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People around the world are asked a simple but unexpected question: Do you believe in Fairies?

The Film takes us to rural schools in the predominantly tribal district of Dungarpur in southern Rajasthan. With two Government school teachers as focal points, it explores the challenges of being a teacher and a student in fairly adverse circumstances. Children come from difficult contexts with very limited material resources, absentee fathers and younger siblings to attend to. How do teachers respond to this situation? How do they bring children to school and create an environment in which they are motivated to learn?

The documentary explores the education system in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, focusing on why students primarily choose careers as engineers or doctors. It delves into the reason behind this trend and features interviews with students, educators and parents. The film aims to uncover the underlying issues and shed light on the realities of the educational system.

A documentary that distances the roots of Hitler's famous symbol from India's Swastika.

VOLUME ZERO is an hour-long documentary on the work and the ideas of Charles Correa, one of the world’s most important architects. It deals with his childhood, architectural training, formative years and the paradigm underlying his large and complex oeuvre spanning over five decades – as well as his pivotal role in addressing issues of urbanization in the Developing World. It uses first person narration by the filmmaker, combined with extended excerpts of interviews with Correa, live action, stills, diagrams, animation and archival footage to open up the thought processes that generate architectural space and form.

Today is a day of celebration for Ajju: his father is turning 90. However, the old man no longer recognises his loved ones and embarks on a singleminded quest to find his lost dentures. In this playful and humorous film, the protagonist’s constant memory losses result in disorienting time slips, and an explosive chaos ensues!

A reporter wants to take an interview but stuck with a person who is taking him to meet the interviewee

Uttam Das, a folk singer of Bengal, built an Ashram for music in his native village, on the riverbank of Ajay. This Ashram is a unique example, in the modern world where an artist lacks free space to practice art. The artists gather here to celebrate music and the silence of nature uninterruptedly. In ashram rain arrives, seasons change, and stillness of the time persists. But today man's greed tries to destroy the river and the surroundings, pains the land and the artist.

In 1986, Dr. Suniti Solomon, a microbiologist, was the first to find HIV positive cases in India. From then on, she dedicated her efforts to the cause of HIV patients. This documentary film focuses on the service that the late Dr. Solomon and her team provide by matchmaking HIV positive patients based on their health and other factors.

Enter the abode of gods, soak in the spirit of divinity, let the Vedic chants possess your soul. It is here in the Valley of Gods that Anant and Radhika’s Love is etched in eternal memory.

Through a collage of intimate stories, ‘Desire?’ opens up a dialogue about relationships which do not stand on the edifice of Sex and Sexuality, existing as a minority community within an already persecuted LGBTQIA minority community. The parallel narratives take you through each characters’ world as they navigate through life creating small ruptures within a culture of universal hypersexuality.

“Buddha & Me” is a meditative 14-minute documentary by filmmaker Sunil Babbar, exploring the timeless spiritual resonance of Sarnath—the sacred site where the Buddha delivered his first sermon. Through evocative visuals, reflective narration, and a deeply personal lens, the film weaves together the ancient teachings of the Buddha with the filmmaker’s own inner journey. Set against the tranquil backdrop of Sarnath’s ruins and monastic life, Buddha & Me becomes both a pilgrimage and a quiet dialogue between the self and the enlightened path. The movie is streaming globally on "Relay" at this link: https://pickrelay.com/t/kcxf-z4bt/buddha-and-me

A quaint Goan life hides beneath its touristy facade. A Goa of sleepy balcaos, pushy fish-mongers and of pilot bikes flitting on boiling afternoons; of the blend of traditions and a penchant for slow life. The animated sketchbook film explores this erstwhile Portuguese colony.

The Queen of the Hills is a reconstruction of a film shot and edited in 1988-89 but never completed. It was made as a companion piece to the MacDougalls’ film Photo Wallahs (1991), a study of photography and photographers in the north Indian hill station of Mussoorie. The film is a portrait of the hill station and its inhabitants, focusing on its unusual colonial past and postcolonial present. It has been restored digitally from the faded and damaged 16mm workprint produced in the 1980s.

Rudrani Chettri has set up a model agency for India’s trans community. But in a world of prejudice, violence and marginalisation, can they win a place on the catwalk?

The timber trade calls on animal help.

16mm - Memories, Movement and a Machine tries to trace back the trajectory of film society movement in Kerala and its relationship with the machine - 16mm film projector.

Stressing the need for civic sense this documentary pleads for better understanding of other people's problems and the sharing of amenities and services offered by society. This film revolves round a man whose every action is motivated by selfish interests, which ultimately lands him in an unfortunate situation.

