EUFF India
During a political rally in a small village in Maharashtra, India, a poor old woman named Budhi receives a largess of several 1000 Rupee notes from a politician. She goes shopping to the nearby market town with her neighbor but fate has other plans for them.
In collaboration with: Dharamshala International Film Festival
In a small village in northeast India, 10-year-old Dhunu dreams of having her own rock band. Her vibrant spirit, imagination and self-assurance stand out in a world where girls are expected to be timid and submissive. With her gang of boys and the support of her widowed mother, Dhunu faces the struggles of her daily life and hopes for the day she can finally play a real guitar.
In collaboration with:
Dharamshala International Film Festival
In a small town in central India, children and adults are equally obsessed with kite flying. The airspace is dominated by a black kite called Kali with mysterious origins. Gattu, a street kid, dreams of defeating Kali but always fails. He discovers that the local school has the highest roof in town and would give him an advantage. However, in order to enter the school, he pretends to be a school kid. But there is a problem: he is illiterate…
In collaboration with:
Dharamshala International Film Festival
When a 77 year old man, Daya, wakes up from a strange nightmare, he knows his time is up and he must get to Varanasi immediately in hope of dying there to attain salvation. His dutiful son, Rajiv, is left with no choice but to drop everything and make the journey with his stubborn father, leaving behind his wife and daughter.
The two of them check into Mukti Bhawan, a hotel devoted to people hoping to spend their last days there. Rajiv finds himself having to live and take care of his father for the first time in his life.
While Rajiv struggles to juggle his responsibilities back home, Daya starts to bloom as he finds a sense of community in the hotel, and a companion in the 75-year old Vimla. As the days go by and Daya shows no sign of letting up, Rajiv is faced with the dilemma of whether to remain there with his father or fulfill his duty back home. Rajiv gives his father a shot at salvation but as family bonds are tested, he finds himself torn, not knowing what he must do to keep his life together.
In collaboration with:
Dharamshala International Film Festival
A film about eighty-five-year-old Simon Uraon, the Water Man from Jharkhand, working relentlessly on water management and environmental protection in the villages of Jharkhand, since he was fourteen.
In collaboration with: CMS Vatavaran
We are on the brink of Climate Crisis. There are empirical evidences of changing climate across the planet. The worst affected regions that are facing the brunt of climate change are the Cryospheric regions of the world (Arctic, Antarctic and the Himalayas) and also the Oceans. Scientists today are using the latest technology and braving some of the harshest conditions only to investigate these effects of changing climate. Conducting any scientific research activities in some of these regions are extremely difficult due to its harsh climatic conditions, undulating and inaccessible terrain, and the remoteness of field sites. The film takes you on a journey documenting these scientists conducting research in the Arctic, Himalayas and the Southern Ocean and them experiencing some life threatening situations, in order to get the scientific data.
In collaboration with:CMS Vatavaran
Despite many years of research, we still do not know exactly how fast the Greenland ice sheet is melting. This is the question director Lars Henrik Ostenfeld hopes to answer when he set outs on an expedition with three of the world’s leading glaciologists. The journey will take them 180 metres into one of the major “Moulin” holes in the ice sheet – further than any human has ever gone before.
High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers takes the adventurer and novelist Sylvain Tesson (In the Forest of Siberia) with him on his latest mission. For several weeks, they’ll explore these valleys searching for unique animals and try to spot the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach.
Vadim is 22, he works as a sound engineer and musician. A Canadian company invites him to record the sounds of Ukrainian animals in Transcarpathia. He fulfils the assignment with enthusiasm and creativity, but his mother comes along and constantly disturbs and distracts him. If he manages to record the voice of a rare Rakhiv mallard, he may be able to travel to “attractive Canada.”
The story of a girl wanting to become a stand-up comedian, a Comedy Queen. Thirteen-year-old Sasha refuses to cry despite suffering from immeasurable sorrow and instead decides to become a stand-up comedian. Her goal is to make everyone laugh again, especially her father.