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Meshuggah released a 26-minute documentary as a bonus DVD with their seventh studio album, Koloss. Instead of a traditional concert film, the documentary focuses on the exhaustion, sleep-deprivation, and chaotic reality of international metal touring. It covers travel delays, shaky stage logistics, and includes interviews with burned-out band members.
Cinema is an inseparable part of life in urban India. The film shows the effects of popular cinema on the people.
Film is about Patachitra Paintings in rural West Bengal, where images of Hindu gods are made by Muslim community.
In Chennai, a 70-year-old kozhukattai artisan's humble stall becomes a symbol of resilience and grace, her decades of quiet perseverance captured in a dialogue-free meditation on endurance.
Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.
Loving Karma ifollow-up to the Emmy Award–winning documentary Tashi and the Monk. Set in the remote Himalayan foothills of Arunachal Pradesh, India, the film retells the original story in a newly reversioned ‘Directors Cut’ and then expands on the journey of Tashi, a spirited young girl who was once one of the most troubled children at Jhamtse Gatsal Children’s Community.
Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.
Prisoner No. 626710 is Present chronicles the arrest and prolonged incarceration of activist Umar Khalid, accused of orchestrating the 2020 New Delhi riots. Through archival footage and personal accounts, Lalit Vachani explores Khalid's activism, the impact of his imprisonment on his partner Banojyotsna Lahiri, and the broader crackdown on dissent under the Modi government. The film situates Khalid’s story within the larger political repression of civil rights movements and Muslim voices in India.
Shot by raghavngpl, the documentary follows 2 AASHIQZ* (yksdog and raztaan) around the capital, Delhi, where they take you on a visual journey of their songs about love and heartbreak. Fun times.
The village artist Jangarh Singh Shyam left home and became a well-known contemporary painter. He committed suicide in 2001. Through his art, places and stories, the filmmaker explores the traces he left on his path.
In Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra Valley, an ancient network of kuhls – hand-built water channels – carries water. The kohlis, “water masters,” struggle to protect this heritage, custodians of a way of life where water flows alongside folk tales, myths, and local arts.
The film explores the subject of organ donation through the lens of transplant coordinators, highlighting their role in the process of organ donation, retrieval and transplantation.
This film explores multinational shoe company Bata’s impact on individual lives and their surroundings. The film’s aesthetic, shifting from site to site and shot to shot, offers pockets as a visual version of the bubble that was the Bata colony itself. The characters are all connected to that past. They guide the viewers through the merging of past and present in memory. The film’s colouration also evokes this mixture.
The documentary film is set in a remote village near the famous Konark temple in India, on the life of a poor farmer's son who is amazed by the advent of technology in their lives after the arrival of a steel torch to their home.
Meena is a documentary film about sex trafficking in India based on a true story.
What started as a journey with friends to explore the beautiful grounds and stories of Kanavu, transcended into a beautiful dream of ours.
The journey from ashes to idols through the eyes of a teenager who has created many jobs in the process The documentary shows how a teenager decided to get rid of temple's waste by making idols from them and how few jail inmates became his helper in the process.
The sports documentary examines India's biggest match-fixing scandal, the icons caught in its web and the journalists who uncovered the corruption.
A stunning trek from the vale of Kashmir, via Sind Valley and Kargil and Lamayaru Monastry.
In the heyday of the jute industry, millions of people in Bengal made their living doing this laborious work, which has hardly changed since the industrial revolution. The 100-year-old machinery has been endlessly repaired. State aid kept this sustainable alternative to plastic going, but its future looks bleak.
"Amma’s Pride" chronicles Valli’s unwavering support for her trans daughter, Srija, as she navigates the trials and tribulations of falling in love, getting married, and fighting for state recognition of her marriage in a traditional small town in South India. When societal pressures push Srija’s marriage to the edge, Valli clings to the hope of a miracle.
A short film that sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition.