Flatmates recreate a cinematic rendition of Amitabh Bachchan's 'Samundar Mein Naha Ke'

Dancing is a passion of the rich, believes Manish Chauhan , the 21-year-old son of a taxi driver in suburban Mumbai. Yet he, like his friend, 15-year-old Amiruddin Shah daydream of becoming principal ballet dancers in big American companies.

Interview with Indian filmmaker G. Aravindan, conducted by Thomas Waugh, 1988.

In intimate confessions and poetic imagery, the film transforms simple fruit into a profound metaphor for the eternal quest for meaning, love, power, and desire, challenging societal taboos along the way.

A process of self-purification through the removal of sludge and rocks from a well, symbolizing a quest for clarity and connection to the natural world. The project explores themes of healing and grace, suggesting that nature, like people, is capable of forgiveness and restoration.

Two US-based doctors investigate the alarming rise in heart attacks and related deaths in South Asian communities across the world.

India Inked: History's Biggest Election' is a documentary produced in collaboration with the Election Commission of India, shedding light on the intricate workings of India's massive democratic exercise. It goes beyond the usual political coverage and showcases the behind-the-scenes preparations, voter outreach, monitoring, and the entire electoral process, including the historical evolution from paper ballots to electronic voting machines.

This documentary explores how Indian women are taught to conceal something as ordinary as their inner wear while drying it, hiding it under towels or behind doors. Through everyday moments and personal reflections, the film reveals how this small act of shame mirrors a much larger culture of policing women’s bodies and visibility.

The narrow lanes of the Jari Mari slum in Bombay house hundreds of sweatshops where people have no right to organise. The film records the changes in the nature and organisation of Bombay's workforce over the past two decades.

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

Feature documentary, completed but unreleased.

After learning of the untimely deaths of her father’s siblings, director Aishu asks her to help her translate the poems left behind by one uncle who achieved cult status posthumously. As they work together to break intergenerational silences and taboos, the old apartment expands, connecting them to the world outside.

This documentary is the first public documentation of the concept of love jihad. Filmed in Meerut following a televised moral policing event termed Operation Majnu, the film tracks the birth of a language of television news which has today become a norm of sensationalism and witch-hunts.

The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias.

On the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi, two boys enter a revered Hindu school where lessons in ancient scripture blur into something more troubling.

The world loves the bloodcurdling narratives of Sundarban Royal Bengal tigers where they are always the vicious villains with fangs. Killing them was a heroic act. Though our wise ancestors knew that the tigers are the protector of forests, people armed with guns and brains, eliminated most of them. We ended up almost losing the forest and its burning bright mega fauna. In 1973, the Government of India launched Project Tiger, a tiger conservation program. Project Tiger takes up several measures to maintain the viable population of Bengal Tigers in their natural environment. The Forest Department workforce steps into protect the tigers and inspire people to end the tussle besides protecting themselves. The film reveals the story of the real heroes, the foot soldiers, the field staffs, who carry out their job even risking their own life but do not see themselves as heroic.

In rural Nepal, Bishnumaya Gurung, 48 and Palhamu Sherpa, 66 go to primary school everyday and make space for learning in their lives as single women.

Hindus celebrate 'Mrityubhoj', or the Death Feast, on the 13th day after a cremation as a remembrance for the departed soul, and also as a ritual to help the soul find heavenly abode. However, today this practice has become akin to a status symbol and a reflection of a family's social standing. This film takes a fly on the wall approach, following a family in the Chambal district in India, as they get ready to organize a death feast following the demise of their father. Caught between tradition, societal pressure, and prestige on the one hand and on the other hand, activists trying to put a lid on the pernicious practice of Mrityubhoj, especially for the poor, it tries to capture their predicament of being caught between a rock and a hard place.

A thought provoking short film on Indian farmers told through clay sculptures made from barren farms of the farmers who have committed suicide.

From the second floor of his coincidental new home, the filmmaker observes his surroundings; a vast green marshland with birds, animals, a pond and people. The filmmaker wonders whether there could be a space in the absence of stories or whether the camera forces spaces to create stories for its own survival.

Some potted plants, odd hours of wakefulness, and the view from my window. A heliotropic film from the lockdown in Budapest.

The film deals the arterial vein of the Brahmaputra River, its position in historical space, its interface with culture, heritage and lifestyle of the people living in its valley.

