know that they were planting the seeds of a silent revolution. By showcasing the exemplary efforts of farmers of a tiny village in Andhra Pradesh; the film explores critical issues of food security and sovereignty. At its heart; it looks at the relationship that a farmer shares with her land; her seeds and raises vital questions about food; the very essence of human life.
- Tony Award is the popular name of award, annually awarded for achievements in area of the American theatre, including a musical theatre. Complete official name of award - "Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre".
- 'Launda Naach' is the traditional folk theatre from Bihar, India where male artists often cross dress as women and perform on stage all night. The film follows four old age artists who recreate the legendary artist Bhikhari Thakur - also known as the Shakespeare of Bhojpuri.
- What is the relevance of theatre (or all art, for that matter) to the crisis of our times? The film explores the creative canvas & politics of Ratan Thiyam, celebrated Manipuri theatre director, against the backdrop of this query.
- My childhood ended when my grandfather passed away, revealing a different side to him. We now grapple with our complex feelings and pain.
- The director is criticized by her mother and sister, who are estranged from their father over his alcoholism. With her mother and sister pulling her back and forth, she is driven to the phone by old memories of her father and his current reality. Home videos from twenty-some years ago show her father speaking tenderly to the two close sisters while they innocently play. The footage makes the viewer feel as though the joyous family videos may reveal something if one looks hard enough. The director faces her father through the phone and tries to understand him, as if attempting to bring back the past.
- In a region where the native language is often overlooked, a young Bundelkhandi rapper works tirelessly on his first album. As he faces financial struggles and a lack of resources, the question remains: will he be able to launch his album?
- Jhum or shifting cultivation has been an integral part of the Naga way of living, now considered environmentally non-viable. In 2010, Longra, a small progressive village of the Chang Tribe in Tuensang district, decided to walk a different path.
- A celebration of the work of singer/composer Shankar Mahadevan with interviews from various Indian celebrities.
- Liberia, a nation scarred by 14 years of brutal civil war, stands at a critical moment in its history as it heads for its second democratic election in October 2011. This election will decide the country's future course - towards peace and stability or violence and chaos. Assisting the UN peacekeeping operation is a special unit from India - an all-female police contingent. Deployed yearly since 2007, it is the first such unit to ever take part in a peacekeeping mission. The all-female contingent is an important experiment for the UN - to rectify the skewed gender ratio within the UN system itself where only 6% of peacekeepers are women, and more importantly, to bring a gendered perspective to conflict resolution and peacemaking. But for Ruby, Tejinder and Philomena the journey away from their families has been difficult. It is their first time in another country - they have never been so far away from home. Like them, most of the other women in their unit have left behind young children in the care of husbands and relatives. The 12 month duty is tough and just too long. They spend their evenings trying to connect calls back home. The tension is rising as the election draws nearer. There are frequent clashes between different political parties. Will the Indian policewomen succeed in ensuring that the voting takes place in a safe and trouble-free environment? Will the hardships they suffer to bring peace in far-off lands be worth it in the end?
- From the vast coastlines of Tamil Nadu, to the arid lands of Rajasthan and the lush greenery of Sikkim, the camera joins local children on the journeys of their daily lives: to and from school, in their classes and after-school play, and doing chores.
- After taming a former wasteland through hard work and sweat and creating a community, the settlers living there are given a place of worship?a place for honoring the gods. Now that the clergy owns the land, the settlers are reduced to being tenant farmers and must make way for redevelopment after the land is sold off. A dispute over god's land begins. In God' Land is not simply about the fight between the priests and the farmers. Using animation it recounts the history of the land and satirizes the exploitation perpetuated by religion and class distinction. And it looks at the land within the larger issue of development, forcing us to recognize the totalitarian attitude of the ideals of development, ostensibly to bring economic prosperity but rarely a benefit to real users. But the film's most interesting element is the people living on this god's land. Instead of fighting the temple or government, they accept this dire reality and try to find comfort in god's will, perhaps because for them it is still the land of god.
- Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy. A lifelong condition. Inevitable dependency on Medicines. Dark. Terrible. 'A Drop of Sunshine' challenges these notions. It questions the mainstream view of the condition and seeks alternate ways of recovering from it. Through the powerful story of its young and gutsy protagonist, Reshma Valiappan, it seeks to give viewers a new vocabulary to address the stigmatized mental illness. The film proposes that the only treatment method that can work in Schizophrenia is one where the so-called 'patient' is encouraged and empowered to become an equal partner in the process of healing.
- Memories and Forgetfulness is a film about memories and longing...Memories of ones home or lost land. The film looks into the lives of three characters. Rajan - a run away from a village in bihar who is returning home after five years. Tejram who migrated from Piloda, Rajasthan in search of a job and is presently with Delhi Police. Lhasang Tsering, a Tibetan Poet and refugee, presently in Dharmshala, India. The film delineates the yearning that characterizes these people - yearning for a home and a better life. Along with it the reminiscences of the film maker.
- Stories from India's largest coastal lake 1970 to 2007.
