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- A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.
- Kuxhol is travelling to the city with Goti, the horse from heaven. Kuxhol tells the amazing story about their adventures to everyone he meets on his way. He claims Goti to be the fastest horse in the world. Everyone finds it bizarre in the beginning as they can see that Goti is not a horse, but a donkey. Well, eventually his audience starts believing in his tale and the Heaven's Horse.
- Amidst a lackluster relationship between a married couple, a young boy discovers a new dimension to his sexual being. Simultaneously, pythonesque adventures lay aplenty, serving to the boy's exploration of the ideas of life and death. Through his journey and the influence of nature on their lives, we see the dynamics of this isolated nuclear family alter leading to a poetic unification.
- In the Syrian Civil War of 2016, a woman tries to hide the truth from her child by acting the father's role.
- Caught in an endless cycle evaluating his last meeting with his departing lover, Jag, an unemployed, fatigued contractor, descends inwards. There, he finds solace sheltering an unconscious, troubled boy. As the boy gradually recovers, Jag sinks deeper into the rabbit hole of his deep-seated wounds. One day, his lover comes back looking for him.
- Gudh reminisces those childhood memories, which perhaps everyone went through in life. Those obscure moments etched into our memories, which we find hard to correlate as grown-ups. It's about Ajay, his childhood, his love for his mother, his village, its ongoing revolution and the changes it brings forth.
- A woman finds traces of happiness in small things while facing repeated trauma throughout the years.
- A family, who have endured the relentless torment of an alcoholic father, have at last discovered a way to break free. However, embarking on this perilous journey demands a united effort where there's no room for anyone to falter. This newfound path towards liberation necessitates unwavering dedication from every member of the family as they navigate the treacherous terrain of escape.
- Priyo Ami (Dear Me) is a film about a woman who is in search of herself. She discovers unpleasant truths, childhood traumas and deals with her fragmented reality. It is a journey of discoveries about loneliness, madness and emptiness within herself and how she comes in term with it.
- Meenakshi, a middle-aged working woman, on this day comes home early from work and finds her husband cheating on her with their maid. But there is something more terrifying yet to be revealed.
- A city is a fast growing giant. It grows in a certain way. It is designed for certain people. Not all are welcome in its project. Many are washed under it; those who have no means to buy the city dream. Many are abridged. The film follows the lives of these people in the heart of Kolkata in the backdrop of rapid urbanization.
- Humiliated for a crime he didn't commit, Bhushan Paswan, a railway trolleyman chooses to retaliate.
- On her way to a Saputara fort for an ad film shoot, a city girl who is a professional cinematographer, Ayesha, meets a local student, Meera, returning to her home from her college. Ayesha's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, where she meets Meera, who helps her and gives her company till the time Ayesha's car gets fixed. This time that they spend together and the long conversations they have, they built a surprising connection. As the day progresses, their bond and the circumstances that they are in makes separating in the evening a difficult yet necessary choice.
- Raju, an employee in a software company, is in his late twenties. When his mundane routine breaks one day, he's thrown off-guard. The more he thinks, the more destruction he sees - caused by him. Where does one go when one is utterly conscious of every moment? When Raju becomes aware that the world is a web of infinite actions and reactions, all unconscious, how can he act being conscious of the consequences? Any action has consequences, unintended too. In such an extremely-aware scenario, what must one do? What does Raju do?
- Amar like most young men around us is confused .He is always battling his demons, his morality, emotional upheavals and desperate to balance it all. Stuck between Mohini and Chitra he loses what he has in his pursuit of happiness.
- Oru Paathiraa Swapnam Pole (Like a midnight dream) explores the story of Sudha, an entrepreneur and a mother of a college girl, who finds her world turned upside down when a doctor suspects that she might have cancer. Her worries deepen even further when one day she goes through her daughter's laptop and accidentally finds a nude video of the daughter hidden in it.
- Hello Guyzz is a reflection of modern day India where - cheap internet, longing to become the next big star, and high aspirations are a reality. But so are class, caste and gender differences. To Sumita, the subject (and also the star of the documentary) social media is a tool that provides her a space to have an alternate identity on tiktok ; an identity away from getting kids ready to school, away from being a homemaker, away from struggling to find means to lead a good life. Sumita straddles between her mundane domestic life, and life on social media in hopes of being able to make a successful career out of it and also maybe fulfill her long lost dream of becoming an actor. With this film, we aim to document this at the intersectionality of gender, society and class. Sumita, is like any other modern Indian woman trying to navigate between her personal and public space dichotomy, all this while trying to find financial primary crew independence and identity.
