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A SON OF HIMALAYA 2024
"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.

Tiger Army 2023
The world loves the bloodcurdling narratives of Sundarban Royal Bengal tigers where they are always the vicious villains with fangs. Killing them was a heroic act. Though our wise ancestors knew that the tigers are the protector of forests, people armed with guns and brains, eliminated most of them. We ended up almost losing the forest and its burning bright mega fauna. In 1973, the Government of India launched Project Tiger, a tiger conservation program. Project Tiger takes up several measures to maintain the viable population of Bengal Tigers in their natural environment. The Forest Department workforce steps into protect the tigers and inspire people to end the tussle besides protecting themselves. The film reveals the story of the real heroes, the foot soldiers, the field staffs, who carry out their job even risking their own life but do not see themselves as heroic.

Tenzing Bodosa The Story Of A Tribal Entrepreneur 2023
The film depicts the journey of Tenzing Bodosa, a young tribal organic farmer, environmental activist and entrepreneur from Kashibari, Dimakuchi, a remote village of Assam in Northeast part of India. TenzingBodosa has developed eco -tourism, forest and world’s first “elephant friendly tea farm” He is engaged with conservation of nature through organic farming and resolving human and elephant conflict thereby

The Devine Heart 2023
"DIVINE HEART" is an enlightening film that portrays the intricate process of heart transplant surgery. It provides a comprehensive depiction of the dedicated medical team led by Dr. Anvay Mulay, as well as the meticulous legal procedures involved in heart transplant surgeries and organ donation. The narrative revolves around Laxmi, a young girl who candidly shares her personal journey.

Highways of Life 2021
Highways of Life is a detailed look at the high-octane lives of Manipur's highway 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.

Echo From The Pukpui Skies 2020
The film depicts this inner conflict of human minds along with Tagore's search for truth and tranquillity through his poems and notes with abstract visuals and the intensity of Iron Sharmila's face as she takes the first honey-drop to her mouth

Gay India Matrimony 2020
A film that revolves around three characters who are out exploring their marriage prospects with one of them documenting their travails. While Sayan and Gourab are assigned male at birth, Debalina, director of the film, is assigned female at birth. All three of them are looking for a same-gender partner, and the very suggestion of wanting to marry a same-gender partner drives people around them a into complete frenzy.

The Flowers and the Gemstones 2019
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.

CHARAN-ATVA 2019
The Film Depicts the Journey of Charan, a nomadic pastoral tribe found in India.

The Jungle Man... Loiya 2018
The film tells the story of Loiya Ngamba, a nature lover who chanced upon an area in Punshilok in Langol hill range in Manipur and created a green space for the local communities. At a time when trees are cut down rampantly in the name of 'development', when 'civilisation', 'urbanisation' has come to mean building blocks of concrete, when forests are being cleared and sold off to corporate houses to usher in 'modernity', this film asks pertinent questions as it tells the story of reorienting man's relationship with nature and building a culture of peaceful coexistence.

Dance to Survive 2017
This is a film on the life and works of Padmashri Dr. Ram Dayal Munda. He started the Tribal and Regional Language Department of Ranchi University and became the Vice Chancellor. Ram Dayal Munda was the leading intellectual who has contributed to Jharkhand movement immensely. Dr. Munda has represented Adivasi voices in the United Nations. He was awarded with Sangeet Natya Academy Award, 2007 and Padmashri in 2010. He was elected to Rajya Sabha in 2010. The camera has traversed through the protagonist’s personal and public life, a man as a brilliant student, a successful teacher, a poet, a performer, an activist, and a philosopher

Nicobar, a long way... 2016
Deep in the Bay of Bengal, the Nicobar archipelago, a tribal reserve protected under Andaman and Nicobar Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation, was one of the worst hit by the Tsunami of 26th December 2004. Self-subsistent and relatively isolated, post Tsunami the aboriginal world was suddenly invaded by unprecedented aid, developmental initiatives and mainstream integration. The film observes Nicobarese identity and cultural resilience.

Are They Better Off 2016
A place in India where people rejoice when a girl is born and houses bear the names of women is Meghalaya. Khatduhs are the youngest daughters of Khasi matrilineal clans from Meghalaya, where the lineage is from the mother’s clan line or kur but their importance is diminishing. Economic development has fuelled migration & the voices of dissent against Matriliny are getting louder. Given this scenario the documentary Are they better off, is an exposition of Matriliny in Meghalaya & it’s socio-political complexities,contextualized with the status of women, nationally. Three women HuldaKynta,52, Selinda Kharbuki, 29 & Jubelee Kharmujai, 23 reveal their customs & traditions as we journey to Shillong to celebrate Christmas in their Matrilineal homes.

Cities of Sleep 2015
Cities of Sleep takes us into a heady world of insurgent sleeper’s communities as well as the infamous ‘sleep mafia’ in Delhi where just securing a safe sleeping spot often becomes a question of life and death for a large number of people.The film looks at not only the tremendous social and political pressure that sleep exerts on the homeless in the city but is also a philosophical exploration of sleep at large.

Even Red Can Be Sad 2015 star_border 10
This film explores various aspects of litterateur and painter Ram Kumar's personality by structuring the film around his stories and paintings, traveling between fragments of his past, present, fiction and imagery. It strives of etch out the synthesis of word and image in Ram Kumar's creations, presenting it as a portrait of the artist himself. The text used in the film is from various short stories by Ram Kumar.

18 Feet 2015
Karinthalakoottam is an indigenous band that propagates the music of soul to connect people with a sense of historic resolution. 18 feet symbolizes the holy distance dalits, the downtrodden, were to ensure for the sanctity of upper castes. P R Remesh, a bus conductor, is the man behind the exuberant squad that drums empathy for all in denial of historic untouchability attached to the dalit community. The troop is the vanguard in redefining the identity of people who are battered by senseless incorrectness through centuries.

A Poet a City and a Footballer 2015
A documentary chronicling a dying Bengali film-maker making a film on legendary football player P.K. Banerjee on the back drop of city of joy Calcutta.

Images | Reflections 2015
A documentary on eminent film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan by Girish Kasaravalli.

Electric Shadows: Journeys in Image-making 2015
Centred around a film festival of Indian films in China, the Film reflects on the dominant as well as alternative impressions of cultures – people, histories and landscapes – brought to us by cinema, playfully examining the idea of the cinematic image as an integral part of cultural propagation.

Kapila 2014
The film sketches the creative life of the protagonist Kapila. The film’s narrative is structured as one day in the life of a Koodiyattam performer.

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