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  Parenting Alone [30]      
Moumita Tarafdar
The film focuses on the comparatively new but increasingly significant problems faced by single parents in India
  Pather Chujaeri [30]      
Pankaj Rishi Kumar
A film on the satiric, non-sectarian folk theatre form Bhand Pather of Kashmir.  Through the lives of of the Bhands and their performances, the film explores the subversive message of their art.
    Pyramid of Women, A [19]      
Cheryl Kanekar
During the festival of Gokulashtami, which celebrates the birth of the Hindu god Krishna, the custom is to hang decorated earthenware pots containing rewards, several storeys above the ground. Teams of men compete to reach and break the pots by forming human pyramids on the street below. Traditionally, only men form these pyramids. The women of a low-income textile mill neighbourhood have decided to challenge this tradition by forming the first-ever women’s team to form these pyramids.
    Rummaging For Pasts [27]      
Ashish Avikunthak
Rummaging for Pasts is an experimental juxtaposition of two cinematic documents: the video dairy of an international archaeological excavation and a collection of assorted eight millimeter found footage. The film is an attempt to engage with the ambiguity inherent in the rumination over these pasts, once abandoned now reconstructed, assuming fresh connotations and meaning.
    Sacha       
Anjali Monteiro & Jayasankar
 
    Searching for Saraswati [62]      
Sudheer Gupta
On the 40 day Mahakumbha festival of 2001 on the confluence of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna at Allahabad - in the world's largest city in tents attended by pilgrim-farmers and babas...amidst rising fundamentalism, consumerism, lack of concern... searching for the invisible river of learning... Saraswati.
  Sharira – Chandrelekha’s Exploration in Dance [29]      
Ein Lall
The film Sharira draws on three major choreographed works produced by Chandralekha over the last decade, 1992 – 2002. It demonstrates how consistently she challenged the middle-class mores that compartmentalised the human psyche: dividing body from mind; feeling from thought; sexuality and sensuality from spirituality.
  Shadows of Freedom       
Sabina Kidwai
The film traces the history of three women in a Muslim family in India and how the issues of identity and gender conflicts with their lives and that of their family.
    She Writes      
Anjali Monteiro & Jayasankar
Weaving together the narratives and work of four Tamil women poets, the film traverses diverse modes of resistance, through images and sounds that evoke the universal experiences of pain, anger, desire and transcendence.
  Silent Killer, A [23]      
Dhananjoy Mandal
Arsenic poisoning in drinking water drawn through tube wells is claiming many lives in 75 Blocks of 8 districts in West Bengal. Measures taken so far to mitigate the problem are insufficient in scale.
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