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Having invaded Lanka to rescue his abducted wife, Lord Ram must face the mighty Meghnad, Lanka’s invincible crown prince. What should have been a righteous battle between equals is manipulated by .. more

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Tanushree Das and Saumyananda Sahi

Maya discovers that her husband – an ex-soldier who is suffering from PTSD - is the prime suspect in a murder investigation. She and her teenage son are forced to go to extremes to keep the family.. more

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A man dies young. Funeral rites – yes; mourning – not so much. A death that stirs and shakes things up. A film that shows the violence of family relationships with uncanny subtlety and verve, th.. more

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Bantoo, an Indian wedding band trumpet player risks everything to go on a journey of finding his own tune, his own music.

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Exiled from city comforts to his ancestral village, Mivan meets his embittered aunt, befriends a horse and joins the local kids on wild adventures, discovering the beauty of life and a courage he ne.. more

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The Delivery Guy follows two South Asian immigrants who came to Berlin as students and work in the food delivery sector. It reflects on their hopes, disappointments, and daily struggles in a city th.. more

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Semmalar Annam

Mayilaa embarks on a journey as a travelling salesperson in Southern India to fulfil her expensive obligations. The only problem: she doesn’t know how to sell. A sharp yet heartwarming tale of a m.. more

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Madhusree Dutta

An Alzheimer-plagued mother’s fear of tigers in Assam sparks a multi-location probe into the US army unit supplying Kunming in WWII. A collective quest through history’s butterfly effects, told .. more

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Tanmaya Shekhar

After being caught robbing the college canteen, best friends Molshri and Shivang are expelled. To be reinstated, they must enroll five children from an impoverished slum into a local school.

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Inspired by a true story, Flowers of Acacia follows wedding orchestra dancers whose dreams collide with the harsh realities of patriarchy and misogyny.

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Pankaj Rishi Kumar

When France relinquished the colonial outpost of Pondicherry after India’s independence in 1947, it gave its subjects the option between French and Indian citizenships. Inadequately publicised, th.. more

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RJ Gulnaz defies norms, voicing unity, peace, and resistance.

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Intekhab, Sameer, Aliza

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Neeraj Ghaywan

Two childhood friends from a small North Indian village chase a police job that promises them the dignity they’ve long been denied. But as they inch closer to their dream, mounting desperation thr.. more

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Migrant and aspiring actress Thooya navigates Mumbai by leveraging beauty and wit, occasionally trading intimacy for opportunity. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s upscale apartment to Swetha, a .. more

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Sunanda Bhat

A compelling portrait of democracy in action in a Southern Indian State. It chronicles Eddelu Karnataka’s [EK] campaign, as it unites citizens’ groups nation-wide to fight majoritarian BJP in th.. more

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Balaji Maheshwar

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 gr.. more

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Vimukthi Jayasundara

Scientist Anandi visits Hanuman Island to perform the last rites ritual for her father. She is immediately placed in quarantine in a remote hotel due to a pandemic caused by a machine-dominant world.. more

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Mohana is the president of the first trade union for women auto rickshaw drivers in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As well as maneuvering her own auto through the busy streets of Chennai,.. more

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Prabhash Chandra

Alaav, is the story of Bhaveen Gossain, a 63-year-old son, taking care of Savitri, his ailing 95-year-old mother in their home nestled in a quiet suburb of New Delhi, India. Bhaveen rarely steps out.. more

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Ankur Singla

A coming-of-age story about middle-class Indian fathers and their relationships with their sons, entangled in rebellion, insecurities and bound by tradition. Set in ’90s Chandigarh.

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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 .. more

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Ishaan Ghose

Priya, a single mother with an infant in hand, and Kishan, a penniless man looking for work, migrate to the city of Kolkata hoping for a better life.

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Maharshi Tuhin Kashyap

Nur, a chicken seller, notices traces of an accident on his beloved motorcycle. Wondering if it’s connected to yesterday’s hit-and-run in town, he questions those who borrowed his bike, but peop.. more

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Varsha Bharath

From her journey through high school and college, then out into the wider world, Ramya’s dream of finding the perfect guy is obstructed by societal mores, strict parents, unrequited love and the u.. more

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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 .. more

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Vipin Radhakrishnan

In a remote, rustic mid-90s village in Tamil Nadu, An elderly widow fights to save her sense of individuality when her younger son demands that she wear a blouse to impress his prospective in-laws.

