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- "Discover Dr Anil Prakash Joshi's Himalayan journey in 'A Son Of Himalaya''. From rural roots to ecological visionary, witness his symphony of sustainability, GEP innovation, and the transformative power of nature's whispers.
- This documentary shows the life of the greatest Bengali talent of all time, Rabindranath Tagore. His work in Bengali culture and literature.
- Over the course of two years Shyam Benegal interviewed Satyajit Ray about his career, the result is this documentary.
- Skanda Puranam (from mythology) tells the story of Kanyakumari who threw into the sea, the flowers and gemstones kept for her marriage with Shiva. It is said to have coloured the shores. When the last Maharaja of Travancore dynasty travelled through Kanyakumari, he was awed by the exquisite garland made of Oleander flowers and called it Manikkamalai - the ruby garland. Ever since, a family in Thovalai village of Kanyakumari has been weaving Maharaja's favourite garland every morning, to be sent to his Palace temple. The dynasty ended long ago and state borders were marked in modern India. Yet, the custom holding the two lands, in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, remains intact.
- The life & works of a famous bengali artist named Benode Behari Mukherjee, who lost his eyesight completely, though he was one the pioneers of British Indian modern art.
- Banyan deer is a golden deer and the leader of his herd who steps into the execution altar to save a mother deer from being sacrificed for a human king who loves to hunt.
- When Sukhdev Singh Sandhu died in 1979 at the age of 46, he was already one of India's most celebrated documentary filmmakers, known the world over, adored by his friends and a source of inspiration to those who worked with him. To his young daughter, however, he was a harsh, mostly absent father whom she didn't relate with. 30 years later, Shabnam Sukhdev, now a filmmaker herself, endeavours to construct a true picture of her father as she struggles to love and respect him for who he was. Using personal memories, archival audio recordings, old photographs and clips from his films, she pays a moving homage to an almost forgotten hero.
- Behind the scenes footage of the making of the movie Mahanagar (aka the Big City) with narration by Satyajit Ray about why he makes films.
- Amidst widespread opium cultivation in Arunachal Pradesh,North-Esat India, Basamlu Kisikro engages opium growers into shifting to green-tea, Tewa Manpoong supports fellow addicts into rehabilitation and Uncle Moosa spreads the joy of reading amongst children.
- Joshy Joseph's Walking Dead deals with officially 'dead' men in Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, who are desperately trying to prove that they are not dead but are alive. They are declared dead because their relatives and family members wanted to grab their land and this is the easiest way of achieving this....
- This Oscar-nominated film follows Ananda, a successful businessman in Nagpur. It looks at his life, his children and his beliefs over a very long life from prior to independence until 20 years after.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- Bonnie(33) is again on the run. He has been on the run from his family and sports fraternity since failing 'sex test' before the Bangkok Asian Games, 1998. A born intersex, raised by poor, illiterate and confused parents as a girl named 'Bandana', s/he became one of the finest strikers of Indian Woman's football team in her/his short career. A Sex Reassignment surgery later transformed her/him to a man but left him without home or career. He left home, took up idol-making for a living.He met Swati(F24) then, married soon but moved once again fearing social backlash. His fight to establish his identity, struggle for existence met by a sarcastic society yet to learn to take 'other genders' seriously.
- Film deal with how the Haryanvi Society is getting inspiration and going through a transmission from the success of women achievers in the CommonWealth Games.
- 18 feet symbolizes the holy distance dalits, the downtrodden, were to ensure for the sanctity of upper castes.
- The children of the agaria community in Gujarat in Western India take part in makeshift temporary schools for eight months as their parents migrate to the barren little Runn of Kutch to work in salt pans.
- An ethnographic documentary on the Totos, one of the smallest primitive tribes of India having a population of 1500 odd. They stay in an isolated village called Totopara near Indo-Bhutanese border of West Bengal. Being an animist tribe, Toto way of living is fundamentally based on nature; however, they do not oppose modernity as well. Continuous influx of migrant Nepalese has eaten into their land. The recent trend of conversion to Christianity has brought in much discontent in the Toto society. The time is critical as Totos are fast losing their land, culture, language and hence, the tribal identity.
- Mayadweep, set in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India, is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. The Bikaner Gang Canal, a project designed to bring perennial waters to irrigate the parched land of the desert area.
- In 2010, a group of young kids from a slum in Kolkata reached the grand finale of 'India's Got Talent". Waste Band looks at their current day plight, post their stint with fame.
- The film portrays the lives and times of puppeteers of Odisha, India. It documents four forms of puppetry; the glove, the string, the rod and the shadow, which are now being performed by their last generation of artists. After them, the art form will probably die. The folk art form, which is as vulnerable as its performers who mostly belong to the lower strata of the society in terms of caste and economy, is experiencing a silent death. The filmmaker builds a personal narrative to trace the time a dying art form is going through.
- This study of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the 12th century Sufi saint who traveled on foot from Persia to India, was filmed on location on the occasion of his 786th Urs, or death anniversary, at his shrine in Ajmer, Rajasthan
- Biography of a prolific director who changed the course of modern Indian theater.
- A group of doctors provide much needed medical care through in the remote islands of Sundarbans in West Bengal in India through well equipped medical boats.
- The social fabric, the collective psyche and the economic and political realities of Manipur emerge out as a resultant of this lens-eye witness account of the illegal rickshaw-pullers who keep their faces veiled for fear of being caught.
- Kalarippayuttu, the ancient martial art from Kerala, is a potent tool of Self-realization in an increasingly chaotic world...
