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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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Chitransh Shrivastava

Rupesh, a passionate folk artist and painter, dreams of pursuing theatre in Delhi. However, when his family's electricity is cut off due to unpaid bills, his journey takes an unexpected turn. Desper.. 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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In a smog-choked village in Haryana, a retired professor turns to an outlawed ritual, crafting a calf doll from a stillborn's body, to save his cow from the urbanization slowly erasing his rural wor.. more

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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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Set against the margins of Mumbai, the film follows four migrants – a gay husband, his wife working in a bar, a thief, and a pimp – whose lives converge around love, survival, and longing

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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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Rajan, a weary factory worker, endures grueling shifts and a volatile home life, drifting through sleepless nights in the city as he tries to reclaim the rest that always seems just out of reach.

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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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Richie Mehta

Follows an impoverished 17-year-old girl who becomes a famous outlaw and survives a brutal 48-hour siege when thousands of armed men trap her in a village.

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Sarmad Sultan Khoosat

Bound by love and haunted by fate, Zeba and Sajawal spiral through feelings of desire, superstition and fear in Lali, a darkly comic tale where the living share a restless world with the ghosts.

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Gurvinder Singh

Follows three interconnected stories in present-day Punjab: a woman hiding a wounded stranger from police, a family coping with a disappearance, and an elderly man who returns from England claiming .. 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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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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If the world had an edge, it might look something like the remote corner of northern India where Santosh and Rajji live, collecting highway tolls in dilapidated booths. Work and endless waiting are .. 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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Ritwik Pareek

After a freak accident on a rural road bisects a 40-year-old alcoholic named Thakur, the Dug Dug–brand motorcycle he was riding is recovered and locked up at a nearby police station. The following.. 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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Theja Rio

In 1960s Nagaland, a proud Konyak chief struggles to protect his dying traditions when an American missionary arrives with promises of aid that threaten his people’s identity. As his wife’s heal.. 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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In a 1990s Himalayan town, teacher Barkha, whose husband serves at the border, develops feelings for enigmatic newcomer Manik amid a community of waiting women where silence and local myths prevail.

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In a landscape of shifting sands, a community enclosed into grids with no name, rehearses its music in villages like 1 PB, a dot at the Indian side of the India-Pakistan border. Mirs are the custodi.. more

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The film tells the “story” of the women’s movements that places violence against women in India and the resistance against it over more than four decades across India spanning different region.. more

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Nishanth Kalidindi

A cattle farmer who aspires to be a stage actor, Das works with a cosmopolitan theatre troupe headed by an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed director. When the director’s tantrums unearth buried resentme.. more

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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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A film exploring human existence through art and morality in Bengal, following Dhrubo's complex journey of crime, love, and redemption as he navigates between right and wrong in a world of moral unc.. more

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Shridhar Sudhir

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.. more

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Documentary on Aparna Sen's life.

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Aakash, a 9-year-old boy is subjected to physical violence at school by his Math teacher and ends up hiding it from his strict but caring mother. When tragedy arises, irreplaceable bonds are forged .. more

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Sarthak Hegde

Amidst a volatile blend of religious strife, suppressed sexualities, and divine sermons in an Indian town, a teenage inter-faith couple—one of whom is innocently entangled in a fundamentalist grou.. more

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Bikas Ranjan Mishra

When a letter accuses a revered cult leader of abuse, rookie detective Roohi Kartar is sent to a small Indian town to investigate. Confronted by a wall of silence and blind devotion, she must uncove.. more

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Rhea Shukla

On a rainy afternoon, three adolescent girls rehearse a dance that takes on a life of its own, somewhere between innocence and awareness.

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Indrasis Acharya

Two souls meet after 22 years and continue their life as if they are living it for
long in a serene mountain. The man’s days are numbered and husband of the woman comes and join them at the mount.. more

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Sajeed A. Raman

A paranormal investigator based in Helsinki ventures to Kerala to probe a series of mysterious deaths during a reality TV show shoot and confronts an unspeakable entity from a Dravidian cult practic.. 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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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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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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