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A Night of Knowing Nothing
Synopsis : In her debut film, Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archival footage with student protest videos to tell the story of L, a student at the Film and Television Institute of India, writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place […]
Aagaman (Arrival)
Synopsis: Left at the airport to fend for himself, a young immigrant struggles to find his place in this new world while trying to find his new home. Trailer Director Nina Mahesh is an Indian American TV writer, screenwriter and director based in NYC and LA. She earned her MFA in film at […]
Altaf & Jamil
Synopsis: The film begins with opening text explaining the state of the subcontinent of India in the year 2071. India has won a war against Pakistan and Bangladesh and there is an evil prime minister in power named Magni. He is challenged by a group called the Restorationists led by an anonymous leader. Magni hires […]
Any Given Night
Synopsis: Unapologetic, unabashed and determined to have a great night out, Noor and Emily party their way through a seemingly ordinary night out. Or so they thought. These two best friends navigate an increasingly bizarre night of crushes, too much alcohol, and strange men. Set in a utopian world, where women are always safe, the […]
Awakash
Synopsis: The events take place in a flat in the city of Pune, India. After nearly 10 years a turbulent marital life forces Sujata to return to her ancestral home. Beyond the doorstep, however, lies a cold and unresolved past which she shares with her sister-Swati- over the death of their father. Time crawls by, […]
Bad Egg
Synopsis: Zoya receives a disturbing call from her mother – her sister Zara has gone missing during the pandemic. Surprisingly, Zoya isn’t rattled enough. She’s hiding something, all of which leads back to the fateful night of a party. Throughout the film, Zoya interacts with her surroundings as if she’s re-calibrating to them. As the […]
Bike
Synopsis: A woman searches for her freedom as she starts her new, lonely, and heavily restricted life as a dependent immigrant in the US Trailer https://vimeo.com/709500969 Director Kaustuv Mukherjee, Writer and Director Kaustuv is an award-winning independent filmmaker, crafting meaningful stories about the South Asian American community. He has directed, produced, and written […]
Bully High
Synopsis: A Muslim high school senior is bullied for wearing a hijab. Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDXJNTBhMyk Director Bill McAdams, Jr. brings over 25 years of acting, directing, writing, and producing experience to the Entertainment Industry. He graduated from The Catholic University of America Washington, DC in 1994 with a double major in Theater Arts and […]
Buried & Forgotten
Synopsis: An alcoholic with a martyr complex struggles to stay sober while visiting home to see his dying Uncle and religious Muslim family. But a new revelation of sexual abuse is going to test him as he loses his grip on reality in this neo-noir tragedy. Trailer https://vimeo.com/741950538 Director Ali hails from Scranton, […]
Bus Driver
Synopsis: A normal journey of a London bus driver transforms into a living nightmare as he finds himself in the middle of a terrorist stand-off between his panic-consumed passengers. Lives hang in the balance as he desperately tries to negotiate his way out of the quagmire. Trailer https://vimeo.com/742227770 Director Amar was recognised for […]
Cigarette Daydreams
Synopsis : Cigarette Daydreams is about being stuck between the wedge of honoring and loving oneself despite the pain it might cause another. The pain is not intentional, though it remains inevitable (or so we think). In life, we tend to push for circumstances to be either black or white as there is comfort in […]
Coming out with the help of a Time Machine
Synopsis: When coming out to his traditional parents, Sid uses his time machine to reset the day trying to make sure everything goes perfect. Trailer https://vimeo.com/672283961 Director An award-winning Director & Writer with background in Fashion Photography. Naman grew up in India and worked against many odds to carve out a career in […]
Crazy for Bollywood
