Vincent, a 10 year old boy steals a GoPro Camera kept for surveillance in a local provision store aspiring
to make a cinema. Along with his friends Rosy & Kishore, Vincent begins shooting. But soon Rosy gets
into an argument with the boys as they mock her looks. She leaves the shoot midway leaving Vincent’s
plans astray. A sense of guilt takes over Vincent and he decides to return or abandon the camera.
International Feature
Maadathy, an unfairy tale
India is a land of Subaltern deities. Each deity has an unique legend and these legends are often interwoven with socio-historic tropes of India.
Puthirai vannaar is an 'unseeable' Dalit caste group, in southern India.Their forced-occupation is to wash clothes of other Dalits, the dead and the menstruating women. This film is a tale about a young girl who grew up in Puthirai vannaar caste group and how she came to be immortalised as their local deity, Maadathy.
Lorni-the Flaneur
Shem (Adil Hussain), an out of work, self-styled detective with a sharp sense of the streets escapes the lethargy of small town Shillong when he is asked to investigate the disappearance of an object worthy of great cultural value. Navigating narrow streets and dark alleys, he embarks on an emotional and mental journey reflective of his reality and that of Shillong. Shem navigates the city of Shillong in the far flung North East India- an area rife with acute race tensions and an even more diver
Idam (Abode)
Life is a mixture of reality, dreams, thoughts and hallucinations. An aged lady living alone in a remote village is prone to all this.
After the early demise of her husband, the protagonist of the story Bhanu brought up her two sons all by herself. When the sons got married they moved out leaving Bhanu alone in her husband's ancestral house. Film moves on through the day of her 70th birthday when her sons decide to sell the ancestral property and further unfolding events.
This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection
When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.
Sugar on The Weaver’s Chair
Three women in three regions in Indonesia have problems about their helplessness towards their nature as women generally, facing equality, rights and traditions, yet transforming them into empowerment for the lives around them.