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People of different faiths, gender and regions make up Mumbai, The huge human jigsaw in this vast urban sprawl with a population of about twenty million. We'll meet Kallu, who collects dead bodies from the Mithi River... Ambulance drivers like Raj Lokhande and Jeevan who race through narrow, jammed lanes to save lives daily... Former Red light area workers of Kamathipura - Asha and Shobha - who were sold, caged and forced into prostitution and now are part of the Oasis NGO, transforming the lives of other women... Construction workers Azaad, Janaab and Rajaram are employed daily on terrifying building sites, hoping to earn a happy home life while moving from one temporary dwelling to another... Fisherman Akash and his family are caught in a declining market with no guarantee of quality fish or decent prices due to contamination in the sea...

"Challenge," a documentary film, tells the inspiring story of Princy Gogoi, a physically challenged girl from Assam. Despite facing numerous obstacles, including financial, social, and emotional challenges, Princy's mother, Beauty Gogoi, stood by her side as an undaunted angelic spirit. The film highlights their journey as they strive to provide Princy with a worthy life, ensuring her education and independence.

A documentary on Mr.Dharanidhar Boro was a Deputy Conservator of Forest. During his tenure at Kaziranga National Park in Assam,India,he stopped rhino poaching for two years. He transformed many poachers and made them surrender their arms with the help of education,culture and social relationship. This is his story.

The workers of Safai Karmachari Andolan, led by Roman Magsaysay Award winner activist Bezwada Wilson, are on a mission to eradicate manual scavenging, a practice in which lower-caste men and women manually clear human excrement from gutters, and liberate those forced into this occupation by dint of their birth.

Freedom, elections and democracy are at the very core of India's constitution. Learn about the intricacies of the world's largest democracy manages to hold free and fair elections. On National Geographic.

An impersonator also known as ‘Behrupiya’ amuses the locals by impersonating well-known movie characters. One day, while performing one of his acts, Behrupiya meets with an accident that brings his life to a complete halt. Despite this setback, the young kids in the village who looked up to him as an idol refuse to give up on him and offer their support. The story explores the themes of resilience, determination, and the importance of community support. The accident that Behrupiya faces has a symbolic significance, representing the challenges and obstacles that can arise in life. However, the fact that the village's young children rally around him and offer their support shows that even in the face of adversity, hope and encouragement can come from unexpected places. The story is a poignant exploration of the power of human connection and the resilience of the human spirit.

A dreamy vignette of a group of close male friends, enjoying their beach holiday together in Goa, India. The camera's presence stirs up their tender affections and playful antics, as they savour the last moments before the sun sets.

Natural lifecycles, the labour of scavengers pouring over carrion, perform counterpoint to outsourced ghost tales from a Mechanical Turk platform.

The everyday-lives of three female labourers working in a brick kiln in India takes an upsetting turn after an unexpected rainfall halts their work. What unfolds is a threatening tale of unorganized labour and economic debts in a rapidly urbanizing India.

A documentary film on uranium mining and its deadly impacts on the tribal people living near the Jadugoda mine, mill and tailings dam, in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand (India). Unsafe mining, milling and tailings management by UCIL in this area for almost 30 years has resulted in excessive radiation, contamination of water, land and air, destruction of the local ecology, and lead for to genetic mutation, and slow death for the people of the region. The film attempts to depict the gross misuse of power by the authorities in displacing the original inhabitants of the region, the utter lack of concern for internationally accepted norms and safety precautions in the handling of uranium and its by-products, and their callousness of its disastrous impact on the people and the region.

Atali is not just a case study. Much has been written and documented on the incident which ripped apart the once wholesome fabric of Hindu-Muslim unity that lasted in this village over 75 years defying even the tumultuous events of 1947.

Shehar paints a melancholic, yet hopeful portrait of industrialization in modern day India

Lhamo Kyab, a Tibetan nomad, escapes into exile in India, only to return secretly to Tibet on a symbolic journey to highlight his people's suffering. Meanwhile, 130 Tibetans have set themselves on fire inside Tibet. This film considers the implications of the sacrifices being committed by Tibetans in the name of freedom.

A day in the life of an ascetic as he wanders casually through a valley in southern India. Along the way, he meets numerous residents of the region and is curious about their lives. This popular philosopher enjoys considerable authority, sometimes acts as a teacher, and accepts events as the gifts of fate. At the end of the day, he returns to his shelter, where he contemplates life.

Ahoms have shaped the history and identity of the Assamese community and also the geography of it state, Assam. The Bailungs who are the last of the Ahoms have preserved the age-old Ahom tradition and kept the legacy alive.

Manipur has a rich tradition of culture, dance, music, art and sports. Dances are associated with deities and festivals. Raslila is one of the classical dances of India. Theatre personalities and artists of the states are internationally acclaimed. The state is also distinguished by its rich tradition of handloom and handicrafts. The contribution of Mary Kom is well known. The state is the birth place of game of Polo. Loktak is the largest freshwater lake, which is distinguished by floating islands. Keibul Lamjao National Park is home to Sangai, the endangered brow-antlered deer. The Ima Bazar, situated in the centre of city of Imphal symbolizes women power. Moreh is the last town of Manipur and is the gate-way of India to Myanmar.

Khajuraho, the city of Gods is shown in this film. During the period of Hindu renaissance, temple architecture received a striking impetus and its most eloquent expression is seen in the inspiring group of temples at Khajuraho.

Following the consequences of nationwide lockdowns amid the Covid19 pandemic, the film chronicles stories of girls out of school in a small village in India.

Distance is a short film about a far away village set amidst a growing metropolis where workers narrate stories of love and longing.

