Acting
Krishna, 17 years-old and pregnant, returns to her village home in rural West Bengal to face her family and challenge the marriage of Tara, her beloved younger sister. Faced with patriarchy and the generational oppression of women the reunited sisters must reconcile their differences and make a fateful choice.
Sudip and Atreyee are college lovebirds. Both are highly successful in their career. Sudip became a CID officer and Atreyee accomplished herself as a notable actress. They have settled down, got married and was having a sweet and spicy life just like other happy-go-lucky couples. It was their honeymoon to a deep jungle where Atreyee gets kidnapped and leaves no traces behind. Sudip started to search for Atreyee and was highly active since the kidnappers were terrorists. While on the other side, Atreyee is listening from the kidnappers about their life story. Who are these kidnappers? What made them tagged as terrorists? Will Sudip be able to rescue Atreyi from the clutches of the goons?
The Nobel Medal of great Indian Poet Rabindra Nath Tagore was stolen in 2004 and it was never found. This film is a fictional account of what might have happened to the medal. A poor farmer...
Kheya, a theatre artist, faces challenges in her personal and professional life spanning from 1950 to 1970s in a world dominated by misogynistic men.
After their parents' deaths, Bijay and his sister want to go to Kolkata for jobs. One day, Bijay saves Mr. Dev from an accident and Mr. Dev gives them shelter. After Mr. Dev's death, Bijay takes the responsibilities of "Dev Industries" and their family. Janardan is a corrupt staffer of Dev Industries who wants revenge after being sacked for his shady practices. Bijay loves Nandini who is in a coma and he fights back Janardan to hold the family together.
The film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.
Experimental feature film
A middle-aged dentist sees his life falling apart: suffering from psychosomatic illnesses, abandoned by his wife, and disliked by his son, he finds refuge in memories of his idyllic childhood.
Rajani is a well-known prostitute in a small town in Bengal, India, living in a brothel with her teenage daughter, Lati. With few options for a better life, Rajani hopes to arrange a marriage for her daughter with a wealthy local businessman - an idea Lati opposes. Choosing a life of unpredictability and the possibility of education over the known fate of arranged marriage, Lati takes off for Calcutta, encountering several quirky characters along the way.
Marital strife follows when an aging filmmaker meets an actress who bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife in her younger days.
When a Kolkata surveillance specialist and his roommate install a small camera in the home of their beautiful neighbor, they somehow become terror suspects in director Buddhadeb Dasgupta's cutting commentary on CCTV society.
A young girl named Ruu went on a vacation with her family. She was unhappy. A young Sikkimese Car Driver cum guide helps her to come out of her trauma as he takes her to visit Kanchanjungha, the snow clad mountain range. She reveals that her days are numbered as she is HIV positive and an AIDS victim. She decides to stay back in the lap of the Himalayas for ever.
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's famous tale of 3 generations of women & their changing position in society,seen in relation to a box of jewels, handed down from one generation to the next. A film by Aparna Sen.
It is Christmas Day in Calcutta and David Dawson is off to celebrate it with his sweetheart, Nandini Shom. The meeting does not go well as Nandini wants him to start working so that they can get married and start a family, while David wants a career as a musician. She tells him that she will never see him again. Despondent, he returns to his rented apartment and is chided by his landlady, Lillian, who threatens to have him evicted as he has been delinquent in paying his rent for over a year...
What happens when a devoted father is rejected by the son he raised? As he seeks justice in court, will the family heal, or will the divide grow deeper?
Five young people are driven by primal human instincts - to escape, find thrill, seek revenge or wait for destiny. And one old wizened man is trying to touch upon their minds.
The journey of acceptance and empowerment of a female priestess in a patriarchal world of Indian society
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A clerk named Sourav is busy with his boring job. One day, he gets a chance to meet his soulmate, Joyeeta, in a different environment. He struggles to meet her every day at the same time. But a mishap occurs which leads them to struggle to meet forever.
While reading a book, a grandfather is interrupted by his grandchildren, prompting him to narrate the inspiring story of revolutionary Bhagat Singh, encouraging them to embrace the spirit of protest.
