Films

Winner, Best Performance by an Actor, 2016

Special Mention, Best Performance by an Actor, 2016 Set in present day Mumbai the story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is…

In a rural Indian village called Ujhaas, three ordinary women struggle to break free from misogynistic century-old traditions that have kept them locked in servitude.…

CHAUTHI KOOT evokes the atmosphere of suspicion, fear and paranoia of the Punjab in 1980s. It considers two loosely connected incidents: two Hindu friends trying…

Farmer Arjun’s love and concern for his irrepressible son, Abhimanyu, motivates him to earn the money needed to buy back his ancestral land, lost to…

Orphaned eight year-old Kuttappayi lives with his kindly, weather-worn grandfather Valiyappachayi in the spectacular Kerala backwaters of Southern India where they raise flocks of ducks.…

Inspector Joshi is a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she was six. In his despair, life converges with a…

Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and…

Coping with the recent death of his father, 11-year-old Chinu moves to a small Konkan town from a big city because of his mother’s job…

Bidesia is Bhojpuri for ‘the one who leaves home’. One in four migrants in Mumbai are Bhojpuri, a people from the north Indian states of…

There are men who squirm at the mention of a woman’s period. And then there’s Muruganantham, a school dropout in India who went to great…

Goopi and Bagha are two wise fools; one lives to sing and the other to play the drum. Despite their acute ineptness, their passion for…

Winner, Best Screenplay, 2013 Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2013 Saajan Fernandes (Irrfan Khan) is a widower who is about to retire from his job as…

As heavy rains lash Mumbai, a cop on his first assignment faces a life altering decision when he must decide to shoot or not. Each…

In a small town in central India, kids and adults alike are obsessed with kite-flying. The airspace is dominated by a black kite with mysterious…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2012 Centered on the coal mafia of Dhanbad, and the underlying power struggles, politics and vengeance between three crime families,

The love story between an actress and a director, inspired by the life of the late south Indian actress Silk Smitha.

Shruti (Anushka Sharma) is a 20-something no-nonsense girl from a middle class Delhi household. Focused and determined with preplanned ambitions, her goals in life are…

“A girl’s life is cruel…A woman’s life is very cruel,” notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director…

Marathon Boy is the story of a four-year-old boy who is plucked from the slums of India by his coach and trained to become India’s…

After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan along with his three closest friends, gets expelled and has no alternative but to…

Winner, Achievement in Cinematography, 2010

A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister, but later falls in love with her.

The film is a biographical account of Sindhutai Sapkal, a woman who became a social activist after a traumatic life. Born in a poor, cattle…

Based on Natarang, 1978 Marathi novel by Dr. Anand Yadav, the film depicts the journey of a young artiste in overcoming hurdles in the form…

A fable-like journey of an eight-year-old boy, Tahaan, and his beloved donkey, Birbal. Tahaan lives in the Kashmir valley with his grandfather, mother and older…

The film is divided into three parts from the view of characters: Dev (Abhay Deol), the son of a rich businessman, is an insecure narcissist.…

Five people whose lives are affected by the 2006 Mumbai train bombings.

A retiring police officer reminisces about the most astounding day of his career. About a case that was never filed but continues to haunt him…

Om Shanti Om is the saga of Om Prakash Makhija a junior artiste in the golden days of 70’s Hindi cinema. He is in love…

11-year-old Mahek dreams of becoming the very best in everything, but is unsure of what she is best at. To complicate things further, an old,…

Jodhaa Akbar is the story of the Greatest Mughal Emperor that ruled Hindustan, Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, and the fiery young Rajput Princess, Jodhaa. Set in…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2008 Just released from prison, Siddharth Roy, a once-famous writer, completes a new manuscript. He re-engages with the outside world, hoping…

Winner, Best Screenplay, 2007

Durga, a north Indian migrant and a Keralite youth named Kabeer are running away on a midnight. They are waiting for a transport to the…

Special Mention, Cultural Diversity Award Under the Patronage of UNESCO, 2017 In the North Indian state of Manipur, a depressed fisherman named Tomba comes across…

Winner, Best Performance by an Actor, Best Screenplay, 2017 As India, the world’s largest democracy, braces itself for another general election- with 9 million polling booths,…

Winner: Best Performance by an Actor | 13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2019 In tumultuous Mumbai, at a time when scheming Maharashtrian politicians use violence…

In Dhauladhar in the Upper Himalayas, an old shepherd and his servant manage the sheep and goats in solitude. After an Air Force jet crashes…

A village bangle seller and his wife cannot conceive a child. The villagers gossip. In this close-knit patriarchal community in South India, hidden desires and…

Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent crimes against women. However, their alliance…

In the remote Indian state of Assam, life is tough for ten-year-old tomboy Dhunu and her widowed mother. For even though the land around them…

In the Phek district of India’s Nagaland state near the country’s border with Myanmar, the 5000 local villagers plant and grow rice in vast terraces.…

Winner – Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Best Performance by an Actor for Manto, 2018 Follows the most tumultuous four years in the life of Saadat Hasan Manto…

First the raging sea, then the pouring rain, and finally the burbling river: water is one of few constants in eight-year-old Dighu’s life. He is…

L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the…

Two arid hamlets separated by a distance of 13 kilometres from the down South of Tamil Nadu unfurl a drama witnessed by the sun. An…

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists…

The story of Delhi’s apocalyptic air and its escalating communal violence is woven together by an unlikely figure – the black kite. In the toxic…

A schoolboy who lives in rural Panjab encounters impotence and is misunderstood by society as gay. He is left with a choice that no one…