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  Night of Prophecy, A [77]      
Amar Kanwar
A Night of Prophecy is a simple film about poetry and witnessing the passage of time . Through poetry emerges the possibility of understanding the past , the severity of conflict and the cycles of change . The film travels in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland and Kashmir in the Indian subcontinent.

    Nishadam (Of the Hunter) [30]      
Madhu Eravankara

The film depicts the poetic journey of the celebrated Malayalam poet, Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan. It is the visual interpretation of word-images based on select slices of  poems with deep autobiographical overtones spiced with occasional memoirs by the poet. The poet himself renders the lines filling the soundtrack evoking his nostalgic past, vision, concerns, loves, compassion and humaneness.

    Nothing Official       
Soumitra Dastidar
 
  Odhni      
Anjali Monteiro & KP Jayasankar
 
  On a Wing and a Prayer [30]      
Sunita Thakur
The film looks at the life of one family in the Old City in Delhi in an attempt to reflect on the aspirations and problems of the Muslim middle class in India

  On an Expresss Highway [34]      
Reena Mohan
Jignya, a successful 33 year old woman from a wealthy Jain family, gives up the material world with its conveniences, for the austere life of a sadhvi (nun). Intrigued by Jignya's choice, the filmmaker decides to trace her journey. What follows is a dialogue with an articulate and confident woman, strong yet vulnerable, full of certainty yet striving against the mental habits of a lifetime.

  On my Qwn [28]      
Anupama Srinivasan
Five young women from middle class Delhi share with us their experiences of trying to live on their own in this conservative city. They justify their decisions to their families, come to terms with their own loneliness and insecurities, and also discover some things about themselves.

  Orange Alert [28]      
Teena Amrit Gill
Across the pesticide-intensive orange growing regions of northern Thailand, thousands of villagers are falling sick, victim to some of the most toxic chemicals in the world.  The film zooms into one such village – looking at the impact of pesticides on the environment, and the lives and health of the villagers.

  Paradise on the River of Hell [30]      
Abir Bazaz & Meenu Gaur
The film reflects the refracts the multiple experiences of tortured subjectivity in Kashmir in the 1990s


    Parai [45]      
Leena Manimekalai
In Siruthondamadevi, a village situated in Cuddalore district, Tamilnadu, 600 odd Dalits are under assault everyday by 6000 strong backward castes. Be it untouchability, sexual harassment, rape, assault, exploitation of labor all forms of violence are prevalent. The film juxtaposes accounts of Dalit women with data on the ststus of Dalits in India.


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