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- Kaki is a 70 year old widow who lives with her Nepali domestic help, Malti in Mumbai. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy, a sailor from her hometown unexpectedly. In the meanwhile, men in the passage spray mosquito repellant that gives Kaki bad dreams.
- Once upon a time in a village, an old lady steals the rooster and the sun never rises again.
- An atheist archaeologist turned believer must race against time to prove the true existence of the legendary Ram Setu before evil forces destroy the pillar of India's heritage.
- Namdeo has learnt to live off the forest from his father. He stares at the treetops, searching for honey. The wind blows and afternoon descends on the small village by the jungle. Women of the village, whisper little secrets of their lost loves. Never seen, and only heard. A strange smoke emits from the ground, like a dream of a time gone by.
- Underscoring the themes of caste politics and discrimination, Champaran Mutton follows the story of a family based in Bihar and their everyday struggles, spun around a motive leading to cook and relish Champaran Mutton, a local Bihari delicacy.
- Madhav, a playful 8-year-old boy who has spent most of his time playing outdoors in the village, is being sent to town for educational purposes.
- A personal exploration of one's lost identity, reflecting upon the oral literature passed through generations within the Gor-Banjara tribe
- An advertising professional is sent to a mysterious hotel by his employer.
- Young couple finds a way to have their own time while handling a bed-ridden father on a stormy rainy night.
- Sainath, 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, 80, lives far away in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They share a 'film letter' with each other.
- The film follows fragmented journeys of a group of young people in the city of Mumbai. All of them are working on a film in different positions. They keep negotiating with their insecurities in the film crew and also difficulties in their personal lives.The film that they are working on, is a story of a young cab driver's victimization and violent revenge. Increasingly the fiction starts finding uncanny resonances in the fragmented journeys of the youngsters.
- Its an ethnographic film exploring the legend of a Mahadeo Koli Goddess Kalsu whose story and identity remains impregnated in the consciousness of the women of the tribe even today. The film tells the story of the Goddess while drawing visual contrasts between primordial and contemporary images.
- A father son relationship story, that starts on an indifferent note of misunderstandings and wrong conceptions, but goes on to develop into a beautiful, friendly relationship. Even when this seemingly ideal relationship runs into physical barriers, caused by accidents and ultimately death itself, the relationship seems to continue spiritually, giving the much needed inspiration for the one who is left behind. A chronicle of a family, exploring how this regime continues from generation to generation, even through the void caused by absence on a physical plane, is made up through the constant inspiration on the spiritual level.
- A young boy of 17, who has just stepped into the real world, runs into wisdom at the most unusual of spaces. The film tries to narrate the encounter of a young lad with an old woman who is obsessed with the color white. She is no ordinary woman. She reads the child in him instantly and becomes one along with him. They spend a couple of hours at a remote railway station. only to depart in the wee hours and perhaps never to meet each other again. For her, it was another life touched and for him it was a moment of truth, a moment of wisdom, a moment of learning and a rendezvous with life. He departed and moved on in his life with that tiny little change in him.
- Brooding over a recent breakup, seismologist Pradipta aka Paddy travels to a village for a field research. Amidst ignoring the calls of her ex and gathering data of waves causing earthquakes, she experiences an unsuspecting tremor there.
- A reflection on celluloid dreams, fathers and sons, and the cyclical universe presented as a portrait of the erstwhile Prabhat Studio through the reunion of some of its oldest workers.
- A documentary film-maker comes to a film school in search of a legendary student leader. But instead of a revolutionary, he stumbles across a revolution in the making. The ingredients are all there but the circumstances are absurd. Both the warring parties seem to exist in a world of their own choosing. While one faction prefers to walk backwards, cover their heads and always talk on the phone; the other prefers to escape this 'reality' and sit on trees instead.
- Krishnan (9) gets fascinated with the story of Barbarik, a prince from Mahabharata who could end the war in a minute but was not allowed by Lord Krishna to fight the war. The boy hunts around this complex and fascinating myth of Barbarik in real world who he believes owns a blue horse and has lotus marks under his feet. The boy creates his own world and wanders to find Barbarik's blue horse. The way myth and religion drive our lives in India, Krishnan's life is also driven by the myth as told to him by his grandmother and he believes that reaching Barbarik would help him solve the problems between his father and the mother. The blue horse becomes the metaphor of the little boy's view of the world. At a point the myth and reality of the little boy collide.
- 'Traces: stories' loiters around the 'Konkan' region of Maharashtra, India. Where many traces from distant past scattered all around. But instead of factual records, it travels through the local legends, stories, personal memories of the local people. Where myth/story isn't in conflict with history but a complementary component, an extension. Recent past, Ancient history, Documented record, rumors, local stories, dreams all gets intertwined in this journey. We traverse the memory of arrival of a large blue whale at the adjacent seashore, the oral myth of 'Bene Israel' community about their arrival in India as well as other remains of the history like the very first Portuguese fort, an abundant royal bath of the Nizam etc. It's a dialogue between myth and history, facts and fiction. It deals with the memory of the people who lives there and the way they want to remember, the way they are rewriting.
- Exploring self interrogating midnight poems dealing with insecurities, vulnerability and aspirations of a migrant youth living an urban life.
- An exploration of the legacy and groundbreaking contributions of the pioneering Indian filmmaker Baburao Painter and pertinent questions about preservation of heritage.