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- DirectorMegha RamaswamyStarsSyesha P AdnaniFaizan MohammedRidhima SudBunny is a love letter to the fantastical childhood we leave behind. The story explores a delicate relationship between a little girl and her pet toy - Bunny. Things take a sad turn when Bunny is found 'dead' under mysterious circumstances on a rainy afternoon. An adventure explodes when the eager-to-please boy next door buries Bunny in the neighboring woods, only to discover later that Bunny has disappeared from his soggy grave...
- DirectorArchana PhadkeStarsAtul PhadkeManeesha PhadkeRohan PhadkeThree generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. Cruel and comic in equal measure, it shows the vagaries of affection across generations within this family, tied together by something stranger than love.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDhritiman ChatterjeeDipankar DeyIn this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unheeded.
- DirectorManav KaulStarsAshwath BhattSayani GuptaHarish KhannaThe hills, especially in our country, are associated with austerity - saints, renouncement and embracingthe vagabond path. I began to wonder where does man end and monk begin? Is renouncing life as we know it, a sacrifice or an escape?
- DirectorChaitanya TamhaneStarsSushama DeshpandePuja SarupA lonely, mysterious woman in the hills of Darjeeling produces the most elusive and expensive tea in the world. Plucked under mysterious conditions, the 'Moonlight Thurston' tea triggers layered sensations encompassing taste, memory, love and pleasure. But like all happiness, this tea has an expiry date.
- DirectorAlisha TejpalStarsShobha DangleVeena NairAnanya TuliLata, a 23 year old domestic worker, navigates her way through an upper class home in South Mumbai. Doors consistently open and close, giving Lata selective access to the various contending realities that occupy this space.
- DirectorVelu ViswanandhanViswanadhan, the Indian painter, goes back to the various places he filmed 30 years ago all around India for his documentary series about the Elements.
- DirectorRidham JanveStarsLokendra GurungArjun PantTwo shepherds living on top of an unknown mountain go searching for an aircraft that crash landed somewhere nearby even as different teams sent by the aircraft's team get lost on the mountain.
- DirectorS.S. RajamouliStarsN.T. Rama Rao Jr.Ram CharanAjay DevgnA fearless warrior on a perilous mission comes face to face with a steely cop serving British forces in this epic saga set in pre-independent India.
- DirectorSaim SadiqStarsAli JunejoRasti FarooqAlina KhanThe youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsNeetinder BoparaiApala ChowdhuryMichael KhanSummary from Canadian distributor, Mongrel Media: "I'm British but... uncovers a defiant popular culture, part Asian, part British, against a backdrop of fading English nationalism. The rhythms of Bhangra and Bangla music set the pace for this lively collage of interviews with British Asian youth. Mixing archival footage with present day street scenes of Asians in England, this film chronicles the role of race and cultural identity in the formation of modern day British society. I'm British but... is an engaging critique of nationalisms of any sort and a celebration of cultural diversity and hybridity."
- DirectorSandhya SuriStarsMia MaelzerA poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the village's last remaining cornfield. But the harvest is approaching.
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsRosy SamadKabori SarwarRawshan ZamilAfter their wedding night, a fisherman's young wife is kidnapped on the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.
- DirectorTareque MasudStarsNurul Islam BabluRussell FaraziJayanto ChattopadhyayA family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
- DirectorJason DaSilvaStarsAlice CookJason DaSilvaWhen I Walk is one man's emotional and inspiring journey during six years of life following his multiple sclerosis diagnosis. For Jason DaSilva, life's most challenging and joyous moments are yet to come.
- DirectorShivendra Singh DungarpurStarsU.R. AnanthamurthyG. AnanthappaBeena AntonyThis is the story of Mr P.K.Nair, a man who talks,eats,dreams and sleeps cinema. Lovingly known as Henri Langlois of India, Nair Sahab (P.K.Nair) is the man behind archiving of many films in India.
- DirectorShivendra Singh DungarpurStarsJirí MenzelEric AbrahamJosef AbrhámCzechMate - in Search of Jiri Menzel directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, is an in-depth exploration of the work of renowned Czech director Jiri Menzel and the Czech New Wave.
- DirectorDeepa DhanrajA pioneering political work of contemporary relevance: Communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in 1984 forms the starting point for this film, whose complexity lends it immense political force. The film's historical perspective is provided by a thorough commentary, which gives the camera's particular presence the necessary depth and complexity.
- DirectorDeepa Dhanraj
- DirectorDeepa DhanrajAn examination of India's family planning program from the point of view of the women, its primary targets.
- DirectorYugantarFemale labour rights are a focus in Tobacco Ember (Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali, 1982), which features factory workers in Nipani.
- DirectorDeepa DhanrajThe story of a woman who is village activist in the Chipko Forest Conservation Movement in the foothills of the Himalayas. In this area, people depend entirely on the forest for their daily needs of firewood, fodder and water, which are threatened by powerful timber traders.
- DirectorYugantarFemale labour rights are a focus in Maid Servant (Molkarin, 1981), which features domestic workers in Pune.
- DirectorYugantarStarsLalita K.Rama MelkotePoornachandra RaoYugantar's most well-known film, Is This Just a Story? (Idhi Katha Matramena, 1983), is a collaboration with the Hyderabad-based feminist activist collective Stree Shakti Sanghatana and an urgent treatise on domestic violence.
- DirectorMira NairIndia Cabaret (1985) is a documentary by Mira Nair exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a cabaret house in Bombay. There are no voice-overs by either the cabaret dancers nor the men who were interviewed who frequented the cabaret club. Nair explores the marginalized quite often in her films, male and female. This time it is the marginalized women in Bombay who have been cast out because of the 'nature' of their jobs. The women themselves are not ashamed of what they do for a living; what they prize more is the fact that they do not have to be at the mercy of the men in their lives [husbands, brothers, fathers or lovers] as their female peers. They earn their own living, 'decently' ; they are free to come and go as they please and do not have to follow the rules imposed by men or worse society. One of the dancers is offered the opportunity to end her stint at the club and 'clean up' her act; she's offered the 'love' by a man, who promises to take her away, but she refuses. She is content to having her independence and earning her keep. The film also portrays the parallelism of the men who go to see these 'dirty' women dance for their pleasure; the men who pretend o be happily married and decent upright citizens, and who, when interviewed have no qualms about telling the camera how worthless these type of women are. The film explores "the double standards of an essentially patriarchal society."