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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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Is renting womb as simple as renting car? An insightful tale of surrogate mothers in Anand, Gujarat, India and their struggles with the motherhood - their bonding with the child and the emotional strains.
- 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.
- 18 feet symbolizes the holy distance dalits, the downtrodden, were to ensure for the sanctity of upper castes.
- 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.
- 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.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.