- Anjan is a 38-year old widower who is perfume-maker. One afternoon, he receives a a letter from a woman named Nutan. But, the letter is not for him, it is for the previous tenant, Raghubir, who has passed away. He opens the letter and reads about her terminal illness, memories with Rahubir, regret about how things have ended and the perfume that she has attached with the letter. She also mentions that it's the last bottle of her perfume. His curiosity is piqued and he smells the its deeply. He is surprised that the perfume is such that he has never smelt it before. The perfume and her words motivate him to write back to her with empathy about her situation. This leads to an exchange of letter. Nutan writes about a film that they had seen together but, Anjan has never seen the film and when he does watch the film, he gets stuck on a scene about flowers and he is confused between two flowers as part of the perfume. He writes back about the film and asks if jasmine is still her favourite flower. She writes back to him mentioning that his memory still is just as bad as it used to be. He says to himself "Tulip then" and gets back to working on the perfume. The perfume is not there yet. Anjan goes through some of Raghubir's things that were never moved out and finds a photograph at the back of which Nutan's name is mentioned. He writes back to her asking where this was clicked and if her memory serves her right. She writes back saying this was that time when they had tried Sandesh at Sen Mahashay and thereafter had clicked the photograph at Maidan. Anjan goes to Sen Mahashay to have Sandesh. He discovers an essence in the Sandesh that he feels is part of the perfume. He buys a box of Sandesh and goes home. He starts to concoct the perfume. He eats another Sandesh to reaffirm his thought. The original perfume has been replicated. He smells them simultaneously and he knows he has done it. He starts driving to her place with the box of Sandesh and the bottle of perfume is inside it. He gives the box to her nurse. The nurse hands the box to Nutan. Anjan lingers around. He looks at the window that he assumes to be Nutan's room but, there is no movement. Nutan opens the box, sees Sandesh, sees the bottle of perfume and opens and smells it immediately. She smells and curiosity leads to moving her curtain. She spots Anjan who is walking away now but, he feels a gaze and stops and looks back. Nutan and Anjan share a look of acknowledgment and smile at each other. Nutan takes a bite of Sandesh.
- Sundar Jeebon is a film based on the fiction writing of the iconic Bengali poet Jibananda Das directed by Sandeep Chatterjee. AWARDS: Sandeep Chatterjee received the prestigious President's Medal at the National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film for "Sundar Jeebon" (35mm, col) in 2003. CITATION: The award for the Best Short Fiction Film of the Year 2002 is given to the Bengali film SUNDAR JEEBON for its sensitive and nuanced story about a writer and the sour taste of beauty. The film is notable for its technical excellence and the excellent synergy created by the young director Sandeep Chatterjee and his colleagues from the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Calcutta. This award applauds them all.
- ShortShreya is a timid, mistreated, dependent housewife who is in a toxic relationship with her husband, Vivek, who abuses her physically. One day, Vivek ask Shreya to cook some Liver fry but while doing so Shreya ends up devouring the dish for herself prompting her to go to the market to buy more in order to cover up. However, she witnesses an accident on the road which makes her take measures that end up inviting an unexpected guest that changes the couple's lives forever.
- After the civil war in Sri Lanka, an ex Sinhalese soldier returns home with a Tamil guerrilla woman who was gang raped by him and his mates. The traumatized girl finds different ways to take revenge but things get brutal when she gets pregnant.
- Jahan Shroff runs a photography studio in an old building in South Mumbai. His neighbors and other tenants in the building are being forcefully evacuated, as the building is going to be redeveloped.
- The pointless endeavor called life. Based on Italo Calvino's short story 'The man who shouted Theresa'.
- This is an inspiring real-life narrative of Subhash, a middle-aged blind theater artist, highlights the strength of determination and passion in overcoming challenges.
- This is an inspiring real-life narrative of Subhash, a middle-aged blind theater artist, highlights the strength of determination and passion in overcoming challenges.