Synopsis: Raj introduces his parents to his unique girlfriend, Priyanka: a woman who believes life is a Bollywood movie and she is the heroine. Trailer https://vimeo.com/742246044 Director Imran J. Khan has written and directed award-winning short films including “Timmy II,” “The Drone and the Kid” and “Prom.” His films have screened at major […]
Crossroads
Synopsis: CROSSROADS looks at the FedEx mass shooting in Indianapolis that took place in April 2021, where the majority of workers and victims were from the Sikh community. FedEx operates one of its largest US-based hubs in Indianapolis, where over 80% of the employees are South Asians/Punjabi. In April 2021, former Fedex worker Brandon Scott […]
Dawa
Synopsis: Upon returning home from college, Ahmed decides to postpone his medical school plans. Aided by his ailing grandfather, Ahmed insteads begins his own dawakhana. Though his father disapproves of his pursuit of the dying art, Ahmed is determined. Propelled by the need to keep his grandfather Akmal alive, Ahmed struggles to find the cure […]
E-Rickshawali 2021
Synopsis: A young 20 yr old girl dresses up as a boy and drives an e-rickshaw in the historic streets of Delhi to fend for her family against a patriarchal society . She meets a stranger and then her life takes an erratic turn. For better or worse? OR is it the stranger that has […]
Embrace
Synopsis: Arty, a faceless and well dressed man gets ready for his date until he meets his younger self who makes things complicated. Trailer https://vimeo.com/745715676 Director Jacquile Singh Kambo is an award winning Director and Writer for “Help Wanted” (2016) focusing on South Asian gang violence. Fascinated with film noir and drama, he […]
Fatima Jinnah: Sister | Revolutionist | Stateswoman
Synopsis: We are so used to seeing history in black and white, that we assume the characters played within them are also black and white. The truth is far from it. Fatima Jinnah is a visual exploration of a character that shadowed the popularity of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Fatima, his sister, […]
Four Samosas
Synopsis: Determined to disrupt the engagement of his ex-girlfriend by stealing her dowry, underachieving, wanna-be rapper Vinny and his eccentric crew of neighborhood pals, concoct a plan to take her family jewels from a supermarket safe in LA’s “Little India.” A celebration of discovering your voice and finding your crew. Trailer Director Ravi […]
Gem & Shaz
Synopsis: GEMMA (Chinese-Canadian) and SHAZIA (Pakistani-Canadian) get ready for their first high school dance. They’re 16 and they’ve been allowed exactly one hour at the dance and they are ready to make the most of it. As they get ready, Gemma teases Shazia about her crush being at the dance but Shazia claims she has […]
Gray
Synopsis: ‘Gray’ is a story about Naina (Shreya Dhanwanthary), a 20-something girl whose best friend violates the boundaries of her consent. Except that, in a world where everything is defined as ‘black’ and ‘white’, she’s left to grapple with whether or not what happened was in the ‘gray’ areas. With the help of her therapist, […]
Humanity our race Love our religion ( Tearing our India )
Synopsis: https://vimeo.com/745716381 A film that throws light on a growing trend in India where mob lynching cases are only on the rise. The film highlights the struggle a family goes through after they have lost their son and the only breadwinner of the family. While the reasons for lynching are different the film wishes […]
I’m Mehmood
Synopsis: “Mein, Mehmood” (I am, Mehmood) is a film that is dedicated to the life of hardworking immigrants all over the world. The film traces the life of Mehmood, a simple middle-aged immigrant from the Indian subcontinent who has left immigrated to Middle East to provide a better life for his family. A tele-caller with […]
Intezar Farmaiye
Synopsis A journey through time of Pakistan’s tumultuous history seen across the TV screen through the eyes of three generations where times do change but people have the same misguided mindset of believing the media and blaming the other person instead of looking unto themselves for reflections and betterment. Trailer Director Ali Mehdi is an […]
Invisible Brown Man
Synopsis: Doctors. Store clerks. Computer nerds. Indian Actors always play the same roles. But what if one Indian man decided he was done with the stereotypes? Sex and Indian food abound when T.J. (a young Indian-American) tries to claw his way out of obscurity in Hollywood. But to land the perfect acting gig, he’ll first […]
Is this Mrs. Varma?
