Shankar is married to Gauri, but she has the brain of a child and does not accept him as her husband. She changes her behaviour and lives the life of a wife after attending the wedding of her friend.
On the verge of a nervous breakdown, a school teacher finds the wisdom she needs in the most unlikeliest of places.
Denise, Hannah and Leticia are three ordinary women with extraordinary stories to tell. As transgender people, they talk about the challenges of finding their true identities within an intolerant and prejudiced society.
Faced with unemployment, a young paperboy must choose between his trade and his friends.
The two girls decided to do their daily prayers in the school, but turns out one of them accidentally fell asleep instead. But when she woke up, she felt uneasy with her friend that's undergoing the prayer without her.
Widowed soon after marriage, a young woman grapples with an inability to grieve, quirky relatives and a startling discovery about her late husband.
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A misunderstanding leads to sombre consequences as two flatmates recall very different turns of event from the previous night.
Yashpal tries to rape Jeeva and her husband, Shiva, stops him while she manages to escape. However, Yashpal kills him and she vows to avenge his death.
Late summer of 2007, South of Brazil. Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt Rosa died at 70 without ever having dated anyone. Encouraged by her friend Carolina, Joana starts an investigation about Rosa’s past. As she confronts the values of her community, Joana realizes that all the women in her family have a secret, while something hidden inside her also reveals. She plunges into her imagination to find answers while a large wind power plant is being built in their small town.
In his debut feature film, Kumar Shahani employs highly innovative forms for depicting the conflict between oppressive feudal norms and a changing industrial landscape while making female sexuality and its complex mindscape the focus. The protagonist, Taran, the younger daughter of a Rajasthani zamindar revolts against the social code set by the class system by a sexual encounter with an engineer. This film was one of the earlier and successful examples experimentation in colour during the advent of New Indian cinema.
When four friends reunite for a night of fun in their hometown, a crisis forces them to confront the consequences of their lifestyles.
The idea behind Ya Rab is to show how Islam has been used as a tool to propagate terrorism. The film focuses on issues where so called self proclaimed Maulanas (Islamic Preachers) misinterpret The Quran and its real meaning to breed terrorists and terrorist activity. Ya Rab is a genuine effort to show the right face of Islam and to guide the misguided on the right path.
A surreal love story about a nineteen year old girl with the personality of an abused dog, and her oppressively misguided boyfriend.
A man gets stuck in an empty high rise without food, water or electricity.
In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.
The story centers around a small town entrepreneur named Maniram who makes a major profit by cheating people and selling them tainted food. His business is run by his daughter-in-law Tejo, who is married to Maniram's mentally challenged younger son. When Maniram's elder son comes back into town to get married, things start to go awry.
Sultana, a small town prostitute and her pimp Khudabaksh migrate to the metropolis, bringing with them their dreams and meagre belongings. Sultana goes about her bright and artful seductions but somehow misses her targets. Her business collapses. Desperately, Khudabaksh too tries his hand at many jobs but is unsuccessful. Sultana's loneliness and despair get objectified in her desire for a 'salwaar' that she needs to complete her black ensemble for the observance of mourning for Moharram.
This film suggests a network of hierarchical relations between people through sometimes subtle and at other times blunt illustrations.
Although Nuni has been selected to play the lead (King David) in his Jerusalem grade school play, he'd secretly rather play the princess role instead.