Mahadeb Shi

Koel

Sunder, a ten year old village boy, is encouraged by his poor parents to find a job in the city. He joins a dysfunctional family in Delhi as domestic/companion. He bonds with his employer Mataji (Honoured Mother) and her beautiful daughter-in-law Damini who is the sole earning member of the family. Mataji’s son, Manu, is unemployed and depressed. Damini has an admirer and Sunder, Mataji and Manu worry that she may leave the family. Sunder confides his worries to his friend, Bubbli, daughter of a neighbour. His wish for security leads to a traumatic event in the family.

A Knock on the Door

As they prepare to celebrate their wedding anniversary, politically committed professors Hari and Ramona receive a group of unwanted visitors claiming to be from a central intelligence agency. Dressed in white hazmat suits and wearing multifaced masks, the team of men and women raids their house, traumatising the couple and taking away their hard drives. The professors contact the police, but when their friends and acquaintances doubt their claims, Hari begins to break down.

Quiet Flows The River Rupsa

It is a film about a left wing leader, who like a Greek tragic character, fought against his destiny all along his life. While portraying the man’s struggles the film deals with the anti-British Swadeshi movement, the 1947 Partition of India, Tebhaga movement of the Bengal peasants, creation of Pakistan, killing of the political prisoners inside jail in Rajshahi and finally the liberation war of Bangladesh against Pakistan in 1971. The film also reveals the love and sacrifices of this star-crossed man.

D'Cruz and Me

A free-flowing and intimate documentary on a maverick character from the Tollywood film industry, Kolkata, who has been in the doldrums because of serious addiction issues.

Sesh Sangbad

This is the journey of Sarmista, an upright and honest investigative journalist through the web of media politics and her fight for the truth. She braves various situations to capture news at great personal risk only to realize, to her horror and disbelief, that the channel won't telecast her report.

A Journey Extraordinary

The film celebrates the beauty of plural India through the genre of the road movie.

A Journey Extraordinary

The film celebrates the beauty of plural India through the genre of the road movie.

A Journey Extraordinary

The film celebrates the beauty of plural India through the genre of the road movie.

A Journey Extraordinary

The film celebrates the beauty of plural India through the genre of the road movie.

The Other Song

Journeying across Varanasi, Lucknow, and Muzzafarpur in India, this documentary film traces the lost traditions and the culture of tawaifs (courtesans of North India), particularly through a song sung by Rasoolan Bai, "Lagat karejwa ma chot, phool gendwa na maar" and its lesser known, earlier version "Lagat jobanwa ma chot, phool gendwa na maar" (recorded in a 1935 Gramophone recording). Weaving the past with the present, the film spans between personal stories as it interacts with historical events, ultimately leading to the decline of a great art form.

Rabeya

During Bangladesh's Liberation War against Pakistan in 1971, in a remote village Rabeya and Rokeya, two orphaned young sisters, live in the religiously conservative household of their uncle Emdad Kazi, a rich kulak and a local Muslim League leader.

Shadows Formless

Abstract film about a man and a woman (maybe) in love.

Tajuddin Ahmad: An Unsung Hero

A documentary film on the life and achievements of Tajuddin Ahmad, The first prime minister of Bangladesh.

Anuranan

The story of two couples - each with their own struggles to survive as a couple and as individuals. After living in London for a few years, Rahul and Nandita have recently moved back to Kolkata and become friends with Amit and Preeti. It is the lives of these four friends that creates a resonance, a chord, that echoes through their present and future.

End Note

Three women reminisce about their times at school and rekindle and affirm old friendships. They share a strange secret about each other that is never made known to us. The film is a cinematic interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s 1967 dramaticule, ‘Come and Go’.

Atmiyo Swajan

An aged couple, living on the outskirts of Kolkata, is deeply affected by the treatment given to them by their children and decide to attempt suicide.

Chitra Nodir Pare

After the partition of India in 1947, Shashikanta's family, like millions of other Hindu families of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), faced the dilemma of whether to migrate from the land in which they have been living for centuries. But Shashikanta Sengupta, an eccentric lawyer, stubbornly refuses to leave his motherland. Widower Shashikanta has two children, Minoti and Bidyut. Anuprava Devi is an affectionate old aunt who lives with the family. The family has a house in Narail, a small provincial town on the bank of the Chitra river. Some Muslim neighbors eye Shashaikanta's house. But the family refuse to migrate. Shashikanta's children Minoti and Bidyut are friends with the neighboring Muslim children- Badal, Salma and Nazma. Minoti and Badal become more than friends. The children grow up.

The River Named Modhumoti

During the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh, in a remote village, a landlord collaborated with the Pakistani army. After the death of his brother, he married his sister-in-law who had a young son. A teacher in the village, with a widowed daughter, taught the young man had a daughter. When the war broke out, the young man joined the Bengali guerrillas, shattering his innocence. In the village, the landlord's action get worse and worse, until he kills the teacher and compels the daughter to marry him. Now the young man must return to his village with new determination.

Eleven Miles

Tradition and contemporary practice of Bauls, Bengali mystic minstrels, are explored in Calcutta filmmaker and author Ruchir Joshi’s essay film.

Eleven Miles

Tradition and contemporary practice of Bauls, Bengali mystic minstrels, are explored in Calcutta filmmaker and author Ruchir Joshi’s essay film.

Eleven Miles

Tradition and contemporary practice of Bauls, Bengali mystic minstrels, are explored in Calcutta filmmaker and author Ruchir Joshi’s essay film.

Time Addiction

The film is about a young man hovering on the threshold of action andrest. For the most part he sits or stretches out in his room, back to the camera, relaxed, quivering, organic. The sketches on the wall above his bed change periodically like the seasons and are linked remotely, by a kind of logical presumption to his own artistic impulse.

Jewel In The Lotus

The film is about ageless wisdom. It focuses on the highest goal presented in Mahayana Buddhism: how to become a Bodhisattva, one who pursues the path of spiritual development and advancement solely for the sake of being of the utmost help and service to humanity and who, upon eventually reaching to the very threshold of Nirvana, renounces its eternal bliss in order to keep consciously reincarnating on earth so as to help and serve others and to help guide them along the way too.

Tram Journey

Tramjatra details the unexpected and incredible relationship struck between Melbournian tram conductor Roberto D’Andrea (Roberto Tram Conductor) and the CTC Trammie community of Kolkata, India.

Tram Journey

Tramjatra details the unexpected and incredible relationship struck between Melbournian tram conductor Roberto D’Andrea (Roberto Tram Conductor) and the CTC Trammie community of Kolkata, India.

Tram Journey

Tramjatra details the unexpected and incredible relationship struck between Melbournian tram conductor Roberto D’Andrea (Roberto Tram Conductor) and the CTC Trammie community of Kolkata, India.

Tram Journey

Tramjatra details the unexpected and incredible relationship struck between Melbournian tram conductor Roberto D’Andrea (Roberto Tram Conductor) and the CTC Trammie community of Kolkata, India.

Voices from Baliapal

"This is our land, our sea... we will die rather than lose this place” was the cry raised by 70,000 people in Baliapal when the government announced their decision to locate a missile testing range there in August 1984. Since then a remarkable non-violent struggle is in its fourth year...