Shaanib Bakshi

Sitaaron ke Sitaare follows the extraordinary journeys of parents raising children on the spectrum. The film traces the parents' lives from the earliest days, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, the first signs that something was different, years of struggle, living in a system that failed them, to an unimaginable instance of seeing their children being auditioned for a film and being embraced by the mainstream.

In Mumbai, once an island city linked by the sea, modern bridges and land reclamation have reshaped the landscape, disrupting the lives of its original communities.

Rangzen is a film about a 8 year old Tibetan boy, Tashi - growing up as a refugee in a small hill town in Indian - the exiled home of the Dalai Lama. The film maps a crucial day in his life when he stumbles on his exiled refugee identity. When he's told at school that there is an invisible 'R' written on his forehead - Tashi goes on a quest to unravel this mystery. He discovers that this place where he's born and brought up is not his home. In fact he belongs to a nation that does not exist on the world map.