A Lullaby for Yellow Roses

A migrant working-class couple, after losing their daughter to an ill-fated destiny, seeks friends in each other.

Journey

Determined to carve out a better future for herself, teenage Gouri leaves behind a life of prostitution that was forced upon her at a young age and takes a job as a caregiver for a mistrusting elderly widow. But just as she starts to find her footing in this new life, Gouri’s past rears its ugly head again. Skillful direction and understated performances shine in this nuanced exploration of the challenges and triumphs of starting over.

Mizaru

In the suburbs of Mumbai, a young couple tries to catch some private time in a very public place, when they're paid a visit by the moral police.

Haraamkhor

When a vulnerable new student finds comfort in her brash teacher, their academic relationship takes a manipulative and troubling turn.

Bhasmasur

Dhaanu, a poor villager, heavily in financial debt, stealthily returns from the city to the village one night. He is hiding from a moneylender who he owes a handsome sum of money. Pushed against the wall, he decides to sell his donkey, Bhasmasur, in the city. Dhaanu's son Tipu, who yearns to go the annual fair in the city, shares a very strong bond with the donkey, Bhasmasur. Tipu in his own childish ways tries to stop Bhasmasur from being sold, but remains unsuccessful. Dhaanu decides to take Tipu to the city too. The trio set off on a jour...

Garbage

Taxi driver Phanishwar is living with a mysterious girl, Nanaam, who he keeps in chains. When a medical student, Rami, a victim of revenge porn leaked online by an ex-boyfriend, seeks refuge in Goa, she stumbles into the strange but placid lives of Phanishwar and Nanaam.

Hansa

Set in the picturesque Himalayas, Hansa attempts to depict the trials and tribulations faced by the villagers who reside there. The movie is seen from perspective of a little boy, Hansa and his sister, Cheeku’s eyes. Their father has mysteriously disappeared and a lot of the responsibility falls on Cheeku who has to prevent her house from getting sold and is at the receiving end of a powerful villager’s lecherous advances while little Hansa is too restless and distracted to pay attention to all the trouble his sister is facing.

Afternoon Clouds

Kaki is a 60-year-old widow who lives with her Nepali maid, Malti. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy (a sailor) from her hometown unexpectedly.

Her First Time

Her first time is an 8-minute short film about the relationship between a working mother and her 11-year-old daughter. The film happens around one evening in both their lives where both of them are dealing with a bit of crisis situation. Mother who is a gynecologist is dealing with sensitive pregnancy case and daughter back home gets her first period.

Chalti Rahe Zindagi

Krishna Bhagat is a local bread supplier in three different families of a housing complex - it's the early times of the pandemic setting in. A lockdown is announced and that sets to change lives for these families poignantly. Phase 1 of lockdown exposes the extramarital affair of Arjun's wife with Aru's husband, a neighbor. In phase 2 Sushma, pressurised by her son Akash, a TV journalist, forces Krishna to return the money that she had loaned him. Phase 3 brings to fore the conflict within Leela Seth, a lady in her late sixties, her daughter...

Just Like That

Mrs. Sharma is the wife of a respected, small-time government employee in Allahabad. When her husband dies, she is expected to move in with her son and grandchildren. But the woman wants to live by herself. She stops going to the temple, buys herself things without worrying about the expense, makes friends with a girl half her age and chooses to spend more time with her new friend than with her family. When Mrs. Sharma decides to learn doll-making with a Muslim tailor called Ali, the entire locality, including her own family, slowly turn aga...