Synopsis: An elderly, recently-widowed Indian woman receives a scam call, but the power flips on who is actually doing the scheming. Trailer Director Shawn Parikh is currently a Staff Writer on NIGHT COURT for NBC. A student of improv, standup and sketch at UCB & Groundlings, he appeared on shows like Outsourced, Cougar Town, […]
Kekee Manzil: House of Art
Synopsis: Kekoo Gandhy, cast adrift from his studies at Cambridge by the war, was sitting on Juhu beach in 1941 wondering what to do with his life. He saw a man in a car stuck in the sand and decided to help. Thus began a journey that revolutionised not only his own life but the […]
Kicking balls
Synopsis: Each year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18. That is 23 girls every minute. In three small villages in Rajasthan, a non-profit org is trying to change this. Through football, 200 teenage girls playing and training regularly. What sets them apart is, almost all of them are child brides. The […]
Kiss
Synopsis: At a preview theatre, a young filmmaker waits in the hope of getting his new sci-fi drama certified with ‘no cuts’ by the conservative men of the Indian Censor Board. The board finds a particular kissing scene in the film beyond the duration stipulated by official, orthodox rules. As the filmmaker and board members […]
Kolam
Synopsis: Kolam is an experimental art film inspired by the beautiful lives of the Aurovillians. Auroville is a Utopian township in Tamil Nadu, India, which is the vision of Shri Aurobindo’s spiritual collaborator Mira Alfassa, also known as ‘The Mother’. This is an experiment on human unity formed in 1968, and with this film, we […]
Little Wings
Synopsis: An old woman trapped in a bitter marriage is pushed to the brink when her paralyzed husband sets out to consume her pet rooster. Trailer https://vimeo.com/746098634 Director Naveen Mu is a self taught aspiring Screenwriter/Filmmaker. He has assisted Indian director Rajumurugan on the National award winning film Joker (2016) and worked as […]
Look like you
Synopsis: Tara, a South Asian queer woman, goes to see her eight-year-old biological son after years, but is unprepared for the tensions that resurface with his white adoptive parents. Trailer https://vimeo.com/673775195 Director Snigdha is an India-born, New York-based filmmaker with a background in journalism and advertising with a focus on social impact. As […]
LOST
Synopsis: Lost is an emotional social thriller that represents a higher quest, a search for lost values of empathy and integrity. Inspired by true events, Lost is a story of a bright young woman crime reporter in her relentless search for truth behind the sudden disappearance of a young theatre activist. Trailer Director Aniruddha Roy […]
Love Death & Everything in Between
Synopsis: Experiencing their son’s life after his unnatural death while navigating their failing marriage; mourning parents Mira and Pradeep cannot overcome their grief but start to build their lives around it. Trailer https://vimeo.com/742240625 Director Soham is a writer/director born in India, living in London. He was mentored by independent filmmaker Kamal Swaroop for […]
Ma Comrade
Synopsis: Ma Comrade is a story of a common man who got involved as comrade in civil war era of Nepal and compulsion to work in gulf country after the comprehensive peace accord. Trailer https://vimeo.com/746515246 Director Director, writer, producer Nirmal Poudel, born Birendranagar, Surkhet, Karnali Province, Nepal July19, 1993, began his career in […]
Maali (Gardener)
Synopsis: Tulsi lives in the mountains with her grandfather Basant, living amidst the nature and treating them as companions is the only way of life her grandfather has taught her. A true MAALI at heart, Tulsi finds her purpose in life of nurturing lives through planting trees. Through this journey Tulsi meets Sakshi an urbanite, […]
Madhavi
Synopsis: Having survived domestic violence during her marriage, Madhavi, an Indian divorcee with a young and withdrawn daughter, Sonia, struggles to put the pieces of their lives back together. Once an up and coming traditional Indian dance performer in India, she now spends her alone time dancing on the beach before heading to work at […]
Marginalizing Minoritites
Synopsis: As India continues its shift to the right, this documentary shares vignettes of discussions with various grassroots artists, activists, historians and people representing the majority, as the country spoke up against the proposed discriminatory citizenship laws in India in 2019-2020. Documented before the COVID pandemic, the government of India has since withdrawn the proposed […]
Nine Hills One Valley
