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- An atheist archaeologist turned believer must race against time to prove the true existence of the legendary Ram Setu before evil forces destroy the pillar of India's heritage.
- Once upon a time in a village, an old lady steals the rooster and the sun never rises again.
- Underscoring the themes of caste politics and discrimination, Champaran Mutton follows the story of a family based in Bihar and their everyday struggles, spun around a motive leading to cook and relish Champaran Mutton, a local Bihari delicacy.
- Kaki is a 70 year old widow who lives with her Nepali domestic help, Malti in Mumbai. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy, a sailor from her hometown unexpectedly. In the meanwhile, men in the passage spray mosquito repellant that gives Kaki bad dreams.
- Namdeo has learnt to live off the forest from his father. He stares at the treetops, searching for honey. The wind blows and afternoon descends on the small village by the jungle. Women of the village, whisper little secrets of their lost loves. Never seen, and only heard. A strange smoke emits from the ground, like a dream of a time gone by.
- The film follows fragmented journeys of a group of young people in the city of Mumbai. All of them are working on a film in different positions. They keep negotiating with their insecurities in the film crew and also difficulties in their personal lives.The film that they are working on, is a story of a young cab driver's victimization and violent revenge. Increasingly the fiction starts finding uncanny resonances in the fragmented journeys of the youngsters.
- An advertising professional is sent to a mysterious hotel by his employer.
- Krishnan (9) gets fascinated with the story of Barbarik, a prince from Mahabharata who could end the war in a minute but was not allowed by Lord Krishna to fight the war. The boy hunts around this complex and fascinating myth of Barbarik in real world who he believes owns a blue horse and has lotus marks under his feet. The boy creates his own world and wanders to find Barbarik's blue horse. The way myth and religion drive our lives in India, Krishnan's life is also driven by the myth as told to him by his grandmother and he believes that reaching Barbarik would help him solve the problems between his father and the mother. The blue horse becomes the metaphor of the little boy's view of the world. At a point the myth and reality of the little boy collide.
- A father son relationship story, that starts on an indifferent note of misunderstandings and wrong conceptions, but goes on to develop into a beautiful, friendly relationship. Even when this seemingly ideal relationship runs into physical barriers, caused by accidents and ultimately death itself, the relationship seems to continue spiritually, giving the much needed inspiration for the one who is left behind. A chronicle of a family, exploring how this regime continues from generation to generation, even through the void caused by absence on a physical plane, is made up through the constant inspiration on the spiritual level.
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- Its an ethnographic film exploring the legend of a Mahadeo Koli Goddess Kalsu whose story and identity remains impregnated in the consciousness of the women of the tribe even today. The film tells the story of the Goddess while drawing visual contrasts between primordial and contemporary images.
- Brooding over a recent breakup, seismologist Pradipta aka Paddy travels to a village for a field research. Amidst ignoring the calls of her ex and gathering data of waves causing earthquakes, she experiences an unsuspecting tremor there.
- A documentary film-maker comes to a film school in search of a legendary student leader. But instead of a revolutionary, he stumbles across a revolution in the making. The ingredients are all there but the circumstances are absurd. Both the warring parties seem to exist in a world of their own choosing. While one faction prefers to walk backwards, cover their heads and always talk on the phone; the other prefers to escape this 'reality' and sit on trees instead.
- An exploration of the legacy and groundbreaking contributions of the pioneering Indian filmmaker Baburao Painter and pertinent questions about preservation of heritage.
- A personal exploration of one's lost identity, reflecting upon the oral literature passed through generations within the Gor-Banjara tribe
- A middle aged lonely gangster meeting his enemy to ask him if is he as lonely as him.
- Sainath, 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, 80, lives far away in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They share a 'film letter' with each other.
- Young couple finds a way to have their own time while handling a bed-ridden father on a stormy rainy night.
- Woven from a personal frame of reference - through fragmented voiceovers, the film chronicles the stories of tree generations of women who work in the vineyards in Lasalgaon.
- The film is about the hope and survival in the chaotic dark underbelly of Arya Bhushan Theatre in Pune. The film is a melancholic reflection on the idea of Space and the lives that breathes within. Against the precarious cycle of long hours, endless performance and no audience -- the theatre is going through a cusp of transition and modernity.
- Inside an old hammam, now set up as a spa, an elderly masseuse, Avani, reflects her long gone brother on Shantanu. In the interior of the hammam, Shantanu finds comfort in Huzaifa's arms. Their bare bodies shine and glimmer in the sunlight and steam haze. But Huzaifa has to leave soon, the aroma of the spa has started suffocating him. Shantanu is left craving for his touch. As a sense of touch lingers through all of their bodies, the purple light reflects on the hot spring water and Shantanu's flower painted body dances to a mythical story of a chameleon.
