Salaam Bombay!

Salaam Bombay! 1988

7.23

After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs, but soon winds up in the streets of Bombay's poorest slums. There, he befriends the drug dealer Chillum and young prostitute Sola Saal, while trying to make enough money at a neighborhood tea stall to repay his debt to his family.

1988

Char Adhyay

Char Adhyay 1997

5.70

Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence, sometimes at the expense of their personal lives.

1997

The Deliverance

The Deliverance 1981

6.20

When a poor and out-caste village tanner goes to village priest to get the date of his daughter's marriage fixed, the priest in turn asks for labor without pay in exchange.

1981

Mammo

Mammo 1994

5.20

Mammo is an account of a certain period in the life of Riyaz, a teenager who lives with his grandmother Fayyazi as they get a visit from his grandma’s sister Mehmooda Begum Anwar Ali, commonly known as ‘Mammo’.

1994

Karuvelam Pookkal

Karuvelam Pookkal 1996

8.00

Nallamuthu and Vadivu face several hardships due to the rising poverty and are forced to send their three children to work as child laborers.

1996

Sandhya Raagam

Sandhya Raagam 1989

10.00

Chokkalingam, an old man, moves out of town after his wife's death and goes to live with Vasu, his nephew in Chennai. However, Vasu struggles to bear the cost of an additional member in his family.

1989

Naseem

Naseem 1995

7.00

Mumbai, 1992. Naseem, a 15 year-old schoolgirl, lives with her grandfather and grows up with stories of pre-independence communal harmony. Later, she helplessly watches the communal situation regression with the demolition of Babri Masjid.

1995

Dharavi

Dharavi 1991

6.30

The film follows a scrappy taxi driver's fortunes as he tries to break out from the clutches of poverty, devising plans and investing all his money in a dubious schemes which eventually blow out on him, coming under the eye of unscrupulous politician and local goons, yet he still perseveres for his dreams.

1991

Tarpan

Tarpan 1995

7.00

The film set in the 1940s, in a fictitious village in the Shekhavati region in Rajasthan, where no girl child survives beyond the age of seven. It deals with larger issues of communalism and caste system through four inter-related stories.

1995

Azaadi Ki Ore

Azaadi Ki Ore 1986

8.00

A pair of monkeys decide to break free from their human handler who ill treats them.

1986

Main Zinda Hoon

Main Zinda Hoon 1988

6.17

Beena, a villager married to a man in the city, is shocked to find that her husband has left the house. She begins to provide for the family, but faces issues when she falls in love with a co-worker.

1988

Smruti Chitre

Smruti Chitre 1982

1

The memoir of a woman married to an orthodox Brahmin philosopher who converts to Christianity, her story explores issues of religious barriers, disillusionment,and romantic devotion.

1982

There is Something in the Air

There is Something in the Air 2011

1

As a call from the periphery of sanity, the film is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women 'petitioners' at the shrine of a Sufi Saint in North India.

2011

Brokering News: Media, Money and Middleman

Brokering News: Media, Money and Middleman 2011

1

The Film investigates the state of news in India. Journalism is up for sale and selling of editorial space has become both blatant and institutionalised.

2011

Katha Doan Ganpatraonchi

Katha Doan Ganpatraonchi 1996

1

Located in a seaside village in Maharashtra during the 60s, the film unfolds over two decades. It is a tragic tale of how the best of friendships can rupture over a trivial quarrel. Once a rupture takes place, there are always people who know how to turn a quarrel to their own advantage, even if the main adversaries are completely destroyed in the process.

1996

The death of us

The death of us 2018

1

The debate on death penalty is loud and impassioned. Instead of echoing that cacophony, The Death of Us, quietly reflects on a range of cases in which the death penalty was pronounced. Sometimes, ending in the execution of the convicted; sometimes in commutation to a life sentence; and sometimes to acquittal and release. Speaking to some who have been on death row, and others closely involved with the cases, we engage in complex conversations on crime and punishment, revenge and justice, popular rhetoric and personal experiences. Only to find ourselves confronted by larger ethical and moral questions across time and space.

2018

Yathrayude Anthyam

Yathrayude Anthyam 1989

10.00

The film depicts a famous Malayalam writer's emotional relationship with an intellectual who leads the life of a simple farmer in a remote village. The story unfolds through the writer's bus journey to visit him.

1989

The Ebb Tide

The Ebb Tide 2019

1

Shot in the monsoon of 2018 in the Mirya creek in Maharashtra, the film records the unfolding of fishermen and fishing processes in the village of Mirya. It seeks to highlight some of the troubled and lived realities of the fishing community in the current times in an Indian village. The film is also a deliberation on the process of production of the film itself.

2019