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Indian Independent Films

Phoolan (2026)
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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Saira & David (2026)
Uttkarsh Parmar

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Gadi (2026)
Rohan Pingal
A man living in a small Konkan hamlet who is grieving the loss of his child learns that he has no free will.

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Rehmat (2026)
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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Khoriya (2026)
Vishwendra Singh
Two Nepali half-brothers run a poultry farm on the outskirts of a city. The older brother wants to expand the farm, while the younger dreams of becoming a soldier and settling down with his girlfrie.. more

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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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Kidney (2026)
Aakarsh Sansanwal
In a remote village, two rival families – one privileged Hindu, the other a struggling Muslim family – are trapped in an endless cycle of feuds. A young man dreaming of TikTok fame and a woman y.. more

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Lali (2026)
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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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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Selvi (2026)
Sailesh Rathnakumar
After her best friend Kavitha’s sudden collapse, Selvi, a home care nurse, takes on her shifts in addition to her own, determined to hold everything together. Moving from one house to another, she.. more

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Bokshi (2026)
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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Angh (2026)
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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Stray Girls (2026)
Ambarien Alqadar
A story from a working-class neighborhood in New Delhi, about a girl's rebellion and it taking an unexpected magical turn.

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Mayilaa (2026)
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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Dug Dug (2026)
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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Deep6 (2026)
Madhuja Mukherjee
An extraordinary story of an ordinary woman Mitul, who strives to change things which appear fossilized.

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Birds on Ice (2026)
Sahil H. Shah
In winter, the frozen lake in Ladakh, a high-altitude region in the Himalayas, becomes an ice rink where children train for ice hockey. Young Tashi loves the sport more than anything, but her family.. more

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Flying Tigers (2026)
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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Nukkad Naatak (2026)
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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Along the coast of Odisha, India, the sea is slowly swallowing entire villages. Once-fertile land is turning into barren plains, and an older generation is being left behind, with the memories of th.. more

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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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Najariya (2026)
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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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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Herland (2026)
Kallol Mukherjee
In a deeply conservative Indian village where women are forbidden from stepping outside without male permission, Bhagyashree and her growing sisterhood rise in defiance, claiming their right to work.. more

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To Die a Frenchman (2026)
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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After a successful season in the Upper Dhauladhar Mountains, a hunter hides his meat in a cave and heads home with his first load. At home, his wife is upset over his prolonged absence and its impac.. 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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Termite (2026)
Shaunak Sen
Shaunak Sen’s follow-up to the Academy Award–nominated documentary All That Breathes is an evocative drama set in the vibrant neighbourhoods of Old Delhi, where the routined lives of two middle-.. more

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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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Chevittorma (2026)
Leo Thaddeus
Theresia stays by the bedsides of the dying, praying for them and helping them pass away in peace. At the bedside of Varkichan, a wealthy farmer, she urges him to repent and forgive, but the stubbor.. more

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Baksho Bondi (2026)
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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The film is set in Goa and explores the quirkiness of ordinary people involved in both a mysterious treasure hunt and a love triangle.

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Swarna is a dedicated high school science teacher who relocates to a conservative suburban town with her same-sex partner, Driti. They attempt to build a quiet life together, blending into the commu.. 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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Set amidst the ethnic violence that erupted in 2023 in Manipur, Northeast India, Fireflies in the Dark explores survival, resilience, and the human cost of civil conflict. Three interwoven stories c.. 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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Kok Kok Kokoook (2025)
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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Bad Girl (2025)
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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Angammal (2025)
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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Gola Dreams (2025)
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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Nadharer Bhela (2025)
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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The Dirty Sky (2025)
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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Roohrangi (2025)
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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Flames (2025)
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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