“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married in villages. It should be taught to children”. — Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda The Gi Mihaq (also known as Kusunda) was a semi-nomadic hunter and gatherer community that settled in villages around the mid-western Nepalese district of Dang. They have long lost their native language Mihaq (Kusunda), to acculturation and other barriers to active use. The community also lost their 83-year-old elder Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda in 2020, the most and the only known fluent Kusunda speaker then. Filmed in Kulmor in the Dang District in 2018, this openly-licensed documentary is a memoir of Sen-Kusunda in her own words and a biography of her people who were forced to leave their language and cultural identity. Kusunda is being revived by Kamala Sen Khatri, Sen-Kusunda’s younger sister, and Uday Raj Aaley, a local researcher who is the key interviewer for this film.
This is a film about the communal disturbances which stormed the streets of Nalanda District of Bihar in May 1981.From the personal point of view the film goes into the discovery of the humanitarian causes and repercussions involved in such acts of savagery. How can people engage themselves in such acts of killing? Covering common people's opinions, this film offers a diagnosis.
Explores the processes of political maneuvering which led to the Hyderabad communal riots in 1984. The city’s history, the provocative speeches of its politicians and the instrumentalisation of religious processions stands next to the testimonies and the striking visual accounts of the Old City’s working class – those who lose their livelihoods through violent attacks and long periods of imposed curfew.
Documentary on a Punjabi Folk Singer
A daughter grapples with dual inheritances from her birth family and marriage. The film examines the transmission of care, discipline, labor and faith through women’s daily work spanning different geographies and generations.
SON RISE is filmed in rural Haryana, a strongly patriarchal state, bordering India's capital, New Delhi. Illegal, yet rampant female foeticide, has led to the eerie absence of girls in hundreds of villages, giving the region the notorious title 'The land of Daughter Killers' (kuri mar khshetar). er
The film is inspired by a rural folklore from central India, centred around a concept known as “Maya” or "the buried treasure." According to folklore, this treasure possesses its own consciousness and has the ability to select its rightful bearer. When the treasure is acquired by the person it is destined for, no trouble arises. However, if someone other than the chosen or destined individual claims the buried treasure, it brings forth bad omens. The film explores the lives of two cousins and the choices they make, highlighting the conflict between greed and need, as well as the themes of prophecy and destiny.
Karnataka’s Hakki Pikki tribe and its oddly named people
Against the backdrop of the Indo-China war of 1962, Tapan Sinha made a short documentary meant to arouse patriotic feelings, called Aamar Desh.
‘The Great Indian Illusion’ is an unsettling journey through India’s banking system, unravelling the invisible machinery of debt, power, and privilege shaping the nation. As promises of growth collide with scams, collapsing trust, and widening inequality, the film peers into the fragile myth sustaining modern India.
The contemporary relevance and future of oldest classical music.
Amidst the urban transformation driven by progress, bulldozers dismantle 'illegal' settlements, leaving countless lives shattered. In the aftermath of such upheaval, one basti, sacrificed to conceal poverty during the G20 summit, and another basti, abandoned by authorities without alternative housing, illustrate the stark realities of displacement. The film delves into the daily struggles of individuals who persist in the rubble of their former homes.
A retrospective documentary about the life of Mary Evans Wadia AKA Fearless Nadia.
The filmmaker spends a few weeks with his grandfather and records their time together.
A documentary following four youngsters during the Telangana bifurcation era.
A short documentary about the history, customs, festival, Goddess Mother Kaali and devotion centred around the Dakshineshwar Kaali temple in West Bengal
Seen through the eyes of filmmaker Manjari Makijany, Discovering Sambha is a feature documentary on her father, Indian character actor Mac Mohan.
The future Edward VIII enjoys stunning mountain scenery on a visit to the Khyber Pass during his royal tour
In an open letter to the most influential modern Indian political leader, the Late Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the filmmaker sequentially narrates the stories of three distinct individuals - that of a confused filmmaker who flows with time, a dedicated social reformer who guides the stratified masses into social upliftment and a divisive and regressive politician. The juxtaposition of their disfigured trajectories provokes a pertinent question: Did Gandhi ever foresee the dehumanized shape that his legacy has now dangerously morphed into?
