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Bali (Marathi/ 2025/ 25 mins) Dir. Amoli Birewar. A young Banjara girl in rural Maharashtra, inspired by the movies, fights to become a Kabaddi player and escape a forced marriage. During a district-level tournament, she slips into a Bollywood-tinted dream—becoming, for one fleeting moment, the hero she has always imagined.

An Eventual Calamity of Time (Marathi/ 2025/ 20 mins) Dir. Omkar Khandagale. Realizing that his great-grandfather’s legacy is tools of his caste trade—a pair of scissors, a comb, and a mirror—a filmmaker sets out for his hometown, hoping to make sense of his family and their inheritance.

You in this City, This city inside You (Bengali/ 2025/ 28 mins) Dir. Amartya Ray. Through a series of unanswered phone calls, the narrator—a migrant cook in Bombay—shares his dreams, fears, and ambitions, as glimpses of daily life quietly unfold across the city. His voice becomes a quiet confessional, threading isolation and longing through the city’s indifferent hum.

Waiting for The Kings (Hindi/ 2025/ 30 mins) Dir. Omish Sharma. Pushed to the fringes of the very wedding celebrations they help bring to life, a group of migrant band players lingers in the city’s corners until the ceremony ends.

At Cheta's Home (Gujarati/ 2025/ 31 mins) Dir. Tarang Pradip Thakkar. As a daughter prepares to bid farewell to a childhood home, grief returns unannounced, leaving her once more at its quiet threshold.