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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.

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.

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.

A man and a woman rule the streets with their somewhat extraordinary skills. One is a hustler and the other is a thief. One day they are yanked out from their happy world of petty crimes.

Euthanizer tells the story of a mechanic who euthanises sick and old pets as a side job. Despite the grim work, he has a soft spot for the animals. Trouble stirs when the owner of a dog he was supposed to end realises that the canine is still alive. The only innocent party in the drama that ensues is the dog itself.

The young Tony will travel from Budapest to the countryside to marry his cousin Katinka, the oldest of the seven sisters Gyurkovics. Because Tony is already secretly married to another, the situation is problematic. Mizzi is the impish middle sister of seven who is glad to leave boarding school and has many adventures making her way back home. This includes impersonating a countess and meeting Count Horkay who is impersonating her cousin Tony, his friend whom Mizzi's mother intends to marry her oldest sister. The younger set all have their own ideas of who they love despite the plans of the older folks.

Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.

As the director and the cameraman of a documentary project, Meng and Jianxian are travelling around Taiwan filming statues of religious and historical figures. Their conversations and debates on the statues often touch the political reality of Taiwan. Meng's girlfriend, Ning, is involved in a mediocre commercial feature film (initially as location scout and subsequently as an actress). Instead of realizing her ambition, she finds herself being exploited by the filmmakers. On the other hand, Meng and Ning's relationship is gradually faded.

Home, Sweet Home

On New Year's Eve 1999, three friends, who are attempting to break into the music scene through pirate radio, drive through London in a desperate search for tickets for the best millennium party ever.

An exquisite corpse that aims to configure a plural vision of the experiences of isolation during the first months of the pandemic. The film consists of 6 fragments directed by 6 different Latin American directors.

Meeting in an unexpected place with an unexpected situation but ultimately being able to accept each other, Maudy who wants to make peace with herself and Hansi who always wants to be grateful.

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