Pipanya” by Shubham Ghatge reiterates the social, economical and personal struggles and hardships faced by folk artistes from rural Maharashtra. Pipanya is a folk artiste who has played Pipani his whole life however his life along with many other folk artistes is increasingly threatened by a fall in demand due to the rise of other kinds of contemporary music systems in traditional occasions. This film however sheds light on the Artiste Pension Schemes but highlights it’s fallacies due to inefficient bureaucracy.
Vimal Pandey and Sandeep Mishra spews a captivating tale with “ The Holy Fish” that reflects Indian lore and beliefs. This film features two interconnected stories that compliments each other – an old man rising from his death bed, realising Moksha as his ultimate desire and begins search for a fish depicted in folklore and the next story speaks of a newly married bride facing pain of being away from her husband, wants to go to the same for materialistic purpose. “The Holy Fish” is a matrix of desire, material cravings, penitence along with beliefs and scepticism. Shot in the town of Allahabad this film evokes an authenticity to its theme and is a worthy watch.
Director Sidharth Chauhan's craving to dive into the world of religion and unravel it’s mysteries lead him to create an esoteric yet absorbing film “The Infinite Space”. The film deals with a young Buddhist monk who dares to believe in a secret which was revealed years ago in an old scripture and strange events follow after then. This film is truly an imaginary wilderness that proposes dilemma, conflict of mind and unrealistic thinking. FEATURING EXCLUSIVELY ON CINEMAPRENEUR
Beauty of Life”, a beautiful yet brave documentary presented by Ashish Verma on the lives of four acid attack survivors impart that as a society how we need to evolve and stand with these survivors to eradicate the social stigmas, humiliation, gender discrimination and other hindrances, faced by these brave warriors in their day-to-day life. The film also depicts the dolour of these warriors in dealing with the rest of the world and finally how they settled contendedly in their respective married lives.
Laden with undertones of an insatiably innocent grief, this film follows the journey of a child protagonist into the darknesses of life. Centering around their first encounter with something as grave as death, it seeks to pose questions onto the varied mythologies of death created by humans. While death remains to be a natural cycle, the film's psychological interventions make for noteworthy filmmaking.
James Ward, a prosperous young lawyer, falls in love with a pretty girl he sees passing in a limousine. Later, he meets her quite accidentally and is surprised when she enlists his aid in securing a letter for her from the home of a wealthy broker, that necessitates his burglarizing the place at midnight.
Dineshan, Grace, Giri, KK and Gund Saji are involved in leftwing politics. Dineshan gets attracted to a girl who stays over at his house and she makes him consider all the occurrences that happen at home and take action for them.
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Everyone is awakened by a combat alarm signal, according to which soldiers and officers instantly wake up and go to save the Motherland. But no one knows exactly where. It is worth noting that all this happens on New Year's Eve. And now, through a snow-covered forest in pitch darkness among centuries-old fir trees, our heroes are riding in a "shishig" on a special mission ... on a narrow track only headlights are visible ... After some time they arrive at a bunker lost in the forest ... What kind of special task can be on New Year's Eve do they wonder? Among other things, it turns out that Ensign Danilych, Private Poghosyan and Nurse Dasha were forgotten in a hurry. And these three, having decided to catch up with those who left, try to get to the place themselves and get lost in the night forest ... How will this adventure end, because there is very little time left before the New Year?
The expectations of Elias are high. He is not only an excellent student, but also the son of the richest farmer in the Zillertal. Soon he will take over the farm. But the more desperately he tries to fulfill his intended role, the more he feels that he really wants to live a completely different life.
In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman’s son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who tortured his parents, he resolves to take the law into his own hands.
Please, father, can you let the future sleep a little longer, as it should be? Because if we wake it up too early, we get a sleepy present. This film poem was made from footage archived on the Ciclic Mémoire website.
Mélanie and Pierre are visiting an amusement park in the Auvergne region where Vincent works. But they don't seem too keen on having fun.
Hanieh is a broke forty year old woman on the verge of being thrown out from her apartment. She has tried to make a film based on her own semi-autobiographical script for years, but after accepting that she has no luck to fulfill her dream, she has no other choice than selling the script to one of her best friends. Due to her love for the script and its details, Hanieh is not able to tolerate any indifferent and ignorant reactions during the preproduction, but she decides not to get involved in any conflict with the director, the cast and the crew today. However, during the reading rehearsal, others begin to judge her character as described in the script and name her a bastard and a loser...
France, 2045. In the midst of a food crisis, Alexandra Delpech sees activists barging onto her property, determined to steal her land and transform it into a fertile oasis for the common good. Armed with her shotgun, Alexandra does not intend to be robbed so easily.
In 2043, Melissa, a young eco-worker, sails the Mediterranean Sea on her smart boat the Rainbow, with her trained dog Cham. As she collects mass of drifting plastic waste, she sorts and trades this material on the global recycling market. One day, she saves a baby monkey from drowning, and takes him on the boat. This encounter will change the path of her life.
2040. Jeanne, a woman in her thirties, has recently left Paris to settle in an isolated house bordering a forest. But a wild boar keeps wrecking her fence and her garden. Jeanne fires away and nearly kills a group of hikers. A wildlife mediator is sent to the scene in order to solve this bizarre neighbourhood quarrel...
Year 2038. France is continuing its energy transition plan and travelling more than one hundred kilometres is prohibited. At the wheel of her electric van, the intrepid Luna braves the ban to drive her 20-year-old son, Erwan, to the Free Zone. Savouring her last moments with him, Luna rides with him to perhaps better let him go.
June 2042. The organic farm of L'aiguille is bustling with activity. Midsummer is near, announcing, like every year, the end of the compulsory ecological service. It is time for Nour, Léon and the others to say goodbye and to choose the life they wish to lead.
In the near future, two soldiers are sent to monitor the ZAR (regeneration zone) of Cap d'Agde, a deserted area that is protected for biodiversity to regenerate. Together, they will discover the ruins of a bygone world where a damaged nature tries to come back to life.