Poetic monologues and the music of wandering bards accompany the pilgrims and nomads of modern-day India. This experimental work challenges us to visualize a journey of the soul, with walking as a meditative act.
The camera sways slightly, setting in a majestic black and white on the intimate stories of a small village bordering the jungle. A mystical and poetic cinematic experience, in which one gladly gets lost.
'Mod' is an attempt by the filmmaker at communicating with the young men who hang out at the ‘notorious’ water tank in her neighbourhood in Pratap Vihar, Ghaziabad. The water tank is a space that is frequented by the so-called ‘no-gooders’ of the locality, a place where they play cricket, play cards, drink and smoke up. When she enters the space with her camera, the boys are curious and at the same time wary of it and her. They sometimes resist, sometimes protest, and at times, open up. As the film unfolds we get a hint of the lives the boys lead and the fragile world they create for themselves at the water tank.
Kshurasyadhara (The Razor's Edge), based on the temple oracles of Kerala. The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR),2002 and was shown in film festivals at Tehran, Milan, International Film Festival of Kerala, MIFF. "Kshurasyadhara" won the best Malayalam film commendation award 2001, Indian Documentary Producer's Association (IDPA), Best Director Award of the Kerala State Film & TV Awards 2001, and the National Jury award of the Mumbai International short & Animation film festival (MIFF) in 2002. "Kshurasyadhara" is now a part of permanent archives at the United States Library of Congress.
Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.
Indira Manikam and her sister took a leap of faith by establishing Tanjai Kamala Indira Dance School (TKI) in Kuala Lumpur. This documentary captures her journey, explore the power of art, and above all, the courage and resilience of a woman’s spirit.
The film recounts the key events of Dr. Ambedkar’s life and it also features live footage of his later years.
A great documentary of bharatnatyam dance by Kumari Kamala directed by Jagat Murari.
Through a series of unanswered phone calls made by an unnamed narrator, we listen to the dreams, fears, and ambitions of a migrant man working as a cook in Bombay, while witnessing glimpses of daily life unfolding across the city
An abridged version of the film “Ravi Shankar”, a film portrait of the Sitar Maestro, depicting through a series of interviews and recitals his versatile personality as a well-known classical performer and a creative composer of Indian Music.
The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun
Behind The Looking Glass is a film about the lives of women whose partners have or want to ‘transition’. While we hear a great deal of “stunning and brave” stories of men, there is a deadly silence when it comes to the stories of the wives or partners. This film will be the first of its kind in collecting such experiences of women from around the world.
A filmmaker's insight into the biggest gathering on earth -the Kumbh Mela.
Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.
India's prosperous Green Revolution was led by Punjab, a state in northern India famous for its lush rice fields and wet, fertile soil. But as farmers are conned into buying more and more pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers that they don't need, which demand often ten times more water, the water table is sinking at an alarming rate. Punjab's water has been poisoned by the chemicals, and the farmers poison their bodies with opium, helping them to work longer and harder. Loans from a middleman are taken out, with extortionate interest rates that are impossible to pay back. As a result, hundreds of Punjabi families are left without a father, husband or son as more and more farmers cave in under the pressure and drink their own chemicals to end their lives.
An urgent portrait of the people of the Zanskar valley and their struggle to survive extreme living conditions aggravated by climate change.
This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt.
This 108-minute feature, set in Kolkata, delves into the revival of Tapan Theatre by capturing the essence of four actors working on a play amidst the historical venue’s resurrection post-COVID.
Documentary about the nuclear sabre-rattling that has been going on between India and Pakistan. Comprised mostly of interviews with average folks on the street, the movie superbly demonstrates the gulf between the people's will and the greed of those in power.