- Spaces Between is a visual interpretation of the performance artist Nikhil Chopra's fifty hour long performance confined in a room on the banks of a river. The film follows the artist Nikhil Chopra's journey as he performs La Perle Noir II: Aspinwall for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale held in the State of Kerala in the South of India. The narrative of the film oscillates between the real and the imagined. Part fiction and part nonfiction, the film lingers between various spaces, physical as well as visceral. The reality as imagined by the artist and the imagined as narrated by the artist. The film attempts to unearth the mind of the artist. Through imagery reminiscent of memories of his personal life, his family and friends, his studio and home the film creates a tapestry of the artist's state of mind while being confined in an absolutely surreal space of a different kind. Images blend in and out of his various realities, as a performer and as a human being, blurring the very lines that separate an artist and a person with an audience. Through the example of the performance and the performance space of La Perle Noir II the film creates an illusory and a lucid space that acts as a bridge between Nikhil's performance and Nikhil's private life. Spaces Between gently unravels the spirit of being an artist while constantly operating as a human being in the world.
- In pixilation, a moving object is shot frame by frame, and then through clever editing made to appear in motion. By its nature, this movement is agile, energetic and unpredictable just like the pop art movement."
- A personal journey into the life of the Tibetan refugee community of Bylakuppe (India); exploring the intermingling of the local and the transposed cultures and the lives of those which are in the midst of this cultural cauldron. The Tibetans who migrated to this settlement, due to a violent history of exile and invasion, feel a strong need to preserve everything native through recreation of a mirror image of their homeland. The space is like a ghost town that is built based on their personal memory, in order to preserve that very memory itself, in the hope of return. With the coming of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India after the Chinese takeover of Tibet in 1959, various groups of Tibetan refugees have settled in different parts of the country on land allotted to them by the Government of India. The most well known is His Holiness' seat in exile, Dharamsala, in Himachal Pradesh, which has become a popular tourist destination. However, in Karnataka are the two largest settlements of the Tibetan refugees, namely Bylakuppe and Mundgod. Both these settlements are essentially educational centers for the monastic scholars of the Yellow Hat order of Buddhism and the lives of the settled Tibetans here is centered on the functions of these institutions. Since the arrival of the Tibetans, the "local" has changed considerably in and around Bylakuppe. From the food to the clothing to the lifestyle, much of the "local" has morphed, and similarly, so has the "Tibetan". The landscape of this settlement is striking, as we notice the large Tibetan architecture and farming techniques in a region, which historically does not have a thriving Buddhist culture and contrasts considerably from the architecture and landscapes in other close by areas, creating a ghost town dedicated to the memory of a lost home. The sound of gongs, prayer chanting, the spoken Tibetan fused with what is essentially Kannada renders the soundscape a unique quality. Through these varied and contrasting narratives in and about Bylakuppe, the effort is to generate a sense of this surreal space, housing it's personal and collective stories as the building blocks of the narrative, a telling and retelling of the tales of exile.
- Life and achievements of Padma Shri awardee social worker who rose from poverty and illiteracy to become a crusader of women empowerment in Chhattisgadh, India.
- The documentary film finds its beginning, born out of the need to explore existing geographical & political boundaries of India, juxtaposed with, human, emotional & spiritual bridges. Geographically speaking, India is a peninsula. Three sides are flanked by water. Specifically the east, west & south. Incidentally, the north too, is serrated by mighty rivers. This makes boundaries of India fluid, inclusive & accessible to our neighbors. The same adjectives interpreted in the political jargon means, menace of porosity, infiltration & threat to security. The magnitude and the irony of this dichotomy is the need to address this subject, as a film. In a sometimes dark and hopeless world, we need stories reminding us of the constructive options that are always present. The film is to engage, enthuse and envision a new-found look at liquid borders.
- This film is a study on the relationship between the tribal and the bamboo as a relationship from birth to death. It investigates further into the flowering of bamboo in Manipur and Mizoram which has got environmental, economic and political dimensions.
- A farmer's struggle to grow crop on a cemented land. His once fertile land, now regained from the clutches of industrialization after a decade. In this testing times of growing agrarian crisis across the globe, thousand acres of fertile land is taken away from farmers, by force. And, then, after a decade long battle, it is returned to them. Meanwhile, a complete factory establishment of a luxury product is built and then grazed down to debris on the said land. Will he get back his land the way it was? Shot in a doc-fiction manner on the actual space with a guerrilla crew, this film explores the journey of a farmer through these times in a metaphorical and experimental format. A fictional take on a true event that uprooted the almost-four-decade-long Communist party rule and changed the political scenario of the state that this land belongs to. This is the only short fiction film that has been made on this subject and one which has captured actual visuals of the concerned land.
- Dr. U.R. Ananthamurthy is an acclaimed writer, thinker and academic whose works are known for its humanity and courage in questioning cultural norms. One of the better known public intellectuals in India, URA is contemporary as the most important representative of the "Navya" or the "New Movement" in the contemporary Kannada literature. A thinker and social reformist of International repute, Ananthamurthy is a recipient innumerable literacy awards including the Jnanapeeth. As the historian Ramachandra Guha has aptly described, 'no English writer in India has anywhere like the social standing of Ananthamurthy, the deep, lifelong connection with his readers and his public. This film foregrounds the vision of Ananthamurthy fiction and his reflections on Gandhian thought, socialism and diverse cultural issues that are explicated by critics and thinkers who have been interacting with him for several decades.