Synopsis: Anam Ahum, a Tangkhul from the hills, travels to Imphal city in the valley to meet his daughter before she leaves for New Delhi for further studies. During the course of the journey, he encounters different people and their stories, making us witness to the brutishness of ethnic conflicts. Yet, in the face of […]
No Land’s Man
Synopsis Synopsis: Persecuted in one country for being a “Non-Muslim” and in another for being a “Muslim”, Naveen Cheema finds temporary refuge in an apparent safeguard of a manufactured identity in an eventful quest for a sense of belonging. Trailer Director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is considered to be one of the leading figures […]
Now and Never
Synopsis: In a visual and sonic love letter to filmmaking, NOW AND NEVER’s ever-changing aspect ratios and color palette help navigate the fractured, claustrophobic mind of Harriet, a woman in the midst of an anxiety attack, as she is visited by the embodiment of the voices in her head. In an effort to outrun their […]
Ozona
Synopsis: A young couple’s cross-country road trip comes to a halt when their car breaks down on a desolate Midwestern road. Liam encourages Iman to call her nearby uncle for help. Weary of alerting her family of her relationship with Liam, Iman refuses. However, a local hunter, Heath, stumbles upon the stranded pair. After an […]
Path to Freedom
Synopsis: The film is about an Indian woman who comes to the USA to help her son with immigration and help her daughter raise her child. She misses her husband and her life in India and wants to return, but soon realizes that she is a prisoner in her children’s home! Trailer Director […]
Pav Bhaji
Synopsis: The film revolves around a day in Jyogesh’s life; a newly married, over-smart, Gujarati stockbroker whose motto in life is that if one isn’t fooling others, they are the ones being fooled. He’s trying to get some life back into his deadbeat marriage by surprising his wife, Jyotika, by getting her Pav Bhaji, a […]
Pedro
Synopsis: Pedro, an unassuming, middle-aged electrician living in a remote village in the western ghats, gets entangled in an offense that he never intended to commit. Despite the innocuous nature of his crime, the society at large renders it to be horrible, unparadoxable mistake and compels him to flee the village in sheer anxiety and […]
Perianayaki
Synopsis: Recent immigrant from Sri Lanka Perianayaki’s day begins as it does every day, at her job stacking shelves at the local supermarket. Today, on her wedding anniversary, she is forced to reconcile with the bittersweet realities of her life. Trailer Director Since graduating from the University of Auckland in 2018 with an […]
Period Drama
Synopsis: When young Georgiana Crimsworth finds blood on her sheets and thinks she’s dying, she spirals into fear imagining what’s going to happen to her body. Trailer https://vimeo.com/713469620 Director Lauryn Anthony (Madison, WI) and Anushka Tina Nair (Chicago, IL) are young filmmakers who recently graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design. They […]
Polar Bears
Synopsis: There’s nothing more that 9 year old Anika wants than protect the planet and save polar bears from extinction. But this mission of hers doesn’t sit well with her father. Trailer https://vimeo.com/746548012 Director Shilpa Krishnan Shukla is an award-winning filmmaker who focuses on independent, micro-budget films that she writes, directs and produces, […]
Powai
Synopsis: Powai is a triptych of stories about three women from diverse socio-economic backgrounds living in the titular developing suburb of Mumbai – a domestic worker, a govt preschool teacher and a software professional. Trailer https://vimeo.com/742241514 Director Kuldip is a tech leader and an independent filmmaker based out of Mumbai (Powai). He co-founded […]
Propinquity
Synopsis: Love doesn’t see right or wrong. This film explores what being in love means to different people and how far people will go to achieve that love no matter the cost. Trailer https://vimeo.com/746080994 Director Randy Bernales – Chicago based Director that doubles as an actor but uses his camera skills and uncanny […]
Rajasaur
Synopsis: In a fantasy version of prehistoric India where humans and dinosaurs co-exist, a father and daughter must embark on a dangerous mission to return the lost egg of a Rajasaurus, India’s most dangerous dinosaur, but a much more evil creature is after the egg too. Trailer https://vimeo.com/746092723 Director Sreejith Nair was born […]
Resurgence
Synopsis: Ryan De Vries, a professional canyoneer, encounters a near-death experience in the canyons of Southern Utah. Post the accident, his friends and family witness a changed person as Ryan battles with himself due to the trauma caused by it—crippling his everyday life. The documentary highlights Ryan’s struggles after losing his identity, along with the […]