In the peripheries of a polluted lake in Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, the act of observation is interrupted by flying foam, noxious gases, daydreams, and questions from passers-by. Despite its spectacular toxicity, the lake remains a valuable resource and refuge for counter publics.

In recent years, India's patriarchal order has been called into question by an increasingly educated and culturally aware generation of women. In response, acid attacks on women have become a disturbingly frequent occurrence - as cowardly as they are devastating, those afflicted are left scarred both mentally as well as physically. Rupa’s Boutique profiles the bravery and perseverance of six young women, as Rupa cares for her community of acid attack survivors refusing to be defined by their trauma.

Naleena is an Indian transgender and according the culture of his country she belongs to the so-called "third sex," neither man nor woman. As an offering to the Goddess Kali, the Indian transgenders, called Hijras, undergo the ritual emasculation, carried out in secret and without anesthesia by the Thaaiamma, a kind of sacred midwife. Traditionally considered sacred beings because daughters and priestesses of Kali, nowadays the Hijras live like outcasts, even at a lower level than the caste of Pariah, and to survive the majority of them is forced to beg and prostitution.

Naihati, a suburb more than 30 km north of Kolkata, is a silent observer of the days old and new.

A Films Division of India documentary recording an early development initiative during India’s post-independence modernization period. Referenced by Erik Barnouw as part of the Indian state documentary tradition of the early 1960s, the film documents a “pilot project” focused on infrastructure and development, presenting modernization as a planned, collective process through observational imagery.

An independent film screening, workers’ hands sewing blankets, the work of newspaper delivery people, stories of strife, and the poetry of crows . . . Images from a December in Jaipur comes into focus through this storytelling patchwork.

A short documentary on the wind that blows through the Palakkadan gap in the winters of Kerala

"It doesn't matter where you work, the main thing is to save up for a house." Of course, there's no harm in dreaming about the great, but the heroes of the film "Low Tide" have been toiling away in the salt fields of the Indian state of Gujarat since their youth.

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A cinematic document of the Dussehra festival in the Himalayan town of Almora in Uttaranachal.

The imposition of the idea of God in children's lives will be brought out in the narrative through the help of the filmmaker's own experiences with God and religion. Invariably, patriarchal systems makes us inculcate the practice of not questioning what elders or parents for that matter teaches or introduces to us, even if it may be an imposition of sorts in the name of social identities.

The progress of a community in a small town in Maharashtra, built around its film industry.

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This documentary explores the evolution of a blank canvas into a painting. A painting is so much more than just painting on a canvas, it embraces everything around that inspires the artist. With each brushstroke, a bit of life is smeared across the canvas until the painting is Life itself reflecting back at us.

The film goes looking for the hands that make god. The labour that goes behind religion. The film moves around a tent setup far away from home for its inhabitants, artisans. They bring with them bundles of clothes, tools, and their desires. While the image of god take shape here, things are cracking at the seams elsewhere.

This documentary film is a true reflection of an artist, Jay Kreimer, his innovative work on creating musical instruments from 'simple objects' and his journey of experimenting with sounds and materials.

This experimental video essay explores the space and time of a post-colonial hill station set up by the British as a sanatorium for therapeutic recovery from the heat and humidity of India. Invoking the closing sequences of Ritwik Ghatak’s film, Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star) (1960), the film explores how mountains became a metaphor not just for malaise and affliction, but also the human will to survive in the corridors of a creaky healthcare system. Framed through fissures in the dark, derelict walls of a once glorious cinema hall in Darjeeling, the events within turn, hang in liquid suspension. The same landscape becomes a haven for the tourist-turned-environmental-refugee who crawls up the winding mountainside in summer, fleeing the furnace of the Indian plains. But the haven itself is occupied by giant pile drivers pounding steel into the industrial night.

Hathi Bondu is a Documentary on one of the burning issues of the world - Man - Animal Conflict. The conflict is equally harmful to both the species. It is often seen that the result of the conflict ends with loss of life. The documentary focuses on the effects and ways to avoid or resolve the conflict between Man and Elephant.

Film, being an immersive experience, depends heavily on dialogue, music, and sound effects. The seven-time Oscar-winning sound designer Gary Rydstorm, often repeats his most quotable quote, "You do a great job in sound when no one notices it". This documentary journals 'Sound in Indian Cinema' and the incredibly talented people who work hard to remain unnoticed.

Despite India having surrendered her political, military and commercial rights in Tibet to China by treaty in 1954, China continues to militarily assert its residual rights over parts of India.

The film captures the lived experiences of female primary school teachers in GLPS Mundur, Palakkad district of Kerala during the covid- 19 pandemic. The challenges of online learning , their coping mechanisms and state's role have been highlighted.

Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect and carry water in massive urns, they clean plates and clothes with it, water their animals, and even maintain their homes with it (we see them churn mud to smear across their floors). A record of the ongoing cycles of women’s labour (“we make food, we eat, we sleep, we wake up…”), their sense of humour and resilience, and the ways the community co-operate to deal with scarcity.

An Anthropological documentary is on the Mara tribes of Mizoram.

Experimenting with a non-linear, observational style, director Jain J Abraham’s documentary follows a day in the life of his great-grandfather—a 90-year-old retired farmer from the small town of Pala in Kerala. Despite ageing limbs and failing eyesight, the hours are full for Chachan (meaning ‘grandpa’), as he tends to his cows, visits church and follows the news and soaps on TV. As Jain records his routine, Chachan reflects on the oft-repeated patterns of local and national politics, how the fortunes of men and the rubber crop are intertwined, and the essential nature of human beings.