- Yesterday I was there,it was a planet of rock and water;other than that I just remembered the blue.. .. then someone told from my left that you overslept. Prisoners of impossible dreams listening to the story of a king who wants to build a map as big as his country.. 'But you are supposed to tell me a different story!' - 'Am I?',the spider replied.
- The film talks about the plight of women in the social structure. It is a fight they are constantly fighting against the odd - the Male. It tries to deal with the intense emotional turmoil of a mother (Tara), who, having realised the odds, finds herself helpless in saving her daughter (Phool). Nevertheless, she vows to fight back and leads to a very unusual resolve. It is not about the story of Tara and Phool, the characters in the film. They are mere representatives of 'their people'.
- Matsya attempts to tell a story of love, loss, the inevitable regret. The film is inspired by philosophy of life , complimenting change and accepting the reality of life-that it's "better to have loved and lost, rather than not having loved". The story is symbolized by adopting inspirations from the Indian mythological tales and folklore, especially of the titular fish god --Matsya, and weaving into it, an amalgamation of Indian astrological signs and the tribal culture of rural central India that speaks Nimadi - the film's spoken language. In a sparse but scenic land, with its geography and period unfounded & untouched, Meena (inspired by Pisces) lives an isolated rural life, characterized by his surreal abode that mirrors his volatile, emotional, and magical inner life, while the vast lush landscapes and lake create a harmonic balance needed to set the stage for Bhumi (inspired by Taurus), a more pragmatic presence that will bring stability and peace of mind in his life. Where the character of Meena is driven by forces of Nature that drives a Piscean, Bhumi on the other hand is monitored by forces of earth or land. The story begins was Bhumi leaves, and Meena is left alone -- in an absolute sense of devastation. With an intention of changing the past to fix his present, following the advice of a mysterious man, Meena sets out on a fantastical journey, hoping to change his past. The magical water of the lake helps him maneuver through aids. The entire story of Meena and Bhumi unfolds in reverse, where cause follows consequence, and conflict follows resolutions.
- A young boy, Rahul, hopes to write a book on his experience of growing up in his village. His mother, being deeply connected with nature, can sense messages and signs arising from nature. Urmila, a pregnant lady, is driven by sensorial experiences. But, In contrast to the serenity and harmonious living; there lurks a violent societal past.These peaceful and quiet lives intersect in a space where traumatic memories of death and loss in Assam's thirty years of secessionist movement keep resurfacing.
- Lakshmi and Krishna are siblings who have made an arrangement of taking care of their bedridden Mother alternatively. one day this mundanity perpetrates Lakshmi to take her an action which coincides with Krishna's arrival leaving Lakshmi in deep guilt and fear.
- Bholaram is a simpleton who plays the trumpet at weddings but dreams of going to the city and making it big. But he has no money and nothing precious to sell except his trumpet, which he holds dearer than life itself.
- Ameya Gore, a direction student at the Film and Television Institute of India, is shifting into a new room in his hostel. As it coincides with his final year documentary project, he decides to make a film about the same. But what begins as a seemingly mundane event, branches out into myriad journeys. It encounters an astronomer, an ascetic and a Hindustani Classical vocalist on the way - all of them following quests of their own. The boundaries between dream and reality, the self and the other, fiction and non-fiction blur, as the filmmaker discovers a sense of unity in all their stories. He also comes to terms with his own longing for oneness, a search for home - literally and metaphorically. Explorative, experimental, yet deeply personal, 'Tethe Asel Raava' pushes the boundaries of a documentary film, attempting a novel, fluid form, akin to the ebb and flow of the human mind.
- A little boy Mangal sees a news on television that human can reach on Mars in future. Mangal is inspired from the news and he wants to go to planet MARS for his own happiness, joy and want to celebrate his life with his true friend Balu.
- A heartwarming documentary on the marginal dwellers of Malegaon confronting threats of evacuation to make space for a highway.
- This film is about transformation of life while living in a lonely city and about Hope.
- Madhav, a playful 8-year-old boy who has spent most of his time playing outdoors in the village, is being sent to town for educational purposes.
- Pochamma, a young girl, has now fallen in love with the sea. The film unfolds when an outcast witch helps the girl to express her love to the sea and take revenge on her father. Through a black leaf, the film traverses on different eventualities and ends on a transcendental journey of jubilance of these two spirited women and Pochamma's expression of love culminating on the sea.