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Pankaj Rishi Kumar

Gola Dreams' journeys into the heart of Gola Gokarannath, a “Choti Kashi” in Uttar Pradesh, during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Through the lives of Surendra, a Dalit reporter with a near-invis.. more

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Pradipta Bhattacharyya

Set in rural Bengal, Pradipta Bhattacharyya’s contemplative drama about the human condition, The Slow Man and His Raft, centres on Nadhar, a motion-impaired, middle-aged man, “slower than a slot.. more

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Ahmed's idyllic life as a nomadic camel-herder is turned upside down when grazing land is sold to private corporations, and he has to choose between keeping his traditional livelihood or modernising.. more

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O. P. Srivastava

The film shines a spotlight on a less-visible but increasingly urgent issue — space pollution. As humanity’s reliance on technology and satellite systems grows, so does the debris orbiting Earth.. more

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Tusharr Madhavv

A queer voyage along the labyrinths of dreams, archives and lived histories, Roohrangi navigates the real and the imaginary – traversing the filmmaker’s encounters in a gay-cruising forest-reser.. more

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Vivek Chaudhary

The divergent paths of poppy farmer Vardibai and her activist son Mangilal intertwine in this powerful documentary about a Dalit family’s resistance against systemic oppression.

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Raam Reddy

Spring 1989. High up in the Indian Himalayas, where even the birds fly low to avoid getting lost in the clouds, the soft-spoken Dev owns a sprawling estate of several orchards and lives in a colonia.. more

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Rohan Kanawade

A thirty-year-old city-dweller compelled to spend ten-day mourning of his father in the rugged countryside of Western India tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. As the mo.. more

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Bhargav Saikia

Anahita, traumatised by the brutal disappearance of her mother, finds comfort in Shalini, her history teacher. On an unconventional school excursion to a mysterious prehistoric site, she confronts h.. more

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Tannishtha Chatterjee

Amreen is a Muslim woman with a talent for cooking. After her husband Imtiaz is injured in an accident, she decides to become the breadwinner. Despite family opposition and difficulty finding work d.. more

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Ha Lyngkha Bneng is a poignant exploration of human connection amid change, set in 2047 against the serene East Khasi Hills. The film follows Livingstone and his fellow villagers as they confront lo.. more

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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 f.. more

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Prabodh Bhajni

My Home is a heart-wrenching tale of love, loss, and longing — a story of four women waiting for the return of Mohan, a migrant worker and the family’s sole breadwinner. Over the years, their li.. more

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Ravi Shankar Kaushik

Mahesh, a ‘low’ caste migrant farmworker, is forced to go on a run to protect his son who gets accused of a murder.

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Natesh Hegde

In the sleepy hamlet of Vaghachipani, an under-aged sheperdess is discovered to be pregnant. Her employer who is hellbent on becoming the chairman of the village-council is making every effort to co.. more

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Revolving around three case studies of hate crime in North India, the film follows human rights lawyer Akram Akhtar Choudhary as he provides legal help to his clients – victims of mob lynchings, v.. more

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Bishnu returns to her Himalayan village after quitting her job, only to face mounting family pressures and societal expectations. As tensions rise with her pregnant sister's arrival and a budding re.. more

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Anil Amrut Bhalerao

Tradionally, Labhan Community has one job - work in stone mines and, stay away from civilisation, near the mountains in a commune. Due to their lack of connection with outer world, they have remaind.. more

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After the loss of his mother, Amay, a struggling young architect is forced to live for 48 hours with the one person he cannot stand, his father. It seems like a recipe for disaster. Wrong! It's much.. more

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Portrays a couple form Kerala who lost their house during harsh winter days while trying settle down in Delhi, building a bond amid challenges in a strange city.

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A group of sex workers and brothel youth form a film production house in the Kalighat redlight area, Kolkata, India. Despite the opposition from the conservative society, they are determined to beco.. more

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Suman Mukhopadhyay

Shashi, an urbane doctor, returns to his native village, a place seemingly mired in a backward way of life, for a short visit. As he becomes closely involved with the villagers, Shashi’s short sta.. more

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Nending Loder

24 hours in the life of a rural medical officer who decides to leave his professional duty to pursue his passion for acting, by traveling to the city for an audition, jeopardizing his engagement, hi.. more

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