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.

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!

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

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.

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 protagonist is a young man staying in a city. He is sensitive, melancholy and a dreamer. He is unable to communicate his feelings to the woman he loves. Everything seems to have been entangled in a mesh, irrespective of these characters. He cannot even differentiate between his capability to love and his passionate desires which have been repressed. That is how he is confused and with his ideals and morality he is living outside his own time and inevitably suffering. His self criticism is endless. He dreams about whatever he lacks and about his ideals. The dreams have led him to the domain of non-communication. His repressed passion along with his self criticism has made him bored with life. Now at every point he expects something exceptional.

The journey of news coming alive, when an athlete featured on the front page falls in love with a tennis starlet featured on the last page of a newspaper.

A Beast Called Beauty is a deeply personal and emotional exploration of body image issues, told through the lens of the filmmaker herself.

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.

The dead body of an unknown person is lying on the ground. The film depicts the various reactions of people who see the dead body. An unscrupulous person collects money for his own pocket in the name of the dead person. A politician takes this opportunity to promote his election campaign. A frustrated young man takes the opportunity to criticize the government, while another young man shows off his intellectual and social superiority over others. In the motley crowd, there is only person who comes forward and seems to really have some feeling for the dead person. He bends down on the corpse and closes the hitherto open eyes of the dead man.

Two youngsters embark on a journey to success, promised to them by someone who proclaims possession of a few big houses and luxury cars through a scheme commonly known as Multi level marketing. They halt their journey to talk to us, about their idea of success, hardships and the dreams they wish to accomplish. As we dive deeper, we uncover the deceitful nature of their work and how it affects every aspect of their lives. In spite of this they persevere in the hope of a silver lining as they fall back down in this world of lies.

Maya is a teenager young girl who is working as a housemaid in a rich family. She is required to do all household work and also look after a small child. She toils from dawn to dusk and cannot get peaceful sleep. She, therefore, wants to get rid of it. One night, she kills the child in the cradle and then, relieved of her burden, quietly sleeps on the ground.

Alaka, a middle-aged woman in rural Assam, is confronted by the return of her queer husband after several years, whether real or a dream in its entirety, forcing her to face the unresolved pain of their fractured relationship while grappling with her own emotional survival.

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 celebrates the express train, Deccan Queen which connects Pune with Mumbai, and provides an important link between the two cities. The train is part of everyday life of many people living in these principal cities of Western Maharashtra.

A newlywed couple has a small disagreement on their first night. The husband, from a matrilineal society, struggles to adjust to his wife’s home and wants to move in with his mother, who lives alone. The wife, torn by her own mother’s illness, resists – leading to conflicting desires clashing over cultural expectations and family obligations. Garo language film.

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.

About a thoughtful, lonely child making his own discoveries.

An Army Officer is demobilized due to his wounded leg. His income is meagre and he has no savings. He is distressed as he cannot raise the money required for his only son to pursue his studies abroad. He falls prey to temptations and conspires with acquaintances to raise the money by criminal means.

Timelines and senses collide inside an old hammam, now set up as a modern spa. When masseuse Avani touches her client Shantanu, she awakens the sensory memory of Huzaifa, her long gone brother. Suddenly, all three inhabit a liminal space between past, present and future. Within the lushness of the steam haze, we’re invited to sit with the uncertainty and beauty that permeates this fleeting moment.