Un homme, en quête de vengeance, affronte un groupe de criminels corrompus responsables du meurtre de sa mère et se repaissant des pauvres et des démunis. Basé sur la légende de Hanumān, une figure de force et de courage, Monkey Man met en scène Kid, un jeune homme qui tente de survivre en perdant contre des combattants renommés pour de l’argent chaque soir dans un club de combat clandestin, affublé d’un masque de gorille. Après des années de colère, Kid trouve le moyen d’infiltrer l’enclave de l’élite en ville. Victime d’un traumatisme de l’enfance, il utilise ses poings scarifiés comme arme pour se venger des hommes qui lui ont tout volé.
Hrundi V. Bakshi, un acteur indien, est engagé par un studio hollywoodien pour interpréter un soldat indigène dans un remake de « Gunga Din ». Faisant preuve d'une terrible maladresse, il fait exploser un coûteux décor. Exaspéré, le producteur demande à ce que le nom de Bakshi soit inscrit sur une liste noire. Mais suite à un quiproquo, le comédien se retrouve en fait invité à la soirée annuelle du studio.
A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of frontier attacks. Begins to suspect a set-up.
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under the gruesome working conditions of seal hunting gangs. The story follows a lascar, Dasa, who has been abandoned on the coast of Aotearoa NZ by the East India Company, alongside his sealing gang. When Dasa finds himself in the middle of a conflict between his abusive British superior and two Māori traders, he is faced with a choice: bend the knee or take a stand.
When an Indian mother finds out her son is the victim of a vicious bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice.
Single and without a man on the horizon, Pia runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay. Her sister Sonal prepares to get married and her mother Laxmi urges the resolutely independent Pia to partner up. A spiritual guru at Sonal’s engagement party predicts Pia will meet the love of her life among the next five dates she goes on. As her family intervene, setting her up on a series of increasingly desperate blind dates, Pia begins a hilarious but heartfelt quest for real love.
Haunted by his tragic past, Basant befriends a married woman even as the migrant community of Salt Bridge frowns upon this relationship.
Shanti finds blood in her underwear at the worst possible time. Against the backdrop of a Tamil coming-of-age ceremony where fertility is celebrated, menstruation is shunned and infertility is silenced, Shanti struggles to keep a secret.
Bad Indian – The Villain Origin Story, is a coming of age comedy-drama about Abbey, a young woman from Croydon. When Abbey lies to her strict Catholic Indian Mother about her rejection from Cambridge University her only method of escapism is to have one memorable night at the infamous Tiger Croydon’s A-Level Results Party. But what happens when the truth she's been running from violently slaps her in the face.
We learn about the life of one very unique Indian woman, through the eyes of a British documentary crew.
An attempt to engage with the historical, mythical and the contemporary worlds of the city of Pushkar
Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect through acts of kindness both big and small.
It is an early winter morning in Kolkata in 1989 and the palatial old "Roy Choudhury" house lies dilapidated, housing the last few members of a once huge affluent joint family. Rudro, the younger brother of the last generation, an under-confident, nondescript man in his mid-30s tries to convince Rajatabho, the eldest of the brothers to take up the offer of selling the house in a desperate attempt to save themselves from bankruptcy. Rajatabho, however, is unrelenting. Rudro, later tries to convince Anjali, Rajatabho's wife, to help change her husband's mind. Later in the day, a crying Anjali grinds down sleeping pills on her kitchen slab. She reminisces down memory lane through each nook and corner of the house as she does this. Finally, at dusk, as Anjali stands alone on the terrace holding a bottle of sleeping pills, Rajatabho suddenly arrives and they look eye to eye for the first time in months.
'Nazarband', the National Award-winning filmmaker's first outing in Hindi, is inspired by a short story by much- revered Bengali writer Ashapurna Devi and depicts the journey of two young people.
On a family visit, a young man and his girlfriend set out to discover why his eccentric uncle has been mysteriously confined to one room for years.
I think I've killed someone is a 30-min short film about a young man witnessing a gruesome event. Unable to process it, he goes to his therapist to talk about it where a shocking revelation awaits him!
It's been 2 years since they've been together. They haven't seen each other in person. Only pixels on a screen.
Two ex-lovers cross paths in a college corridor, triggering memories of their shared past.
What is Bangla kalpavigyan? Is there such a thing as Bangla Science Fiction? Is there such a thing as Indian SF? This is our journey with the genre, captured and presented like never before in film. Beginning with the early work of writers such as Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain (Begum Rokeya) and the speculative mode in Bengal, and ending with the pioneering webzine Kalpabiswa, the film traces the historical arc of kalpavigyan over a century of the genre. From the genre magazines of the 1960s-80s and the writers and editors who ignited the movement by giving it shape and form, the film presents a series of conversations and critical reflections from researchers and scholars who have worked with the genre both in relation to Bengal and kalpavigyan as well as the wider phenomenon of SF.
Somewhere in North Kolkata, OBHYESH is an unfurling of a 28 years old boy's life, through his struggle to fall asleep during a whole night. The boy seems to be terribly tired and tries hard to get some sleep but various thoughts perpetually come and go keeping him awake where rest is dreamlike and comes to him eventually at dawn.