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Luscious colour photography of the Taj Mahal and a Mediterranean cruise to Port Said.

This cartoon film presents in a nutshell, with the help of animated maps and diagrams, some geographical and economic facts about India. It shows how the people of India under the Five Year Plan Projects are striving to achieve a fuller and better life for all.

An Unscripted documentary with some emotions

At the age of 54, Binode Bihari Mukherjee, an accomplished painter, lost his sight following an unsuccessful cataract operation. He continued to create art despite his loss of sight. The documentary explores Binode Bihari’s inner eye that guides his fingers to create art.

A projection-based installation explores the aftermath of displacement following the creation of a massive dam in the southern Indian state of Telangana. Archival material from three generations of researchers meet on the surface of a screen.

Following Shamim Khan’s and his co-workers’ daily care for the Islamic Delhi Gate Cemetery over the last two years, the film attempts to comprehend an event unprecedented in the recent history of the world – the COVID-19 pandemic – through the eyes of a keeper of the dead.

A short documentary depicting the training of circus monkeys.

TAMBAKU CHAAKILA OOB ALI documents, re-enacts, and takes forward one of the largest movements of unorganized labor of its time and context, which sparked unionizing processes across India throughout the 1980s. In the spirit of mobilizing for the leftist labor and the women’s movements the Yugantar collective spent four months with female tobacco factory workers in Nipani, Karnataka in India, listening to their accounts of exploitative working conditions, discussing strategies for unionizing and steps to broaden solidarities for strike actions, and filming previously unseen circumstances inside the factories.

A feature documentary about a family defying erasure and preserving home away from home.

A musical documentary woven around the endangered musical culture of the Rangdani Rabhas from Manikganj, Meghalaya, North East India.

Four tales of girls’ coming of age - through the trajectories of aspiration, curiosity, flamboyance and desire - are juxtaposed with testimonies of adult women on familial violence. The fictional tales and the documentary testimonies overlap, complement each other and then create a line of legacy of FEAR. The normalized and habitual moments in the daily lives of the women weave together a formidable web of fear. This omnipresent female fear then accompanies the young girls into the womanhood of vulnerability.

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

This is a story about a mainstream actor, who got into depression for various reasons. But he fought back and his passion helped him to get out of that situation.

A documentary that follows a group of kothis (gay men who identify as femme) in Belgaum, a small city in Karnataka, and traces their stories of love, desire, and ostracization, as well as their work with an NGO that promotes safe-sex practices.

The film emphasizes the toll the pandemic has had on the mental lives of young and ambitious individuals. While COVID-19 continues to exacerbate physical vulnerabilities across the world, the film tells us about human nature and touch.

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.

Featuring extensive conversations with people in polyamorous relationships across different age groups, the documentary film tries to understand how they navigate emotions such as jealousy, insecurity and possessiveness in love, and go about their daily lives. It also features experts to understand the socio-political, legal and psychological implication of there being a kind of romantic love that defies the rules of monogamy.

In a forgotten nomadic settlement built on a cremation ground, an aging bull named Shankar prepares to leave his home, echoing the slow disappearance of the Nandiwale people's way of life.

"The Last Jewel" is a 1949 film co-directed by Paul Zils and Fali Bilimoria. Specific details about the film's plot and content are scarce, and it appears that the film may be lost.

'Ripples Under the Skin' is a story of contestations - contestation of space, resources, claims, narratives... of a community struggling to carve out a living out of a dying profession contending with a city that both embraces and marginalizes, of a profession that thrives of supplying water to homes... water that doesn't discriminate yet over whom many wars have been fought... wars of caste, class, religion... of muslim migrant workers supplying water to homes that are inviting and uninviting, of homes that they are sustained over the labour of these people, yet homes that the same people can never claim as their own, of memory and forgetting, of dreams and spectres... above all, this is a story of struggles.

As per a recent report, thousands of girls from Kerala and Mangalore from Hindu and Christian communities have been converted to Islam, most of them ending in Syria, Afghanistan and other ISIS and Taliban influenced areas. There is hardly any visible action being taken being taken on this. No specific data available. Police and administration are muffled. Government is in denial mode. As a result, rampant religious conversion through a deep-rooted indoctrination network has taken over Kerala like fire in hay.

The Nagas are a three mllion - strong indigenous peple who occupy the Northeast frontier of India. The Naga political struggle is one of the oldest National movements in South Asia,and is continuing still.. The film provides an indroduction to the history of Naga struggle,and documents the human rights abuses suffered by the people for more than 50 years since the existence of independent India

A movement montage exercise.

"Rock Garden", a hidden paradise, tells the inspiring tale of Nek Chand, a government official who secretly transformed a dense forest into a breathtaking sculpture garden. This intimate documentary explores his unwavering passion, artistic genius, and the profound impact of his unique vision on the world. The movie is streaming globally on Fawesome TV and Relay.