Rising Lotus
Synopsis: A Punjabi immigrant woman stuck in an abusive arranged marriage finally musters the strength to escape when she realizes that her estranged son’s life is in danger. Mother and son quickly learn, however, that life is not necessarily easier on the streets. But through perseverance and ingenuity–and a little bit of luck–they eventually arrange […]
Running
Synopsis: RUNNING follows Danny as he sets out to uncover the story of his estranged father. Piecing together mementos, stories from his dad’s old friends, and hard conversations with his mother, Pudi starts on a mission to solve the puzzle of his father and finds himself instead on a complex, funny, and vulnerable journey of […]
Same Love
Synopsis: Krish Patel is a high school senior caring for his ailing mother Mira. As her condition worsens, Krish learns of a relationship his mother had in her youth with another woman against the desires of her family. Despite his father Raghav’s controlling nature, Mira encourages Krish to pursue the growing love he has with […]
Shiv Shastri Balboa
Synopsis: Shiv Shastri a retiree, a widower from India, and a big Rocky movie fan moves to the USA to be with his only son. Stuck in a large house alone with a dog, he is forced to befriend him and makes an unlikely bond with an undocumented housekeeper named Elsa. Though they belong to […]
Simran
Synopsis: Simran is your average high school indian girl with strict parents. Her best friend Carly and her are invited to a Halloween party. Simran is joyful to go to her first high school party until things take a turn for the worse. Trailer https://vimeo.com/746103080 Director Gurparsad started his film career through his […]
Stuck in Reality
Bookstore co-managers Liz and Riya are tired of playing the nice, complacent girls that society expects them to be. This comedic web series reveals the inner fantasies of two best friends who are ready to break free from their constrained reality. Trailer https://vimeo.com/701404718 Director Puja Mohindra is an actor, writer-creator, producer, and […]
Subscribe Follow
Synopsis: After the unfortunate murder of an unarmed Black man by the police, an Indian social media influencer code switches up his online platform to present solidarity, but gets challenged by his peers when they find faults in his messaging. Trailer Director Faroukh Virani is an LA based director and editor who moves […]
Tadap
Synopsis: Set in Pre-Partition India, “Tadap” follows 14-year-old Rani’s plight of being forced to embrace womanhood on her wedding night, against her own will. Trailer https://vimeo.com/742243815 Director Ishq Pradhan is a writer, director, actor, and dancer, currently studying at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, […]
The Cloud & The Man (Manikbabur Megh)
Synopsis: The Cloud & The Man is an unusual story of a guy called Manik who lives in the crumbling city of Kolkata. Loner by nature and asocial by choice, he lives with his ailing father who is nothing more than an alarm clock to him. Manik leads an ‘uneventful’ life which revolves around his […]
The Everyday Show
Synopsis: Sam Saxena is a sleazy talk show host who is entertaining Diya Agarwal, a no-nonsense filmmaker, on his show to promote her latest movie. However, to make the show more interesting, Sam decides to unearth a potentially controversial decision from Diya’s past on live TV. Trailer Director Viren Shinde is a filmmaker […]
The History of Chai
Synopsis: When Guari makes a cup of tea, not a cup of Chai, she’s finds herself on a journey guided by none other than…herself. Trailer https://vimeo.com/743605641 Director Jaie is a South Asian writer-producer & writer-director from Chino Hills, California. He studied as an undergrad at UCLA and had development & production internships at the […]
The Knot
Synopsis: An upper middle class couple who hits a rickshaw driver with their car must face the moral implications of their actions when the driver’s younger brother shows up at their doorstep informing them the injured man is fighting for his life. Trailer https://vimeo.com/424379360 Director Ashish Pant is an Indian filmmaker based in […]
The Name
Synopsis: An interracial couple struggles to agree upon the name for their soon-to-be born daughter. Trailer https://vimeo.com/742244803 Director Aaron Strand is an award-winning filmmaker and actor from Atlanta, GA. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, his career began as an actor on stage and film. He has written, produced and […]
The Session
Synopsis: Aria walks to her therapy session with Dr. Clarke on a crisp fall day. After she and her therapist talk about the weather, she remembers to check her phone. She’s waiting for an important call from her son’s psychiatrist that she must take. With little prompting from Dr. Clarke, Aria launches into a wide-ranging […]
