Daivaar

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Maisie Blue is an enigmatic black widow figure under investigation by detective Margrave for her involvement in the suicides of successful white men. Through the blurred lines of perception and reality, the myth of the Black feminine mystique is explored under the guise of a murder mystery. The film explores the fetishization of Black women as a manifestation of white male insecurity.

A home is divided when a 13 year old Vietnamese girl moves in with a family of an ex-GI who believes that she may be his illegitimate daughter in this fact-based movie.

A story about self-taught street fighter who works in the Almaty flea market at day time and takes part in underground fights at night.

Hearts of Men

A high school girl is lured into prostitution by a fashion photographer.

Takase works part-time as a motorcycle courier but plans to switch jobs the next day to become a drug courier with his friend Kono. His final delivery is to pick up original illustrations from an artist named Nana and deliver them to her publisher. However, when Takase arrives at the designated time, the illustrations aren't ready, forcing him to wait around for hours. The artwork is finally completed late at night. With the job done at last, Takase decides to go out for drinks with Nana. Just then, Kono joins them, and the three of them head out into the night.

Suki

Kono machi ni imasu

A teacher works hard to better a village that has poverty, unemployment, and a drug problem.

Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.