- The uniqueness of documentary filmmaking is possibly the ability to record the traces of events unfolding as the filmmaker walks across the perimeter of his subject. And that's because the reality, in its way of unfolding, never fails to mesmerize. And that's where this film was born. It came with tears, with the loss of a very close friend and colleague, with whom the film was conceived. Wasted looks at the concept of waste and recycle in India from an easterner's gaze with a western vocabulary, in a media language that blooms through the unavoidable residue of the global network society. In the old agrarian system here in India nothing was believed to go for waste. None of the Indian vernacular languages have a word for waste. It came as a concept born with the industrial revolution, borne by the colonial history to an ancient agrarian culture. In a time when waste has become a currency of development, both technologically and socially, Wasted is a sort of personal accord vis-à-vis India and the mountain of waste it produces, as it marches ahead to be a global economic giant.
- A documentary that chronicles the output and legacy of one of the Indian subcontinent's most important movie production houses.
- The Film interweaves the forgotten threads of the local history of the city born with the goddess Kali coded in its name - Kalikata/ Kolkata. Through a personalized and subjective historical account, the filmmaker tries to map the shifts in polity from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial age, weaving in many told and untold facts, anecdotes, and relics.
- 'Work of Fire' is an attempt to engage with the fleeting, the transient and the ephemeral through fireworks.
- A day in the life of the city of Calcutta or Kolkata. A free-flowing, intimate portrait of the city and its people, using the Bengali phenomenon of "adda" -- informal conversations between groups of people that go on for hours at a stretch -- at street corners, cafes, markets and living rooms.
- How does art survive in a regime of fear? I first encountered this question in 1999, while taking photographs of Kashmir during that mindless war with Pakistan. That summer, I established contact with the National Bhand Theatre, Wathora, and the Bhagat Theatre, Akingam, two groups that were still performing in the traditional Pather form of satire. I returned twice in 2001, now armed with a camera. I was encouraged by what I found: an illiterate community has sustained a centuries-old tradition in the face of debilitating social and cultural changes. Although perennially intimidated by the corruption, violence and intolerance that prevail in Kashmir, the bhands are still affirming a commitment to their theatre, to the critical potential of its form and the liberating joys of performance. Faith in Sufism has tempered their enthusiam for satire and they identify with the collective voices of Kashmir's freedom. The Play is on.... follows the two groups as they prepare for public performances, a rare phenomenon today. For the bhands, who daily witness the erosion of their way of life, each performance represents both a change as well as a repetition of the same brutal fact: that they are not free to share their revolutionary spirit.
- A film about kids living with HIV- spinning dreams living in a mid-way home that's more than a home to them.
- In one of the poorest parts of the world, 230,000 people learned to read and write. Over 100,000 women learned to cycle. Wages jumped up 1000% It happened in the space of just one year and cost about a dollar per person.
- 'Seeds of Dissent' documents Dr. Joshi's cycle yatra from Kanyakumari to Dehradun over a period of two months in Jan'08. During the journey Dr. Joshi meets and interacts with the farmers and raises relevant issues. We see farmers selling land to industries, coming up of SEZ's, farmers being coaxed to take nonviable loans for tractors, issue of farmer's suicide, preference being given to Industry (Coke) for water, and farmers resorting to distress sale. Dr. Joshi analyses situations and presents his own alternative in the form of a 'farmer's bank'.
- Tell Them The Tree They Had Planted Has Now Grown, a powerful film made straight from the heart, is a cinematic diary of a Kashmiri revisiting Kashmir after a twelve year exile to witness the scars of a paradise lost.
- A student's POV commemorating the 125th anniversary of one of the more prestigious colleges in South Asia - St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
- A complex video journey on a motorcar, that incorporates mythic themes of searching, the need for being, for love, for a home and for a promise of a different future.
- A filmmaker, a university student, an entrepreneur and a radio jockey. Women, who feel hungry, eat, grow fat and feel anxious about it. A film about not being perfect. A film about the never ending attempts to make the body "speak for the self in a meaningful and powerful way." A journey to move beyond disorders and discover the real women battling the fantasies around and within them.
- A film on the traditional watermills of Garwhal aimed at increasing awareness of tapping low cost power from existing watermills in the mountains and achieving decentralized and sustainable economic development.
- Weaving diary entries, letters, art work and poetry through a series of conversations, Girhein reflect on the tools that helped them cope with depression and stay afloat.
- The opulent substance and structure of the oracle practices at the temple of Kerala, is filled with dance, personal religious experience, philosophy, theatrical and collective ecstasy.
- 400 million people in India are said to be illiterate, most of them in rural India. However, as a new generation of rural children look to shape tomorrow's India - in Kashmir and Chhattisgarh, they are locked in daunting crucibles of political strife. In the firing line from both sides of the conflict, government schools in these states have everything to lose; but highlighting the way forward are a few girls who show how much people value government schooling.
- A personal exploration of the impact of TV advertising on children who are exposed to the TV medium almost from the day of their birth
- Born into a society obsessed with marriages, a young girl, a not-so-young man and an NRI couple are compelled by tradition to look for matches via classifieds, matchmaking bureaus and websites. Confronted with innumerable criteria that determine who is acceptable and who isn't, they question themselves and their choices. As they introspect, the mêlée of the matchmaking industry continues. At every turn, there are service providers who are ready to snoop, style and solicit potentials on their behalf. People are searching for the ideal one endlessly and the oft-heard question is - When are you getting married? 'Much Ado About Knotting' is a light-hearted chronicle of this predicament that almost every Indian faces.
- A look into the world of female sex workers and homosexual men as they come together to narrate their own stories through films.
- Told through the stories of six different men ranging in age from fourteen to eighty-six, Roots of Love documents the changing significance of hair and the turban among Sikhs in India.