- This film induldge in the intense emotional journey of a young 24 year old boy, who on a lazy afternoon revisits, some of his unresolved memory revolving around his childhood mythical Friend and his father
- In the wake of a passing calamity, a reclusive young man resists the town's survival urge to flee, in order to plot the take over and rebuild of the old community hall. The film explore the sensations of loneliness and the associated paranoia as experienced inside reclusive human minds.
- When Ankur finds himself tied up with a villainous landlord he has to find a way out to procure some money.
- It is a story of a demon named Neerbhukhi who wishes to live like a human but has been outcasted by the villagers to get rid of the everlasting drought that took over the village of Barren Land.
- Its about a former "Pakhawaz" (an indian classical instrument) maestro who lives all alone. One day, he is visited by his former disciple.The film deals with their internal existential tension.
- In order to curb inflation, the dystopian 'Authority' has privatized all farming and plantation activities-banning common people from agriculture. When lonely, elderly Bablu is sent on an assignment by his employer Babylon-a leading corporate brand-he accidentally runs into a rebel group on a secret mission.
- The film is called AJIN PAKU. It vaguely translated as WE ARE FRIENDS. It basically means We, the Mainlanders want to become friends with You, the North-Easterners. We beg you not to treat us as outsiders. We are friends. Brothers. Bhai bhai. This is precisely the idea that this FTII film is supposed to propogate. It is a 20mins shorts; has six languages - Nyishi, Galo, Sepa, Asamese, Hindi, English Synopsis: A non-tribal Assamese family moves in a tribal Arunachali village where the father has been posted as a Bamboo factory supervisor. He admits his son to the local school but the kid is bullied by the local kids of the school for being an outsider and a non-tribal. Feeling dejected, the kid befriends an old drunkard, one of the most hated man in the village. While his father is furious about his son being in company of the village drunk, the kid learns a lot of tricks from the funny old man. Eventually the old man is kicked out of the village by a village mob spearheaded by the father but his spirit lingers on in the kid. In a final climactic sequence, the kid confronts the local kids of his school once again and using one of the old man's tricks he finally befriends them.
- A cinema projectionist whose wife decides to leave him so she can become a well-known actress in the movie business, loses all control as he creates a variety of happy endings for his love tale in an effort to win back his wife.
- The film opens up the possibilities of Wetland pisciculture in modern day Kolkata and its role in dealing with changing nature of waste water management, captive fish production, and fishermen which work in sync to feed growing demands for fishes for human consumption. It highlights the need for sustainable development to reach the bottom of work force ie the farmers and fishermen in the region. Even with the efforts from governments, the fishermen are at the mercy of nature or as they say God. As India dreams about becoming number one in fish production, the film enquires about the need for more efforts to be taken to help farmers and fishermen make fundamental upward mobility in their lives. The film travels through the regions of in and around Kolkata and looks at its people.
- "A stream of concentric thoughts, deliberating on Brahm-Jeev-Maya, in its attempt to get organised, loses to the tyranny of mind."
- A woman is dragged by her hair trough a village by an arrogant man. This explicit political situation sparks off the film, acting as a counterpoint to an analysis of the self. The film involves two urban youths, Ritu and Raja. They don't know of each other's existence. The film constructs various layers of relationships between 'the two'. In the process, possibilities of stories emerge connecting the two through many thought provoking revelations. Ritu is a 24-year-old beautiful woman from a city of Bengal who has been tossed between broken relationships and failed attempts to communicate to a primarily masculine society. It has lead to her assumption that relationships never work. She is desperate to tell her own story to the world. Raja is a Kashmiri boy of 26 wants to associate him with the Indian mainstream. He is feminine, handsome, shy and hopelessly romantic. He remembers the death of his brother, brutally killed by the Indian security personnel. He possesses a nostalgic video tape showing his family gathering around the tattered dead body. This makes him crave for his own greater social identity as a Kashmiri.
- The story revolves around Gopal, a man working as a photographer in a cremation ground. His day begins with a scolding from his fatherly instincts for his son's camera fascination. The narrative unfolds as Gopal continues his routine, capturing moments in the cremation ghat. Despite societal challenges and interactions with the police, Gopal finds solace in his work. The unexpected joy arrives when he discovers pictures of his son, breaking the monotony of death in his camera roll. The day concludes with a heartwarming moment as Gopal and his son share a meal, blending the harsh reality of life with the simple pleasures of familial love. The story beautifully captures the nuances of life and death through the lens of a cremation ground photographer.