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  Group Portrait, A [30]      
Reena Mohan
The film traces the efforts of rural women in North Bihar for reviving the Sujni Kantha tradition of embroidered quilts aided by the Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti (MVSS)

    Gujarat : A Laboratory [45]      
Suma Josson
In the post-Godra violence, the film raises issues such as Hindu Rashtra, the Constitution, status of the Dalits, the economic and social scenario in Anand District, Gujarat

    Gulabi Aaina [40]      
Sridhar Rangayan
India’s first film on drag queens pits two fading drag queens against a sly gay teenager as they try to seduce a handsome hunk with dance, drama, desire - a la Bollywood.

  Hawa Mahal [58]      
Vipin Vijay
An epic film on the Holy Little Box, the RADIO, a profound archaic force, a time bond with most ancient past and long forgotten experience, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber. An apparatus that neutralized nationalism but evoked archaic tribal ghosts of the most vigorous brand.

  House on Gulmohar Avenue, The [30]      
Samina Mishra
A film about home and belonging, tracing the filmmaker’s personal journey to understand what it means to be a Muslim in India today

    Hunger in the time of Plenty [30]      
Sagari Chabra
Explores the irony of starvation deaths in the time of food surpluses. Shot in the interiors of Rajasthan and in the lush tropical forests of Orissa as well as in New Delhi, the film is a personal journey, in quest for the truth.

  Hunting Down Water [32]      
S. Barnela & V.Saberwal
The film explores the fact that the present water crisis is largely a crisis of our own making. It studies the dynamics of this man-made crisis.


    Iag Bari - Brass in Fire [98]      
Ralf Marschalleck
A rousing gipsy brass band from the far remote Romanian village ‘Zece Prajini’ (Ten Fields), is roaming the world, getting the halls packed and enthusing the audiences. Discovered by two German freaks who raised them onto the world music scene, the musicians of ‘Fanfare Ciocarlia’ (Lark's Fanfare) rapidly became a cult band. These gipsy musicians with a particular mix of rapid playing and poetical Balkanian sound are celebrating a party on stage around the world. But there is a love story too . . .

  Identity       
Anjali Monteiro & Jayasankar
 
  If you pause – in a museum of craft [30]    
Sameera Jain

How can one allow all the stories hidden behind the familiar beauty of craft, to be heard? …Nothing concealed, nothing forgotten.

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