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- Over the course of two years Shyam Benegal interviewed Satyajit Ray about his career, the result is this documentary.
- This documentary shows the life of the greatest Bengali talent of all time, Rabindranath Tagore. His work in Bengali culture and literature.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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....
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The film explores a cinematic portrait of the Maestro- BuddhadebDas Gupta. It tries to capture the essence of the film maker by reflecting his life, spaces in Kolkata, poetry and paintings that are integral part of his life.
- Highways of Life is a detailed look at the high-octane lives of Manipur's highway truckers. The highways 2 and 37 connect this landlocked state to the rest of the world. They are its lifeline. Economic blockades, general strikes, armed extortion, robbery, abduction, killing for ransom, and bad road conditions make the highways a life-threatening terrain for truckers. The film follows a group of truckers as they manoeuvre through the perilous highways of north-east India, putting their lives on the line, ferrying essential commodities to serve the three million people of Manipur.
- 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."
- Some of the finest Bboys of India tell their stories about how bboying changed their lives. Some early artists share perspectives on how Hip Hop became a catalyst, especially for the underprivileged, to find their place in this world.