The Trunk
Synopsis: In a remote town in Pakistan, a feudal lord’s loyal servant suspects his master’s wife of hiding a secret inside a trunk. Trailer Director Director/Producer Fahad Shaikh has been an aspiring media and theatre personality from his early teens. Originally from Pakistan but studied in U.S. and went on to pursue filmmaking. His […]
The Way We Are (Phir Kabhi)
Synopsis: A husband recounts the days of being in school, being different from other boys, realizing that his body reacts to men, the way other boys’ bodies react to women. A wife realizes that she has always made adjustments, and compromised. She has let other people dictate what she eats, what she wears, what she […]
There’s No Other Way To Do This
Synopsis: Stuck in a toxic marriage, a South Asian woman in her early thirties tries to end her relationship over several voicemails. Trailer Director Mragendra, despite his interest in storytelling, as an obedient south-asian child became an engineer to please his parents, only to eventually disappoint them by nose diving into filmmaking ten years […]
This stained dawn
Synopsis: Karachi’s feminists organise a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right, and negotiating a deeply surveilled, paranoia-inducing, and often physically violent space in the hopes of a revolution. A philosophical work, This Stained Dawn is not just about the march, but about the act of political organising itself. Trailer https://vimeo.com/746071992 […]
Tigress
Synopsis: Trina, a stubborn and rebellious 20-something, has gone to the motherland as an aid-worker during the war. Once there, she finds herself overwhelmed by the traumas she witnesses and turns to partying hard with her fellow volunteers as a way to cope. One night during a drunken foray, she encounters another version of herself […]
Today is Wednesday
Synopsis: Made entirely of crowdsourced footage, this is a day in the life of several Asian Americans at home during the Covid-19 lockdowns. An exploration of the mundane. Director: Pulkit Datta is a filmmaker with experience on a wide range of international projects, including narrative films of various genres, documentaries, commercials, and music videos. His […]
Trek to the Top
Synopsis: Pilgrims chant “Jai Mata Di!” as they make their way to an ancient mountain cave inhabited by the Mother Warrior Goddess, Vaishno Devi in Jammu & Kashmir, India. This immortal avatar invites people to her cave with unique invitations and a promise to make their wishes come true. Kash considers himself one of these […]
Vakeel Babu
Synopsis: Shiraz Hassan chases his dreams of securing his own law chamber. He runs his own digital video channel with the hope of turning his subscribers into future clients. His mother, a retired lawyer herself, thinks it is a distraction. As fate has it, his channel lands him a call for a new case- an […]
Wagro
Synopsis: A village boy from the marginalized strata of the society decides to move to the city. But as he spends his last day with his girlfriend, can he ever leave it all behind? Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPZqi02xZlU Director Sainath S. Uskaikar is a student at Film and Television Institute of India, Pune – India. […]
What’s in a name?
Synopsis: Sometimes people with the most significant depth appear like a fish out of water. This short film is about Lakshmi, who moved to the USA with her husband, and her struggle to manage day-to-day life in a new country & how she deals with her ongoing issue with neighbors. Trailer https://vimeo.com/745866139 Director […]
Who Am I
Synopsis: Bhavitavya, a philosophy student, is full of questions about life. When his favourite professor passes away, Bhavitavya embarks on a journey of self-discovery, wondering who he is and what his life means. Shot on the banks of the Narmada River, Who Am I is a picturesque examination of the human condition. Trailer https://vimeo.com/742241603 […]
Women Beyond Bollywood
Synopsis: India’s cinema industry is the largest in the world, and Bollywood is its flagship: stars, music, drama, not to mention rampant sexism, are its defining features. A new generation of filmmakers is finally showing women as more than eye candy or appendages to larger than life male heroes. Montreal filmmaker Rahila Bootwala left India […]
Ye Shaam Mastaani
Synopsis : A radio talk show becomes the medium for two lonely listeners to find an unexpected connection through memories of a time gone by. (Hindi with English subtitles) Trailer Director Sangeeta Agrawal is an actor, writer and director, with more than 30 years of experience on stage, and lead roles in several […]