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A Map of My Heart
Ayesha Akhtar, a 25-year-old Bengali American Muslim, is torn between her traditional Bengali parents and her American boyfriend. To help find answers and to challenge the gender inequalities she believes are in her religion and culture, Ayesha starts a photography project called, “The
Burqa Project” where she asks Muslim and non-Muslim men to wear a burqa for a day.
Chauranga (Four Colors)
14 year-old Santu wants to go to school, but his destiny was prewritten in a village that’s steeped deep in caste-hierarchy, oppression and debauchery. Unaware of the consequences, Santu is nurturing defiance and a dangerous infatuation. How far will his defiance take him? What will be the price of his escape?
Dhanak (Rainbow)
The story revolves around the wonderful relationship between a 10 year-old girl Pari and Chotu, her 8 year-old brother who live in a picturesque village nestled among the sand dunes. Having lost their parents to an accident at a very early age, they live with their uncle and aunt. Chotu is blind; he is anything but sad. Pari has promised Chotu that he will regain his vision by his ninth birthday. She is convinced that her real-life hero, Shah Rukh Khan, can help her.
G- A Wanton Heart
Deep into the night in the hinterlands, a timeless struggle is on, between a man and a woman. The woman is trying hard to pretend to be sleeping and the man too is pretending to be asleep. With his one hand he is trying to make his way inside the woman’s pajamas and the other into his own. Making sure that his grandaunt is fast asleep
and that no one is watching, he finds himself wanting more. With a loud sound, the main gate of the house opens, Virender and Sikander intrude into the home to take Keku for a car heist with three torches, two sickles and a local handmade gun, which doesn’t work. Their journey begins.
Haraamkhor (The Wretched)
Haraamkhor is an innocent, illicit and emotionally driven story, set in the virginal desert territory juxtaposed against the lifeline of India’s dream development. 15 year-old Sandhya is infatuated with her 35 year-old school teacher, Shyam. Kamal and Mintu, her classmates, emerge as the sole spectators of their secret love affair. While Kamal’s love
for Sandhya precedes all, Shyam’s marital status takes over Sandhya’s life. A crisscross of stirring emotions across gender and age, Haraamkhor is an anecdote to the journey of three wretched souls in pursuit of love.
Hunterrr
Mandar Ponkshe is an ordinary guy, meaning there is hardly anything extraordinary about him. He is maybe 5’8” or 5’9”. He dresses very un-dandily if there was such a term, wears a goatee to hide what could be considered a weak chin. Mandar does not attract attention because he wants to be seen as ordinary. But behind that façade is a story – of an
interesting past life that has been led, his single-minded pursuit of girls, tall and short, stout or with a pout. He’s funny unconventionally without meaning to be witty. His friends have lost all hope of him settling down, as they know that he doesn’t plan to. And then suddenly he meets someone whom he starts liking and falls in love with. What will happen now? Will she know about his past? Will he able to hide his Hunterrr reputation? This is a story of a guy, who doesn’t want to grow up!
In Search of America Inshallah
Shaheen Ilyas, a young traditional Pakistani woman, arrives in Los Angeles in search of her husband, Ali Ilyas. Ali left his wife and his homeland years ago right after their marriage, and came to America to earn money. Little does Shaheen know, the husband she cannot wait to find married an American woman to acquire citizenship.
Kaaka Muttai (The Crow’s Egg)
When a pizza parlor opens on their playground, two carefree slum boys are consumed by the desire to taste this new-fangled dish called ‘Pizza’. Realizing that one pizza costs more than their family’s monthly income, they begin to plot ways to earn more money inadvertently beginning an adventure that will involve the entire city.
Kahani
Based on a short story by Daniel Wallace, the film is about a storywriter (Yateen Karyekar) and his wife (Seema Rahmani), who is also the storywriter’s muse. The wife is the heroine of all his stories. All is nice and wonderful in their idyllic world when
suddenly one day, the wife starts to fall ill. The writer now begins to notice that all the characters in his stories have also begun to fall ill. The wife’s illness worsens and the writer, totally devastated, stops writing. Then, one day he dawns upon an idea of writing a story about an ill wife, and how, in the story, she miraculously starts to get well.