An insightful documentary on the lives of hardworking Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) workers in Bangalore.

This feature length film takes you on a visual journey of Sri Adi Shankaracharya's birthplace and childhood, chronicling the history, landmarks and temples of Kalady. There are fascinating interviews with ordinary people, former rulers and spiritual leaders influenced by this sage. The beautiful and heart-stopping images of the village, people and temples provide an unforgettable experience for devotees and inspire one to make the pilgrimage to this holy place in person.

An Election Diary is a revealing glimpse into the 2019 electoral campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the suburban constituency of Phulpur in Northern India. Blending street interviews, YouTube video clips and recordings of cadre meetings, the film explores BJP's multi-pronged efforts not just in social media outreach, but also in getting people to voting booths on election day. The persona of Narendra Modi, of the BJP, becomes the hook throughout the campaign, side-lining even the party's local candidate. Infrastructural issues plaguing the constituency are deflected with appeals to India's glowing international image and dissolved in a cult of personality. Avijit Mukul Kishore's film, in contrast, is resolutely local. With dispassionate curiosity, it documents the mechanics of a cog in what is called 'India's Greatest Election Machine'.

Documentary film based on the artist Akbar Padamsee.

This film is an ode to the spirit of the '\', a term coined by Charles Baudelaire, a passionate spectator of life, finding happiness in the ephemerality that unfolds before the eyes. A 'stroller' who saunters around observing society, being always present in the moment.

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

Tanko Bole Chhe (The Stitches Speak) is an animated documentary which celebrates the art and passion of the Kutch artisans associated with Kala Raksha. The film traces multiple journeys made by the participants towards defining their identities and towards forming the Kala Raksha Trust and the School for Design. The film uses their narrative art of appliqué and embroideries through which they articulate their responses to life, and events as traumatic as the earthquake and as joyful as flying a kite. Through conversations and memories four voices share their involvement in the evolution of a craft tradition.

A boat has many powers: to gather a society in its making, to distribute goods, to carry people and ideas across places that, it seems to us, are more different than ever before. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf is a result of four years of dialogue, friendship and exchange between CAMP and a group of sailors from the Gulf of Kutch. Their travels and those of co-seafarers from Sindh, Baluchistan, and Southern Iran through the gulfs of Persia and Aden show us a world cut into many pieces, not easily bridged by nostalgics or nationalists. Instead, we follow the physical crossings made by these groups of people who make and sail wooden boats and who also make videos, sometimes with songs married to them.

An experimental film by Pramod Pati that presents to us a sensory collage of icons, symbols and the every-day. Exploring the mood and ambitions of youth at the time, the film eschews narrative and commentary to present the excitement and expectations of its participants.

About the communal clashes between Sikh and Hindu fundamentalists during the Khalistan Movement and the subsequent endeavors of secular parties with Marxist associations in reinstating peace in the state.

In this era of advanced globalization, Music of Rejuvenation upholds spectacular works of fusion created more than a hundred years ago by some of the best creative minds of Bengal Renaissance. The music still holds the power to stir the hearts of the present generation. It is being rejuvenated and reinvented recurrently by musicians of present times.

To inspire a paradigm shift away from a worldview that thrives on differences and division, to an ‘Earthview’ that celebrates our similarities, respects our differences and protects our one and only planet.

BHOPALI documents the experience of second generation children affected by the Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984, the worst industrial disaster in history, and subsequent contamination of groundwater by Union Carbide Corporation (an American company now owned by Dow Chemical, the second largest chemical company in the world). It follows several children as they and their families cope with the ongoing medical and social disaster, as well as their memories of that traumatizing night that shocked the world and changed Bhopal forever. Set against the backdrop of vehement protests for the 25th anniversary of the disaster, the Bhopalis continue to fight for justice, proving to be anything but victims. Set against a backdrop of high stakes activism, global politics, and human rights advocacy, this film explores the ongoing struggle for justice against Union Carbide, the American corporation responsible for the disaster. Featuring Noam Chomsky, Satinath Sarangi, and attorney Rajan Sharma.

Umar Khalid, who once dreamed of playing cricket for India, now faces serious terrorism charges from the government. The vilification spurred by media trials reached its peak with a chilling assassination attempt. He's been in prison for 3.5 years as of March 2024, highlighting a worrying crackdown on dissent in India. This is his story, as told by his loved ones.

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.

The film aims to help Indian children to learn the correct way to sing India's National Anthem.

In a world that neglects personal well-being amid environmental concerns, meet Shailesh Krishna, The Bicycle Maker. With a profound love for bicycles and handcrafting, he redefines cycling, creating personalized experiences and changing perceptions. Witness his inspiring journey to unite passion, individuality, and environmental consciousness in this captivating documentary.

