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Arnav At Six
Directed by David MacDougall
Filmed as a collaborative project with Arnav Koshy in 2008, this film explores the mind and activities of an intelligent and observant child of six. Arnav is fascinated by the...
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Black Mountain
Directed by Amin Hajee, Charlotte Whitby-Coles
A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to a Sufi Saint has been transformed and its local history rewritten – the film documents the journey of Charlotte, a student undertaking...
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Calcutta Calling
Directed by André Hörmann
“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western companies and...
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The Child’s Eye
Directed by David MacDougall
This video is a series of 12 short films that are the result of ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall’s a five-year project video workshop project with Indian children. In six workshops...
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The City Beautiful
Directed by Rahul Roy
Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital city, Delhi. Most families residing here come from a community of weavers. The last...
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A Kali Temple Inside Out
Directed by Dipesh Kharel, Frode Storaas
Religious boundaries in India are not necessarily as sharp and antagonistic as news media lead us to believe. This film portrays everyday life inside and around a Kali temple in...
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Paani: of women and water
Directed by Costanza Burstin
Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect...
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Q2P
Directed by Paromita Vohra
Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a future Shanghai and searches for public toilets, watching who has to queue...
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Rain in the Mirror
Directed by Kanchan Mukhopadhayay, Nilanjan Bhattachary
Dorji Bhutia, a Buddhist monk and a reputed mask-maker with supernatural powers of bringing or stopping rain chose a self-determined death at the age of eighty-six. Dorji leaves his mystic...
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Ritual Journeys
Directed by Anna Balikci, Dawa Lepcha
The film is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. He...
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Salma
Directed by Kim Longinotto
When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her...
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Under the Palace Wall
Directed by David MacDougall
From the 16th century the Indian village of Delwara in southern Rajasthan was ruled as a principality of the kingdom of Mewar. Its palace, which overlooks the village, is now...
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Welcome Valentine 2017
Directed by Dhruv Satija
In a temple dedicated to Hanuman in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a priest flouts convention by marrying couples who are shunned elsewhere: mostly those who have eloped from families who disapprove of...
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When Four Friends Meet
Directed by Rahul Roy
Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangiripuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in...
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Where the Clouds End
Directed by Wanphrang Diengdoh
“My late great grandfather was a Bengali who came to Shillong in the early 1900s – long before the present political border divided the lands.” After the creation of borders...
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The Women Weavers of Assam
Directed by Aparna Sharma
The Women Weavers of Assam focuses on the craft, labour and the everyday lives of a group of women weavers in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The weavers belong to...
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