Labour of Love
Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession. They are married to a cycle of work and domestic routine, and a long stretch of waiting in the silence of an empty house. They share each other’s solitude in pursuit of a distant dream that visits them briefly every morning.
Margarita, With A Straw
Laila is a young romantic, a secret rebel in a wheelchair. Undeterred by cerebral palsy, she embarks on a journey of sexual discovery. Her exhilarating adventures cause a rift both within herself and with those she is closest to. Ultimately, it is in the intensity of these bonds that she finds the strength to truly be herself.
Miss India America
Lily Prasad is graduating from her Orange County high school at the top of her class. And she has a plan, “The Lily Plan”. She will become a brain surgeon like her father. Her boyfriend Karim will become a petroleum engineer. They’ll get married. Have kids. Live happily ever after. But the plan is thrown into confusion when Karim becomes smitten by and runs off with Reshma, the reigning Miss India National beauty queen. Not happy about losing at anything, Lily decides that she herself must become the new Miss India National! But Lily will discover you’re not always a winner when you win, and there may be more to learn when you lose.
My Big Fat Bride (Dum Laga Ke Haisha)
The early 90’s, a small town in Northern India, Prem (Ayushmann Khurrana) bootlegs music cassettes as the audio CD is about to change everything in his work life, his personal life is in for a major bump too… He’s about to be married off to someone he never dreamed of Sandhya (Bhumi Pednekar). She is everything he isn’t, including her size. But now they are married and they’re supposed to spend a lifetime together.
Sundar
Bangles, jhumkas, bindi, lipstick, blouse, sari and attitude to carry; Jayu walked in public and played dandiya during Navratri (nine days Hindu festival). Onlookers laughed and whistled
mockingly. It was just another reason to make fun of him. He didn’t care, because it was his happiness, he was living. Until, he laid his eyes on his mother, who stood in between those
onlookers. She beat him up before the entire neighborhood… It’s Navratri, again. Tonight is the last night. But this year, all he could do is look at others as they marched towards the dandiya ground, all dolled up.
The Blue Sweater
The Blue Sweater is the story of a promise made by a girl to her little brother Unni.She will knit him a sweater in his favorite color, blue, by the next full moon. On the following day Unni accidentally enters the forbidden forest and discovers something intriguing. The encounter in the forest has altered the fate of Unni’s little blue sweater, perhaps forever.
The Roar
“It is the privilege of a lifetime,” said Carl Jung, “to become who you truly are.” This emotionally provocative film chronicles the steps and
missteps of a young man who loves art, music, and poetry but who, due to familial and societal expectations, gives up his dreams to pursue “success” as others see it. Bowing under the strain, he finally picks up his violin.
Threads
Threads is a portrait of an artist — a woman, her community, her country. It tells the story of Surayia Rahman, a Bangladeshi artist who revives an ancient quilt work tradition, transforms it, and creates internationally recognized art. Using her designs, she teaches other women to do the same; they rise from despair of poverty to supporting their families.
Titli (Butterfly)
In the badlands of Delhi’s dystopic underbelly, Titli, the youngest member of a violent carjacking brotherhood plots a desperate bid to escape the ‘family’ business. His struggle to do so is countered at each stage by his indignant brothers, who finally try marrying him off to ‘settle’ him. Titli, finds an unlikely ally in his new wife, who is caught in
her own web of warped reality and dysfunctional dreams. They form a strange, beneficial partnership, only to confront their inability to escape the bindings of their family roots. But, is escaping the same as freedom?
Vishal
Vishal, a 22 year-old international student, finds himself in a dingy, crowded suburban basement, trying to determine how he can balance work and school. Engrossed with his longing for home, and his inability to confess to his mother the hardships he suffers daily, Vishal is persuaded by his roommate Sourav to skip school and start work at an Indian restaurant.