Sanzgiri's father was 18 when India ousted the last remaining Portuguese colonisers from Goa in 1961. Combining 16mm with drone footage, desktop screenshots, and Skype interviews with his father, Sanzgiri utilises various modes of seeing at a distance to question identity, the construction of memory and anti-colonial solidarity across continents.

Abandoned by their families to lives of penury, marked by white veils which they wear, Bengali widows find solace and food in the ashrams of Vrindavan where they gather every morning and evening to sing religious songs. In this profoundly moving documentary on widowhood portrayed both as social institution and personal tradition, moments of astonishing sensuous beauty alternate with rhythms of anguish. In the best of the new ethnographic tradition, ‘Moksha’ de-centres the voices of authority and allows a plurality of voices to introduce contesting positions. Haunting in it_s evocation of grief and anger, the film transcends documentary and assumes it_s place in the great tradition of lamentation, the expression of the dark night of the human soul.

The film takes us to through the silent stone relics of Nagarjunakonda, ancient secluded centre of art, learning and research founded 2000 years ago on the banks of the river Krishna in Andhra Pradesh.

A small fortune, a trans-queer punk band, a fleeting safe house of friends and lovers, and a freedom they had only ever dreamed of. But the voices of their murdered friends echo across the house. How does the band create music affirming love, life, joy, and anger? Can they put up a show in the memory of their fallen comrades, before time and money force them back into a disapproving world?

Kota, a city in North-West India famous for its coaching institutions, attracts more than 200,000 teenagers from all across the country to prepare for the undergraduate competitive exams. These students reside in cubicle sized hostel rooms and study for more than 15 hours a day for two consecutive years to crack the entrance exams for prestigious colleges that has acceptance rate of less than one percent. These students face intense insurmountable pressure from coaching institutes, peers and their families which not everyone is equipped to cope with, resulting in some students taking the extreme step of suicide.

Against the backdrop of a large scale exhibition, the film finds itself set in the tiniest space in the premise of that exhibition - the lost and found corner for children. Amidst the chaos, children are constantly getting lost or temporarily misplaced, who when found are brought to this corner to wait till their parents or guardians are contacted. Numaish is an observational piece that looks at a few such occurrences and attempts to internalise that moment of being lost along with it's subjects.

Amid Himalayan bugyals, a turbaned herder’s call guides cattle and memory. This film follows the Van Gujjars—Muslim vegetarian nomads migrating between plains and hills—through sound, ritual, and resilience. As forest laws threaten their movement, an ancient symbiosis with nature endures, speaking a quiet language of coexistence against modern boundaries and preserving identity through seasons of loss, song, fire, and migration.

The Film-maker’s childhood friend dons a borrowed uniform and poses as an ULFA rebel. Another friend opens an old diary. Some other friends rehearse a play from the film-maker’s childhood days. A poem by an ULFA rebel is recited. The film embarks on a journey to revive the memory of growing up in Assam in the 1990s – a turbulent time when the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was heading an armed rebellion for independence from India. Violence, death, and disappearance dominate the stories from the film-maker’s childhood. The film recollects and reconstructs fragments of those memories through personal narratives of the film-maker’s friends, parents, and relatives.

A 16mm portrait of London with V.O. from international students biding adieu to the city.

Just One Drop takes a no-holds-barred look at the most controversial form of medicine ever invented. Homeopathy treats the entire person, not just the disease. It’s a specific form of medicine that uses minute doses of a highly diluted substance that stimulates the body to cure itself. It is these tiny doses that causes the most controversy. Researchers believe there is a release of energy in water that becomes mysteriously dynamic. Others think it’s purely psychological or worse, a form of deception or quackery. Yet millions claim homeopathy cures even though there is not yet a satisfying scientific explanation. It remains a mystery.

15th century Vaishnavite saint Srimanta Sankardeva is an iconic legend permeates beyond the realm of spirituality and spreads across every other social and cultural aspect of lives of north-eastern part of India, including arts, literature, drama, politics, warfare and so on. Sankardeva was not only a religious leader but also a social reformer of outstanding merit. A progressive visionary by nature, he wanted to build an egalitarian society which would bring solidarity, unity and integrity among the people belonging to different castes, communities and sects in Bharatvarsh.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

The fabric of the city emerged from the warp and weft of diverse threads, from the labour of migrant communities that made Bombay/Mumbai their own.

A scattershot inspired by 'Things' by Jorge Luis Borges

Disco Deewane follows the reunion of Shriprakash, an acclaimed activist filmmaker, and Disco, a vibrant young music producer from a disadvantaged community. The film brings them together years after they parted ways, not as mentor and protégé, but as collaborators tasked with composing a song together.

Upstream, the Kukadi River has dried up. Downstream, it has been dammed and its waters exploited. Filmmaker Aisha Jain explores the activities that take place along this river that runs through rural India, as well as the more intimate relationships people have with its waters. An inventive portrait of a territory and the people who inhabit it.

The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.