Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)

9-year-old Bittu battles a mysterious fever, an affliction that deepens with an unfamiliar stirring within him as he watches his uncle’s young wife, Kusum, longing for a husband who toils far from home.

A young man's body is overtaken by an undefined itching fever, leading his parents to seek healing.

Manaal is a charming mess of indecision, juggling a whirlwind of "Mulaaqats" (meetings) with potential suitors while trying to figure out where her life is headed.

The passage from adolescence to youth is a phase during which a girl emerges in a distinctive period of her life to another significant phase. Most often there is a synchronous transition in her physical state with that of her emotional state of mind. This film poignantly depicts such a transition in a girl's life. Her changing attitudes towards her playmates, and objects around are brought out very vividly in this film.

The cinema hall as a liminal space during a matinee show, and the experience it evokes.

An exploration of the interconnected experiences of queerness and illness, this film navigates personal and collective journeys through medical spaces, sexual violence, and survival, displays the profound impact on body and identity.

Amidst the chaos of planning his son's birthday, Sandesh's phone, crucial for an investor call, gets accidentally thrown away. In his quest to retrieve it, he discovers unexpected emotional depths.

After her husband died, a mother buys a grinding-machine in order to make a living. Initially fascinated by the machine, her son starts getting irritated by its noise. He tries to destroy the machine to regain his childhood.

A hero stuck in an ancient cycle of death and rebirth unknowingly cheats his destiny.

A story about the director's first true love, and the truer rejection. A man and a woman meet after years. Both have moved on, and yet the past lingers, enticing one with its tale of an unsullied longing, on a lonesome day that held a slow drizzle, at the soggy bus stop.

Munshi ji, a lover of Urdu wants his daughter to marry a person who knows Urdu. His neighbour who arranges the marriage dupes Munshi Ji who inspite of doubts at the time of the ceremony allows the marriage to be solemnised. Later, when these doubts are confirmed Munshi Ji vows to settle scores with his neighbour.

A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave in his office. A third finishes his tea. Another gets himself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in the world of crime: kidnapping to be more precise. But the father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up. The son has already played this trick before and collected good ransom. The father does not believe this time it is a real thing; The kidnappers get desperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.

The film is about a young boy who has just finished graduation and is waiting for the result of a competitive examination. He is quite sure about getting through the examination, but his mother generally grumbles and assumes that her son is not capable of doing anything in this world. Discouraged and fed up with all this, he goes to his college and meets his girlfriend. He does not want to lose these moments. One fine morning he is awakened by the excited voice of his mother informing him that he has been selected in the competitive examination!

A man desperately searching for cigarettes encounters a trio that's plotting to kill a hen.

A quirky deep dive into the mind of a confused young man struggling to balance personal ambitions and family responsibilities.

Documentary delves into the lives of residents in a shelter home where stranded individuals and mentally suffering patients coexist with a fragile hope of reuniting with their families or finding a place they can call home. The filmmaker captures their personal stories and struggles with a stark, unsentimental lens.

A woman wanders through the night to find solace after leaving her husband.

These poor people find that their lives, hopes, desires and even dreams are ruled by the powerful. They are deprived of their natural spontaneity and thought process. As a consequence, the victim's action and reaction is programmed and they are performed mechanically as a ritual. In this film, a family of three falls victim to a middle-aged officer, who controls their lives. The woman is thrown in prison, the man becomes a toy in the hands of the officer and their child looks on innocently.