The work narrates the social, cultural and political history of the “housing question” in Mumbai, by bringing together cinema, state-sponsored documentary, newspapers, policy reports and archives from social movements, among other source materials. These materials are assembled, via a hand-built web editor, into a new kind of "annotated film" that links to online archival sources. Drawing in form from the video lecture-performance style honed on CAMP's rooftop cinema and studio that takes its audience on dense archival journeys, the work examines a series of four organized responses to urban housing and slums triggered by a landmark court case, alongside a parallel cinema movement.

The Lost Paradise is a short documentary that tells about a rare rags to riches to rags story of a tiny Pacific nation of Nauru. It tells how Nauru, through phosphate mining, became the world's richest nation per capita and how corruption, exploitation of environmental resources, poor decisions, and a musical made it one of the poorest countries in the world.

A momentary act of revenge transformed the lives of two young Indian women forever. After surviving an acid attack, while carrying scars of human brutality on their faces, both Ritu and Faraha learn daily to redefine their lives through a sea of odd currents.

Documentary about a women's refuge in southern India.

A story of Shyamal: a runaway, a pickpocket & a tiger's cub.

It was a sunny day in Shimla. A tall and slim spectacled old man, wearing a brown checked coat with a colourful t-shirt passed by. His posture was erect and gait confident. He had a bunch of stories to tell – about his interactions with B.R. Ambedkar. He called himself Bhagwan Das.

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.

Yellow Cat in Memory lane is a film on the famous Indian Poet T. K. Doraiswamy aka Nagulan. The film was shot three years prior to his death. He takes us through his memory lane while talking about Poetry, Uncertainity and Life.

Sainath, age 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, age 80, lives far afield in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They share a ‘film letter’ with each other. A film mounted with an expression like a warm letter weighted with feelings. A written letter is a compilation of words and sentences and a ‘film letter’ is an assembly of images and sounds. A shelter(Gotho) unfolds the journey around Polem district with voice recordings of the director and his grandmother.

A broad-ranging examination of Indian society, where secular rationalists are hunted down as they attempt to stem the rising tide of religious and nationalist fundamentalism.

A shelter for children on the outskirts of Delhi provides food and accommodation for 350 boys. Some are orphans, others have been abandoned, still others have run away from home. About half are held under a court order, having been picked up from the streets for petty crimes. Living at the institution for several months, the filmmaker explores its routines and the varied experiences of several boys. Despite the harshness of their lives, many show remarkable strength of character, knowledge, and resilience. One day 181 child labourers arrived, placing additional strain on the building's deteriorating facilities. The institution does what it can, but is it enough?

Documentary about the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Islam and India have a long-standing symbiotic relationship, integrating their culture, poetry, architecture, and tradition into existing Indian traditions, resulting in a beautiful syncretism.

Haidar, a taxi driver, dreams of going to India to see the Taj Mahal. The choice doesn’t seem strange for a man who believes that “love is everything”. The only problem is he lives in Pakistan! Why is Haidar's dream so impossible to achieve? To see how Haidar's dream can be given a voice and what it means for all of us, the filmmaker travels from India to Pakistan.

A sweeping documentary survey of Indian civilization, tracing 5,000 years of history from the Indus Valley to the era of Indira Gandhi. Written, directed, and narrated by S. Krishnaswamy, the film explores the cultural, religious, and social traditions that shaped the Indian subcontinent and continue to influence contemporary life.

Those born on Independence Day in 1947 were selected from different parts of India and interviewed to know their hopes and desires, ambitions, hobbies, fears and frustrations and the result is this unique film.

Pawan Kumar, India’s last hangman from a lineage of executioners, gained fame after hanging the Nirbhaya case convicts. A media favorite, he is known for his blunt views on capital punishment and takes great pride in his legacy, which he hopes to pass to his son.

SWA: the ‘Self’ is metaphorically hidden in a multi layered 5 sheath formation of interlocking caves we lose touch with our true subtle selves, when we identify with a fluctuating mind and the multiplicity of a manifest reality the film explores a vision... to experience and merge with the Universal Absolute; is the culmination of Inner Spiritual Wealth we need to be at peace with ‘Wholeness’ thus in our lucid states of meditation... our consciousness experiences a joyful sharing of the same space as the ETERNAL INFINITE; an eternal infinite, that supports all mutations... the effortless sublime state of ‘Samadhi’ we are enlightened... as the film, elevates human consciousness

This short documentary examines the unique history of the Armenian community in Calcutta, India and highlights the remarkable identity of the Diaspora in this historic city. It documents the early Armenian merchants who settled in the city as a result of the ancient Great Silk Road, the current state of the Armenian Church & School, the passion that Indian-Armenians have for the sport of Rugby, new trends of migration from Yerevan and the future of the Armenian Community in Calcutta.